Media & Big Tech
States Begin Announcing How Theyll Spend Their Share of $17 Billion Meta Settlement
Some states will use their share of the multibillion-dollar settlement from the Meta civil lawsuit to create online safety initiatives and provide youth...
Google, OpenAI Say US Law Lets Them Train AI on Australian Content Without Seeking Permission
This photograph shows a handheld smartphone displaying the icons of some of the main artificial intelligence based apps, including LLMs, chatbots and generative...
OpenAI Concedes Australia May Never Have Discovered Medicare Hack Without Its Disclosure
The OpenAI logo is seen in this illustration taken June 11, 2026. Dado Ruvic/ReutersOpenAI concedes it was possible the Medicare hack by one...
Meta Settles Lawsuit Alleging Social Media Harms to Children for $17 Billion
Meta Platforms has agreed to pay out as much as $17 billion to settle state claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to...
Nvidia Earnings Beat Expectations as AI Chip Demand Stays Strong
Nvidia has reported its fiscal second-quarter revenue, with investors looking to the world’s most valuable company for signals about whether the massive buildout...
Alabama Launches Rogue AI Probe Into ChatGPT After Hugging Face Lab Leak
Alabama’s attorney general said on Monday the state had opened an investigation into OpenAI after one of its unreleased AI models breached the...
New Zealand Pledges Under-16 Social Media Ban, Big Tech Required to Infer User Age
New Zealand is the latest country to try ban under-16-year-olds from accessing social media platforms, in addition to AI companion apps.The Online Safety...
TikTok, ByteDance to Pay $400 Million in Childrens Privacy Settlement
The TikTok app icon on a smartphone in this illustration taken Oct. 27, 2025. Dado Ruvic/ReutersThe Justice Department said Friday that TikTok and...
