Jury Finds Meta, Google Liable for Addiction
Bloomberg Tech
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4.4 • 70 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss the jury verdict holding Google and Meta liable for a young woman’s social media addiction. Plus, the case in California was just the start of thousands of similar cases that could lead to impacts on the businesses of social media companies. And Google researchers tout a new compression technique for LLMs and vector search engines, sending shares of memory and storage companies lower.
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