Oracle Would ‘Retrain’ TikTok Algorithm

Oracle would recreate and provide security for a new U.S. version of TikTok’s algorithm under a deal taking shape to sell the popular Chinese-owned app to a consortium of American investors, Bloomberg reports.

The arrangement seeks to ensure that the American buyers control TikTok’s recommendation software in the U.S. following a divestiture by its Chinese parent.

Owners of the US-based TikTok would lease a copy of the algorithm from ByteDance that Oracle would then retrain “from the ground up.”