Culture
Meta wants its new AI agent inside your inbox, browser and wallet(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Teens may be able to use Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent inside its messaging app to do work for them. Meta launched Muse,… Read More
Government
Surgeon General wants tech companies to step up and protect kids from screens(The Daily Signal) – Now that Meta has agreed to take responsibility for addicting children to its platform, Surgeon General Dr. Stephanie Haridopolos wants other Big Tech companies to… Read More
Courts
Meta settles for ‘peanuts,’ promises 47 states more protections for minorsSocial media giant Meta Platforms, owner of Facebook and Instagram, agreed to implement substantial new app protections for minors and pay more than $17 billion in a legal settlement… Read More
Culture
OpenAI doesn’t want your kids dating its chatbot(Daily Caller News Foundation) – OpenAI released what it is presenting as a teen-friendly version of its popular artificial intelligence chatbot aimed at protecting teens from harmful online content. Read More
Courts
Lawsuit trial starts against Facebook, Instagram over youths(The Center Square) – A consumer protection trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, started Tuesday in Oakland. A bipartisan coalition of attorneys general including… Read More
Culture
Meta appears to steer ‘Ceuta’ searches to warning statement, resources for moving to ‘new country’(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Meta told its users to “be careful” and offered them “migration info” when they searched for the name of an area where a mass… Read More
Courts
Meta heads to trial after court says it can’t hide behind Section 230(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Jury selection for the first major trial against Meta’s allegedly addictive social media design has begun – just days after a court cleared the… Read More
Culture
Tech giants to get first look at Trump’s long-awaited AI framework(The Daily Signal) – The Trump administration will present a long-awaited AI oversight framework to technology giants, although few know its contents and it remains unclear when the administration… Read More
Culture
Employees dropped more than $296,000 on Democrats while Republicans got nothing, filings show(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Staff from five of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies disproportionately donated more than a million dollars to Democrats in the second quarter of… Read More
Government
Meta to face investigation for censoring former executive, Hawley saysSen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, is investigating the alleged censorship of a former Meta executive, who testified before Congress last year regarding the company’s alleged foreign ties, according to a… Read More
Culture
Meta purged employees with disabilities and medical leave using AI, dozens claim(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A lawsuit claims artificial intelligence helped put disabled Meta workers on the chopping block during the company’s recent mass layoffs. Meta’s AI-assisted termination… Read More
Culture
Meta to shell out billions for new AI data center outside US(Daily Caller News Foundation) – California-based technology giant Meta announced Wednesday that it is constructing its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada. Meta… Read More
Culture
Meta trade school to train thousands of workers to build AI infrastructureAmericans can learn how to build Meta’s data centers in a free four-week training program called America’s Workforce Academy, Meta announced June 8. “The United States labor market needs hundreds… Read More
Courts
Meta ordered to pay $375 million in New Mexico child exploitation case in ‘clear message to Big Tech’A New Mexico jury found Meta liable for misleading customers and endangering children, marking a landmark ruling against one of the world’s most powerful technology companies. The jury… Read More
Culture
Meta blocks chatbots from discussing abortion with childrenSocial media firm Meta has barred its artificial intelligence chatbot from discussing abortion with minors, according to internal company documents made public in a recent report. … Read More
Culture
Big Tech’s killer apps: Grieving parents call out social media deaths(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Grieving parents and advocates gathered outside the federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning for a vigil honoring their children, whom they… Read More
Courts
Meta faces first of many lawsuits over allegedly intentional addictive design, harm to kidsSocial media companies bear responsibility for willful negligence in growing addictive platforms that directly harm children, a lawsuit argues, in a case facing jury selection Tuesday in Los Angeles. “It is the first case where a jury will hear the evidence that… Read More
Courts
Obama judge opens door for Big Tech to get even bigger(Daily Caller News Foundation) – An Obama-appointed federal judge held Tuesday that Meta is not an illegal monopoly. District Court Judge James Boasberg concluded that Meta’s purchases of… Read More
Culture
Whistleblowers claim Meta suppressed child safety research(Daily Caller News Foundation) – Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta allegedly suppressed internal research that revealed disturbing dangers to children using its virtual reality (VR) headsets and platforms,… Read More
World
‘Strong and clear message’: European bureaucrats slap American tech giants with massive fines(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The European Commission fined Meta and Apple combined roughly $800 million in total Wednesday and ordered sweeping changes to their business practices under the… Read More
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