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TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, boasts 170 million U.S. users. China’s AI chatbot DeepSeek surged to the top of Apple’s ...
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L’Oreal launches challenge to partner start-ups to transform the future of beauty tech
In a bid to scour the market for relevant tech that could help boost L’Oreal’s business, it has launched the Big Bang Beauty ...