ByteDance released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME.

Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, according to President Donald Trump. If that rings a bell it’s because Microsoft sought to buy the social media app in 2020, the last time Trump tried to ban the app.

A premarket tech stock selloff extended into the cryptocurrency market on Monday (January 27) ahead of a data-packed week that includes interest rate announcements from the US Federal Reserve and Bank of Canada.

The Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has rattled markets with claims its latest AI model performs on a par with those of OpenAI, despite using less advanced, more energy efficient compute

DeepSeek, now with models that rival the best of the West, has set the stage for a global war in AI inference pricing that is only now becoming clear to the world.

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.

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.

Meta and other AI competitors are facing challenges from China's DeepSeek as its new AI model outperforms competitors at lower costs.

OpenAI has launched Operator, a largely autonomous AI agent designed to take your simple text prompts and turn them into real-world tasks completed via the internet. In theory, you can ask it to do almost anything that's possible via a web browser. In practice, early users seem to be finding the results rather hit and miss.

UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action.

Perplexity AI made changes to its merger proposal with ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, on Sunday.  TakeAway Points: Perplexity AI revised the merger proposal it had submitted to TikTok parent ByteDance.

The dependency dance between AI pioneer OpenAI and the Microsoft Azure cloud and the application software divisions of its parent company are fascinating