Meta Asks Supreme Court to Review Washington Political Ad Disclosure Law
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Meta Asks Supreme Court to Review Washington Political Ad Disclosure Law

Meta has asked the Supreme Court to review Washington state's political ad disclosure law, arguing the rules are so burd...

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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted
Technology

AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted

OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 companies call for urgent cyber defenses, while CISA reports attacks on 100-plus wat...

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Meta to Charge for Every WhatsApp Business Service Reply, Alarming Brazilian Companies
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Meta to Charge for Every WhatsApp Business Service Reply, Alarming Brazilian Companies

From 1 October, Meta will bill WhatsApp Business API users for every service reply, even when a customer starts the conv...

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Meta and TikTok Accused of Facilitating Child Recruitment by Colombian Armed Groups
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Meta and TikTok Accused of Facilitating Child Recruitment by Colombian Armed Groups

Human Rights Watch says Facebook and TikTok fail to stop recruitment content and their algorithms may even spread it, as...

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California AG Fights Court Bid to Halt Limits on Teen Social Feeds
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California AG Fights Court Bid to Halt Limits on Teen Social Feeds

Rob Bonta tells a federal judge that Meta, Google and TikTok have offered no new First Amendment grounds to block SB976,...

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Meta’s AI-Glasses Harassment Cleanup Still Has an Enforcement Gap
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Meta’s AI-Glasses Harassment Cleanup Still Has an Enforcement Gap

Weeks after Adam Mosseri promised Instagram would remove harassing videos filmed with Meta glasses, a new review found d...

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Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
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Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic

The social giant will release Muse Spark 1.2 weights and a laptop-focused Muse Glimmer family, positioning open-source A...

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Why AI Will Always Need Humans, According to SAS's 50-Year AI Chief
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Why AI Will Always Need Humans, According to SAS's 50-Year AI Chief

SAS's applied AI leader explains 'boring' use cases that deliver fast ROI, while Zuckerberg's open-source essay and indu...

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Meta Heads to California Court as 29 States Allege Addictive Design for Children
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Meta Heads to California Court as 29 States Allege Addictive Design for Children

A seven-week Oakland trial will test whether Meta designed Facebook and Instagram to keep young users hooked, with the c...

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Travel AI Agents Are Still Built to Sell, Not to Serve Travelers
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Travel AI Agents Are Still Built to Sell, Not to Serve Travelers

A new industry argument says Booking.com, Expedia and most travel AI tools are seller-side machines, not personal assist...

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Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap Face a Growing Wave of US Child-Safety Lawsuits
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Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap Face a Growing Wave of US Child-Safety Lawsuits

State AGs, school districts and families are suing Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap over youth mental-health harm; early ve...

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Appeals Court Clears Thousands of Youth-Addiction Suits Against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap
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Appeals Court Clears Thousands of Youth-Addiction Suits Against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snap

The 9th Circuit rejected Meta’s and TikTok’s early appeal, ruling Section 230 is a trial defense, not a shield from desi...

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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund
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Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Manifesto: Open Models, Earlier U.S. Oversight, $1 Billion Fund

Meta's CEO urges open-source AI and earlier government collaboration, defends distillation, and launches a $1 billion da...

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Big Tech has a herding problem
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Big Tech has a herding problem

Meta, Tesla and SpaceX are pouring billions into AI data centres with little clarity on returns, following the herd rath...

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Meta Plans to Sell AI Compute to Rivals Amid Investor Pressure
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Meta Plans to Sell AI Compute to Rivals Amid Investor Pressure

Under pressure to justify its $145B annual AI spending, Meta is pivoting to offer computing power directly to other AI f...

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Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps
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Meta Launches Muse Spark AI Model, First From Overhauled Lab, Across Its Apps

Meta's Superintelligence Labs debuts Muse Spark, the first model from a multi-billion-dollar AI revamp, rolling out acro...

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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, an Open-Weight Model for Consumer Devices
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Meta Releases Muse Glimmer, an Open-Weight Model for Consumer Devices

Meta launches a new open-weight AI model small enough for a PC, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlines a pro-open-source visio...

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Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund
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Zuckerberg Defends Open-Source Superintelligence, Pledges $1B Community Fund

Mark Zuckerberg outlines Meta’s vision of widespread superintelligence access, proposes government collaboration on AI s...

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Meta Hit with Additional $567 Million Penalty in New Mexico Child Safety Case
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Meta Hit with Additional $567 Million Penalty in New Mexico Child Safety Case

A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567 million for failing to warn about platform dangers to minors, raising total ...

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New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million Over Child Safety Failures
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New Mexico Court Orders Meta to Pay $942 Million Over Child Safety Failures

A New Mexico state court has fined Meta nearly $1 billion, ruling that the company's platforms substantially contributed...

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EU Warns Meta and TikTok After Ceuta Disinformation Sparks Migration Crisis
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EU Warns Meta and TikTok After Ceuta Disinformation Sparks Migration Crisis

The European Commission demands decisive action from Meta and TikTok to curb disinformation that fueled a mass influx to...

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WhatsApp Mass Bans Wipe Out 10 Years of Messages, Push Small Business Owners to Sue Meta
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WhatsApp Mass Bans Wipe Out 10 Years of Messages, Push Small Business Owners to Sue Meta

A wave of account bans, including some stretching back to June, has cut Brazilian users off from family memories and liv...

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Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million in Damages Over Youth Mental Health Harm in New Mexico
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Meta Ordered to Pay $567 Million in Damages Over Youth Mental Health Harm in New Mexico

New Mexico judge enforces jury verdict, adding to mounting legal pressure from over 40 states accusing Meta of prioritiz...

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EU Digital Chief Blames Meta, TikTok for Ceuta Border Crisis After False Claims Went Viral
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EU Digital Chief Blames Meta, TikTok for Ceuta Border Crisis After False Claims Went Viral

EU Digital Commissioner Henna Virkkunen says Meta and TikTok failed to stop misinformation that drove tens of thousands ...

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Meta Fined $567M, Told to Cap Teen Time at 90 Hours a Month in Landmark Ruling
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Meta Fined $567M, Told to Cap Teen Time at 90 Hours a Month in Landmark Ruling

A New Mexico judge fines Meta and orders it to block users under 18 from spending more than 90 hours per month across Fa...

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Meta Ordered to Fund $567M in Youth Safety Programs After New Mexico Ruling
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Meta Ordered to Fund $567M in Youth Safety Programs After New Mexico Ruling

A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million for child safety measures on top of a prior $375 million penalty...

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Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case
Technology

Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million in New Mexico Child Safety Case

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to establish a $567 million abatement fund for youth mental health services and pay $375...

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Meta Faces 72-Hour Crisis in India as Safe Harbor Immunity Hangs in the Balance
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Meta Faces 72-Hour Crisis in India as Safe Harbor Immunity Hangs in the Balance

Indian parliamentary panel demands Mark Zuckerberg apologize within three days after a mistakenly blocked post by Prime ...

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Meta's AI Model Attacked Another Organization During Security Test, Mirroring Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic
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Meta's AI Model Attacked Another Organization During Security Test, Mirroring Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic

The episode, disclosed by Meta, adds to a pattern where leading AI agents break containment during evaluations, raising ...

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AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack
Technology

AI Learns to Hack: Meta and OpenAI Models Cross the Line from Test to Real-World Attack

AI systems from Meta and OpenAI have autonomously sent phishing emails, hacked company platforms and moved through the o...

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