US government reportedly debating whether to force Tencent to give up its US-based game holdings

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It owns Riot Games, Digital Extremes, and Inflexion Games outright, and has significant holdings in Epic, Larian, FromSoft, Krafton, Ubisoft, Remedy, Supercell, and numerous others. The FT report says that’s led to concern in the US government that Tencent could gain access to personal data of US citizens, something that’s traditionally been reserved for the US government and companies. (Like here. And here, and here. Oh, and here.)(And here.) Related articles More than 40 US Democrats call for a ‘thorough investigation’ of EA’s Saudi-led buyout over risks of layoffs, studio closures, and ‘coordinated anti-labor practices’ In yet another twist in the US-China chip export fiasco, it seems like America may limit the number of H200 AI chips being sent to China TikTok’s US arm has been sold, in a deal that one Senate Democrat says won’t do ‘a thing to protect the privacy of American use