Senate Intelligence Democrat says Trump’s TikTok delay is against the law
China’s ByteDance, the parent of TikTok, has said that it’s in talks with the US government regarding a potential solution for TikTok US. This comes after US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order to delay the implementation of a law that will require ByteDance to comply with US regulations on the sale of TikTok.
How to get TikTok back on your phone if you deleted it
TikTok users in India cannot download the popular video-sharing app from the App Store as it doesn’t recognise the country they’re in. TikTok Lite is only available on India’s App Store. Users will be forced to use a VPN to connect to TikTok’s website from a VPN hotspot. TikTok and other ByteDance applications are not available on the App Store in India.
If you deleted TikTok after its ban, can you get it back on your phone?
TikTok is back on the app store, an ByteDance spokesperson has confirmed. This comes after US President Donald Trump tweeted about TikTok being reinstated to the app store. “This could help them stay on the good side of the Trump administration and…address the financial hit they’re taking by not hosting TikTok on app stores,” the spokesperson said.
China created an artificial intelligence model that surprised the world
China-based artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek has released an open-source’reasoning’ model called DeepSeek-R1, which can solve some scientific problems at a similar standard to the OpenAI’s LLM. Alibaba released its most advanced LLM so far, Qwen2.5-Max, which the company says outperforms DeepSeek’s V3, another LLM it released in December. Earlier, Moonshot and ByteDance released new reasoning models.
Tiktok is not the only ByteDance app that is gone
TikTok and its parent ByteDance’s other apps have disappeared from the US, a day after it received a nationwide ban over the app’s alleged violations of US laws. ByteDance was required to either sell the US operations or face a nationwide ban. TikTok has urged US President Joe Biden to provide assurance that it wouldn’t enforce the law.
TikTok service providers risk billions of dollars in penalties for uploading it back online
TikTok and many other ByteDance-owned apps were removed from US App Store and Google Play Store as of Sunday, after the US Congress passed a law banning the platform. The law also banned companies from providing data hosting services to TikTok. It was passed after ByteDance failed to obtain a court order to restore TikTok in the US.
Before the backlash started, TikTok wasn’t even Banned
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance’s Chinese app Xiaohongshu has surged to the top of the charts on the country’s app store. “Started learning in Duolingo and from creators on Red Note [or Xiaohongshu],” an TikTok user wrote. China’s social media platform Instagram has also seen an increase in the number of Chinese users after TikTok’s shutdown.
It could be possible for TikTok to get a 270 day extension
TikTok will get harder to access in the US as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to consider TikTok’s constitutionality, Kate Ruane, Director of the Free Expression Project, said. She added that even after the law takes effect, users won’t be banned from using the app if they have it on their phones. TikTok is owned by China’s ByteDance.
After the Supreme Court argued about TikTok’s case, it is likely that it will be banned
TikTok may be blocked in the US by January 19 if its owner, ByteDance, does not sell the US business by that date. US President-elect Donald Trump had originally proposed thatByteDance be forced to sell TikTok during his first presidential term, but has since reversed course. Trump has a number of options, including instructing his administration to not enforce the law.
TikTok calls the U.S. ban unconstitutional
Video-streaming app TikTok has said that an algorithm used by China’s ByteDance, which allows it to function in the US, cannot be easily transferred to the country even if it does allow it. ByteDance had earlier said that it did not intend to let go of ByteDance’s service in the US. The algorithm involves millions of lines of software code.