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 ...

The US and China have outlined a framework deal to resolve disputes over TikTok's US operations, officials said after trade talks in Madrid. The agreement marks progress toward easing tensions but ...

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, ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up On March 30, Han Shangyou, president of TikTok’s ...