TikTok: China’s ‘smart’ moveChina has imposed new restrictions on export of AI techno-logies, indicating it might try to block ByteDance from selling TikTok’s US operations.
Technologies such as speech and text recognition and data analytics for personalized content recom-mendations were added to a list of export-control products, Bloomberg reports.
Government permits will be required for overseas transfers to “safeguard national economic security," the site said. It can take up to 30 days to get approval to export tech.
TikTok’s secret weapon is its recommendation algorithm that analyses behaviour, pushes videos and keeps users glued to screens.