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Sources: Chinese officials are evaluating an option involving Elon Musk acquiring TikTok US; X would take control of TikTok US and run the businesses together — - ByteDance's preferred strategy is to fight ban, people say — Trump has said he would like to delay ban to seek resolution
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
TikTok denies a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to Elon Musk to keep it operating the US, calling it “pure fiction” — TikTok denied a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to tech billionaire Elon Musk …
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Bluesky: @clarkzy, @gilmored85, and @vortexegg.com
X: @danprimack, @alexeheath, and @mediaevan
Forums: r/China, r/technology, r/InternationalNews, and r/wallstreetbets
| Financial Times: |
Sources: the EU is reviewing its DMA probes into US tech giants from March 2024, as US groups urge Trump to intervene; the EU says “there is no such review” — Tech groups have urged Donald Trump to intervene against overzealous European regulation
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LinkedIn: Damien Geradin, Alberto Alemanno, and Ken Janssens
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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
Texas sues Allstate and its subsidiary Arity, accusing the insurer of illegally collecting and selling data about people's driving behavior through mobile apps — The lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people's driving behavior through mobile phone apps …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Databricks secures $5B+ in its largest debt raise to date, from lenders including Blackstone and Apollo, after raising $10B in equity in December 2024 — - Blackstone, Apollo, Blue Owl among lenders in private loan — Financing also includes a $2.5 billion credit line from banks
More: Silicon Republic, The Information, and PYMNTS.com
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple is finalizing verification of its first cutting-edge chips from TSMC's Arizona plant, with the initial batch expected as early as this quarter — TAIPEI — Apple is in the final stage of verifying its first “made in America” cutting-edge processor chips from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s plant in Arizona.
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
How Cleo AI and Bright, personalized AI chatbots offering financial advice, often function as a way to sell high-interest loans and cash advances to young users — AI finance apps are reaching Gen Z and millennial users with personalized chatbots that offer money advice—and upsell them big-time.
Bluesky: @sylonzero, @sylonzero, @carnage4life, @andycarr, @thiccreese, and @wired.com. LinkedIn: Robert Kozma Ph.D.
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
The UK CMA opens an investigation into whether Google has “strategic market status” in search and how it impacts consumers, advertisers, publishers, and rivals — LONDON — Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday said that it's opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google's search and search advertising services.
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| Vince Dioquino / Decrypt: |
Sony launches its Soneium Ethereum L2 platform for creators, after a four-month test that drew 14M+ users; Blockscout: the testnet processed ~47M transactions — Sony says it plans to explore ways for protecting creator rights and mechanisms for equitable value distribution between creators and fans.
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| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
Ahead of a likely US TikTok ban, users flee to Chinese apps Xiaohongshu, aka RedNote, and ByteDance's Lemon8, currently the top two apps in the US App Store — Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.
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| Niket Nishant / Reuters: |
Zurich- and Singapore-based Sygnum, a crypto-focused bank and trading platform for institutional users, raised $58M led by Fulgur Ventures at a $1B valuation — Crypto-focused bank Sygnum secured a valuation of $1 billion after raising $58 million in its latest funding round, it said on Tuesday.| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
The SEC says that two Robinhood broker-dealers agreed to pay $45M in combined penalties to settle charges that they violated over 10 securities law provisions — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Microsoft is creating a new “CoreAI - Platform and Tools” unit led by Jay Parikh, the ex-Lacework CEO and Meta engineering executive who joined in October 2024 — Microsoft is creating a new engineering division, led by the former global head of engineering at Facebook (now Meta) …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Zuckerberg met with Trump on Friday, in part to mediate a 2021 lawsuit Trump brought against Meta over his account suspension after the Jan. 6 riot — Meta pursues a MAGA makeover, in the latest political pivot for a company that once banned the now-president-elect from its platforms| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Jimmy Wales, Mark Ruffalo, others debut Free Our Feeds to raise $30M by 2028 to “billionaire-proof” AT Protocol, by making it easier for users to leave Bluesky — Free Our Feeds, which includes support from the Mozilla Foundation, is working with Bluesky to make sure …
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Threads: @elipariser, @shoqv4, and @ben.werdmuller
| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Klarna strikes a partnership with Stripe to make its BNPL service available to merchants using Stripe's payment tools in 26 countries, ahead of its US IPO — Klarna has agreed a major new distribution partnership with fellow fintech unicorn Stripe, in a bid to expand reach and add more merchants …
More: PYMNTS.com and Financial Times
| Financial Times: |
India's IT outsourcing industry, which gets more than half of its revenue from the US, expects Trump's deregulation to spur growth by boosting tech spending — After years of anaemic growth in largest market, sector expects promised deregulation to encourage tech spending
Bluesky: @vivekr
| Bloomberg: |
A profile of Dubai property tycoon Hussain Sajwani, who, alongside Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, pledged a $20B investment in US data centers, drawing skepticism — - Hussain Sajwani has seen big wins from Dubai's property boom — Sajwani has pledged to invest $20 billion in US data centers| Bloomberg: |
The Biden admin finalizes a rule banning the import or sale of connected vehicles with hardware or software that have a “sufficient nexus” to China or Russia — - Biden finalizes ban on Chinese vehicles and moves to widen it — US to lease federal land to AI companies to build data centers| Financial Times: |
Amazon's AGI lead Rohit Prasad says Alexa will relaunch as an AI agent as Amazon works to address challenges in the system's AI overhaul — Rollout of upgraded voice assistant hit by delays as Big Tech group toils to overcome technical hurdles — Amazon is gearing up to relaunch …
More: Barron's Online and The Decoder
| Will Knight / Wired: |
The US' new chip export rule enters a 120-day consultation period, requiring the Trump admin to listen to input, perhaps modify the rule, and then enforce it — The US government has announced a radical plan to control exports of cutting-edge AI technology to most nations.
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