By Jon Markman
Publication Date: 2026-05-20 12:27:00
BERLIN, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 21: A young man with a smartphone casts a shadow as he walks past an advertisement for the social media company TikTok on September 21, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. US President Donald Trump has given preliminary approval to Oracle, Walmart and other investors to acquire TikTok and create a new US company called TikTok Global. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
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Oracle just increased its capital spending for fiscal year 2026 by $15 billion. The TikTok Cloud Deal explains why.
A TikTok account named Chloe vs History posts short videos of a tattooed influencer traveling back in time. She visits ancient Rome. She films from the deck of the sinking Titanic. It alerts historical figures to impending disasters. Within a few weeks of launching, the account reached 80,000 followers.
Chloe isn’t real. The account was created by Jonathan Laramy, a British creator at Majestic Studios, using ByteDance’s Seedance video model and Anthropic’s Claude. The character doesn’t exist…
