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OpenAI is paying out $51 million to a chip startup that Sam Altman personally invested in, report says
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly invested $1 million of his own money into the chip startup Rain AI.
Jyoti Mann
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TikTok's deal with Oracle and Walmart has reportedly been put on ice now that Trump is gone
Sources told The Wall Street Journal, TikTok's deal with Oracle and Walmart may hinge on whether th…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The Trump administration has backed off of its TikTok ban, but a federal judge had already blocked it, citing the White House's 'hypothetical' national security concerns
The administration delayed an order that would have effectively banned TikTok in the US, "pending f…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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The Treasury Dept. has reportedly reached a deal for Oracle, Walmart, and other US investors to take a majority stake in TikTok
The proposed deal will now need to be approved by Donald Trump, then the Chinese government. The sp…
Paige Leskin
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Oracle's bid for TikTok is reportedly facing roadblocks over continued national security concerns
There are last-minute national security concerns over whether the deal does enough to adequately ke…
Paige Leskin
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No, Donald Trump can't 'ban' TikTok
However, Trump and the government can take other moves to hurt TikTok and ByteDance. Here's what le…
Paige Leskin
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How to pronounce CFIUS, the once-obscure government body that reportedly gave Microsoft and ByteDance a 45-day deadline to negotiate a TikTok acquisition deal
Pronounced siff-ee-yus, the committee holds the power to investigate deals that involve foreign inv…
Katie Canales
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Biden is reportedly beefing up the national security panel CFIUS to scrutinize Chinese investment in US tech startups
CFIUS has been staffing up with investment and tech experts, and under Biden will target Chinese in…
Samuel Horti
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The TikTok CEO's day in Congress was a 'disaster' that means the app will still likely get banned or sold, Wall Street says
US lawmakers grilled TikTok's CEO about the company's ties to China and its content moderation poli…
Paayal Zaveri
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Buying TikTok would be really hard, even for Big Tech. Here are the most likely to do it, including Microsoft and Oracle.
The list of companies that would actually consider buying TikTok is small and the app would come wi…
Dan Whateley,Paayal Zaveri,Gr…
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TikTok could be banned in the US unless the app’s Chinese owners sell their stakes. The Biden administration is demanding it, WSJ reports.
A US TikTok ban may be coming if the company's Chinese owners don't sell their stake in the company.
Lakshmi Varanasi
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US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco says she 'would not advise' anyone to use TikTok due to data security concerns
Speaking at an event on Thursday, Monaco said she does not use TikTok and warned of concern over Ch…
Aaron McDade
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Trump supports a TikTok acquisition by Oracle, whose chairman is a major supporter
Oracle's cofounder Larry Ellison is a Trump supporter, and the US President has given his support t…
Shona Ghosh
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TikTok reportedly has a 'heating feature' that lets its staff pick which videos go viral
Internal documents seen by Forbes show staff from TikTok and its parent company ByteDance can boost…
Britney Nguyen
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Without radical changes, TikTok could vanish in the US
Another push for TikTok to sell its US operations, along with government bans, are raising question…
Paayal Zaveri
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Some US security officials are considering calling for TikTok owner ByteDance to sell US unit, report says
Some members of the US government's security apparatus are considering the possibility amid "securi…
Sindhu Sundar
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The US government is considering a national security review of Elon Musk's $44 billion Twitter acquisition, report says. If it happens, Biden could ultimately kill the deal.
President Biden has the ability to cancel the Twitter deal if it's subject to a national security r…
Kate Duffy
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Chips, vaccines, and 'techno autocracies' - Why Big Tech and Biden are going to be friends
In this week's edition of the Insider Tech newsletter we look at how the shortage of vaccines and s…
Alexei Oreskovic
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China reportedly demanded that big Chinese tech companies like Alibaba process stolen US data for the nation's top spies upon request
Foreign Policy spoke to 36 US officials, who said China forcing its firms to process stolen data re…
Katie Canales
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The Department of the Treasury is reportedly looking into the American companies behind 'Fortnite' and 'League of Legends' over their ties to Chinese tech titan Tencent
After banning TikTok and WeChat for connections to China, the US government is setting its sights o…