TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.
For TikTok users willing to pay up for a newer model phone, listing prices were as high as $50,000, including one for a iPhone 16 Pro Max with a terabyte of storage.
Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty and other investors have submitted a bid to buy TikTok from China-based ByteDance after a court-ordered divestiture or shutdown.