Meghan McCarty Carino

We're back with Eric Goldman of Santa Clara University's High Tech Law Institute.

When we spoke to you to preview these cases, you alluded to the role of Section 230.

This is a section of federal law that shields online platforms from liability for user-generated content.

Remind us what the role of Section 230 was in this LA case, and does the verdict have any implications for Section 230 going forward?

We mentioned the thousands of other pending cases against social media companies, but these platforms are also facing increasing legislative oversight, mainly at the state level, but increasingly potentially at the federal level.

Do you think we'll see the platforms try to preempt further action by changing services themselves?

What are you going to be watching as appeals move forward, presumably?

That's Eric Goldman, co-director of Santa Clara University's High Tech Law Institute.

Jesus Alvarado and Nicholas Guillaume produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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The AI boom is charging up the battery business.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

A couple of weeks ago, I found myself at an R&D lab in the heart of San Francisco's Design District, full of circuit boards, humming fridge-like devices, and I drove an EV for quite a long time.

I don't think I ever pictured what the actual battery pack looked like inside my vehicle.

It's not a high-design object, no.

That's Colin Campbell, chief technology officer at Redwood Materials, an electric vehicle battery recycling startup that recently expanded into providing grid energy storage for data centers.

It's part of the expansion of AI infrastructure we've been exploring this week.

And as we've talked about, AI companies and their massive data centers rock.