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September 22, 2025, 11:50 AM

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Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Oracle promotes Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to co-CEOs, replacing Safra Catz; Magouyrk previously led Cloud Infrastructure, and Sicilia led Oracle Industries  —  Oracle Corp. on Monday promoted Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia to become co-chief executive officers, signaling the company's focus …
Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
The European Commission considers simplifying the 2009 rule that plastered the internet with cookie consent banners, as it seeks to reduce regulatory burdens  —  In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered …
Axios:
White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of ByteDance's algorithm, which Oracle would retrain; US users wouldn't need to re-download the app  —  TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance under the terms of a proposed deal between the U.S. and China …
Bloomberg:
A White House official says the US will not hold a golden share or equity in TikTok US and the new board will not have a member selected by the US government  —  The US will not hold a golden share or equity position in a new entity that will control TikTok's American operations …
Manish Singh / India Dispatch:
The $100K+ H-1B fee could accelerate offshoring as tech companies route work to India and other countries rather than bringing engineers to the US  —  The U.S. will charge companies $100,000 for each new foreign tech worker under an initiative officials call Project Firewall …
Digiday:
The US v. Google ad tech trial, in which a judge ruled that the company illegally monopolized the digital ad market, begins its remedies phase  —  The ad tech trial many thought would go nowhere has done the unthinkable: it delivered.  Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized …
Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Scale AI launches SEAL Showdown, a public AI benchmarking system that relies on votes from contributors in 100+ countries to gauge everyday usability of models  —  Data-labeling startup Scale AI is launching a new public benchmarking system to rank the best-performing artificial intelligence models …

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