US President Donald Trump said he would be open to a purchase by the tech billionaire Elon Musk – owner of social media platform X – of the Chinese-owned app TikTok.
“If he wanted to buy it, I would,” Trump told reporters when asked if he would be open to the world’s richest man buying it. video sharing platform, which was briefly overshadowed in America before receiving a reprieve from a presidential executive order.
According to a report published this month by Bloomberg, the Chinese government is reportedly considering a plan that would involve Musk acquiring TikTok’s assets in the United States to prevent theapplication is banned in that country. Trump said he doesn’t have the app installed on his phone, but joked that maybe he’ll download it now. Furthermore, he assured that he has “a special affection” for TikTok as, according to him, it helped him win the youth vote in the elections.
Trump announces new AI project
President Donald Trump announced a new artificial intelligence project, called “Stargate”which will involve investments for “at least 500 billion dollars” in the United States. Flanked in the White House by several CEOs – Larry Ellison (Oracle), Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Masayoshi Son (Japanese holding company SoftBank) – Trump announced the creation of this “new American company that will invest at least 500 billion dollars in infrastructure artificial intelligence in the United States and will move very, very quickly to create more than 100,000 American jobs.”
Stargate brings together Oracle, Japanese investment firm SoftBank and generative artificial intelligence start-up OpenAI. SoftBank chief Masayoshi Son said the joint venture will “start distributing $100 billion immediately,” with the goal of reaching a total of $500 in four years.
Donald Trump explained that this commitment is in addition to the one already made by Masayoshi Son in mid-December, relating to 100-200 billion dollars in investments in the American technology sector within four years. Oracle president and co-founder Larry Ellison stressed that the project focused primarily on building data hosting and processing centers, the famous “data center”.
“The first ones are already under construction in Texas,” near Abilene (northeast), he explained.