White House is significantly involved in TikTok sale discussions.

A policy-focused weekly brief: the White House is unusually hands-on in negotiations around a potential TikTok sale ahead of an April 5 deadline; Taiwan’s 2025 QDR signals deeper U.S. military ties via expanded intelligence sharing and joint exercises; the team spotlights debate over the UK’s Online Safety Act and a Baltimore surveillance case; and other updates include a judge blocking California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code, the IRS pausing parts of its tech modernization to reassess AI initiatives, and the U.S. Commerce Department (and several states) banning the China-based DeepSeek AI model on government devices.