Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, June 29th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Saatcha Nadella had his day in court. Looks like the FTC is finalizing its big case against Amazon,

YouTube has advertisers asking for refunds, big new interesting raises in the AI space,

and ahead of the 4th of July travel weekend, we may not have the autonomous

driving we want, but maybe we can get the autonomous rental car delivery we deserve.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. More from the whole Microsoft F.C. Courthouse.

Sasha Nadella himself took the stand yesterday saying he would love to end exclusives on consoles. Bobby Katic in his

testimony said call of duty being exclusive to the Xbox would cause revolt

and reputational damage.

So they're making their case in court,

coding linear times.

If it was up to me, I would love to get rid

of the entire exclusives on consoles.

Mr. Nadella testified rebutting claims from

tech regulators that Microsoft's deal for the video game giant would curtail

competition and restrict Activision's games only to players on Microsoft's

Xbox console.

I would have no love for that world, he said, end quote.

The fourth day of a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco that could determine the

deal's outcome was the highest profile session with appearances

by Mr Nadella and Activision's chief executive Bobby Kotik.

You would have a revolt if you were to remove the game from one platform, Mr. Kotik said. It would cause reputational damage to the company

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