History repeats itself, quickly it seems, as U.S. President Trump confirms that Microsoft is indeed in the running to buy TikTok.

President Trump tells reporters on Air Force One that Microsoft is the latest contender in the race to buy TikTok's US operations.

President Trump said he “would say yes” to Microsoft buying TikTok but maintained that there are many interested parties that will be bidding to buy the app before a 75-day extension to decide its fate expires in April.

With the clock ticking on TikTok's existence in the US, President Donald Trump claims Microsoft is interested in acquiring the social media platform.

President Trump told reporters Monday that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the popular app.

Considering Microsoft ends up buying TikTok, the company might be able to use the platform to boost its existing services, such as Bing Search. Bing Search is the main competitor to Google Search, and it has been rising in popularity for the last few years due to its quest to decentralize the search engine market.

President Trump reveals Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok after the app briefly went offline amid a looming ban over data concerns.

Microsoft, which declined to comment on the president’s remarks, had discussed buying TikTok in 2020, when Trump tried to force a sale of the app in his first term.

Certain Wall Street analysts expect Nvidia and Microsoft to achieve market values of $4 trillion in 2025, something no publicly traded company has accomplished. Nvidia is the market leader in data center graphics processing units,

TikTok, the Chinese short-video platform, clarified its plans in Kenya and the entire Sub-Saharan African region, including content monetisation policies.

OpenAI suspects DeepSeek distilled its advanced models into a smaller, cheaper version without permission. Distillation implies that DeepSeek may have used OpenAI’s outputs as “teacher” data to train its own AI,