TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children. The case was scheduled to go to trial on Monday. According to the Alabama attorney general’s office, TikTok could end up paying the state a total
TikTok and its parent company ByteDance will pay the US state of Alabama $100m (£75.45m) and make a series of changes to restrict children’s usage in the state as part of a lawsuit settlement. The deal was reached just before a jury trial was set to begin on Monday. It ends a lawsuit alleging TikTok
As the drivers of protein-maxxing and fitness influencing, it’s safe to say Gen Zers are paying close attention to what’s on their plates, like loading up on ground beef and rice—a.k.a. “boy kibble”—to build muscle. But financial realities are getting in the way of their ideal eating habits. A whopping 85% of college students between
Not being able to invest in OpenAI may have worked out perfectly for Salesforce. On an episode of the Sources Podcast published Tuesday, Marc Benioff told host Alex Heath that he originally wanted Salesforce to invest in OpenAI. Instead, the company backed its rival Anthropic, a decision the Salesforce CEO now thinks could be worth
EDINBURG, Texas — Quinten Martinez, pumping gas under a hot South Texas sun, remembers a time when fueling up didn’t require difficult decisions. “Is it going to be groceries this week?” asked the 28-year-old Amazon delivery driver as he watched the numbers tick higher. “Is it gonna be getting gas in our tank to go
Financial firms have spent decades perfecting “know your customer” rules. Their next compliance challenge: “know your agent.” That was the warning from Zhuoqun Bian, president of Ant Digital Technologies, the enterprise arm of Ant Group, at the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on Sept. 8. “From the financial institutions’ perspective, when we initiate a transaction,
