Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, April 7th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

TikTok lives again, again, at least for another 75 days. Meta's big new Lama models are out.

AI coding assistant cursor has become the big breakout hit of the AI moment.

And then yes, we get into the

tariff situation, including me polling tech execs who make consumer-facing gadgets. Do you

plan to raise prices? Here's what they told me. And here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Okay, we'll get to the stock market and the tariff issue at the end of the show.

It's kind of hard for me to cover that because things can change so much by the time my words get to your ears.

But let's make sure we don't miss this.

Over the weekend, President Trump apparently signed an executive order to keep TikTok running for 75 more days as, quote,

the deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, end quote.

Mark German's sources say Apple, at least, is keeping TikTok and other bite dance apps on its

U.S. app store for at least that further 75 days, following assurances from Attorney

General Pam Bondi, quoting CNBC.

We hope to continue working in good faith with China, who I understand are not very happy about our reciprocal tariffs, necessary and fair and balanced trade between China and the USA,

Trump said in a post on truth social.

Bite dance has been in discussion with the U.S. government, the company told CNBC,

adding that any agreement will be subject to approval under Chinese law. An agreement has not been

executed, a spokesperson for BightDance said in a statement, there are key matters to be resolved.

Trump previously said he may consider reducing China tariffs to help facilitate a TikTok deal.

The president also said that it's possible

he would give ByteD. Dance another extension if there was not a finalized deal. Last month,

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