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Q&A with SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel on Anthropic and OpenAI controlling global compute, $11T of AI capex between 2024 and 2029, China's compute, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)

Meta will pay up to $16.68 billion to settle claims from 48 states and four jurisdictions that its platforms addict children. The deal imposes daily time limits for teens, algorithmic feed controls, and an age-verification system limited to a 10% false-positive rate. About $5.3 billion is conditional on YouTube and TikTok adopting similar safeguards, and payments will be made in annual installments over ten years.