When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

A year past the original deadline, TikTok users are celebrating after the app’s owner finalized a deal late Thursday to spin off the bulk of its U.S. business to a consortium of American investors.

In early 2026, the company’s handheld and earbud translators, including the W4, W4 Pro, and T1, will be getting a software upgrade introducing a new “SOTA Translation Engine Selector” that ...

TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, have signed binding agreements to create a new US-based joint venture that will be majority-owned and controlled by American investors, TikTok CEO Shou Chew ...

AI Singapore (AISG) and Alibaba Cloud have released a large language model (LLM) that has been improved to address the linguistic and cultural nuances of Southeast Asia. Dubbed Qwen-Sea-Lion-v4, it ...

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WASHINGTON (TNND) — The White House has named tech giant Oracle as the company that will power TikTok for U.S. users, with the app's algorithm being operated in the United States. A senior Trump ...

On Truth Social, Trump wrote that a deal had been reached with a "certain" company that "young people in our Country very much wanted to save," an apparent reference to TikTok. Minutes later, Treasury ...

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce an Optimized Byte Pair Encoding (OBPE) tokenizer where the algorithm is optimized for the South African languages, including Sesotho, Setswana, Xhosa, Xitsonga, ...