Sign up for smart news, insights, and analysis on the biggest financial stories of the day. brian@thedailyupside.com Since “Liberation Day” earlier this month, tariffs have been imposed, they’ve been rescinded, some have been added back, and some may come back at the end of a 90-day reprieve — barring some artful dealmaking, of course. Whether more tariffs come back, and what happens next in the global trade war, is far beyond us (it may be beyond the White House, too). Whether tariffs can be...

Sign up for smart news, insights, and analysis on the biggest financial stories of the day. brian@thedailyupside.com The contestants in Washington’s long-running game show are now known, we think. They’re vying for what’s been behind Door No. 1 for the past 90 days: TikTok. After extending the sale-or-ban deadline for TikTok earlier this year, the ByteDance-owned social media platform is once again up against a deadline, which is this Saturday. Rumors have swirled of likely buyers all week —...

Several years into the great AI revolution, it still remains an unsettled question whether firms are committing mass copyright infringement. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Mail Link March 24, 2025 Sign up for smart news, insights, and analysis on the biggest financial stories of the day. brian@thedailyupside.com All is fair in love and war, but Big Tech fears fair use, at least as currently constituted. Back in February, the White House put out a call for public comment on its forthcoming “AI...

Sign up for smart news, insights, and analysis on the biggest financial stories of the day. brian@thedailyupside.com The clock is ticking on a TikTok sale… and yet nobody at parent company ByteDance seems to care. We’re now less than one month away from the April 5 sale-or-ban deadline President Trump gave TikTok when he granted a 75-day extension upon arriving back at the White House in January. And last week, Axios reported that ByteDance hasn’t even held negotiations with any prospective...