Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20%
TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios.
Memo: the TikTok US deal is set to close on Jan. 22; terms include retraining the recommendation algorithm on US user data and Oracle overseeing data protection
Revamped ‘TikTok USA’ Expected Next Month Wesley Hilliard / AppleInsider : US investors to close deal on 50% ownership of TikTok January 22 Sports Business Journal : TikTok sale becomes official, with...
Memo: TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew says ByteDance's US entities will retain direct control over core US revenue drivers, including ecommerce, ads, and marketing
www.ft.com/content/7a77... Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : “TikTok has signed an agreement to create a US joint venture under a deal brokered by President Donald Trump that leaves the app's Chinese ...
Samsung unveils the Exynos 2600, the world's first smartphone SoC built on a 2nm Gate-All-Around process, expected to power some Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus models
Galaxy S26 could get Samsung's boldest chip yet: Meet the 2nm Exynos 2600. — • — TL;DR
US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening
Executive Summary — On December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence …
Meta's head of Threads Connor Hayes says that fediverse compatibility isn't a priority for its current roadmap, but it is something that it's “maintaining”
Connor Hayes wants Meta's X rival to be “the place on the internet to talk about what's going on in the world.”
Coinbase sues Connecticut, Illinois and Michigan over state attempts to regulate prediction markets, arguing that they fall under the jurisdiction of the CFTC
Coinbase Global Inc. said it is suing the US states of Michigan, Illinois and Connecticut over their attempts to regulate prediction markets.
The TikTok deal is the worst of all possible outcomes, shifting ownership of TikTok to Trump's allies, while maintaining the supposed problematic links to China
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it's somehow the worst …
Sources: UK officials believe China was behind the October cyber attack on the UK's Foreign Office, which aimed to access tens of thousands of sensitive files
The UK's Foreign Office was the victim of a major cyber attack in October, which officials believe was carried out by Chinese hackers.
The US Senate confirms FDIC acting chairman Travis Hill to lead the agency, which regulates stablecoin issuers and impacts how the crypto industry is banked
In a package of confirmations, the U.S. Senate approved Mike Selig to lead the CFTC and Travis Hill to run the FDIC, both with major potential reach into crypto.
The administrator winding down Do Kwon's Terraform Labs sues Jump Trading for $4B, alleging it unlawfully profited from and contributed to Terraform's collapse
Administrator winding down what remains of Terraform Labs is seeking $4 billion in damages — The administrator winding …
Sources: ByteDance is on track for ~$50B profit in 2025 after generating a ~$40B net income in the first three quarters, surpassing its internal target for 2025
ByteDance Ltd. is on track for profits of roughly $50 billion in 2025, capping a record year for a Chinese social media leader …
Sources: China is retrofitting older models of ASML's DUV machines to produce advanced smartphone and AI chips, exposing cracks in US-led export controls
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times :
The US Senate confirms Trump pick Michael Selig as chairman of the CFTC, as lawmakers consider legislation to give the agency more control over digital assets
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg :
Sources: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative cuts ties with FWD.us, an immigration advocacy group founded by Mark Zuckerberg, eliminating FWD.us' main funding source
Mark Zuckerberg's philanthropy has cut ties with the pro-immigration advocacy group that he founded more than a decade ago …
Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections
Intelligence service says attacks were work of groups connected to Russian state in ‘clear evidence’ of hybrid war
A Paris court rejects a French government request to suspend Shein in the country after finding illegal weapons and child-like sex dolls for sale on the site
A Paris court on Friday rejected a government request to suspend Chinese fast-fashion platform Shein in France …
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
Sources: Riot Games is working on a major overhaul of League of Legends, internally called League Next, for 2027; Riot confirms a big update is in the works
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M
Neurable, a neurotechnology company, raised a $35 million Series A round led by the Spectrum Moonshot Fund, CEO Ramses Alcaide tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product
The AI coding market is booming amid enterprise adoption.GRAPHITE — Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, is buying code review startup Graphite in a deal … LinkedIn: Sherwood Callaway LinkedIn: She...
Mistral launches Mistral OCR 3, featuring improvements in processing forms, scanned documents, complex tables, and handwriting, priced at $2 per 1,000 pages
Key Highlights from this release: … Bluesky: Jay Cuthrell / @cuthrell.com : 🤯 Only ~25 years ago... fond memories of massive industrial high speed paper medical record scanning operations in hospitals...
YouTube terminates Screen Culture and KH Studio, two large channels that used AI to create fake movie trailers; the platform earlier suspended the channels' ads
deadline.com/2025/12/yout... John Scalzi / @scalzi.com : Good. I would fucking hate when I would inadvertently click on these fake trailers — deadline.com/2025/12/yout... @jason1749 : good now go a...
Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal “approaching $10B” over several years
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) cloud computing unit and cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks (PANW.O) on Friday announced …
OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more
What excites me most is the leverage this gives developers. … Frederic Lardinois : At this point, I'd almost be disappointed if nobody releases a new model on Christmas Day. The current release cycle...
Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's “code red” call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions …
Trump Media agrees to merge with Google-backed fusion energy company TAE in a $6B deal and build the “world's first utility-scale fusion power plant” in 2026
NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl … Liz Hoffman / Semafor : America is becoming the world's dumb money Dominic Preston / The Verge : Trump Media is merging with a ...
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court rules that police can get Google search data without a warrant; an expert warns it may encourage warrantless searches nationwide
Getting a warrant for these was already trivial. [embedded post] @toad.city : Experts warn that if violating people's privacy is already deeply ingrained in the culture of policing and you make it ea...
DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets
Ira Boudway / Bloomberg :
Sources: Meta is developing a new image and video-focused AI model codenamed Mango, expected to be released in H1 2026 along with its new LLM dubbed Avocado
Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal :
Apple says it will roll out more App Store ads in 2026 “to increase opportunity in search results”; Apple's website says 800M+ users visit the App Store weekly
Reach users the moment they're searching for apps — to download Paul Hill / Neowin : New iPhone App Store ad slots could push organic search results down Rajat Saini / The Mac Observer : Apple Plans...
Twenty-four companies, including Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, OpenAI, and AWS, join the US Genesis Mission to boost the use of AI for scientific discovery
Courtney Subramanian / Bloomberg :
Sources: OpenAI's new fundraising round could value it at as much as $830B; it aims to raise up to $100B and complete the round by the end of Q1 at the earliest
Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Google has formed a new executive council to allocate computing capacity given a critical shortage; members include Thomas Kurian and Demis Hassabis
Earlier this year, Google convened a group of its top executives to address what some staffers see as an existential problem …
Amazon CSO Stephen Schmidt says subtle keystroke data lag, measuring 110ms instead of the expected tens of milliseconds, helped catch a North Korean IT worker
110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location Ken Underhill / eSecurity Planet : Amazon Detects North Korean IT Infiltrator via Latency Clues Deeba Ahmed / Hackread : Keyboard Lag Leads Am...
France charges a crew member of an Italian passenger ferry for allegedly infecting the ship with a remote access tool on behalf of a foreign power
could have enabled external control of systems, including navigation France 24 : France probes ‘foreign interference’ after passenger ship hit by remote-control malware
Instacart will pay $60M to settle FTC allegations that it used deceptive tactics in its subscription signup and “satisfaction guarantee” advertising
Technology — The Big Story — Senators introduce bill to sunset tech liability shield Jody Godoy / Reuters : Sources: the US FTC is investigating Instacart's AI pricing tool, after a study showed d...
Trump signs the annual defense bill with provisions authorizing the president to screen and restrict US financing of Chinese tech companies
Anvee Bhutani / Wall Street Journal :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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Zoho People in 2025: A year in review
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