The world’s wealthiest man has lengthy mentioned he hopes to create an “every little thing app,” and incorporating TikTok into X, previously Twitter, would take him a step towards that aim. It may additionally provide a possible goldmine of coaching content material for his synthetic intelligence startup, xAI.
And as an in depth ally of incoming U.S. President Donald Trump, who campaigned to save lots of the app, it’s much less stunning that his title got here up as a part of potential deal-making with Beijing. TikTok has all however exhausted its authorized avenues to overturn the legislation that will ban the platform within the U.S. if it isn’t bought by it’s Chinese guardian firm, ByteDance.