The buyback plan comes after a challenging few years for ByteDance, which has faced tougher regulation, a fall in valuation and scrutiny of TikTok in the U.S.
A group of Google contractors, some of whom have worked on Search and Google's artificial intelligence chatbot Bard, have successfully voted to unionize.
At OpenAI's developer event in San Francisco, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the audience that his company's cloud is the best place for them to build
Jaeger Glucina, chief of staff and managing director of Luminance, said its new AI aimed to eliminate much of the paperwork that lawyers need to complete.
Business news related to the technology industry, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook, plus consumer electronics, start-ups, cryptocurrency, media, advertising, streaming, venture capital, antitrust and regulation.