The popular video-editing tool had remained dark for much of the day on Monday even after TikTok returned in the wake of expected action from Trump. When the TikTok ban came into force on Sunday, January 19,

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Bill Ford, the CEO of ByteDance shareholder General Atlantic, said Wednesday he was confident that a deal will be reached to ensure TikTok stays online in the US — and suggested there may be

Kentik’s analysis shows that, prior to the shutdown, most TikTok traffic used ByteDance’s own CDN. Since it returned, all users have been routed via third-party CDNs provided by vendors such as Akamai and Fastly.

TikTok's influence has been greater than its seemingly short-lived demise. The ByteDance-owned app returns after going dark over the weekend.

TikTok was banned and restored within the same weekend. Find out what other apps owned by ByteDance, are in limbo below.

TikTok parent ByteDance has launched an updated version of Doubao, China’s most popular consumer-facing artificial intelligence (AI) app, as the tech giant accelerates AI development despite US export restrictions on advanced chips.

TikTok owner ByteDance has released upgrades to its large language model, which powers its AI chatbot, marking the social media giant's latest efforts to lead the global AI race. ByteDance's Doubao-1.5-Pro large language model demonstrated strong performance across global evaluation tests, the company said on its official WeChat account.

Other apps from the company behind TikTok, including CapCut and Lemon8, went dark this weekend before flickering back. The federal law banning TikTok also applies to them.

ByteDance released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME.

Apple said apps developed by ByteDance and its subsidiaries would no longer be available for download or updates on the US app store from Sunday.