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Elon Musk buying TikTok seems like a stretch — but we're in a weird time, so here's why it could make sense
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Who is buying TikTok? Rumored buyers include MrBeast, Elon Musk: What to know
Could Elon Musk buy TikTok? China reportedly weighs the possibility of sale.
Chinese officials reportedly want ByteDance Ltd. to remain the owners of TikTok but is in discussion on how to work with the Trump Administration.
New polling in the U.K. shows Musk with a net approval rating of minus 51, with 71 percent feeling negatively toward the billionaire businessman.
Musk, White House and office space
A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the California and Delaware attorneys ... In a letter to the states’ top law officers seen by the Financial Times, Musk’s attorney Marc Toberoff said he was writing on behalf of big artificial intelligence investors ...
Elon Musk’s recent obsession with UK politics is being fuelled by a series of popular accounts on his social media platform X, which the billionaire appears to be turning to for information on the grooming gangs scandal and Sir Keir Starmer’s track record as a prosecutor.
Saudi Aramco is to expand its investments in lithium production, officials in Beijing are discussing using Elon Musk as a broker in a potential sale of TikTok’s US operations, and KPMG could soon begin offering legal services in the US. Plus, Syria has been flooded with imports in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s ousting.
On Monday, Trump will be sworn in as the 47th US president, making his vows over his mother’s Bible and another used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. The ceremony at the US Capitol will feature country music singers Carrie Underwood and Lee Greenwood, who sells a $59.99 Bible endorsed by the president-elect.
UK prime minister says ‘line has been crossed’ as Emmanuel Macron also expresses alarm about billionaire’s interventions
Today, our digital correspondent questions what tools the EU could use to restrict Elon Musk’s use of X as a political propaganda tool, and we have a dispatch from Ukraine on Kyiv’s renewed offensive inside Russian territory.
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News updates from January 9: Elon Musk calls on California and Delaware to force auction of OpenAI stake; BlackRock quits climate group on facebook (opens in a new window) News updates from January 9: Elon Musk calls on California and Delaware to force ...
Bond markets in a handful of big economies are in a tailspin. Major sell-offs in places like the US, UK and France have sent borrowing costs soaring, and the people driving these moves are government bond investors. Some are even seeing the return of so-called bond vigilantes, as my colleague Ian Smith has been writing about.
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