{"id":46909,"date":"2025-04-04T11:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=46909"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T15:21:56","slug":"did-chatgpt-calculate-the-tariffs-that-tanked-the-stock-market-tiktoks-uncertain-future-ai-divide-and-wordpress-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/did-chatgpt-calculate-the-tariffs-that-tanked-the-stock-market-tiktoks-uncertain-future-ai-divide-and-wordpress-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Did ChatGPT Calculate the Tariffs That Tanked the Stock Market? TikTok&#8217;s Uncertain Future, AI Divide, and WordPress Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of #Trending, host Jim Love discusses the looming April 5th deadline for TikTok to be sold or face a U.S. ban, with potential buyers like AI startup Perplexity, Project Liberty, Amazon, and Oracle. The episode also covers a new Stanford study showing a growing divide between AI experts and the general public, highlighting concerns over AI&#8217;s impact and a lack of diverse voices in AI development. Additionally, the show reports on WordPress parent company Automattic laying off 16% of its workforce and the implications for its viability. Finally, Jim explores confusion around recent U.S. tariff calculations, with a spotlight on potential misuse of ChatGPT for these figures.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 TikTok&#8217;s Uncertain Future: Potential Buyers and National Security Concerns<br \/>\n02:30 AI Experts vs. Public Perception: A Growing Divide<br \/>\n05:15 WordPress Restructuring: Layoffs and Legal Disputes<br \/>\n07:26 Trump&#8217;s Tariff Claims: Fact-Checking and Analysis<br \/>\n10:37 Conclusion and Upcoming Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of #Trending, host Jim Love discusses the looming April 5th deadline for TikTok to be sold or face a U.S. ban, with potential buyers like AI startup Perplexity, Project Liberty, Amazon, and Oracle. The episode also covers a new Stanford study showing a growing divide between AI experts and the general public, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1346],"class_list":["post-46909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-todays-news","tag-hashtag-trending"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46911,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46909\/revisions\/46911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}