Welcome to the TechBrewrite Home for Monday, September 22nd, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Once again, I think a TikTok deal is happening. So some updates on that.

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All right, here's the situation with the TikTok deal.

I think there is a deal. The president has said there is a deal,

but at least at the time of this writing, I don't see the official confirmations of a deal that I would expect,

so all I can tell you is things seem to be going in that direction of a deal, but I'm not sure we're at the end of the line yet.

The White House has said that TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease a

copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain. Thus, U.S. users wouldn't need to

re-download the app, quoting Axios. President Trump is expected to sign an executive order later

this week to approve the proposed deal. The current plan would be

for BytDance to create a duplicate copy of the TikTok algorithm, which would then be leased to a new joint venture controlled by a U.S.

investor group led by Andresen Horowitz, Silver Lake, and Oracle. Oracle would then retrain the algorithm and protect U.S. user data.

The White House official says that the Chinese

government approved those terms during a bilateral meeting last week in Madrid.

Several existing BightDance investors remain in the dark, though, and even some sources

close to the deal are unsure about all the specifics. The United States government would not

have a board seat or equity stake in TikTok US, although both were discussed at one point. The United States government would not have a board seat or equity stake in TikTok US,

although both were discussed at one point. The new board would make final determinations on

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