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.
RedNote is a Chinese app that American TikTokkers are using
TikTok faces a ban under the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and was signed last year by President Joe Biden. RedNote could be forced to divest or face a ban under the statute, a US official said. The RedNote app moved to the top of the free apps chart on the Apple app store.
The executive order was signed by Joe Biden
US President Joe Biden on Sunday announced new rules that will ban the sale of American-made artificial intelligence chips to Iran and North Korea. The rules will limit the sale of AI chips to companies operating data centres in the US, which is the world’s largest data centre market. They also set security standards for AI models that are built at federal sites.
There will be a 10-year deadline for US cities to replace lead pipes
US President Joe Biden on Tuesday set a 10-year deadline for cities across the US to replace their lead pipes in drinking water. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) changed the time it gives for the replacement of lead pipes, so the city now has to replace them in a decade. Flint,Michigan, was the first US city to report an outbreak of lead-tainted water.
The internet hype for Harris is why the Democrats want to turn it into votes
The 24-year-old is the National Youth Engagement Director for US Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. She has been working since the beginning of the year when President Joe Biden was seeking re-election. “There’s been a great amount of people coming into the campaign…and that’s why we need to rally young voters,” she said.
The presidential race is getting ready for a reset with Harris and Trump
A day after Joe Biden exited the US presidential race and announced that his wife Vice President Kamala Harris will become the party’s nominee, former President Barack Obama called her a “bright young woman”. “She has the experience to be Commander-In-Chief,” he added. Obama also said that Harris has the “skill” to be the next President of the US.
Three writers on the promise of a new president
Silicon Valley’s megadonors have pledged their support for Vice President Kamala Harris after Joe Biden dropped out of the US presidential race. “I watched as Harris spoke to the staff at his campaign headquarters and walked away inspired. We’re going to win,” a tech executive said on being asked about Biden’s exit. “It feels…hopey changey,” he added.
Big tech backing Trump is inevitability
Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, in a podcast released this week, said that their decision to support Donald Trump for the US Presidential election was the result of “the final straw” presented by Joe Biden’s Budget proposal. “The only big policy platform he had were sweeping tax cuts, which was a huge giveaway to corporations,” they added.
Silicon Valley powerhouses, including Musk, rallied behind the VP pick
The America PAC campaign against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, which has raised almost $9 million to date, has raised over $1 million in donations from Khosla Ventures Managing Director Keith Rabois. Rabois said he’ll donate $1 million to the campaign. He added that he and other Khosla employees were told that the president would be more tolerant of businesses incriptocurrency industry.