In an open letter, CEO Jonah Peretti calls out TikTok and Meta for prioritizing AI tech over content and says people miss the ...

SNARF stands for S takes/ N ovelty/ A nger/ R etention/ F ear. SNARF is the kind of content that evolves when a platform asks an AI to maximize usage. Content creators need to please the AI algorithms ...

Founded by entrepreneur Zhang Yiming in 2012, ByteDance is set to invest 4.5 billion yuan (US$615 million) in a new computing centre in Datong, a city in northern Shanxi province, as part of ...

At another event the next day, Zhong targeted another one of China’s tech companies: ByteDance. Zhong said he’d hoped to get an apology from Zhang Yiming, ByteDance’s founder, for not ...

BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg over the Facebook parent's use of AI ...

Angela Huyue Zhang says DeepSeek's disruption of the AI industry is about market, not great-power, competition ...

Beijing-based ByteDance (BDNCE) is looking to spend over ... recent interventions in the U.S. Under the direction of founder Zhang Yiming, it has been doubling down to build out its own AI ...

Zhang has a 21% equity stake in TikTok’s Beijing-based parent, ByteDance, and majority control over the company through extra voting rights. In a reminder of the Chinese government’s influence ...

While there have been no signs of this so far, University of Iowa Assistant Professor Bingbing Zhang, whose research focuses on the effects of media messages on individuals’ beliefs and behaviors, ...

Zhang Yiming, a Chinese entrepreneur, founds ByteDance. He reportedly sketched the rough concept for what would become TikTok on the back of a napkin. July Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang launch Musical.ly.