The startup

scene in San Francisco is so back.

From American public media, this is marketplace tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino. It's Friday which means it's time for TechBites Week in Review,

where we take a look back at some of the big stories making waves in the industry this week,

like a report from venture capital firm Signal Fire that seems to show, despite all its problems, San Francisco

is still the place to be for tech startups in the AI space.

Plus, why Meta is scrapping plans for a super premium mixed reality headset and aiming for a

redux version instead. But first, the arrest of telegram CEO Pavel Duroff in France has sent shock waves through the tech world.

Duroff is facing a number of criminal charges.

French authorities alleging he is liable for illicit activities conducted on the encrypted

messaging platform including child sex abuse and drug trafficking,

essentially because of a failure to moderate content. The case is highlighting long-standing

tensions in the tech world between public safety and free speech. Here to

discuss all this is Natasha Masis, reporter at the information.

Telegram is one of those apps that has been started for, you know, nearly a deck, a little

over a decade now. It was founded in 2013 and it has captured a lot of tech from being used in

think Sam Bankman Freed's conversations about loans to the crypto community know, as the app has around 900 million users,

the crypto community has specifically

found a home there because of, you know,

both the ethos of resistance to government oversight free expression

but also you know there isn't a lot of ongoing examples of the times that

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