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TikTok CEO Shou Chew is expected to be seated on the dais for the inauguration along with tech billionaires Elon Musk, who is CEO of SpaceX, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to two people with the matter.

TikTok got a short reprieve to make a deal. Project Stargate, a $500B AI plan from OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank, pushes Musk, Microsoft, aside. Google buys HTC VR tech.

Here are the top takeaways from Trump’s press conference. One of Trump’s first executive actions as the 47th president of the nation was to grant pardons and commutations to all of the defendants convicted over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, sparking criticism from Democrats who denounced the move.

Biden won't enforce TikTok ban before leaving office, as Trump pledges to save app US has called a threat, official says

Samsung introduced its Galaxy S25 series with enhanced AI and camera features. Donald Trump delayed the TikTok ban, suggesting Elon Musk or Larry Ellison could purchase it. Tensions escalated between Musk and Sam Altman over the large-scale Stargate AI project.

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is open to Elon Musk buying TikTok, and floated a proposal ... including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son. Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX ...

There’s no official ruling on the collective noun for a group of billionaires, but if ever we needed one it was this week, writes Ange Lavoipierre.

Four days before Donald Trump's second presidential inauguration, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared on X a threatening letter he had received from Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) and Michael Bennett (D–Col.). In the letter, the senators expressed dismay that the tech entrepreneur had donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund.

Altman, 39, shared the letter and pushed back ... Google CEO Sundar Pichai was also spotted sitting behind the three, with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew also pictured after the service.

US tech titans Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos are taking a prominent place in the new Trump era, but another player from another era -- Oracle boss Larry Ellison -- is making a surprise return.