President Trump needed to ban TikTok. Now he desires to avoid wasting TikTok. There would possibly even be a plan to avoid wasting TikTok, although proper now it feels extra like a “ideas of a plan†scenario. In the meantime, the Trump administration continues to press exhausting on regulating Massive Tech, whereas additionally cozying as much as their CEOs — and illegally firing among the regulators. Corporations like OpenAI and Google are making an attempt to persuade the White Home to associate 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 wish to do with Massive 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 within Apple, together with a reasonably vital government 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 discuss. The Verge’s Lauren Feiner joins the present to clarify the newest on the TikTok ban, the state of the Broadband Fairness, A …