YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House. Bobby Allyn
Crypto giant Tether plans to expand across the U.S. Under the Biden administration, Tether struggled to expand in the United States due in part to a controversial history that made even industry players wary.
Trump's TikTok deal payment criticized as 'shakedown scheme' by experts The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion." David Folkenflik
Trump advances TikTok deal with new executive order The new order says that the deal to turn over a majority stake in TikTok to a group of U.S. investors meets the terms ordered by Congress, and will allow it to stay online in the U.S. John Ruwitch
Trump's TikTok deal terms criticized by experts as a 'shakedown' The U.S. government will collect a multibillion-dollar fee from the American investors who will take over TikTok. Some experts call the fee and other deals like it "extortion." Bobby Allyn
Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle lawsuit over 'tricking' people into Prime Federal regulators say Amazon has settled their lawsuit over whether its web designs have manipulated millions of people into paying for Prime subscriptions that were purposefully hard to cancel. Monica Nickelsburg
As AI advances, doomers warn the superintelligence apocalypse is nigh Profile feature about the small but dedicated band of computer scientists and others in Silicon Valley who say humanity is about to make an extinction-level mistake by creating an AI superintelligence. Martin Kaste
Dating app data is hard to access, so researchers made their own app Dating apps collect a lot of useful data from their users that could help researchers better understand love and relationships.
Did Amazon trick people into paying for Prime? Federal case goes to trial The U.S. government says Amazon manipulated people into signing up for Prime memberships that were purposefully hard to cancel. The company says its designs and disclosures follow industry standards. Monica Nickelsburg
Deal for TikTok creates U.S. joint venture, and government won't have a stake The U.S. will get a copy of TikTok's prized content recommendation algorithm, and that the tech company Oracle will provide security. John Ruwitch