Meta Sees a Future Where AI Fills You Social Needs
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Riley Griffin reports from the Meta antitrust trial about the company's views of its rivals and the future of social networks.
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