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TikTok Wiggle Room Challenge - DTNS Live 4934

Season 12, Ep. 4934

TikTok is just days away from being banned from operating in the US if it doesn’t sell its American operations to a non-Chinese owner. Justin has a theory of what could possibly save TikTok. Plus the outgoing Biden administration has proposed an ““Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion” Monday that would keep high performance GPUs used in AI servers out of China. And fire watch app Duty Watch has seen a spike in users as fires blaze across Los Angeles county.


Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe.

Link to the Show Notes.

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