There is evidence that Openai’s models helped train China
Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating whether Chinese rival DeepSeek used OpenAI’s framework to integrate its models into their own, The Wall Street Journal reported. It said DeepSeek believes that large amounts of data were dumped through its developer accounts, which it believes are affiliated with DeepSeek. Microsoft and OpenAI are investigating if DeepSeek’s technology was integrated into their own.
How to use stolen device protection on a phone
Android users can now unlock their smartphones with the Face ID feature. The feature, announced in March, requires the user to use their face to unlock the phone. Further, it will require the user to know their password and access sensitive features on the phone, like using keychain passwords, seeing stored payment information in Safari, and disabling lost mode.
Trans people are already terrified after seeing a lot more hate
Following US President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender identity, the US Department of Homeland Security said that it “has no plans to take any action” regarding online gender identity services such as Grindr. However, it added that it is “deeply concerned” and “concerned” about the order. It further said that there is “no question that trans individuals have a legal right to self-identify”.
The EV Mandate is what Trump says he ended
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to roll back the electric vehicle (EV) mandate. The order seeks to take a look at rules related to EVs and determine whether they’re “unduly burdensome” and interfere with consumer choice. The order has also ordered agencies to determine if the regulations are “unduly burdensome” and interfere with consumer choice.
This is what to know about the meme coins
US President Donald Trump’s supporters have launched a meme coin, ‘Trump coin’, worth $7 (over 56) on Sunday. CIC Digital and Fight Fight Fight own 80% of the Trump coin, which is currently worth about $60 (over 5,400). Trump’s supporters said the coin is intended to be a tool to share Trump’s “positive energy” with the American people.
Trump provides immunity to tech firms when he signs an executive order pausing the TikTok ban
US FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said, “TikTok’s threat to national security”. Carr also wrote about protecting US from security threats emanating from China, including by addressing “TikTok’s threat to national security”. On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump ordered the Attorney General to not enforce a law on American companies doing business with other countries for 75 days.
Tiktok is not the only ByteDance app that is gone
TikTok and its parent ByteDance’s other apps have disappeared from the US, a day after it received a nationwide ban over the app’s alleged violations of US laws. ByteDance was required to either sell the US operations or face a nationwide ban. TikTok has urged US President Joe Biden to provide assurance that it wouldn’t enforce the law.
TikTok is unavailable in the US and not available from the app stores
The US President Joe Biden has suggested TikTok to raise its concerns with President-elect Donald Trump about a new law which requires apps to remove TikTok content from their platforms. Biden said that he’d like to know how TikTok plans on complying with the law. TikTok has asked Apple and Google not to remove the app from their app stores.
TikTok service providers risk billions of dollars in penalties for uploading it back online
TikTok and many other ByteDance-owned apps were removed from US App Store and Google Play Store as of Sunday, after the US Congress passed a law banning the platform. The law also banned companies from providing data hosting services to TikTok. It was passed after ByteDance failed to obtain a court order to restore TikTok in the US.
Nobody knows what happens next after the Supreme Court ruled on TikTok
US Supreme Court has upheld the ban on TikTok in the US, stating that the app is a “great source of community, expression, and means of engagement”. TikTok had argued that it violates the freespeech rights of both users and the company, which it took all the way to the Supreme Court. It will take effect on Sunday.