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The rate of app deletions by TikTok users has increased since the company announced it would transfer its U.S. operations to a new joint venture.Market intelligence firm Sensor Tower told CNBC that the average daily number of U.S. users deleting the TikTok app has increased nearly 150% in the past five days compared to the previous three months.Last Thursday, TikTok announced it had formed a joint venture to continue operating the video-sharing app under new U.S. guidance. The company has appointed former TikTok operations chief Adam Presser as CEO of the joint venture. After being prompted to accept the updated…

Coventry fought back to win 2-1 at Norwich, but they were unable to regain their six-point lead at the top of the Championship.Romain Esse’s goal put the Sky Blues ahead just before the break at Carrow Road, but the Canaries came back in the second half with goals from Anis Ben Suliman and Ali Ahmed. The win continues Philippe Clement’s Norwich comeback and lifts Norwich into 18th place in the table. There is a difference of 4 points from the bottom three. Coventry remain three points behind second-placed Middlesbrough and eight points behind third-placed Ipswich, but still have games in…

The clock is officially ticking. In just five days, the lowest ticket prices for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and 50% off Plus One Passes exclusive to the first 500 registrants will be gone. And with more than half of the first 500 applications already submitted, the slots are closing fast. If Disrupt is on your must-attend list, here’s your chance to lock in the best deal and get +1 for half price. Register now to save up to $680 on passes and get 50% off your second ticket. This offer ends on January 30th, when the first 500 tickets are won.…

Can the old bull learn new tricks to keep his owner happy? Already a third of the way into its fourth year, the 2026 bull market is drawing out a new constituency, one that is markedly different from the one that started and sustained its rise. Each of the core drivers of the S&P 500 index’s nearly doubling from its October 2023 lows has been questioned or replaced by other, more hopeful sources. Cash generation from growth stocks recedes in favor of the promise of productivity. Disinflation allows for lower policy rates, leading to fewer interest rate cuts and a…

Tierno Barry continued his scoring spree with a second-half equalizer as Everton drew 1-1 at home to Leeds. After scoring just once in his first 18 league appearances, Barry scored his fourth goal in five top-flight games with an equalizer in the 76th minute. Everton were unable to take the lead as Idrissa Gueye hit the bar just two minutes after Barry’s goal, extending the Toffees’ winless run to five games and moving them into the top half of the table. Use Chrome Browser for a more accessible video player Tierno Barry qualifies as Everton runners-up Player evaluation Everton: Pickford…

Obvious Ventures, co-founded by Twitter’s Evan Williams, has raised its fifth fund, and like its predecessor, this one comes with a “fun” number of $360,360,360. “We invest at the forefront of math, science and physics, and we want to celebrate math in our fund numbers,” James Joaquin (pictured far right), co-founder and managing director of the firm, told TechCrunch. The company’s first funding was $123,456,789 and its second funding was $191,919,191 (palindromic numbers are the same whether read from the front or back). The third fund was $271,828,182 (mathematicians and engineers immediately recognize this as e (Euler’s number)), and the…

Stefan Nikolic | E+ | Getty ImagesWith tax season starting on Monday, families with minor children will have the option to sign up for a Trump account and receive a one-time federal contribution when they file their 2025 returns. The Trump Account, enacted by President Donald Trump’s “Big and Beautiful Act,” is designed to give children born between 2025 and 2028 an early start in building wealth with a one-time $1,000 contribution from the U.S. Treasury. “This is the first opportunity to advocate for rights, but it won’t be the last,” said Madeline Brown, senior policy associate at the Urban…

There’s a new model from China that’s been a hot topic among developers. Zhipu AI’s GLM 4.7. It’s not new per se, but what caught our attention is where it’s gaining popularity: our turf, the United States.The first thing I came across was Zhipu’s post on WeChat announcing that the new coding tools were in such high demand that they would start restricting access. A year after DeepSeek’s R1 model shocked the U.S. artificial intelligence industry, AI experts say Chinese AI models are spreading around the world. I wanted to know if that applies to Zhipu as well.DeepSeek never responded…

Thanks to a new feature announced by Anthropic on Monday, Claude users will be able to invoke interactive apps within the chatbot interface. In keeping with Anthropic’s enterprise focus, most of the launch apps are workplace tools such as Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, and Clay, with Salesforce coming soon. In either case, the app enables a logged-in instance of the service that Claude can access, allowing the user to send Slack messages, generate graphs, or access cloud files, depending on which app is enabled. “Analyzing data, designing content, and managing projects all work more efficiently using a dedicated visual interface,”…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the Federal Aviation Administration needs two more days to fully recover from the weekend’s major disruptions caused by the massive winter storm that hit the United States.In an interview Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Duffy said the FAA is targeting Wednesday as the day it hopes air travel will return to normal.”This storm is unique,” Duffy said. “We’ve got ice, we’ve got snow, and then we’ve got a big cold snap. … So that’s making it even more difficult to navigate through the ice that’s been going on for the last three days.”Sunday was the…