Sandie Hawkins led e-commerce at TikTok before joining Teikametrics. She said social commerce and AI have changed online shopping forever.

Wall Street analysts see AI boosting Meta's performance this year. The tech titan could also be a big winner amid the drama swirling around TikTok.

Few expect Donald Trump to ease Biden-era limitations on China's ability to get advanced chips in the wake of DeepSeek's success.

The fate of the Chinese-owned app is uncertain, but the effects of banning it would ripple through campus communities. Journalism professor and First Amendment lawyer J. Israel Balderas sat down with Inside Higher Ed to explain why.

While rival chatbots including ChatGPT collect vast quantities of user data, DeepSeek’s use of China-based servers are a key difference and a glaring privacy risk for Americans, experts told The

Perplexity, an artificial intelligence search engine startup, has bid to merge with TikTok U.S. so the platform can avoid being banned in the country.

Search engine startup Perplexity AI submitted a bid on Saturday to TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance for Perplexity to reportedly merge with TikTok.

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.

Whether TikTok stays with Perplexity AI's backing or goes, without that juicy algorithm ByteDance doesn’t seem willing to part with, the app won't ever be the same.

Startup Perplexity AI made its second bid to buy TikTok, this time with a proposal to have the U.S. government own 50% of the platform. Lawmakers have long opposed TikTok’s algorithm since its parent company,

T he fast-rising Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is sparking national security concerns in the U.S., over fears that its AI models could be used by the Chinese government to spy on Americ