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ByteDance

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558 articles decelerating

ByteDance has appeared in 558 articles since 2018-03. Coverage peaked in 2026Q1 with 42 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside TikTok, China, Chinese, Trump.

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558
mentions
Velocity
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Acceleration
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velocity change
Sources
51
publications
Fruit Island
OpenAI killed Sora on Tuesday. On Saturday, an AI-generated parody of Love Island called "Fruit Island" went viral on TikTok. The AI entertainment future is arr...
The Cease-and-Desist Cascade
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.0 on February 10. Within five days, Disney, Paramount, and the Motion Picture Association all sent cease-and-desist letters. By Fe...
TikTok's First Week: The Algorithm Adjustments
Four days after the deal closed, TikTok US is blocking "Epstein" in DMs, experiencing convenient outages, and facing a censorship investigation. Everyone got wh...
TikTok's American Compromise: How a Six-Year Ban Became a Joint Venture
ByteDance keeps 19.9% and the algorithm. America gets a security theater wrapper. Everyone declares victory.

Coverage Timeline

2024-12-14
Wired 1 related

Ex-ByteDance intern Keyu Tian, who was allegedly dismissed for “serious misconduct”, is a co-author of one of two papers chosen for the NeurIPS Best Paper Award

And then a friend sent me this article.  Fitting.  —  www.wired.com/story/byteda... Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler : lol: TikTok intern sabotages colleagues' use of an AI computing cluster at Bytedance...

2024-10-21
BBC 11 related

ByteDance says it fired an intern in its ad tech team for “maliciously interfering” with AI training, and says operations were unaffected by their actions

TikTok owner, ByteDance, says it has sacked an intern for “maliciously interfering” with the training of one of its artificial intelligence (AI) models.

2024-05-20
The Guardian

How China is using AI news anchors to spread its propaganda on social media; Microsoft: some AI anchors were created using ByteDance's video editing app CapCut

2024-03-10
Axios 55 related

A look at Trump's TikTok flip-flop, as he recognizes the app's appeal to younger voters and repairs his relation with ByteDance investor and GOP donor Jeff Yass

I don't want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.  They are a true Enemy of the People!"  Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday.

2024-03-09
Axios 54 related

A look at Trump's TikTok flip-flop, as he recognizes the app's appeal to younger voters and repairs his relation with ByteDance investor and GOP donor Jeff Yass

I don't want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better.  They are a true Enemy of the People!"  Trump posted on Truth Social Thursday.

2023-12-17
The Verge 10 related

OpenAI says ByteDance's use of its API was minimal, suspends ByteDance's account while it investigates a report that ByteDance used OpenAI's API for its own LLM

After my report was published, OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix sent the following statement confirming that ByteDance's account has been suspended:

2023-12-16
The Verge 3 related

OpenAI says ByteDance's use of its API was minimal, suspends ByteDance's account while it investigates a report that ByteDance used OpenAI's API for its own LLM

After my report was published, OpenAI spokesperson Niko Felix sent the following statement confirming that ByteDance's account has been suspended:

The Verge 8 related

Docs: ByteDance used OpenAI's API to develop its own LLM, codenamed Project Seed; employees discussed “whitewashing” the evidence through “data desensitization”

TikTok's entrancing “For You” feed made its parent company, ByteDance, an AI leader on the world stage.

2023-05-24
New York Times

Sources and documents: TikTok employees have regularly posted user data on messaging tool Lark, used by ByteDance, leading some staff to raise privacy concerns

Employees of the Chinese-owned video app have regularly posted user information on a messaging and collaboration tool called Lark, according to internal documents. Tweets: @sapna , @sapna , @sapna , a...

2023-05-07
Financial Times 7 related

A journalist recounts discovering that ByteDance surveilled her in 2022 after reporting on TikTok's staff troubles in London and wonders why she was targeted

Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :

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Quarterly Coverage

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ByteDance has appeared in 525 Techmeme articles since November 2017, making it one of the most-covered entities in the archive. The biggest stories include ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US... and President Biden signs the ByteDance-TikTok divest-or-ban bill into law, after the Senate.... Frequently covered alongside TikTok, Trump, Tencent, Douyin, and Oracle. Coverage has shifted toward research, developer themes and away from consumer.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -10pts; consumer -28pts; funding -15pts
2024Q3enterprise +6pts; consumer +45pts; research +9pts
2024Q4enterprise +12pts; safety +8pts; consumer -30pts

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