The Tik-ban saga ain’t over… US leaders have been trying to ban TikTok over national-security concerns since 2020, but a new bipartisan push could make the Tok-less life a reality. Last week lawmakers intro’d a bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, to separate from the app within 180 days or be banned in the States. But ByteDance doesn’t want to sell its profit puppy. The House will fast-track a vote on the bill this week. TikTok called it an “outright ban,” arguing it would rob 170M American TikTok users of free-expression rights (and lip-sync vids).
OpenAI spills the Tesla tea… OpenAI blogged a response to cofounder Elon Musk’s lawsuit, in which Musk accused the former nonprofit biz of prioritizing $$ over the public good (see: multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft). OpenAI argues that AI is just pricey. The company published emails from Musk that appeared to show he’d withheld funds to try to gain control of OpenAI and have it tacked on to Tesla. Musk’s suit could force OpenAI to publicly share its techy secrets and not use products like ChatGPT to make Microsoft money.