News & Reviews:   tiktok rumours

The news about TikTok is all the rage these days. We recently reported that Elon Musk could be in talks of acquiring the operation business in the US but it's best to take it with a pinch of salt. Today, two different news outlets are saying TikTok could get a 270-day extension or be shut down on Sunday.

As a fresh reminder, TikTok by ByteDance could potentially be shut down in the US if the company is not sold by 19 January 2025. That's basically next Monday if nothing is done, just before President-elect Donald Trump returns to office.

For the uninitiated, TikTok is owned by ByteDance and according to Reuters, the company is planning a new AI model that is trained with Huawei chips. Dubbed the Ascend 910B chip, it will be training a large-language AI model to employ better pattern recognition to make decisions.

When it comes to a photo app, people automatically think of Instagram as the go-to platform to check out friends' and families' photos. While there are also other platforms, they aren't as popular but TikTok may challenge the norm.