20 December 2024

China’s super app WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings, has added a gift-giving feature to its embedded e-commerce platform ahead of Christmas, allowing users to send presents to their friends. Shoppers can search for products by keywords. According to the official guidelines, all gifts available are priced 10,000 yuan (US$1,375) or under, and they exclude jewellery […]

Democratic Senator Ed Markey and Republican Senator Rand Paul on Thursday urged President Joe Biden to extend by 90 days a January 19 deadline for China-based ByteDance to sell the US assets of its short-video app TikTok or face a ban. The Supreme Court said on Wednesday it will consider the legal challenge of TikTok

TikTok parent ByteDance has turned up the heat in the Chinese generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) market by slashing the price of a new AI model with “visual understanding” capabilities and launching a slew of product updates. The new model, part of the company’s popular Doubao family, was introduced at 0.003 yuan (US$0.00041) per thousand token