ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, has earmarked over 150 billion yuan ($20.64 billion) in capital expenditure for this year, much of which will be centred on artificial intelligence, two people briefed on the matter said.

The U.S. withdrawal from WHO has seismic implications on issues like prevention of future pandemics, and the stakes are especially high for Canada.

TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

President Donald Trump set a record on his first day back in office by issuing 26 executive orders, aiming to fulfill many of his campaign promises.

TikTok is considering alternative solutions to selling its US business, as owner ByteDance continues the fight to keep its 170 million American users after a reprieve from the Trump administration, a board member of ByteDance was quoted by Chinese magazine Caixin as saying.

The announcement by US President Donald Trump that the USA will withdraw from WHO1 will leave both a large financial gap and a political power vacuum in global health. The disruption endangers human lives worldwide because it is not only about leaving a bureaucratic apparatus—as WHO opponents like to portray the UN agency2—but it is also about an organisation that implements concrete health programmes with many partners at country level worldwide,

The future of TikTok in the United States is still uncertain, following it going weekend. Part of his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order postponing the ban by 75 days.

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest nation, the United States has generally paid more than other countries.

President Donald Trump said in his inaugural address that he had “no higher responsibility than to defend our country.” So what did Trump do on his first day in office? He made America weaker and more vulnerable.

The ending of the commitment to the World Health Organization by the United States poses as an existential threat to the well-being of the international working class.

The new benefits package includes improved medical insurance, with access to premium medical care in regular public hospitals ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok and Douyin, will end the Lunar New Year tradition of giving red packets to employees from 2026,

OpenAI debuted its Operator agent system. It’s just a research preview for now, a start toward the promised land of AI agents where we might see automated grocery restocking and expense reports (I’ll believe that when I see it). But the road will be long and winding.