Under different thumbs: a scant TikTok deal
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 26 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
President Donald Trump’s executive order ostensibly puts a years-long debate to bed. But questions persist about who will own—and influence—TikTok’s American operations. We examine the evidence on how climate change will aid the spread of dengue fever, a brutal and potentially deadly disease. And a tribute to Patrick McGovern, who obsessively recreated boozy beverages of yore.
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| 0:00.0 | Blockchain. Crypto. It's happening to investments, currency, food trucks. Yes, payments are possible |
| 0:06.2 | with crypto now. But it's not just happening to tortilla chips. Also, microchips. You can trade |
| 0:11.8 | tokenized real world and digital assets. So it's happening to assets, trading, industries, |
| 0:17.4 | economies, and pretty much everything else. And it's happening with Ripple. |
| 0:22.2 | For informational purposes only, not an offer or inducement. |
| 0:24.9 | For investment professionals and high net worth companies, |
| 0:27.1 | FSMA 2000 financial promotion order. |
| 0:30.3 | Here's the truth about AI. |
| 0:32.4 | AI is only as powerful as the platform it's built into. |
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| 0:41.4 | for your employees, supercharging productivity for your developers, providing intelligent |
| 0:46.8 | tools for your service agents to make customers happier, all built into a single platform |
| 0:51.8 | you can use right now. |
| 0:53.6 | That's why the world works with ServiceNow. |
| 0:56.8 | Visit ServiceNow.com slash UK slash AI for people. |
| 1:04.8 | The Economist. |
| 1:18.8 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. I'm Rosie Bloor. And I'm Jason Palmer. |
| 1:23.4 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. Dengue fever is a horrible illness. |
| 1:30.9 | And as the planet heats up and we're getting more mosquitoes in more places, |
| 1:34.8 | our correspondents consider what, if anything, we can do to respond. |
| 1:40.5 | And some archaeologists would be happy simply to find old jugs and pots and amphoras. |
| 1:47.0 | For Patrick McGovern, that was just the start. |
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