When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

A year past the original deadline, TikTok users are celebrating after the app’s owner finalized a deal late Thursday to spin off the bulk of its U.S. business to a consortium of American investors.

In early 2026, the company’s handheld and earbud translators, including the W4, W4 Pro, and T1, will be getting a software upgrade introducing a new “SOTA Translation Engine Selector” that ...

Bypassing the prohibitive costs of training novel architectures from scratch, the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) has introduced Bolmo, a new family of language models that process raw bytes instead of ...

AI Singapore (AISG) and Alibaba Cloud have released a large language model (LLM) that has been improved to address the linguistic and cultural nuances of Southeast Asia. Dubbed Qwen-Sea-Lion-v4, it ...

House China Chair John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on China, said Thursday that he has requested a detailed briefing on the proposed TikTok sale after reports that the new ...

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WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday highlighting the terms of a deal to save TikTok in the United States. Both U.S. and Chinese officials have signaled ...

The US and China are moving forward with a framework agreement on TikTok's US operations that centers on control of the app's algorithm and data security. Under the current proposal, a consortium of ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The White House has named tech giant Oracle as the company that will power TikTok for U.S. users, with the app's algorithm being operated in the United States. A senior Trump ...