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# Evening Scan
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-04-29-pm/
- Published: 2026-04-29T23:05:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-29T23:05:40.000Z
- Description: Meta’s AI spending ambitions took a backseat to regulatory action. The EU issued preliminary DSA findings against the company, while a $100M defense AI raise and a 4M-car Google deployment marked concrete progress on where AI is actually landing.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-pm, #scan

Meta's AI spending ambitions took a backseat to regulatory action. The EU issued preliminary DSA findings against the company, while a $100M defense AI raise and a 4M-car Google deployment marked concrete progress on where AI is actually landing.

> **4 million** — GM vehicles getting Gemini pushed via OTA update, making this one of the largest single AI rollouts outside a phone platform. *(The Next Web)*

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#### [Meta Charged With Failing to Keep Children Off Instagram and Facebook in Europe](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/business/meta-instagram-facebook-children.html?ref=adjacent.media)

The EU's preliminary DSA findings — that Meta can't reliably verify a user's self-declared birthdate — are less a surprise than a formal acknowledgment of what everyone already knew. *(NYT)*

#### [General Motors Is Adding Gemini to Four Million Cars](https://www.theverge.com/transportation/920285/general-motors-gm-gemini-ai-update?ref=adjacent.media)

An over-the-air update swapping Google Assistant for Gemini across 2022-and-newer Cadillac, Chevrolet, Buick, and GMC vehicles is one of the largest in-car AI deployments ever. *(The Verge)*

#### [Scout AI Raises $100M to Train Its Models for War](https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/29/coby-adcocks-scout-ai-raises-100-million-to-train-models-for-war-we-visited-its-bootcamp/?ref=adjacent.media)

The startup is building AI agents to help individual soldiers command fleets of autonomous drones — and TechCrunch got inside the training ground where it's doing it. *(TechCrunch)*

#### [Musk Started OpenAI to Prevent 'Terminator Outcome'](https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-elon-musk-testifies-at-musk-v-altman-trial?ref=adjacent.media)

Day one of Musk v. Altman produced the obvious quote, in a federal courthouse in Oakland, with WIRED live in the room. *(WIRED)*