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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday the US and China reached a framework for a deal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the US.
Bessent said the deal entails two private parties, presumably TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, and a US partner. He did not share further details; President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Friday to close the deal. The announcement came ahead of tomorrow's deadline requiring ByteDance to sell the social media company to a non-Chinese buyer or face a US ban on national security grounds. Congress’ deadline was originally set for earlier this year, but Trump has extended it multiple times. TikTok has over 170 million active US users.
Separately, China’s regulator said an initial probe of AI chip company Nvidia showed the California-based company had violated antitrust law. The regulator pointed to the company’s 2020 acquisition of Israeli-American Mellanox Technologies but did not elaborate further or indicate possible penalties. |
An ex-British paratrooper began a murder trial in Northern Ireland yesterday, the first prosecution tied to the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre. Thirteen people were killed and 15 wounded when soldiers opened fire on unarmed civil rights demonstrators—the deadliest shooting from decades of violence known as the Troubles.
"Soldier F," whose identity is protected, is the only regiment member to face trial. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. Sixteen other soldiers and two alleged Irish Republican Army members were not prosecuted due to insufficient evidence. The trial follows years of legal setbacks: The case was initially dropped after government claims of self-defense, which a 2010 review overturned, concluding troops had shot fleeing civilians and lied about it.
The Troubles (see overview) marked a violent conflict over Northern Ireland’s political status between pro-British, predominantly Protestant unionists and Catholic-majority Irish nationalists. Roughly 3,600 people were killed. |
Leading AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic published separate studies yesterday on how their chatbots—ChatGPT and Claude—are being adopted worldwide.
Users are increasingly using ChatGPT for personal queries, according to OpenAI's analysis of 1.5 million conversations collected over nearly three years. Over 70% of conversations are non-work-related, compared to 53% last year. ChatGPT is also gaining popularity in lower-income countries, with adoption in the lowest-income countries over four times higher than in the highest-income ones.
Anthropic’s analysis of 1 million conversations from August found the use of Claude highest in high-income countries, where users increasingly use the chatbot to refine work and learn. In contrast, lower-income countries—whose economies are manufacturing-oriented—are more likely to automate tasks with Claude.
Claude usage trends in the US mirrored state economies, with travel planning popular in Hawaii and IT queries frequent in major tech centers like California. Explore state-specific usage here. |
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