DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - North America, ByteDance
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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TikTok experiences issues at US data center, but avoids full outage
After major power outage earlier this year
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TikTok says outage is resolved, confirms it was an Oracle data center
Issues were caused by the harsh winter storm
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China approves Nvidia H200 purchases for ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent - report
Government is reportedly weighing up conditions under which additional purchases will be greenlit
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TikTok US spin-off finalized, led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX
ByteDance retains 19.9 percent stake
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ByteDance signs deal to put TikTok US in control of Oracle-led consortium and avoid ban
Is the saga finally over?
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Trump signs EO bringing TikTok sale closer, as Oracle looks to partner with MGX, Fox, and Silver Lake for acquisition
Trump backers headline list of expected acquirers
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Oracle leads US TikTok acquisition consortium, as Trump extends shutdown deadline
Deal appears to finally be close
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Oracle, Blackstone, a16z back in the running to buy TikTok - report
Group tries again despite previous bid stalling
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Trump extends ByteDance's TikTok sale window, again
Shortform vids, longform saga
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TikTok bidders turn to Google and Microsoft for cloud services - report
As April 5 deadline approaches, companies interested in buying TikTok turn to US cloud providers
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White House in talks with Oracle and Microsoft over TikTok acquisition
Oracle would lead deal to acquire global operations
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TikTok drops ByteDance CDN in the US following brief shutdown
Comes as parent company plans $12bn AI chip splurge
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TikTok services return in US after Trump promises it will be un-banned
But could still be forced into a joint venture
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ByteDance could spend $7bn to access Nvidia Blackwell chips outside China – report
Would make TikTok’s parent company one of Nvidia’s biggest customers
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US Supreme Court to review TikTok ban delay request
ByteDance hopes to make it till Trump's next term
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TikTok loses court appeal, on track to be banned in the US
Unless the social media app can be sold by its Chinese owner... or Trump comes to the rescue
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TikTok spent $20m a month on Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service - report
Accounting for a quarter of all spend on Azure OpenAI
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US DoJ alleges TikTok has been storing sensitive US customer data on China-based servers
Claims made in response to legal challenge against forced sale of the app
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TikTok ban could hit Oracle's cloud profits
Cloud provider includes warning to investors in annual report
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Chinese companies exploiting sanctions loophole by accessing GPUs in the US - report
Chinese cloud providers have also attempted to establish data centers in the US to avoid sanctions
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Bill forcing sale of US TikTok signed by President Biden
Platform will be banned if it's not sold
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US House passes bill that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok or face ban
Oracle would have to stop hosting it, if it doesn't sell
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House Committee votes to force TikTok sale, would block US data centers from hosting app
Company relies on Oracle for American operations
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Cerebras signs ~$900m deal with UAE's G42 to build nine AI supercomputers
A huge win for the chip startup, as well as data center host Colovore
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TikTok's Virginia data centers allowed unescorted visitors, unmarked flash drives in servers, and unattended boxes of hard drives
Short-term thinking for short-form video site
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TikTok: Two more data centers in Europe, CFIUS pressured to conclude probe on whether to separate US org
Oracle Cloud is still the biggest winner of America's TikTok concerns
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FCC Commissioner calls for ban on TikTok in US
Over concerns on how Beijing-based TikTok handles US user data
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TikTok’s chief security officer steps down, as US data is moved to Oracle
Amid claims the company sent user data to China