President Trump wished to ban TikTok. Now he needs to save lots of TikTok. There may even be a plan to save lots of TikTok, although proper now it feels extra like a “ideas of a plan†state of affairs. In the meantime, the Trump administration continues to press exhausting on regulating Huge Tech, whereas additionally cozying as much as their CEOs — and illegally firing a few of the regulators. Corporations like OpenAI and Google try to persuade the White Home to go together with their imaginative and prescient for AI, nevertheless it doesn’t appear anybody is aware of the place they stand.
So what does the Trump administration need to do with Huge Tech? On this episode of The Vergecast, we try to determine it out. However first, Nilay and David open with another tech information. The Siri-sucks-gate fallout continues inside Apple, together with a reasonably necessary govt shakeup. Pebble smartwatches are again, and poised to be on the middle of a struggle about how Apple works with watches. Google and Huawei each launched intriguing new telephones, and Nvidia stays the white-hot middle of the AI business.
In spite of everything that, it’s time for some coverage speak. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner joins the present to elucidate the newest on the TikTok ban, the state of the Broadband Fairness, A …
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