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TikTok' US deal finalized, David Ellison extended the deadline for the WBD takeover offer, and Elon Musk said Tesla will sell humanoid robots next year

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-TikTok has finalized the deal for its US entity, with its parent company ByteDance selling the majority of its stake to a group of non-Chinese investors. -Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison is apparently still hopeful that investors will approve his $108.4 billion hostile takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. -Elon Musk took the stage recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and announced that Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot will be sold to the public by the end of next year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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