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TikTok Sold (Again) (?)

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, News, Technology

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Has TikTok finally been sold, episode number 47… The Pennsylvania supreme court says police don’t need a warrant to read your search history. YouTube terminates some big accounts over AI usage. A new League of Legends is coming. And in the longreads, and in the show, a look at how Zuck’s big bet on AI is coming along. Scoop: TikTok signs deal for U.S. unit after yearslong saga (Axios) TikTok U.S. Deal to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium (The Hollywood Reporter) Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant (The Record) Meta Is Developing a New AI Image and Video Model Code-Named ‘Mango’ (WSJ) YouTube Shuts Down Channels Using AI To Create Fake Movie Trailers Watched By Millions (Deadline) Riot Has a Secret Plan to Remake Its ‘League of Legends’ Game (Bloomberg) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s turbulent bet on AI (FT) Economics of Orbital vs Terrestrial Data Centers (Andrew McCalip) Feeding the Machine (The Verge) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Friday, December 19th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, has TikTok

0:10.1

finally been sold? Episode number 47. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says police don't need a warrant

0:16.1

to read your search history. YouTube terminates some big accounts over AI usage. A new League of Legends is coming,

0:22.7

and in the long reads, and in the show, a look at how Zuck's big bet on AI is coming along.

0:28.5

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

0:34.1

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0:39.0

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0:56.9

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1:06.9

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1:09.8

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1:17.5

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1:20.9

That's mimoto.com.

1:22.3

I slash ride home.

1:27.3

Yeah, did you ever notice the whole TikTok thing was never done?

1:32.4

I mean, I've reported to you that it was done, basically because we were told it was done.

1:37.3

But did you ever notice that TikTok never officially, officially changed hands?

1:42.3

Well, your guess is as good as mine as to if this really is the end now,

1:46.8

but Axios has seen an internal memo suggesting TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. unit.

1:53.7

Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX will collectively own around 45% of the TikTok U.S. entity,

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