DIGIVESTASI - The dispute between TikTok and the US government is far from over. This prompted the intervention of a former head of a US video game giant. Bobby Kotick, former CEO of gaming giant Activision, believes his next move is to buy TikTok if Congress passes the controversial bill.

Kotick, who left Activision last year when it was acquired by Microsoft, has expressed his interest in acquiring TikTok to Zhang Yiming, co-founder of parent company ByteDance, and Sam Altman of OpenAI. In theory, OpenAI could use TikTok to train AI models. According to Business Insider, Altman was told of his desire over dinner at the Sun Valley conference last week. Kotick is reportedly looking for potential trading partners.

The Wall Street Journal estimates TikTok's potential price tag to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars, but an offer from Kotick is possible. Some US politicians have expressed concern about Beijing-based companies sharing user data with the Chinese government.

The latest. Today, Thursday (March 14), US lawmakers passed legislation forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok. If TikTok remains owned by the Chinese company, it will be blocked in the US. Reuters reported that the US House of Representatives has passed a bill requiring ByteDance, the Chinese company that operates TikTok, to sell its stake in TikTok within six months.

The bill passed by a vote of 352 to 65, with support from the two major political parties in the United States, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. However, the legislation could hit a roadblock in the US Senate. According to Reuters, some US senators are taking a different approach to TikTok's threat to US national security.

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