TikTok Has Finalized Its US Deal - DTNS 5191
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Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, January 23rd, 2026. |
| 0:08.4 | We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context and help each other understand. |
| 0:12.5 | Today we are tackling the new TikTok deal and what it means for users in the U.S. |
| 0:18.5 | Oh my goodness. |
| 0:19.4 | Have we finally reached a resolution? It's kind of crazy. I'm Jason Howell. We're going to figure that out. And I'm Sarah Lane. We're going to start with what you need to know with a big story. Yeah, this is just the story that just never ends. We've got a few of those in today's show, actually. But we're going to start with the really, really big one. |
| 0:38.4 | BiteDances TikTok announced it has created a joint venture to spin out its |
| 0:44.2 | USDS organization into a joint venture called TikTok USDS joint venture LLC. |
| 0:51.0 | It's a lot of joint venture. |
| 0:53.2 | USDA stands for U.S. data security. It was created, by the way, in May 2022 to separate |
| 0:59.7 | U.S. user data from the rest of TikTok's operations, also called Project Texas. And it's been |
| 1:07.1 | running on Oracle servers and has implemented the TikTok recommendation algorithm |
| 1:12.7 | on those servers. |
| 1:13.9 | So this, you know, in many ways, |
| 1:15.2 | this is nothing new, although in other ways it is. |
| 1:18.0 | The new joint venture will take over Project Texas |
| 1:21.5 | and continue its data protection and security practices |
| 1:24.8 | on Oracle hardware and run the recommendation algorithm. |
| 1:29.6 | It will also license the algorithm from TikTok and train, test, and update it separately from |
| 1:37.1 | byte dances TikTok. |
| 1:38.5 | This might actually mean that you get different recommendations when you're using TikTok in |
| 1:43.4 | the U.S. than you would get in other regions because they're kind of operating on their own, essentially. |
| 1:49.0 | TikTok USDS will also validate source code and take over trust and safety and moderation on the U.S. version of TikTok. |
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