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Big Tech’s race to leapfrog the latest AI models continues with the launch of ByteDance’s next-gen video generator. In a blog post, ByteDance – the China-based company behind TikTok – says Seedance 2.0 supports prompts that combine text, images, video, and audio. …
According to Reuters, the DOJ has issued a memo stating that “employees of Executive Branch agencies may download TikTok onto their official devices, subject to the agency’s discretion,” now that the deal limiting ByteDance’s ownership is in place and US user data is secured in American data cent… …
… Meta, Snap, and ByteDance are still set to be defendants in the trial, which is being brought by a 15-year old plaintiff known as “R.K.C.” and is scheduled to start on July 27th. …
… ByteDance’s AI model, Seedance, also struck an agreement with the Motion Picture Association after lax guardrails allowed users to generate scenes with the AI likenesses of their favorite Hollywood stars. …
… Qwen3.8-Max closely follows the release of Kimi K3, viewed as another challenge to American AI dominance, and both ByteDance and MiniMax released capable new video generation models on Friday. …
… Trump is absolutely going to make ByteDance sell TikTok or shut down again. …
… But every single one of Nightborne’s shots was made with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator. …
… For instance, ByteDance has been renting chips from Oracle to circumvent export prohibitions of Nvidia’s most advanced chips. According to The Information, ByteDance has become one of Oracle’s largest cloud customers. …
… In the near future, Pippa plans to incorporate ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 model into its service, which may attract some subscribers because of the model’s ability to generate up to 30 seconds of video footage that can be fine-tuned without starting over from scratch. …
… But despite being the person who originally tried to ban TikTok during his first term, President Trump has promised a deal with ByteDance that would keep TikTok operating in some way. …