TikTok's Last Stand + Google's Quantum Breakthrough + Cult of Claude

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The New York Times

Technology

4.5 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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“The president was given a very clear and easy opportunity to say, ‘Yes, I am going to save TikTok,’ and he absolutely did not say that.”

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0:00.0	Casey, how are you?
0:02.0	Doing great, Kevin.
0:03.3	I'm in full holiday cheer this evening.
0:06.0	I had a chance to go to a holiday party with you last night, even.
0:09.2	That's true.
0:09.9	Yes, this is the holiday party season where tech companies all invite reporters to
0:14.0	gnaw and drink eggnog and whatever, and it's a good time.
0:18.6	Yeah, it's a time where we sort of lay down our arms
0:21.9	and we try to find common ground and scheme
0:26.0	to get high-profile interviews in the coming year.
0:28.3	Yeah.
0:28.8	Yeah.
0:29.2	And I think we might have been successful.
0:30.5	I think so, too.
0:31.2	Yeah, yeah.
0:32.8	More coming on that suit.
0:34.2	But we also got our caricature drawn at this holiday party, which was very fun.
0:38.3	We did.
0:38.7	If you've never been to a TechPR holiday party, they're structured basically like
0:42.3	bar mitzvahs where there are different stations for having your photo taken, caricature
0:47.4	drawn, balloon animals.
0:48.9	Yeah.
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