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Tiktok is raising the heat – and it will frowns
On Wednesday evening, Bytedance employees tuned with an All Hands meeting with older leaders from the whole company, including the head of Tiktok Shou chew. The elephant in the room was of course the fate of the application in the United States.
During the meeting, Chew said: “We are sure that we can make a lot of progress to stabilize the situation, hoping soon,” according to the transcription of his comments I saw. The next day, Apple and Google suddenly returned Tiktok to their American applications after receiving a private, written certainty from the newly confirmed Prosecutor General Pam Bondi that they would not be punished with a fine for breaking the law. (Bondi’s letter has not yet been made public, and all the involved parties refuse to comment on it.)
During the meeting in his whole hand, Chew mentioned the years of political errors that led Tiktok to that moment. “Thanks to this way to build trust, if you look back over the years, we have made a lot of progress,” said Chew. “Although the road was a bit too steep and windy, we became stronger and survived.”
He assured employees that the advertising activity of Tiktok stabilized since the compact period in which the application was completely offline in the USA and that the company exceeds the purpose of user involvement. The United States is not the highest Tiktok market by users or revenues, but this is by far the most influential. As weeks passed without application in stores in the USA, the leaders of Tiktok quietly carried out the pressure campaign around this problem.
Key directors, including the head of politics Michael BeckermanReaded from record sessions of questions and answers with the creators of Tiktok in recent days, to emphasize that Apple and Google have legal assurances they need to host the application, and not face the fringe containing the earth, according to the creators who participated in increasing connections. (Some who participated in these closed sessions Published this it publicly.)
In these questions, Tiktok representatives confirmed that the application suffered from defects because of some American service providers who still do not cooperate with the company. “They explained that there was a problem with reloading coins that are used to send creators’ gifts,” one creator told me who participated in the Question and Answers session. “This affects the content of live and purchases of coins in the application,” say other leaders Tiktok. It is not clear whether such defects are now repaired when Apple and Google host the application again.
Although I am sure that some Tiktok employees are celebrating a return to applications stores, the fate of the application is far from certainty. President Donald Trump and China still have to work out a contract in which Tiktok has at least partly become the property of some American sovereign property fund. Trump explained that he has a lever and wants to operate a tiktok as a tender system with China. In the United States, Tiktok does not control its destiny.
Many Tiktok employees are also buzzing about the ominous warning of chewing during a meeting in the whole hand about future dismissals. “We just need to make sure that the organization is in the right form at the moment,” he said, adding that “some bands” have become “disgusted” and “awkward”.
“I think that we can remove a lot of these overlapping of roles and obligations,” he continued, “thanks to this we can probably offer better work safety for everyone, because then your work has real value, and not only you are part of a senseless process. “
Google EXECTS DODGE Questions about Dei weapons, ai
Google’s semi-regional “TGIF” meetings have been heavily scripped for a long time. Despite this, the employees participated this week TGIF, hoping to better understand why the company is finishing their Dei programs and begins to allow the operate of its artificial intelligence for weapons.
On the subject of Dei, CEO Sundar Pichai He had nothing to say. “We have always been deeply concerned about employing the best people around the world and creating opportunities for everyone,” he said when he left Paris, according to many employees who participated in the meeting. “Our values are permanent, but we must follow legal directions depending on how they evolve.”
After emphasizing that the Google employee resources groups do not leave, Melon Parker, the former head of the diversity of Google, who (like its counterpart in the finish line) changed their title to “commitment”, again cited the company’s status as a “federal contractor” as contributing to changes . She said that Google “absorbs a number of our training programs that focus on Dei” and update others to remove a related language.
The best Google lawyer, Kent WalkerSomehow, it was even less said, answering employee questions about the decision to quietly remove the company’s public commitment in order to stop artificial intelligence with weapons. He said that this good society for Google was in a mixture of this kind of government agreements and suggested that the company still has red lines about how they can be used, but did not convert them.
It’s not just about AI military applications with which Google employees had a problem. I was told that some complained about how Google uses artificial intelligence to aggregate and summarize the pre -given employee questions at these TGIF meetings.
- Tround Week Meta: Although you would not be able to say that the price of the action is constantly climbing, a tough week has passed for many people. LinkedIn, signal, disagreement and blind are full of employees who claim that they have been hit Mark Zuckerberg’s “Low” exemptions, despite receiving “fulfilling all” ratings or better performance in recent reviews. The stories of those who were cut during holidays (medical, parental, etc.) are particularly rugged. The way this exemption was formulated and then implemented caused a lot of frustration and even procedural whispers.
- Musk drama vs. Altman: Declarations about the company’s mission can be used to justify many things. In the case of OpenAI, the mission of building Aga, which “uses all humanity”, is apparently contradictory Elon Musk’s All offer time to buy a non-profit organization for $ 97.4 billion. You can Read Musk’s intent to buy Openai for yourself. Unlike Project Stargate, it seems that he actually has money, although the idea that Opeli will say to every Muska offer, of course, is witty. The idea is to buy OpenAI. The point is that it would be much more disordered and costly to Openai to convert from a non-profit organization into a profit-oriented company. In this respect, Musk has probably already succeeded whether Opeli wants to admit it or not.
- Watch chip: The finish is Apparently he is looking for a purchase launching of application systems from South Korea and It is said to be a client The first inner chip ARM … Openai is Apparently he is progressing On a non -standard system with TSMC … Jensen Huang Autograph laptops in Stanford.
- Other headers: Musk spotted the financial regulator supervising his pursuit of payment on X … The Apple iPhone SE event is set for February 19 … Google I/O is scheduled for May 20 … Anduril takes control Huge contract Microsoft AR Goggle with the US Army … Blue origin released 10 percent of employees.
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