Two Republican members of Missouri’s congressional delegation are deferring to President Trump on what to do about TikTok. U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley has been working for years to get the app banned in the United States because it’s owned by ByteDance,

The human dancing videos and the cat dancing videos on TikTok have nothing on the dancing by politicians who voted for the law forcing its Chinese owner, ByteDance, to either sell the popular and

The United States Supreme Court upheld a law on Friday that will force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or face a ban. However, the future of the platform is still unclear. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) praised the court's decision,

U.S. officials have long feared that the widely popular short-form video app could be used as a vehicle for espionage.

Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) says that’s because lawmakers agreed that it is a national security risk for Chinese company ByteDance to own the popular app. “The best way for TikTok to continue ...

Social-media giant ByteDance, China's most valuable unicorn, on Thursday unveiled its Seed Edge initiative, a long-term artificial intelligence (AI) research programme that is expected to shore up the TikTok owner's efforts in the fast-developing technology.

That puts Cleaver on the same side as his state legislative mate, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley. Hawley, Missouri’s senior Republican senator, led a bipartisan move in the Senate last year and has ...

Perplexity AI submitted a revised merger proposal to TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance as the popular video-sharing app stares down a national ban, according to multiple reports. Under the new ...

President Donald Trump said late Monday he hoped there would be a “bidding war” for TikTok, claiming Microsoft is now among the companies interested in buying ByteDance’s popular social ...

The revised proposal allows for a new structure merging Perplexity AI and TikTok's U.S. business. The U.S. government could acquire up to a 50 percent nonvoting stake after a public offering valued at $300 billion or more. ByteDance would maintain equity in the new entity but cede control to a U.S. board.

The TikTok ban was supposed to be a critical national security response to the threat posed by the Chinese government and its control over an app with 170 million users in our country. Shortly before the law went into effect,

Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley, who had previously called for Bytedance to divest TikTok in the U.S., asked U.S. regulators overseeing foreign companies investments in the U.S. to reject the proposed Oracle deal. The Oracle-TikTok deal ...