Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Thursday, March 14th, 2024. I'm Brian McKella today.

If this Tik-Toc bill is actually going to become law, who would actually be in the running to take it over.

A bunch of announcements from Microsoft, hard data on how we listen to music these days, and

estimates for how much AI could cut into the traditional web search business.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

So Silicon Valley is suddenly waking up to the very real possibility that

Tic-Toc might soon be in play as the Wall Street Lingo goes. The bill we

described yesterday which would require bite dance to

divest itself of Tik-Tok for that app to continue to be legal in the US, passed the

House as we said, but we're waiting on the Senate to move, quoting the Washington Post.

The legislation Senate outlook looks rosier after Wednesday's sweeping House vote with the

two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee putting their support behind the

legislation. We were encouraged by today's strong bipartisan vote in the House of Representatives

and look forward to working together to get this bill passed through the Senate and signed into law. Senators Mark Warner and

Marco Rubio, the chair and vice chair of the committee, said in a joint statement.

Lawmakers have floated numerous other approaches, including a yet to be unveiled bill from Senate Commerce

Chair Maria Cantwell and separate proposals from both Warner and Rubio but

none appeared to gain broad support until House leaders released their

latest proposal last week.

The House measure combines aspects of past bills explicitly targeting Tik-Toc and its parent

company while giving the federal government a new mechanism to ban apps with ties to nations viewed as foreign

adversaries. If Bightance declined to spin off Tik-Tock, the bill would require App Store

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