The latest U.S. Federal Reserve meeting saw interest rates remain on hold as it seeks to make more progress on lowering inflation. With strong economic growth and a resilient labor market, the stock market didn't take the chatter in a significantly negative way.

As for Apple’s unprecedented action, this was spotted by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in a post on X, who pointed out that Apple issued a support document about TikTok, titled “About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. Apps in the United States.”

This isn’t just about the TikTok precedent here. It’s about reciprocity, considering that China doesn’t allow products like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Meta AI. Apple Intelligence is also unavailable in China, as Apple has to partner with a local AI provider to release it. By the way, TikTok is also unavailable in China.

Users with TikTok on their iPhone after Apple removed it from the app store should refrain from doing this major thing.

Suspicions were confirmed when it was discovered that popular Chinese AI DeepSeek sends a tremendous amount of user data to servers in China.

Whether TikTok can be downloaded on a new phone depends on your device, as it’s currently removed from app stores. Details.

This has two knock-on effects that are much longer term. First, we now know that a U.S. TikTok ban will be difficult to bypass if it comes back — and the same will be true for any other Chinese (or other) app banned in the same way. There are some options, as I reported over the weekend, but none of them are especially compelling.

Unlike some chatbot rivals, the fact that DeepSeek is open source provides it with some level of protection. This means that anyone can run it on their computer and developers can tap into the API in a way that would be hard to restrict. But the DeepSeek app is still at risk.

During the outage, even users who had previously downloaded TikTok were unable to access the app. While service has since been restored, the app remains unavailable for download in U.S.-based app stores, leaving new users unable to access it.

The Chinese app went viral over the weekend for its lightning fast and sharp reasoning capabilities.

Phones are going for thousands of dollars on online storefronts after Apple and Google took down ByteDance platforms.

In a TikTok video, Australian model Christina Podolyan, 26, explained how her now-ex-boyfriend, Fred*, reportedly cheated with “nearly half of Melbourne” but was careless in trying to cover his