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New Year, same problems for TikTok.

From American Public Media.

This is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carrino. Open AI closed the year with a bang, announcing a new powerful AI model called O3.

It could mark a significant step towards artificial general intelligence, an AI that can learn or understand anything a human can.

We'll take a closer look at those claims on this week's Techbytes week in review.

Plus, another tech prediction for 2025, will AI assistance actually make our lives easier this year?

But first, President-elect Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to put the TikTok ban on hold

so he might negotiate a deal to save the app.

For more on all that, we're joined by Peresh DeVay.

He's a senior writer at Wired.

I kind of give the president-elect some credit here.

Like, courts generally do want things to be settled, right?

Courts have a huge backlog.

They don't like to decide things and weigh in if they aren't really needed, right?

Like, courts in some way see themselves as the last resort.

And the president- elect here is saying

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