2025-12-26
“When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane. With their own aircraft, father & son could bond in the air, ruling the skies together.” @teddyschleifer https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
Kevin Tierney / @catholicsmark : Well yes, in order to survive CBS needed to have less bias in its newsroom. Why is this surprising? Steve Rosenbaum / @magnifymedia : https://www.n...
2025-12-25
“When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane. With their own aircraft, father & son could bond in the air, ruling the skies together.” @teddyschleifer https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How Larry Ellison is helping his son David build a media empire, including making the case to Trump for why Paramount, not Netflix, should acquire WBD
When David Ellison became a teenager, his father, Larry, bought him a gift not usually bestowed on a 13th birthday: his own Katana stunt plane.
2024-04-22
This article is the perfect argument as to why TikTok must be in American hands... Love, Hate or Fear It: TikTok Has Changed America https://www.nytimes.com/...
Bloomberg
Memo to US staff: TikTok vows a legal battle if the US' divestment bill becomes law, saying the bill is “a clear violation” of its users' First Amendment rights
TikTok told employees it will fight in the courts if a US bill forcing a ban or divestiture of the Chinese-owned app …
This article is the perfect argument as to why TikTok must be in American hands... Love, Hate or Fear It: TikTok Has Changed America https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
How TikTok has influenced US culture and shaped Hollywood, privacy, fashion, shopping, news, music, trends, cooking, mental health, national security, and more
2024-04-21
This article is the perfect argument as to why TikTok must be in American hands... Love, Hate or Fear It: TikTok Has Changed America https://www.nytimes.com/...
The Verge
The House passes a TikTok divestiture bill with a longer sale deadline as part of a package of Ukraine/Israel aid bills, pressuring the Senate to vote on TikTok
The House once again passed a bill that could ban TikTok from the US unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance divests it …
2023-11-08
Any strings attached? https://www.theinformation.com/ ...?
The Information
Sources: big Chinese VCs like Sequoia Capital China and ZhenFund have quietly invested in US AI startups over the past year, undeterred by US security concerns
https://lnkd.in/gNnbJb2i
2023-06-13
“Suddenly, American capital has stopped flowing to Chinese venture capital and private equity funds en masse.” This allows for a proper reset... Before Sequoia Split, a $100 Billion American Cash Spigot to Chinese VCs Ran Dry — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
The Information
Preqin: total US dollars raised by China-focused VC and PE funds peaked at $48.6B in 2021 before dropping to $16.5B in 2022 and just $1.15B so far in 2023
The Information https://www.theinformation.com/ ... Dan Wang / @danwwang : A stark drop for VCs as endowments and pensions decide to stop investing in China: https://www.theinforma...
“Chinese companies have adapted by building international cables 4 China & many allied nations. This has raised fears of a dangerous division in who owns & manages the infrastructure underpinning the global web.” Well, if information is power, then... https://ig.ft.com/...
Financial Times
A look at the global network of subsea internet cables, dominated by companies from France, the US, and Japan, as China circumvents US curbs to build its own
Nearly 1.4mn kilometres of metal-encased fibre criss-crosses the world's oceans, speeding internet traffic seamlessly around the globe.
2023-03-18
“Why would China agree? Would you agree if you were in charge in Beijing?” Uh, because China does this crap to us all the time... Or they simply ban our companies from the market... TikTok Sale Likely to Be Rejected by China — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: some lawmakers and tech executives like Peter Thiel are mobilizing against China's involvement in US tech, ahead of the TikTok CEO's US House testimony
Group to meet ahead of TikTok's testimony before Congress — A group of Silicon Valley executives, including investor Peter Thiel …
2022-12-05
“Mr. Bankman-Fried says it wasn't theft. “I ask myself a lot how I made a series of mistakes that seem—they don't just seem dumb,” he said. “They seem like the type of mistakes I could see myself having ridiculed someone else for having made."" Unreal! https://www.wsj.com/...
Financial Times
Sam Bankman-Fried admits involvement in two of Alameda's largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance's FTX stake and pouring $4B into venture capital
Exchange's former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm — Speaking from his bed in Nassau …
2022-11-24
“Will Apple issue a statement asking police not to beat the (Foxconn) workers building their products (in China)?... That was a rhetorical question, we should have no expectations Apple will say anything publicly to criticize Zhengzhou officials.” @niubi Unfortunately true...
Financial Times
Foxconn offers ~$1,400 payouts to newly recruited Chinese workers who opt to leave its iPhone factory, aiming to quell unrest after violent clashes with police
Apple supplier apologises for ‘technical error’ after violent clashes between workers and police
2022-09-02
“The U.S. government has applied increasing export restrictions to chips made with U.S. technology because of fears that Chinese companies could use them for military purposes or steal trade secrets.” Logical... https://www.cnbc.com/...
CNBC
Nvidia says the US let the company continue developing its H100 enterprise AI chip in China; Nvidia's stock is down 10%+ after warning about export restrictions
2022-09-01
“The U.S. government has applied increasing export restrictions to chips made with U.S. technology because of fears that Chinese companies could use them for military purposes or steal trade secrets.” Logical... https://www.cnbc.com/...
Protocol
Nvidia and AMD say the US has imposed restrictions on exporting chips for AI-related applications to Russia and China, including Nvidia's A100 and AMD's MI200
The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China …
2022-07-30
Perhaps because #China steals #America's tech & IP blueprints, manufacturing them first, & beating to market? Just a thought... China Has Leapfrogged the U.S. in Key Technologies. Can a New Law Help? - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
As Congress debated the $280B CHIPS Act for 13 months, China's semiconductor industry surged ahead, making a 7nm chip that may be based on, or stolen from, TSMC
2022-03-26
American investors MUST consider national security interests before investing in this raise. The security of our nation provides the vital foundation for capitalism. Undermine that for a quick buck, you undermine us all!!! https://www.theinformation.com/ ...
The Information
Sources: Sequoia China, whose portfolio includes ByteDance and online fashion startup Shein, is in early talks to raise $8B+ across four new funds
2022-03-15
Didn't the Kingdom just diss #Biden? Wise to put supply chain there? And weren't 81 people executed there yesterday? Frying pan... Fire... Why not... Apple Supplier Foxconn in Talks to Build $9 Billion Factory in Saudi Arabia - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Sources: Foxconn is in talks with Saudi Arabia to jointly build a $9B factory for chips, components, and electronics in Neom; Foxconn is also talking to the UAE
2022-01-08
Retaliation against #Walmart 4 removing #Xinjiang products??? Nah, couldn't be... #China #CCP #HumanRights https://www.scmp.com/...
South China Morning Post
Shenzhen police send Walmart a warning for not quickly fixing 19 cybersecurity loopholes, days after China slammed Walmart for removing Xinjiang-made products
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post :
2021-10-12
In a few years we will witness #CCP's use of all that #American #TikTok data too... Harmless right? #China has won #AI battle with #US #Pentagon's ex-software chief says https://www.reuters.com/...
Financial Times
Ex-Pentagon software chief Nicolas Chaillan, who recently resigned, says China is headed for global dominance due to advances in AI, ML, and cyber capabilities
Katrina Manson / Financial Times :
2021-09-16
“Two inquiries into the #Chinese-owned short-video platform related to the processing of children's personal data and transfers of personal data to #China.” Has #USA addressed this yet? (crickets chirping) #BigData #AI #NationalSecurity #TikTok #EU https://www.reuters.com/...
Financial Times
Irish data commissioner launches GDPR probe into TikTok's handling of children's data and the transfer of user information to China
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times : Source: Data Protection Commission .
2021-06-13
“The #CCP is now calling on big tech companies like #Tencent, online retailing giant #Alibaba & #TikTok owner #ByteDance 2 open up the data they collect from social media, e-comm & other businesses.” @Lingling_Wei #China #NationalSecurity #AI #BigData https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
China pushes to subject data-related activities to government oversight, as it worries tech giants could use collected data to build alternative power centers
Beijing is calling on tech giants to share their information—and asserting its authority over data held by U.S. companies in China as well