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Reuters reported exclusively that ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have placed Nvidia chip orders worth more than $35 billion, covering roughly three million workstation-class graphics processors that fall within permitted export-control categories. Reporting indicates only about one tenth may be immediately deliverable, meaning even compliant demand is constrained by capacity allocation and quota policy. Barron’s noted that even large-purchase speculation failed to lift Nvidia’s share price.

CoinDesk reported on September 14, citing people familiar with the matter, that ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, has finalized a syndicated loan totaling $29.6 billion, provided by a consortium of international banks, with the structure covering both a term loan and a revolving credit facility. The size makes it one of the largest single financing transactions completed by a global tech company in 2026, exceeding the annual capital-expenditure plans previously disclosed by several U.S. AI companies. ByteDance stated that the proceeds will primarily be used for AI infrastructure, high-performance compute build-out, data-center expansion and the training of next-generation large models. The financing reflects the fact that, at a critical juncture when the global AI race has entered a compute arms-race phase, China’s leading tech companies are leveraging large-scale debt to ramp up compute and infrastructure investment in a bid to maintain an advantageous position in the next-generation AI landscape.

TikTok and parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle FTC allegations that they illegally collected personal data from millions of users under age 13, marking the largest penalty ever imposed in a US child privacy case.