Zoë Schiffer Social Media Jan 19, 2025 1:08 PM TikTok Is Already Back Online Less than 24 hours after the app went dark, TikTok says President-elect Donald Trump has given it the reassurance it needs to resume service in the US. The message US TikTok users received when the app temporarily went dark.Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images…
Zeyi YangAndrew Couts Business Jan 19, 2025 12:48 AM It’s Not Just TikTok: These Other ByteDance Apps Are Gone Too Lemon8, CapCut, and Gauth are among the other victims of the US ban on ByteDance-owned apps. Photo: Emmanuel Wong/Getty Images TikTok is no longer available in the United States—at least for now. But it’s not…
By Louise Matsakis National Affairs Jan 18, 2025 11:32 PM TikTok Is Unavailable in the US—and Gone From the App Stores After President Biden declined to reassure Apple, Google, and Oracle that they wouldn’t be fined for giving Americans access to TikTok, the app’s hopes now hang on President-elect Trump. A smartphone displaying an image…
Steven Levy Business Jan 17, 2025 10:00 AM Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media The Meta CEO is abandoning his commitment to the truth in favor of a Trump-style playbook. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Acquired LIVE event at the Chase Center in San Francisco on September 10, 2024.Photograph: David Paul Morris/Getty…
Carlton Reid Gear Jan 17, 2025 6:56 AM Polestar Has a Bold Plan—Get Better at Selling Cars The China-controled EV brand has been losing tens of thousands of dollars on every car sold. With a US ban on Chinese car sales looming, the company needs to quickly turn things around. Signage for Polestar at the…
Zeyi Yang Business Jan 16, 2025 9:07 PM Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok. Xiaohongshu Technology Company headquarters in Shanghai, China.Photograph: Qilai Shen/Getty Images The Chinese…
Joel Khalili Business Jan 16, 2025 7:44 PM They Went After the Hawk Tuah Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun The same lawyers handling a lawsuit over the infamous Hawk Tuah crypto coin are bringing a new class action against memecoin platform Pump.Fun for allegedly putting investors in high financial risk. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty Images…
Zoë Schiffer Artificial Intelligence Jan 16, 2025 7:01 PM Mira Murati’s AI Startup Makes First Hires, Including Former OpenAI Executive It’s a major get for Murati’s mysterious startup, which has also poached engineers and researchers from a number of other prominent AI firms. Mira Murati at WIRED’s The Big Interview event in San Francisco on…
By Lauren Goode, Michael Calore, and Zoë Schiffer Business Jan 16, 2025 8:00 AM What Happens When You Turn Your Life Over to an AI Assistant? The hosts of Uncanny Valley spent the week following the advice of AI chatbots when it came to shopping, fitness, and parenting. Here’s how it went. Photo-Illustration: WIRED Staff/Getty…
By Paresh Dave Business Jan 16, 2025 7:00 AM Why It’s So Confusing to Determine Air Quality in Los Angeles Right Now Calculating air pollution from wildfires and other events has become more complicated. That doesn’t mean it’s necessarily more accurate. A building and car on fire, releasing pollutants in Altadena, CA on January 8,…
