President Donald Trump is orchestrating a deal to transfer TikTok's U.S. operations from Chinese control to a consortium of American investors, with several of his closest billionaire allies and major tech firms poised to take majority control of the platform. The White House has confirmed Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday finalizing the arrangement that keeps TikTok operational for its 170 million American users.

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Elon Musk’s xAI has raised $10 billion at a $200 billion valuation, doubling its worth in just four months. The round includes familiar backers like Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, and Fidelity, and gives xAI the second-highest valuation in private AI. This episode breaks down what investors are really buying into: Grok’s integration with X, the push toward open-source models, plans for a massive GPU cluster, and the growing fusion of social media and AI under Musk’s control. We also look at what xAI still lacks compared to OpenAI and Anthropic

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