Week 45: Meta Funds AI With Scams, ChatGPT Sued Over Suicides, Musk Gets a $1T Payday
THE RECKONING
After months of unchecked growth, reckless deployment, and moral shortcuts, the bills are finally coming due. This was the week consequences arrived with lawyers, ledgers, and body counts. The tech industry spent years moving fast and breaking things — now the broken things are demanding payment.
THE MORAL BILLS COME DUE
Meta Profits From Scam Ads as a bombshell report reveals the company knowingly earned billions from fraudulent advertisements, delaying their removal to help fund its AI development. Families Sue OpenAI Over Suicides with seven new lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT fueled self-harm spirals and delusions that ended in tragedy.
THE LEDGER GETS TALLIED
Tesla Shareholders Approve $1T Payout for Elon Musk, greenlighting a controversial compensation package tied to wildly ambitious goals for robotaxis and humanoid robots. OpenAI Lobbies For Public Funds by asking the Trump administration to expand the Chips Act tax credit to cover the astronomical cost of data center construction.
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