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Bloomberg Technology·Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Bloomberg Technology - Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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02

TikTok's Live Shopping Experience Catches on in US

Bloomberg's Kurt Wagner discuses why Instagram is launching a new TV app and why TikTok's e-commerce efforts in the US have finally started to gain traction. The app is now letting creators host live shopping experiences on the platform. Wagner joins Caroline Hyde on "Blomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

03

US Tries to Rely Less on China for Critical Minerals

Jacob Helberg, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and Environment, discusses the State Department’s Pax Silica Summit and how the country is working with allies to secure access to critical minerals, semiconductors, and AI infrastructure. Helberg, also the founder of the Hill and Valley Forum, speaks with Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

06

US Threatens Retaliation Over EU Digital Tax

The Trump administration singled out prominent European companies as possible targets for new restrictions or fees as it threatened to retaliate against the European Union in response to efforts to tax American tech companies. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

08

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster

OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that’s intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move by the artificial intelligence developer to bolster its flagship chatbot amid heated competition from Alphabet Inc.’s Google.  The new version of ChatGPT Images, announced on Thursday, is designed to make and edit images more precisely, as well as to spit out pictures as much as four times faster than its previous AI image-generation model. The company is also creating a new section w

09

JetBlue to Open First Lounge at New York’s JFK Amid Premium Push

JetBlue CEO Joanna Geraghty says the company expects to see the benefits in sales and cost efforts next year. Speaking exclusively to Bloomberg TV's Lisa Abramowicz inside the new JetBlue lounge at JFK airport, Geraghty says JetBlue has a lot of bookings coming in for the holiday season and the goal for 2026 is to break even on operating margin. (Source: Bloomberg)

10

How Chinese Brands Are Going Global

From Pop Mart’s Labubus to Shein, Temu and Luckin, Chinese brands have become global consumer favorites and cultural ambassadors. With much of the credit going to TikTok, shoppers are hungry for more. (Source: Bloomberg)

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