Meta's $17.1B child safety settlement is small relative to its market cap and roughly 10% of free cash flow; the stock rose more than the fine amount on the settlement, so the financial and regulatory overhang is manageable even if the social harms are real.
VC has shifted from anti-hardware to pro-hardware, and Hussein argues language-related AI is largely settled while robotics and physical AI remain up for grabs with real defensibility because hardware is hard; he is a big believer and has already invested in a stealth robotics frontier model with a more efficient training technique.