China’s ByteDance is building an end-to-end language AI stack.| Slator
Tariffs are traditionally seen as instruments of strategic economic policy — tools for protecting domestic industries, exerting pressure on rivals or shaping global trade norms. Yet under US President Donald Trump, their erratic deployment has served less as a coherent tool of statecraft and more as a symbol of strategic disorientation. Nowhere is this misapplication… Continue reading Tariffs, Strategy and the Cost of Misplaced Power The post Tariffs, Strategy and the Cost of Misplaced Po...| Fair Observer
Setting the scene The 2025 International Mathematics Olympiad has come and gone. Reminder: this is an exam for high-school kids across the world (each country typically sends six kids), comprising of two 4.5-hour exams each containing three questions, so six … Continue reading →| Xena
On June 24th, ChinaTalk’s Ed Sander delivered a keynote in Berlin, returning to the K5 – Future Retail conference, where he shared insights from his research for Tech Buzz China. Titled ‘The Big China Update’, he picked three topics that he thought were most important for the audience to better understand. ▶️ Why it’s not the cancellation […] The post Video: Keynote ‘The Big China Update’ appeared first on ChinaTalk.| ChinaTalk
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The dictionary definition of the word “grift” is as follows: “to acquire money or property illicitly [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grift]”. It may be a strong word, but also more or less encapsulates the regulatory ethos that’s governing cross-border technology businesses these days. The TikTok-Oracle deal flaunts this| Interconnected
The Hurun Research Institute has released a list of the 500 most valuable companies based in China. Let’s take a closer look at the enterprises related to the games industry and how their rankings have changed from the previous year.| Game World Observer
Last week the Supreme Court listened to arguments on the constitutionality the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which would require TikTok to shut down unless its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, sells it by January 19, 2025, citing national security concerns. TikTok and its users argue that the law infringes on their First... Read More| Empirical SCOTUS
Die etablierten Parteien haben eine Brandmauer zur AfD hochgezogen. Wann aber kommt die Brandmauer zu TikTok? Die Plattform geht kaum gegen Falschinformationen und Hetze vor. Integre Nutzende werden daher stets im Hintertreffen bleiben, schreibt unser Gastautor.| netzpolitik.org
SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Today, Utah Governor Spencer J. Cox and Attorney General Sean D. Reyes announced a lawsuit against TikTok. After extensive investigation, the state alleges the social media giant illegally baits children into addictive and unhealthy use, blatantly misrepresents the app’s safety, and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its China-based parent company ByteDance.| dcp.utah.gov
Es gibt nicht nur TikTok, sondern auch TikTok Lite – jedenfalls in einigen Ländern. Das Problem: Die App belohnt zu viel Videos schauen. Ein Suchtmittel?| Jörg Schieb | Digital und KI
Former employees claim the company placed pieces of pro-China content in its now-defunct US news app, TopBuzz, and censored negative stories about the Chinese government. ByteDance says it did no such thing.| BuzzFeed News
A comparative analysis of security, privacy, and censorship issues in TikTok and Douyin, both developed by ByteDance.| The Citizen Lab
TikTok is rebuilding its systems to keep US user data in the US and putting a new US-based team in control. But for now, that team reports to executives in China.| BuzzFeed News
What happens when audio recordings of 80 internal meetings of a company are leaked to the media? A serious credibility problem. That’s what happened to TikTok last week when the audio of, indeed, more than 80 internal meetings were leaked to Buzzfeed, which led to a bombshell story [https:| Interconnected