Meta Shifts the Blame + Do Data Center Bans Work? + The Final HatGPT

Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1 billion and overhaul its platforms over claims of child addiction, prompting discussion about the company’s strategy and what the settlement means for the social media industry. Then, Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan returns to argue that banning data centers is an ineffective tactic for slowing AI progress. To wrap, the show bids farewell to its HatGPT segment with a roundup of oddball tech headlines, from Rockstar’s emotional response to GTA 6 leaks to a Chinese sprinting robot and the phenomenon of 'meat proxies' in the workplace.