TNB Tech Minute: China’s ByteDance Accesses Top Nvidia AI Chips Through Cloud
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. |
| 0:05.0 | Infliction is killing me! |
| 0:08.0 | But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits! |
| 0:12.0 | That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill! |
| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
| 0:18.0 | This bill would cut the vital resources they need. |
| 0:25.1 | While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they? |
| 0:29.1 | Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. |
| 0:31.2 | Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:38.5 | Here's your morning, TNB Tech Minute for Friday, March 13th. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:44.1 | We exclusively report that TikTok's Chinese parent company, BightDance, is assembling computer power with high-end NVIDIA chips outside China to fuel its ambition of becoming a global AI leader. |
| 0:50.9 | People familiar with the matter say BightDance is working with a company called Aolani Cloud to assemble about 500 of NVIDIA's Blackwell computing systems in Malaysia. |
| 1:00.0 | Some of the people said BightDance plans to use the computing power for AI research and development outside China, as well as to meet rising demand for AI from its customers around the globe. |
| 1:10.5 | An Aolani spokesman said the company fully adheres to all applicable export control regulations. |
| 1:15.6 | An NVIDIA spokesman said export rules allow clouds to be built and operated outside controlled countries like China. |
| 1:22.6 | FedEx is developing AI agents to work alongside its human workforce, integrating AI further into its business operations. |
| 1:31.3 | The shipping giant already uses AI in software development, but plans to drive AI agents into areas such as network planning and business processes. |
| 1:39.3 | FedEx plans to integrate AI into more than half of its core operational workflows by 2028. |
| 1:46.5 | And Adobe says its longtime CEO will step down after it finds a new leader for the AI era. |
| 1:52.9 | Shantanun Narayan led the software company for 18 years and oversaw the integration of AI tools into products like Photoshop and Premier. |
| 1:59.9 | But the company has struggled to |
| 2:01.6 | convince investors it can outpace AI's industry-wide disruptions. Adobe posted higher quarterly |
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