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12:20 PM ET, January 23, 2026

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ByteDance strikes a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new TikTok US entity and avoid a federal ban, concluding a six-year legal saga  —  TikTok said on Thursday that its Chinese owner, ByteDance, had struck a deal with a group of non-Chinese investors to create a new U.S. TikTok …
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Adam Presser, previously TikTok's head of operations and trust and safety, will be the CEO of TikTok USDS Joint Venture; TikTok CEO Shou Chew will be a director  —  TikTok said Thursday that it formed a joint venture that will keep the video-sharing app operating in the United States.
Financial Times:
TikTok's new majority US-owned JV includes investors Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi's MGX, each holding 15%, and Dell Family Office; ByteDance retains 19.9%  —  Video app launches US joint venture with American investors to enact deal criticised by China hawks
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates
Financial Times:
Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters expects Netflix to win WBD, says Paramount's bid “doesn't pass the sniff test” and a “very small” number of WBD holders backed it  —  Co-chief Greg Peters says Netflix is winning Warner Bros shareholder support for a deal that would upend Hollywood
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Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google says replacing some article headlines with AI-generated ones is now a feature in Discover, but they can be false or fail to highlight new, relevant info  —  It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. … In early December, I brought you the news that Google …
Sara Guaglione / Digiday:
Forbes plans to launch prediction platform Forbes Predict in February; a widget next to articles will allow readers to make forecasts in exchange for tokens  —  Forbes has joined the fray of publishers adding prediction markets to their websites as part of a broader strategy to reduce reliance …
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Unsealed court documents show the Trump administration revoked Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa based on her op-ed in the Tufts Daily student paper  —  Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.
Mia Galuppo / The Hollywood Reporter:
AMC Networks' Sundance Now rebrands from offering scripted TV to airing indie film and festival titles, for $7.99/month, as this year's Sundance Festival begins  —  AMC Networks runs the shingle that previously had scripted TV offerings.  —  As the Sundance Film Festival gets started …
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Matthew Keys / TheDesk.net:
AMC Networks says Chief Financial Officer Patrick O'Connell will depart the company in March to “pursue an opportunity outside of the media industry”  —  AMC Networks says its Chief Financial Officer Patrick O'Connell will depart the company in March.
 
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