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🎙️ Tech Week in Review — Episode 45 (16–24 Feb 2026)

Episode 45 is a collision of courtrooms, code, and consequences. Tech giants face a global reckoning over child safety, addictive design, and AI misuse. Governments tighten rules on deepfakes while militaries quietly test AI in real-world operations. Meanwhile, autonomous systems cause outages and crashes, robots entertain crowds, and engineers try to preserve humanity’s data for thousands of years in glass.

 

Episode 45 Topics Covered:

  • ⚖️ Zuckerberg testifies as social media addiction case targets platform design
  • 🧒 Apple and Roblox sued over child safety failures
  • 🇬🇧 U.K. orders deepfakes removed within 48 hours or face massive fines
  • 🇮🇹 Italy weighs nationwide under-16 social media ban
  • 🪖 U.S. military reportedly uses Anthropic’s Claude in Venezuela operation
  • 🎬 ByteDance’s hyper-real video AI sparks Disney copyright clash
  • ⚡ AWS outages triggered by rogue internal AI coding agents
  • ⛪ Vatican deploys AI translation for Mass in 60 languages
  • 🚖 Tesla robotaxis log crashes in Austin, raising autonomy concerns
  • 💰 Microsoft commits $50B to reduce global AI inequality
  • 🧊 Quartz glass “eternal storage” tested for millennia-long data preservation
  • 🤖 China showcases autonomous robots at Lunar New Year events
  • ⚖️ U.S. Supreme Court blocks emergency tariffs, disrupting trade plans
  • 🏎️ Radical 2026 Formula 1 cars push drivers to the limit

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