Elon V. Sam Day 2

Elon V. Sam Day 2

From Tech Brew Ride Home by Morning Brew

April 29, 2026 · 21 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the escalation of the EU's DSA probe against Meta, OpenAI's changes, and the Musk v. Altman trial.

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…

Topics covered

  • EU regulations
  • child safety
  • robotaxi licenses
  • Musk v. Altman trial
  • OpenAI developments
  • YouTube features

Keywords

  • Meta
  • OpenAI
  • Musk
  • Altman
  • robotaxi
  • YouTube
  • child safety
  • EU regulations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Meta, OpenAI, Baidu, YouTube, European Commission

Books & works: Bloomberg, The Verge, FT, Wired

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