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The Prime Minister is in Europe this week making the case for an increase in defence spending of £75 billion over the next six years - to deal with growing global threats in a turbulent world.

That's the headline at least. But Labour is asking pesky questions. Where is the new money actually coming from? And is the lift as great as it actually seems? We break down the numbers a little to see if the sums work.

Later, Angela Rayner put her own housing issues centre stage at PMQs today against the Deputy PM. Did it work? And is 'pint size' now legit criticism in the Commons?

And what's happening to TikTok after US legislators voted to see it banned or sold?

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In this week’s episode of Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Lily Jamali chats with Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal’s senior personal tech columnist, who takes us on a road trip through New Jersey’s network of Tesla superchargers. Stern recently explored how drivers of non-Tesla electric vehicles can now use these stations via an adapter. It’s part of her larger look into the best ways to save money supercharging your EV. Also this week, we’ll get Stern’s take on what to expect at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which will kick off June 10 in Cupertino, California. But first, a look at a new law in Florida, the latest legislative attempt to address the potential harms social media can inflict on children. It prohibits kids 13 and under from creating accounts on popular platforms.

US Supreme Court justices are considering two cases from Florida and Texas which could fundamentally alter the future of online free speech.

Meanwhile, in Alabama, the state’s top court ruling on IVF has cast doubt on the future of the treatment, as the debate over reproductive rights enters new territory.

We unpack what’s going on, how the cases could affect the lives of Americans, and how they could influence the upcoming election.

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A landmark bill written by Texas State Senator Bryan Hughes will be debated at the Supreme Court on Monday. HB 20 aims to curb political bias and censorship by major social media platforms and protect online free speech. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.

Apple’s Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live up to the hype? Kevin Roose and Casey Newton tried it out to see. Then, in a high-profile congressional hearing on child safety and social media, Mark Zuckerberg, the Meta chief executive, made an apology to families of victims of online child abuse. Is new legislation on the horizon? And finally, what the collapse of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company, means for the future of self-driving cars.

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• ‘Your Product Is Killing People’: Tech Leaders Denounced Over Child Safety
• Cruise Says Hostility to Regulators Led to Grounding of Its Autonomous Cars

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Check out my conversation with Elon Musk and a panel of esteemed leaders in the Jewish community, where we talk about X, anti-Semitism, and what it all means for free speech.

Woman. Which is why we have decided to release the film for free, for everyone, on Twitter tonight. The only problem is that Twitter -- which professes to be a free speech platform -- has already told us that the film will be labeled hate speech and suppressed. Also, Target is facing major financial losses while an anti-Target rap song tops the iTunes charts. Planned Parenthood puts out another propaganda video declaring that any reason is a good reason to kill your baby. And a new survey shows that large percentages of Americans think that native tribes lived in "peace and harmony" before Europeans showed up and ruined the Utopia. 

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New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jia Tolentino discusses how Big Tech companies profit off our emotions on social media, the pivotal moment that made her quit Twitter, and how improving people's actual lives could reduce time spent on the internet. And Hasan Minhaj talks to tech influencer Marques Brownlee about how to break free from technology and why so much of it sucks.

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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Ron DeSantis has gone to war with woke corporations, especially Disney. But some Republicans have come to Disney's defense, arguing that it's more important to save corporations than to save the culture. And this attitude is exactly why Republicans so often lose. Also, Biden's DOJ is suing to stop Tennessee's law banning child gender mutilation. Plus, Lia Thomas scolds the women who object to his presence in their locker rooms and on their sports teams. Mattel puts out an inclusive Barbie, but this is one inclusivity campaign that I actually sport. In our Daily Cancellation, a 'wellness advocate' attempts to explain why losing weight is fatphobic.

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Twitter insiders have told the BBC that the company is now much less able to protect users from trolling, state-co-ordinated disinformation and child sexual exploitation. Marianna takes the rest of the Americast team though her BBC Panorama investigation into how one of the world’s most influential social media platforms is being transformed by Elon Musk. And she describes how the Twitter CEO has responded to her online.

Tech journalist and host of the ON podcast, Kara Swisher, also joins Americast to talk about how social media companies could be regulated in the future.

And in the week of International Women’s Day, one of America’s best-known feminist lawyers, Gloria Allred, discusses how far she thinks women’s rights in the US have come in the decades that she has been practicing law.

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Snapchat launches a chatbot. Meta plans to “turbocharge” its A.I. work. Elon Musk explores “BasedAI.” At this point, who isn’t making an A.I. play?

Plus: Is crypto finally dead? Also, a new TikTok filter is making people terrifyingly hot.

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Hard Fork listeners! We want to hear from you. How is A.I. showing up in your everyday life? In your job, school and families? What are you using it for? Email us a voice memo at hardfork@nytimes.com. 

Additional reading:

• Snapchat launched “My AI” to paid subscribers.
• Mark Zuckerberg announced a high-level group to “turbocharge” Meta’s work with generative A.I.
• Meta AI released LLaMA to researchers.
• The science fiction and fantasy magazine “Clarkesworld” was flooded with chatbot-generated submissions. The writing is “bad in spectacular ways,” its editor said.
• Elon Musk is considering starting his own A.I. company.
• An FTX co-founder pleaded guilty to criminal charges and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors investigating Sam Bankman-Fried.
• A “flurry” of fines, lawsuits and policy statements are spooking crypto executives.
• Gary Gensler, the chair of the S.E.C., said that in crypto “everything other than Bitcoin” should be treated as a security.
• Some TikTok users are worried by how realistic its new filters can seem.

Patrick Bet-David sits down with Andrew Tate in Madrid, Spain. In an interview that spans nearly 5 hours, they leave no stone unturned. Pat & Andrew discuss his ban, Logan Paul, Elon Musk, modern-day manhood, and much more.

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