Meta Pays $17 Billion, Apple Folds, and an AI Researcher Walks Out
Hook. Hold. Harvest. Hide. That is how state attorneys general described Meta's business model before the company agreed to a reported $17 billion child safety settlement whose remedy reads like a design spec: default time limits, an overnight block, no cosmetic filters for minors.
Brian J. Crowley and Eve Eden work through the month in tech and the design decisions underneath each story. Apple's foldable iPhone Duo and a keynote engineered to avoid live failure. Dating apps losing paying users while a CEO calls swipe velocity the problem. Rideshare prices that look like willingness-to-pay…
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