ByteDance is building a ~$39B data center complex with a 1GW capacity in a free-trade zone in Brazil's Ceará, set to be its largest facility outside of China
The TikTok creator's $39 billion data center is the latest payoff from Lula's courtship of Chinese investment.
Sources: Qualcomm is in talks to design custom chips for ByteDance, based partly on connectivity tech from Alphawave Semi, which Qualcomm acquired in June 2025
Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is in talks to provide chip-design services to China's ByteDance, four people familiar with the matter said …
Sources: ByteDance is in talks with Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX to purchase GPUs for AI inference, and is considering a deal to buy Baidu's Kunlunxin chips
Sources: ByteDance is offering low-priced stock options linked to growth in its Seed AI division to staff of the unit, a first, to fend off poaching from rivals
ByteDance is offering special stock to employees of its AI lab to fend off poaching from rivals as China's tech talent war heats up.
Memo: ByteDance agrees to sell gaming unit Moonton to Savvy Games, owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, sources say for $6B; ByteDance bought Moonton for ~$4B in 2021
ByteDance Ltd. has agreed to sell games unit Moonton to Savvy Games Group for $6 billion, unloading a gaming studio it acquired …
Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy ~500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, totaling ~36,000 B200 chips; the hardware could cost $2.5B+
TikTok parent, pushing global expansion, plans to tap Blackwell processors that are barred for export to China
Sources: General Atlantic is selling a stake in ByteDance in a deal that values it at $550B, up 66% since September 2025, the first divestment since its US sale
Investment firm General Atlantic is selling an equity stake in ByteDance in a deal that values the Chinese social media giant at $550 billion …
Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B
Sources: ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell game studio Moonton, the developer of Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, to Saudi Arabia's Savvy Games for $6B to $7B
ByteDance is in advanced talks to sell Shanghai Moonton Technology, the studio behind the popular mobile game Mobile Legends …
TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9%
Video app sets up American unit to handle data and algorithm security — TikTok has established a US data security unit …