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NEW: More than two dozen current and former TikTok staff spoke to us about how Chinese owners ByteDance have tightened its grip on the platform in the wake of a US ban w/ ⁦Hannah Murphy⁩ and ⁦Eleanor Olcott⁩ on.ft.com/3UgHKDx

US Senate approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform on.ft.com/3QiTEM9

TikTok fortune of billionaire Republican mega-donor Jeff Yass threatened by Washington

Fascinating tale of how all the money in the world can't buy you a ticket out of US-China tensions, by Ryan McMorrow Tabby Kinder Demetri & Alex Rogers

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“Attacked the baby WITHOUT PROVOCATION”

We’re gonna need a bigger boat!

Meet Ghost Shark, an extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle (XL-AUV). That’s right, a massive underwater drone.

As a defense product, Ghost Shark is even rarer than the creature it was named after: the prototype was delivered ahead of schedule,…

The tech culture wars are so back

We are hiring for a new private capital reporter in London as the great William Louch is sadly leaving.

Come work with the best team of finance journalists on the planet and help us continue to dominate coverage of the world of private capital
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Could a US TikTok ban pass through the Senate as early as next week?

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Dear Senators, Vinod Khosla and I have a message for you: @Tiktok_us is Weapon and It’s Time to Divest it from CCP Control. The New York Times

What a story. Chinese victims of a $3bn fraud in which the scammer converted the money to bitcoin and ran off to the UK, are calling on the UK to hand over the seized bitcoin

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'Donald Trump, who signed an order in 2020 to ban TikTok, has now opposed it after meeting with mega donor Jeff Yass, who may have as much as 75 per cent of his net worth tied up in ByteDance. Is Senate influence for sale?'

Vinod Khosla pulling no punches

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TikTok workers in the US have been saddled with millions of dollars in tax liabilities on shares they are unable to sell on.ft.com/4cMxdsr

Google was one of the companies that built the tools for generative AI, why is it being outpaced by the rest of Silicon Valley? on.ft.com/4cRge8s

FT Exclusive: President Joe Biden will warn China about its increasingly aggressive activity in the South China Sea during summits with his Japanese and Philippine counterparts, senior US officials told the FT on.ft.com/3U8VmSA

Chinese state-owned banks Bank of China and ICBC hold a crucial role in the future of Thames Water, as part of a group of lenders involved in a stand-off over debt at the parent company of Britain’s largest water company

New story from Team FT 👇🏻

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Tokyo in talks with Manila over sending troops to the Philippines ft.com/content/2bf4cb… via @ft

“Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.”

“Usually the depth of the downturn is in proportion to the magnitude of the bubble, which would imply we’re in for a brutal time.”

Venture Capital reckons with the end of the “megafund” era

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Don Hankey, the Los Angeles subprime loan billionaire worth $7.4bn who put up Trump's court bond

Nice piece by Stephen Gandel ft.com/content/beaae3…