TikTok faces the hammer, Sam Altman returns to OpenAI’s board, and Waymo’s driverless taxis come to Los Angeles
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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We’re at the end of the week, which means we’re serving up another episode of Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review. Autonomous vehicle company Waymo has launched its driverless taxi service in Los Angeles. OpenAI has given CEO Sam Altman his board seat back. And a U.S. bill passed by the House of Representatives would force TikTok’s Chinese parent, ByteDance, to sell its stake in the U.S. version of the popular social media platform or be banned from app stores. Paresh Dave, senior writer at Wired, joined Marketplace’s Lily Jamali to discuss why policymakers have been pushing for action on TikTok for years.
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| 0:40.0 | Wamo robot taxis come to Los Angeles to which we say good luck with traffic. From American public media this this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Lily Dromale. |
| 0:44.7 | We're at the end of the week, which means we've got another episode of Marketplace TechBites |
| 0:58.0 | week in review. |
| 1:00.0 | Autonomous vehicle company Waimo has launched its driverless taxi service in Los Angeles |
| 1:04.7 | making it the fourth metropolitan city to host the Waymo One fleet. |
| 1:09.7 | We'll look at how the company owned by Google Parent Alphabet has managed to keep expanding while a major |
| 1:15.7 | competitor has faltered. |
| 1:17.7 | Plus Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, has given CEO Sam Altman his board seat back. We'll look at who's cheering |
| 1:25.8 | that development and who's not. But first, the big headline of the week is all about |
| 1:31.3 | Tik-T. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly |
| 1:35.5 | passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The bill |
| 1:41.6 | says it would force Tik-Tok's Chinese parent Bightance to sell its |
| 1:45.4 | stake in the US version of the popular social media platform or face a ban from |
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