The proposal, submitted last week, is a revision of an earlier plan the artificial intelligence startup presented to TikTok's parent ByteDance on 18 January, a day before the law that bans TikTok went into effect.

Despite all of this, Trump has decided that the best course of action is to delay the shutdown of TikTok, even though he was one of the first to endorse a ban. His reason for the delay is that he wants to broker a sale, but that doesn’t explain his flipping from leading the charge on a ban to trying to save it.

A TikTok ban briefly came into effect this past weekend in the U.S., but service came back the next day. What exactly happened?

Perplexity AI has presented a new proposal to TikTok’s parent company that would allow the U.S. government to own up to 50% of a new entity that merges Perplexity with

TikTok went offline in the United States Saturday night, less than two hours before a ban was slated to go into effect. The extraordinary blackout prevents access to one of the world’s most popular social media apps – one that had been used by 170 ...

Congress voted to ban TikTok out of concern that TikTok's ownership structure represents a security risk, a ban upheld by the Supreme Court but

The app went dark nationwide on Saturday night, but the company indicated it was in the process of restoring the service after assurances from President-elect Donald J. Trump.

After several attempts, finally came the moment when ByteDance's platform, TikTok disappears from the United States after a legal battle.

The popular video app went dark in the United States late Saturday and then came back around noon on Sunday, even as a law banning it took effect.

Phones that still have TikTok installed on them are fetching high prices on eBay, days after the social media platform's short-lived ban in the United States. The TikTok app is currently unavailable in the Apple App Store — making it available only to those who previously installed the app before its recent ban.

Original: TikTok is now officially banned and unavailable in the United States, ensuring it can no longer be used by those who have the app downloaded. TikTok is one of the biggest platforms on ...