Sony has fired off a cease and desist letter to ByteDance — the fifth major Hollywood player to do so in the past week despite the giant Chinese conglomerate insisting publicly that it respects ...

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Paramount Skydance has become the latest major Hollywood studio to accuse ByteDance of illegally exploiting copyrighted material to train and power its artificial intelligence tools, escalating an ...

Disney sent ByteDance a cease-and-desist letter over its new Seedance 2.0 generative AI video tool on Friday, claiming the Chinese owner of TikTok infringed on its creative property to train the new ...

On this week’s “Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review,” we take a look at Nvidia's changing investment relationship with OpenAI. Plus, a stormy start for the new U.S. version of TikTok. But first, ...

During a busy week for the wealth tech space, Docupace unveiled new data showing productivity gains for advisors in 2025, while Contio and Apex made separate AI-based announcements aimed at making ...

Embodied intelligence company X Square Robot announced today that it has completed one billion yuan ($140 million) A++ funding round. The round was led by top-tier investors including ByteDance, ...

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The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...