When it comes to apps that run daily life, most people immediately think of Western giants like Instagram, Google, or WhatsApp. But in China, there's a completely different digital universe. It's ...

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden has added an artificial intelligence chatbot and social media platform to the list of applications banned for use by state employees because the companies behind them ...

Last month, DeepSeek became one of the top AI app on the U.S. Apple App Store and disrupted the tech industry by claiming its model costs far less to develop than competitors. The announcement led to ...

The impending TikTok ban in the U.S. has prompted a mass migration of "refugee" content creators to alternative social media platforms – and a Chinese app named for Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book" ...

In the midst of TikTok going dark in the U.S. (and then coming back online less than 24 hours later), users have been flocking to a similar Chinese app, whose owners are keen to capitalize on their ...

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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday issued a ban on six more Chinese artificial intelligence and social media apps on government-issued devices. TikTok was already banned back in 2022.

Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has warning for users of Chinese apps. In an advisory, NSB said that China-developed apps like RedNote (Xiaohongshu), Weibo, TikTok, WeChat and Baidu Cloud pose ...

As Xiaohongshu — known as RedNote or Red in English — surged to the top of the App Store downloads list this week, users in both China and the U.S. celebrated an unprecedented cross-cultural exchange: ...