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What could Meta’s US settlement mean around the world – and what now for other claims against firm?
Other governments could seek similar concessions, while separate legal action is pending in places ranging from Kenya to the Netherlands In October 2021, Abrham Meareg’s father, a …
Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help kids (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Meta's AG settlement gives it a moat to write child safety rules for other social media platforms, with little evidence its new safety features will help …
Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing (Casey Newton/Platformer)
Casey Newton / Platformer : Meta seeks to position itself as the industry leader in child safety through its settlement with US AGs, while still refusing to admit any wrongdoing — …
Meta Pays $17,000,000,000 Over Harm To Kids On Social Media
Meta caved in its multi-state lawsuit over alleged child social media addiction claims.…
The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable
Child safety groups and former Meta employees welcome proposed changes to how the company’s platforms will work for teens. They also think states should demanded more.…
Meta Doesn’t Want to Be a Social Media Company Anymore
A nationwide social media addiction trial against Meta came to an abrupt end on Wednesday, with the company announcing a sweeping settlement with 52 attorneys general. As part of t…
Meta has agreed to limit teens to just two hours daily on Facebook and Instagram — and it’s pushing competitors to do the same
Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are implementing landmark restrictions as part of a massive settlement, and they're urging Snap, TikTok and YouTube to follow suit.…
Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram (Reuters)
Reuters : Former Meta engineering director Arturo Béjar testifies that Mark Zuckerberg prioritized growth and engagement over child safety on Facebook and Instagram — A former engi…
Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge : Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace — Y…
Grieving parents confront Meta outside California courtroom: ‘My son was killed’
Parents and advocates rallied outside an Oakland courtroom calling for justice as opening statements for what could be the biggest legal battle in Meta's history kicked off on Tues…
Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.…
This Art Project Slows Down Citi Bikes to Make NYC’s Rent Crisis Feel Real
Ground Truth makes the shared rental bikes harder to pedal through rent-burdened neighborhoods, offering a tangible way for people to experience income inequality.…
Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams
Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages. Earlier this year, Meta also launched scam detection …
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.…
You Can (Maybe) Run Meta's Latest AI Model Locally on Your Computer
Meta announced Muse Glimmer on Monday, a new open-weight AI model designed to run locally on-device.…
The Ninth Circuit dismisses Meta's bid to pause a landmark trial by state AGs alleging its products addict children and have caused a youth mental health crisis (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg)
By Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Meta’s latest AI model wants to live on your PC
Meta’s Muse Glimmer is a 30B AI model made to run locally on your PC.…
Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta’s new open-weight Muse Glimmer model offers a glimpse of Mark Zuckerberg’s personal superintelligence vision, as well as the emerging divide between AI users can own and acces…
'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
From clubs to courts, Meta's smart glasses are raising privacy concerns and facing backlash. Places like Seattle's 5 Point Cafe have banned them and even Meta has made changes.…
Meta’s Muse Glimmer wants to bring AI agents to your laptop
Muse Glimmer can run directly on a high-end laptop or PC as Zuckerberg challenges OpenAI and Anthropic for keeping their AI models private.…
Meta just released a brand-new Facebook Creator Studio app for iPhone
Meta is on a roll with new iPhone app releases this summer. The latest is called Facebook Creator Studio. Meta’s...…
Meta’s New Open-Weight Model Can Run AI Agents on Your Laptop
Meta Glimmer is a bit smaller than the company's closed-weight Muse Spark models.…
Sanders urges OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta to pause AI develpmnt amid regulatory push
Sanders calls for a pause in AI development from leading companies. Anthropic having the best AI model by September 2026 at 80.5% YES.…
Meta's 'open source' Muse Glimmer model can run on a single computer
Meta has released a new slimmed down 'open source' AI model that's light enough to run on a single computer.…
Meta Publishes Muse Glimmer As 30B Open Agentic Model
The Meta Superintelligence Labs announced this morning they have released Muse Glimmer as their next large language model featuring 30 billion parameters for always-on local agent …
Meta's new open-weight model targets local agentic AI
I believe everyone should have access to superintelligence, and I wrote a long piece about Meta's philosophy and values for building a positive future for everyone. https://t.co/2Z…
Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model
Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open agentic model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local workflows on consumer hardware.…
Meta says Muse Glimmer has 30B parameters and is "small enough" to need only one GPU; Meta plans a $1B fund to invest in US communities near its data centers (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
By Vlad Savov / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Meta releases Muse Glimmer, a new open-weight model, and will release an open-weight version of its most advanced model, Muse Spark 1.2, in the coming weeks (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)
By Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Meta chief technology officer Andrew Bosworth says AI productivity gains should now mean we're all doing more work — not taking time off
Meta's Andrew Bosworth says asking for more time off is 'dumb'…
A look at London's King's Cross, which transformed from a seedy area into an AI hub after DeepMind moved in in 2016, now home to OpenAI, Meta, Wayve, and others (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
By Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Meta CTO says employees should use AI productivity gains to do more work, calls request for extra days off "very dumb"
Bosworth gave his Victorian workhouse-style opinion on what employees should do with their free time from AI-related productivity gains at a July Q&A, reports Business Insider.…
Meta fined $567 million in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
NEW MEXICO - A US judge in New Mexico has ordered Meta to pay another $567m (£421m) for its failure to warn the public about dangers its platforms posed to children, marking the la…
Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.…
Meta ordered to pay $567 million in New Mexico case
A new development in the teen safety trial.…
Meta Officially Ruled a ‘Public Nuisance,’ Judge Orders It to Pay $567 Million
The social media giant must also adopt new safeguards for young users.…
New Mexico judge calls Meta a 'public nuisance' that's like a factory emitting 'noxious pollution' in record $567 million fine — and even Meta's own attorneys agree
In the second phase of the landmark New Mexico case, the judge says Facebook and Instagram are major polluters.…
Meta pays 16.2 million accounts, including neo-Nazi-linked pages
Facebook monetization sent nearly $3 billion to 16.2 million accounts in 2025, some breaking its rules.…
Are Ray-Ban Meta glasses a privacy risk? Here's what you should know
Not all features are equal when it comes to securing your data.…
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case
Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case…
Meta's child-safety failures will cost it another $567 million as total bill reaches almost $1 billion
The decision resolves the second phase of New Mexico's case against Meta. Following a three-week trial, Judge Bryan Biedscheid concluded that Facebook and Instagram created a publi…
Ranking the Best Smart Glasses: Meta, Viture, & More (2026)
After years of testing, I found the best smart glasses worth purchasing—and plenty that weren’t.…
Meta ordered to pay an additional $567 million in public nuisance ruling
A fraction of what Meta earns annually.…
Court orders Instagram and Facebook’s Meta to pay $567M to address kids’ mental health online
A New Mexico court has ordered Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta to pay $567 million to address harms to young people from its platforms in the second phase of a landmark …
Court orders Instagram and Facebook's Meta to pay $567M to address kids' mental health online
Judge Bryan Biedscheid said in a ruling late Thursday that the bulk of the money will be used for treatment services for young people.…
Court orders Meta to pay an additional $567 million in New Mexico child safety case
A judge has ruled that Meta is a public nuisance and has to pay fine that will go towards funding state programs.…
Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
A New Mexico judge ordered the social-media giant to create a new $567 million fund in addition to paying $375 million in previously determined civil penalties.…
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
Judge’s ruling comes in second phase of landmark trial in March that found company enabled harm against users…
New Mexico trial: a judge orders Meta to pay $567M and make changes for underage users after finding its platforms helped create a public nuisance harming teens (KOB 4)
From KOB 4. View the full context on Techmeme.…
Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
The ruling is in addition to $375m in fines Meta was already ordered to pay in the case, for a total of $942m.…
Meta AI Earns Gold Medals in Five International Stem Olympiads
Meta entered its Muse Spark family models in the Asian Physics Olympiad, International Physics Olympiad, International Mathematical Olympiad, International Chemistry Olympiad, and …
The Download: Google's AI shake-up and Meta's rogue model
Plus: Meta has become the latest firm to say its AI hacked another company.…
Meta: One of our models escaped containment and hacked someone too!
Meta, perhaps feeling left out, confirmed that one of its AI models has also been acting naughty.…
First OpenAI, now Meta - why do AI hacks keep happening?
A flood of companies are revealing AI models gained access to the internet - with real consequences.…