Chinese biotechnology company WuXi AppTec said net profit jumped last year, while reiterating that it doesn’t pose a security threat to any country amid worries over a potential U.S. ban.
Steve Huffman built the social-media platform nearly two decades ago while in college. Now he’s taking it public, adding investors to the list of personalities he needs to juggle.
TikTok faces its most serious threat yet to its U.S. existence with the House passage of a bill that would ban it from operating in America or force a sale.
The European Commission has launched an investigation into e-commerce platform AliExpress, owned by Chinese technology giant Alibaba, on concerns the company isn’t taking adequate measures to prevent the distribution of illegal goods and content online.
Beijing’s stance leaves ByteDance in a bind as TikTok faces the most serious threat yet to its existence in its biggest market, where it has 170 million users.
CrowdTangle has been a source for some embarrassing articles about its Facebook and Instagram. The company says its replacement tool is only for academics and nonprofit researchers.
Executives thought they had fended off attacks, but lawmakers and Biden officials were working to force its ban or sale. The House is set to vote Wednesday on the new bill.
Nvidia said its NeMo artificial intelligence platform was created in full compliance with copyright law, after a group of authors filed a class-action complaint saying some of their books were used without permission.
The move will be seen as another salvo in the long-simmering feud between Musk and OpenAI’s Chief Executive Sam Altman in the artificial-intelligence arms race.
The tech giant earlier blocked the efforts of Epic Games to build out its own app store after the company criticized Apple’s response to new regulations.
Shares of the WuXi family of biotech and research companies fell sharply after a U.S. bill targeting certain Chinese biotechnology providers got the green light to go to the Senate floor, reigniting worries about potential U.S. sanctions.
TikTok, the short-video platform owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance, is facing renewed political pressure in the U.S. from a draft bill that could lead to a ban of its popular video-sharing app.