A new app, developed at the interaction design lab at Cornell University, has a novel approach to helping users lose weight: an algorithm that latches onto the healthy behaviors users are already ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -TikTok is preparing to launch a standalone app for U.S. users that is expected to operate on a separate algorithm and data system from its global app, laying the groundwork for a ...

Exclusive: TikTok preparing a US copy of the app’s core algorithm, sources say By Krystal Hu and Sheila Dang May 30, 20242:21 PM PDTUpdated May 30, 2024 ...

Those algorithms, which guide how TikTok watches its users and feeds them more of what they want, are the magic sauce of an app that 170 million Americans now have on their phones.

If ByteDance is actually forced to sell TikTok, it might not include the app's algorithm. But that might not be a huge issue for a new owner. For You-page recommendations could be recreated.

By resetting your recommendations, you would be starting fresh and retraining the app’s algorithm about the content you enjoy across your Explore page, home feed, and Reels tab.

The new app is expected to use only data from U.S. users to train its recommendation algorithms, further distancing it from TikTok’s global systems, sources added.