Hotline Feature – Abrar Al-Heeti: Meta’s Antitrust Win, Amazon Car Sales, and AI Avatars for the Dead
Filling in for Dave Weekley, Coop welcomes Abrar Al-Heeti of CNET for a packed tech rundown. They break down Meta’s major courtroom victory in the FTC antitrust case — and what it signals for future action against Big Tech. Abrar also explains Amazon’s new partnership with Ford to sell used cars directly through Amazon, the rollout of Zoox’s free robo-taxi program in San Francisco, and a disturbing new AI avatar tool that lets users “talk” to deceased loved ones. The two finish with a sharp warning about YouTube’s automatic 4K upscaling and what it may do to archival video history.
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