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Meta’s $1.4T Trial Over Child Safety Begins & Is AI Buying and Destroying Used Books?

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Good Morning Brew Daily Show, I'm Neil Freiman. And I'm Kayla Lopez. Today Meta stares down its biggest legal challenge yet. And a mystery source is buying up all the used books. It's Tuesday, August 18th. Let's ride. Good morning. I am once again joined by Kayla Lopez for a few more days. Kayla, did you know that your dinky first car is now a hot collector's item?

The Wall Street Journal reported that seemingly mundane cars from the 90s and 2000s like Honda Civics, Toyota Corollas, and Buick Roadmaster wagons are a fast-growing segment of the car collector community. At one insurance company that specializes in classic cars, 40% of insured vehicles were built since 1980. And another said they've seen the number of 2000s Civics and Corollas they insured double in just the past three years.

For the collectors themselves, many of them younger, it ties back to nostalgia and capturing that feeling when you were 17 driving around your hometown with your buddies getting up to shenanigans. Yeah, some of my favorite memories from high school are in my best friend's Honda Civic with the blown-out subwoofers just driving very slowly around like suburban Cleveland. But if you think about it, this generation is, you know, fixing up classic cars. Yes, sure, maybe a Honda Civic is slightly different than a Cadillac from the 50s.

But the generation before us was fixing up cars from the 50s and 60s. It's kind of the same as us fixing up cars from the 80s and 90s. Some people would say that the 90s and 2000s cars don't have the same aura as the other ones, the boxy sedan look. But yeah, shout out Chandler and his Ford Taurus. I will never forget that car.

Meta’s $1.4T Trial Over Child Safety Begins & Is AI Buying and Destroying Used Books?

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Meta’s $1.4T Trial Over Child Safety Begins & Is AI Buying and Destroying Used Books?

Read the full transcript

The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.