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Three judges shot down ByteDance’s petition to overturn a law that could ban TikTok in the US. On Friday, The New York Times reported that the judges upheld the new law, which requires the company to sell the app to a non-Chinese company by January 19 or face a ban.

ByteDance argued that the law unfairly targets TikTok and that a ban would violate users’ First Amendment rights. The company has

• Romania's constitutional court on Friday ordered a new presidential election.
• Allegations of Russian social media interference in favor of Calin Georgescu prompted the decision.
• An expert told BI the move was "unprecedented" in Romanian democratic history.

Romania's constitutional court ordered a

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• Execs for Walmart, Target, and more retailers have used similar descriptions of US consumer health.
• BI combed through earnings call transcripts to round up the words they're using to talk about shoppers.
• In spite of the challenges, Americans continue to spend — even if it's at the last minute.

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Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is now available to free users on X. Several users noticed the change on Friday, which gives non-Premium subscribers the ability to send up to 10 messages to Grok every two hours.

xAI launched Grok last year as a “humorous AI assistant,” but it was only available to Premium subscribers. In August, xAI added a text-to-image generation

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Donald Trump has picked a crypto bull to advise him on AI and cryptocurrency policy. On Thursday evening, the president-elect took to Truth Social to share that he was appointing former PayPal COO David Sacks to serve as his “White House A.I. & Crypto Czar.” Trump said Sacks would also lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology.

“David will guide policy for the

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Google has delivered a surprise holiday gift to folks with a Pixel 6, Pixel 7 or Pixel Fold. The company says it will give those devices two extra years of OS upgrades. The handsets were originally slated to get three years of OS updates and five years of security patches, but now it's five for each, starting from when the devices first hit the Google Store in the US.

As the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro

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