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Elon V. Sam Day 2

Tech Brew Ride Home

Amalgamated Internets, LLC

Tech News, Technology, News

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The EU escalated its DSA probe against Meta over child safety failures on Instagram and Facebook. OpenAI has effectively abandoned its Stargate JV, China suspended new robotaxi licenses after a Baidu outage, and the Musk v. Altman trial kicked off with opening arguments. The European Commission issues preliminary DSA findings against Meta, saying Instagram and Facebook fail to prevent under-13 users from accessing the services (Bloomberg) YouTube rolls out Full Multiview Customization to YouTube TV, letting users pin up to four live streams in a window, after debuting a limited version in 2023 (The Verge) Sources: OpenAI has, in practice, abandoned its Stargate JV in favor of large bilateral deals; execs say its guiding principle remains to "build more compute" (FT) Sources: China suspends issuing Level 4 autonomous vehicle licenses, after 100+ of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stalled and disrupted traffic in Wuhan in March (Bloomberg) OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures (Wired) Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because "it is not okay to steal a charity" and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts (Bloomberg) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:29.3

per repair. Welcome to the TechBoo ride home for Wednesday, April 29th, 2026. I'm Brian McCullough today.

0:38.6

The EU escalated its DSA probe against meta over child safety failures on Instagram and Facebook.

0:44.1

Open AI has effectively abandoned its Stargate GV.

0:47.9

China suspended new robot taxi licenses after a Baidu outage,

0:50.9

and the Musk v. Altman trial kicked off with opening arguments.

0:55.0

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

1:02.1

The European Commission has issued a preliminary DSA finding against meta, saying Instagram and Facebook

1:07.9

failed to prevent under 13 users from accessing the services.

1:13.2

Quoting Bloomberg, the European Commission on Wednesday issued preliminary findings against the company saying

1:17.8

meta-owned Facebook and Instagram fell short of their own minimum age restrictions.

1:22.2

The apps have, quote, no effective controls in place to check the correctness of the self-declared date of birth,

1:27.6

the commission said in a statement on Wednesday, adding that meta's tool to flag under 13s

1:32.3

for removal is difficult to use and not effective. Meta disagrees with the preliminary findings,

1:37.6

a spokesperson said, adding that the company has measures in place to detect accounts from underage

1:42.8

users. Understanding age is an industry-wide

1:45.6

challenge, which requires an industry-wide solution, and we will continue to engage constructively

1:50.3

with the European Commission on this important issue, the spokesperson said. Meta and other tech

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