Welcome to the TechBrewrite Home for Friday, September 26, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Maybe the TikTok thing has finally reached a resolution again. Maybe Amazon owes some of us some money.

Maybe that neon app from yesterday was a bad idea. Open AI and meta make some super

interesting strategic AI moves and, of course, the weekend long-re suggestions. Here's what you

miss today in the world of tech. So I think it's official now. Look, don't at me, people. I didn't even talk about this yesterday

because it's just a drip, drip, drip, drip, but it feels closer to being official than,

I don't know, whatever. President Trump has signed an executive order declaring that a proposed

deal allowing TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. will be a qualified sale which meets

national security concerns. The president says Xi Jinping has approved the TikTok deal, and

Vice President J.D. Vance says the transaction values TikTok U.S. at $14 billion. More on that in a

second. According to sources, Oracle, Silver Lake, and

Abu Dhabi's MGX will be the main TikTok USA investors with around a 45% stake. Bight Dance will

own 19.9% and previous Bight Dance investors 35%. So why am I still at this late date hedging just a bit? Because Bight Dance investors, 35%. So why am I still at this late date hedging just a bit? Because

ByteDance, for one, hasn't officially acknowledged the deal, at least at the time of this writing.

And this morning, CNBC is reporting that China and its media have been quiet about all this so

far, a notable silence as China can still decide the deal's

fate. Chinese social media chatter, for example, has been extremely limited. Quoting the AP,

much is still unknown about the actual deal in the works, but Trump said at a White House

signing ceremony Thursday that Chinese leader Xi Jinping has agreed to move forward

with it. Vice President J.D. Vance added that, quote, there was some resistance on the Chinese side,

but the fundamental thing that we wanted to accomplish is that we wanted to keep TikTok operating,

but we also wanted to make sure that we protected Americans' data privacy as required by law, end quote.

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