Prices on the resale market surged after the app went dark for 14 hours last week due to the ban, which has been paused by President Trump.

A number of social-media posts claim that the Chinese-owned app is blocking content that is critical of the new president.

Social media influencer MrBeast says he'd buy TikTok to keep it from being banned. Elon Musk reportedly is interested in buying the app as well.

TikTok owner ByteDance on Wednesday released an update to its flagship AI model aimed at challenging Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s latest reasoning model products, as a global race intensified to create AI models capable of tackling complex problems.

The law gives the president the option to extend the ban by 90 days, but triggering the extension requires evidence that parties working on purchasing have made significant progress, including binding legal agreements for such a deal — and TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, hasn’t publicly updated its stance that the app is not for sale.

MrBeast, the internet’s most-followed and highest-earning content creator, has joined a new bid to buy TikTok.

TikTok has returned for US users after a brief shutdown. If it goes away for good, these rival apps can help you get your fix of short-form video.

"Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary has said that he, in collaboration with former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt, would be interested in purchasing the app.YouTuber MrBeast also said in an X post on January 13,

Less than 24 hours after the app went dark, TikTok says President-elect Donald Trump has given it the reassurance it needs to resume service in the US.

For many of America’s 170 million TikTok users, US President Donald Trump’s move to delay a legal ban of the popular social media platform was cause for celebration. But in China, where TikTok’s parent company is based,

TikTok came back online after Donald Trump promised to delay a law banning it, but its service providers have taken different stances on the ban.