From Trump’s first ban attempt to a 2025 blackout, TikTok’s U.S. battle with Washington, data privacy fears, and a last-minute deal shows how close it came to collapse.

Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, raised concerns Wednesday about the ongoing reliance of a potential TikTok spinoff on an

President Donald Trump’s call with Chinese President Xi Jinping is slated to take place on Friday at 9 a.m. Washington time, according to a US official.

This clearly is an expansion of Oracle's original business, and now it looks as if this tech giant may be expanding further: Oracle, as part of a consortium, may take a stake in TikTok, according to press reports. China's ByteDance, TikTok's owner, has been under pressure from the U.S. to divest its U.S. business or face a shutdown in the country.

TikTok's deadline to find a buyer for its US operations is next week.

Doubao records 157 million monthly active users in August, up 6.6 per cent from July, according to data from QuestMobile.

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Nvidia chief executive officer Jensen Huang has said that he is “disappointed” following reports that China has banned the use of its semiconductors as tensions between Washington and Beijing over AI dominance escalate.

ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark.