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                • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
                  Artificial intelligence
                  China’s Baidu and ByteDance launch AI chatbots to public

                  Beijing grants regulatory approval to artificial intelligence products by several tech groups

                  A screen showing Baidu’s Ernie bot
                • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
                  Artificial intelligence
                  China’s internet giants order $5bn of Nvidia chips to power AI ambitions

                  Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent and Alibaba rush to acquire GPUs amid concern US will soon clamp down on their export

                  Montage of Tencent, Baidu, Nvidia and Bytedance logos
                • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
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                  Under-21s targeted by money launderers, warns UK fraud agency

                  Schools initiative to discourage youngsters from being used as ‘money mules’

                • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
                  News in-depthTikTok Inc
                  TikTok turns to south-east Asia to drive growth

                  Viral app’s parent ByteDance targets large Indonesian market but faces growing regulatory scrutiny around the world

                  TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew at an event in Jakarta on June 15
                • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
                  News in-depthTikTok Inc
                  TikTok reshapes ecommerce unit in bid to crack western markets

                  Chinese-owned group relocates executives in renewed push of livestream shopping in US and UK

                  Shopping tab on TikTok app
                • Friday, 5 May, 2023
                  FT Magazine
                  TikTok spied on me. Why?

                  The FT’s Cristina Criddle on discovering she’d been surveilled by the controversial social media company

                • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Cottage industry of Chinese scammers target TikTok

                  Parent company ByteDance struggles to police videos promoting dubious products such as ‘enzyme’ weight loss coffee

                  Montage of TikTok logo and an influencer
                • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
                  News in-depthTikTok Inc
                  Dissenting politicians join young activists to oppose TikTok bans

                  A small group of lawmakers from across the political divide speak out against restrictions to the Chinese-owned video app

                  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Matteo Salvini
                • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
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                  The TikTok divide

                  Rupert Murdoch’s Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case

                • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
                  ByteDance posts record profit despite TikTok losses

                  Booming 2022 helps it overtake China’s long-reigning tech giants Tencent and Alibaba for first time

                  A woman walks by an advert of TikTok at an e-commerce expo in Hangzhou in east China’s Zhejiang province
                • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
                  FT MagazineGillian Tett
                  What the fight over TikTok really means

                  The tussle over the viral app shows just how entwined American and Chinese business has become

                • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
                  The Big Read
                  The teen mental health crisis: a reckoning for Big Tech

                  A growing body of evidence links a rise in depression in children to social media use. Will it lead to more regulation?

                  Montage image of a teenager on a smartphone, with the logos for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat
                • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
                  TikTok Inc
                  TikTok chief faces hostile Congress in bid to fight off US ban

                  Shou Zi Chew takes tough questions from legislators as China vows to oppose any forced sale

                  TikTok chief Shou Zi Chew testifies before the US House energy and commerce committee
                • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
                  TikTok Inc
                  China says it ‘firmly opposes’ forced sale of TikTok

                  Intervention by commerce ministry comes ahead of social media app chief’s appearance at US Congress

                  Shou Zi Chew speaking to media
                • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
                  News in-depthTikTok Inc
                  TikTok caught in US-China battle over its powerful algorithm

                  Chinese parent company ByteDance stuck between legal manoeuvres aimed at controlling video app’s future

                  A montage showing the TikTok logo and two hands with the US and Chinese flags pulling on a rope
                • Friday, 17 March, 2023
                  TikTok Inc
                  US prosecutors probe ByteDance’s use of TikTok to track journalists

                  Chinese owner of popular app has come under increasing pressure over its use of data

                  The TikTok logo on its offices in Culver City, California
                • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
                  TikTok Inc
                  TikTok faces potential US ban if Chinese owners do not sell stake

                  ByteDance-owned video app has faced drumbeat of bipartisan opposition from Washington

                  TikTok app logo
                • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
                  TikTok Inc
                  European Commission bans staff from using TikTok

                  Employees told to uninstall Chinese-owned app from devices that use commission apps

                  TikTok logo on a phone
                • Friday, 13 January, 2023
                  News in-depthBig tech
                  China moves to take ‘golden shares’ in Alibaba and Tencent units

                  Beijing changes tack in its efforts to secure a firmer grip on the country’s tech giants

                  Collection of logos of Chinese tech companies - Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance, Kuaishou, Bilibili and Weibo
                • Monday, 2 January, 2023
                  TikTok Inc
                  Lawmaker says sale of TikTok to US company could avoid outright ban

                  Republican congressman says social media group is ‘addictive and destructive’

                  Mike Gallagher
                • Thursday, 22 December, 2022
                  TikTok Inc
                  TikTok admits tracking FT journalist in leaks investigation

                  Chinese parent ByteDance says its employees accessed user data to find sources of information to reporters

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                • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
                  US-China relations
                  US Senate votes to ban TikTok on government devices

                  Lawmakers worry Chinese video app represents security threat

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                • Friday, 11 November, 2022
                  Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust PLC
                  Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage cuts China exposure

                  UK’s largest investment trust warns of ‘challenging’ environment and reduces stakes in Alibaba and Tencent

                  A woman holds an umbrella as she walks past the offices of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba in Beijing
                • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
                  TikTok Inc
                  TikTok slashes global revenue targets by at least $2bn

                  Fast-growing social media platform cuts ambitious goals by 20% as some staff complain of lavish spending

                  Shouzi Chew, chief executive officer of TikTok Inc
                • Wednesday, 2 November, 2022
                  News in-depthEcommerce
                  Shein copycats chase its explosive growth

                  Rivals seek to ride coattails of Chinese fast-fashion giant set to become world’s biggest specialist clothes seller

                  A montage of the Temu and IfYooou platforms on smartphones and the Shein logo in front of Shein clothing on racks
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