Business

• The Race to Buy TikTok Is On—but There Might Not Be a Winner

  Investors are interested in buying TikTok so that it can avoid a US ban. But even if ByteDance accepts, a takeover will be far from simple.

• OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

  The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.

• Twitter Is Finally Dead. It’s X All the Way Down

  Twitter is fully X.com now. Given its transformation since Elon Musk bought it, that may be a small mercy.

• It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

  Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.

• Tesla’s Controversial Factory Expansion Is Approved

  After anti-Tesla activists clashed with police in Germany last week, local councillors today backed Elon Musk’s plan to make Tesla’s only European Gigafactory even bigger.