🗞️TikTok's"addictive" features

...also Goldman Sachs partners with Anthropic and DOW Jones hits 50,000

February 06, 2026

February 6th, 2026

What happened today 🇺🇸,

EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine | TechCrunch

The European Commission on Friday accused TikTok of purposefully designing its app to be "addictive," calling out features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and its recommendation engine.

techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/eu-tiktok-disable-addictive-features-infinite-scroll-recommendation-engine

  • EU regulators issued preliminary findings, stating TikTok's "addictive” design, including features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and personalized recommendations, breaches the Digital Services Act by encouraging compulsive use that harms minors' mental and physical health…TikTok must redesign core elements to comply or face fines up to 6% of global annual revenue

  • The Trump administration is reportedly considering an antitrust investigation into U.S. homebuilders, to examine groups like Leading Builders of America (D.R. Horton, Lennar, PulteGroup, Toll Brothers) for alleged information-sharing that may restrict housing supply or coordinate pricing amid the affordability crisis

  • NYC Mayor, Zohran Mamdani, signed an executive order requiring ICE agents to obtain a judicial warrant before entering city-owned properties like schools, shelters, hospitals, and parking facilities

  • President Trump reportedly told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer that he would unfreeze billions in federal funding for New York’s Gateway rail tunnel only if Schumer supported renaming New York’s Penn Station and Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump…read more here

  • Tesla has launched an AI training center in China, the facility enables localized training for Full Self-Driving (FSD) and other AI applications

  • Goldman Sachs has partnered with Anthropic for six months, having Anthropic engineers develop Claude-powered AI agents to automate back-office roles like trade accounting, transaction reconciliation, and client

    onboarding

  • U.S. consumer sentiment (how people feel about the economy and their personal finances) rose to 57.3 in February and up 1.6% from January's 56.4

  • DOW up 2.47% / S&P up 1.97%

  • Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 50,000 for the first time today

  • U.S. and Iranian officials met in Oman today for indirect nuclear talks amid escalating regional tensions, with the U.S. demanding zero uranium enrichment, curbs on ballistic missiles, and an end to proxy support…Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called the session a "good start" limited to nuclear issues

  • Lt. General Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy head of Russia's GRU military intelligence, was shot multiple times in an apparent assassination attempt outside his Moscow apartment and hospitalized in serious condition

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