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Pentagon Won't Drop Its Anthropic Blacklist
A day after Lutnick said Anthropic was 'back on the right side' with the administration, a top Pentagon official said the company remains a designated supply-chain risk -- an open split inside the same government.
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Congress Unveils Bill to Force AI Agent Inventories
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Congress Unveils Bill to Force AI Agent Inventories
Reps. Josh Gottheimer and Mike Lawler introduced the Stop Rogue AI Act after a rogue OpenAI agent spent two days loose inside Hugging Face's infrastructure, directing NIST to write the first federal rulebook for deploying AI agents safely.
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Google Avoids Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Fixes Instead
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Google Avoids Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Fixes Instead
A federal judge rejected the Justice Department's push to force Google to sell its AdX ad exchange, ordering behavioral fixes to its auction practices instead of a structural breakup.
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Lutnick Says Anthropic Is 'Back on the Right Side'
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Lutnick Says Anthropic Is 'Back on the Right Side'
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said the Trump administration now trusts Anthropic after months of conflict over military AI guardrails, as co-founder Tom Brown takes a more prominent role representing the company to the White House.
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Google Spared Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Overhaul
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Google Spared Ad-Tech Breakup, Judge Orders Overhaul
A federal judge ordered Google to change how its ad-tech business operates but rejected the Justice Department's push to force a breakup, the second time in a year Google has avoided a structural remedy after a monopoly finding.
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Google Dodges Ad Exchange Breakup, Must Open Up
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Google Dodges Ad Exchange Breakup, Must Open Up
A federal judge ordered Google to make behavioral changes to its ad-tech business rather than force a breakup of its AdX exchange, rejecting the Justice Department's structural remedy after a monopoly finding.
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Texas Freezes New Data-Center Grid Hookups
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Texas Freezes New Data-Center Grid Hookups
Texas has stopped connecting new data centers to its power grid after developers requested 474 gigawatts of capacity -- more than five times the state's record peak demand -- exposing how much of that queue may be speculative 'ghost' demand.
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DOJ Tells Court AI Training Is Fair Use
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DOJ Tells Court AI Training Is Fair Use
The Justice Department filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI's fair-use defense in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit, the first time the federal government has formally staked a position in the wave of AI training-data cases.
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Sony, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics
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Sony, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Song Lyrics
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and its co-founders personally, alleging Claude was trained on tens of thousands of copyrighted songs scraped and torrented from sites including Library Genesis, seeking up to $150,000 per work.
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Trump Calls Data Center Opponents 'Backwards and Poor'
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Trump Calls Data Center Opponents 'Backwards and Poor'
The president called AI data centers the country's 'Golden Goose' and attacked the towns fighting them, at a moment when data center opposition has become a live issue in governor and Senate races in at least five states.
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US Pushes G20 to Go Hands-Off on AI. Hassabis Objects.
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US Pushes G20 to Go Hands-Off on AI. Hassabis Objects.
At the US-hosted G20 innovation ministerial, Michael Kratsios defended the light-touch Carolina Principles while DeepMind's Demis Hassabis called for a US body to test powerful models before release and David Sacks opposed one.
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A Fed President Says the Data Center Boom Is Crowding Out
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A Fed President Says the Data Center Boom Is Crowding Out
Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee said data center construction is 'very hot, but largely shoving other parts of the economy down,' and pushed back on tech industry claims about AI productivity gains.
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Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence
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Apple Accuses OpenAI of Destroying Evidence
Apple told a federal court that a former engineer who moved to OpenAI sent instructions to destroy evidence in the companies' escalating trade-secrets fight, and that OpenAI only recently handed over the laptop that shows it.
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FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges
REGULATION$20B+ alleged
FTC Sues Amazon Over $20B in Hidden Ad Overcharges
The FTC and 22 states are suing Amazon, alleging it secretly overcharged more than a million advertisers by over $20 billion through hidden ad-auction surcharges.
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Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over 'Thousands' of Songs
REGULATIONUp to $150K/work sought
Sony and Warner Sue Anthropic Over 'Thousands' of Songs
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic and named CEO Dario Amodei personally, alleging it torrented and scraped 'thousands upon thousands' of copyrighted songs -- including 'I Am the Walrus' -- to train Claude.
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a16z-Backed Group Buys Data Center Ads in Three States
REGULATION$50M+ PAC
a16z-Backed Group Buys Data Center Ads in Three States
Build American AI, an arm of the Leading the Future super PAC funded by Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is spending millions on ads defending data centers in Kansas, Ohio and Wisconsin.
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What Anthropic's Pentagon Win Means for Every AI Contractor
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What Anthropic's Pentagon Win Means for Every AI Contractor
The Trump administration is appealing the ruling that its Anthropic blacklist was illegal, but the precedent already shapes how every AI company negotiates its own defense contracts.
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Tariffs Just Entered Every AI Infrastructure Deal
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Tariffs Just Entered Every AI Infrastructure Deal
A proposed expansion of chip tariffs to laptops, servers and consoles lands the same week OpenAI's chip beat Nvidia's Blackwell in benchmarks and Stripe dropped its $53B PayPal bid -- three signs AI just got costlier to build and buy into.
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EPA Moves to Drop Public Notice for Data Center Permits
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EPA Moves to Drop Public Notice for Data Center Permits
The EPA has proposed ending the requirement that states notify the public when facilities apply for minor-source air permits, a category that covers the diesel generators data centers install by the dozen.
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Nvidia Pauses Its Own AI Cloud Financing Plan
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Nvidia Pauses Its Own AI Cloud Financing Plan
Nvidia has paused parts of its AI Compute Partnership, a program that promised to rent GPU capacity from smaller cloud providers at a 50% revenue share, after employees flagged antitrust risk in how much control it gave Nvidia over customers' businesses.
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Judge Voids Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic
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Judge Voids Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic
A federal judge ruled the Defense Department's supply-chain risk designation against Anthropic was unconstitutional retaliation and arbitrary, blocking the order that had pushed federal agencies to stop working with the company.
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The EU AI Act Stops Being Theoretical
REGULATIONUp to 7% of global turnover
The EU AI Act Stops Being Theoretical
The AI Act's general application and Article 50 transparency duties are now live across the EU, with the AI Office able to fine general-purpose model providers up to 3% of global turnover.
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Judge Rules Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist Illegal
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Judge Rules Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist Illegal
A federal judge found the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a national-security supply-chain risk was illegal retaliation for the company's refusal to let the military use Claude for surveillance and autonomous weapons.
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Meta Settlement Hides a Kids-Data Carve-Out
REGULATION$18B settlement
Meta Settlement Hides a Kids-Data Carve-Out
Buried in Meta's $18 billion child-safety settlement with 29 states is a promise not to sue over its retention and use of children's data to train and test its age-assurance model.
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116 Firms Warn Time Is Short on AI Cyber Threats
REGULATION116 signatories
116 Firms Warn Time Is Short on AI Cyber Threats
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and over a hundred other companies signed a joint letter warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will grow far more sophisticated in coming months and calling for coordinated defense.
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Meta Pays $16.68B to Settle Teen Safety Claims
REGULATION$16.68B settlement
Meta Pays $16.68B to Settle Teen Safety Claims
Meta agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion across 29 states to resolve claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, and will cap teen usage at two hours a day and block overnight access.
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Meta Settles Child-Safety Suit for $18 Billion
REGULATION$18B
Meta Settles Child-Safety Suit for $18 Billion
Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 state attorneys general over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, and will impose default time limits and usage reminders for under-18 users.
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HP Signs Patent Deal With Blacklisted Huawei on WiFi
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HP Signs Patent Deal With Blacklisted Huawei on WiFi
HP Inc. signed a multiyear global patent cross-licensing deal covering Huawei's WiFi 7 technology, a rare commercial agreement between a US PC maker and a company the US government has barred from working with American suppliers since 2019.
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Trump Team Proposes New $103,265 H-1B Visa Fee
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Trump Team Proposes New $103,265 H-1B Visa Fee
The Trump administration proposed a $103,265 fee on new H-1B petitions after a federal judge blocked its earlier $100,000 version, projecting roughly $8.8 billion a year in revenue from an estimated 85,000 cap-subject petitions.
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Microsoft's AI Watermarks in Paint, Photos Tied to User IDs
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Microsoft's AI Watermarks in Paint, Photos Tied to User IDs
A security researcher found Microsoft Paint and Photos embed an invisible, server-issued watermark tied to a user's account into locally generated AI images.
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Zillow and Redfin Settle FTC Antitrust Case
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Zillow and Redfin Settle FTC Antitrust Case
Zillow and Redfin have settled the FTC's antitrust case over their rental listings partnership, resolving a challenge to an agreement regulators said reduced competition.
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Taiwan Indicts 9 Over Nvidia AI Server Smuggling
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Taiwan Indicts 9 Over Nvidia AI Server Smuggling
Taiwan's Keelung prosecutors indicted nine people, including a distribution manager at Nvidia's Taiwan office, over an alleged scheme to illegally resell Super Micro AI servers with Nvidia B300 GPUs to buyers in China.
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FTC Moves to Force Disclosure of Personalized Pricing
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FTC Moves to Force Disclosure of Personalized Pricing
The FTC is moving to require retailers to disclose when prices are personalized to an individual shopper, a rule that would directly affect AI-driven dynamic pricing tools startups have built and sold.
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Tesla Recalls Nearly 3 Million Cars Over Door Handles
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Tesla Recalls Nearly 3 Million Cars Over Door Handles
Tesla is recalling close to three million vehicles over its hidden electronic door handles, one of the largest recalls in the company's history.
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The Data Center Backlash Reaches Texas
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The Data Center Backlash Reaches Texas
Governor Greg Abbott says Texas data centers have caused their own political problems, while President Trump argues that rejecting them is a mistake -- a split that now shapes siting decisions.
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Uber Faces Nearly $1B Fine Over Automated Suspensions
REGULATION~$1B
Uber Faces Nearly $1B Fine Over Automated Suspensions
Uber faces a fine approaching $1 billion over automated driver account suspensions, one of the largest penalties yet tied to algorithmic decision-making.
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DOJ, TikTok Settle Child Privacy Suit for $400M
REGULATION$400M settlement
DOJ, TikTok Settle Child Privacy Suit for $400M
The Justice Department and TikTok agreed to a $400 million settlement resolving a children's-privacy lawsuit first filed under the Biden administration, one of the largest child-privacy payouts a tech platform has made.
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Meta Loses Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
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Meta Loses Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
Meta lost a closely watched trial over claims Instagram and Facebook are designed to be addictive to teenagers, a verdict plaintiffs' lawyers say could reshape how every major platform designs its feed and notification systems.
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Massachusetts AI Bill Pits Anthropic Against OpenAI
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Massachusetts AI Bill Pits Anthropic Against OpenAI
Massachusetts is on track to pass the strictest state-level AI safety law yet, and Anthropic and OpenAI have taken opposite public positions on whether it should become law.
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Nevada Clears 8,000 Robotaxis for Vegas Streets
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Nevada Clears 8,000 Robotaxis for Vegas Streets
Nevada regulators approved permits letting Tesla, Uber and Waymo deploy up to 8,000 robotaxis combined across Las Vegas and Clark County over the next 12 months.
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Bitcoin Tops $71K as Trump Pushes Crypto's Clarity Act
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Bitcoin Tops $71K as Trump Pushes Crypto's Clarity Act
Bitcoin broke a six-week range to surge 11.5% to $71,808 after President Trump pushed Congress to pass the Clarity Act, with spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs pulling in over $700M combined in a single session.
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Bitcoin Jumps 12% in Two Days on Clarity Act Push
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Bitcoin Jumps 12% in Two Days on Clarity Act Push
Bitcoin rose 12% over two days to $72,384, its highest since June, after Trump hosted crypto CEOs at the White House to push Congress on the Clarity Act, with a $2.7B short-position liquidation amplifying the rally.
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Nvidia's H200 Chips Trickle Back Into China at 13% of Cap
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Nvidia's H200 Chips Trickle Back Into China at 13% of Cap
Nvidia H200 chips are reaching Chinese customers like ByteDance and Tencent again under a January 2026 licensing framework, but Beijing -- not Washington -- is now the one keeping volumes low.
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ECB's Lagarde: Europe Can't Afford to Miss the AI Boom
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ECB's Lagarde: Europe Can't Afford to Miss the AI Boom
ECB President Christine Lagarde told the World Economic Forum that Europe risks repeating its missed first digital revolution with AI, citing a euro-area investment share of just 9% and a funding gap that leaves EU scale-ups raising roughly half as much as US peers by year ten.
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DOJ Probes a16z Over Rival Board Seats
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DOJ Probes a16z Over Rival Board Seats
The Justice Department has spent nearly a year investigating whether Andreessen Horowitz violated the Clayton Act by holding board seats at Databricks and Fivetran, two companies whose products now overlap.
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The 'DMV for AI' Jab Misses How Regulation Works
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The 'DMV for AI' Jab Misses How Regulation Works
David Sacks dismissed Dario Amodei's regulatory position as wanting a 'DMV for AI' after the Anthropic CEO defended his company's approach on X, but plenty of heavily regulated industries have compounded for decades.
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Meta's Landmark Youth-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland
REGULATIONUp to $1.4T sought
Meta's Landmark Youth-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland
Opening statements began Tuesday in a federal trial where 33 state attorneys general accuse Meta of designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to kids and lying about it, seeking penalties that could theoretically reach $1.4 trillion.
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Apple Cuts EU App Store Fees to End DMA Fight
REGULATION5% to 26% tiers
Apple Cuts EU App Store Fees to End DMA Fight
Apple will charge a 5% Core Technology Commission on apps distributed through third-party EU app stores, part of a new four-tier fee structure the company says resolves its Digital Markets Act dispute with Brussels.
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OpenAI Details Safety Overhaul After Hugging Face Breach
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OpenAI Details Safety Overhaul After Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI is rewriting its Preparedness Framework and pausing parts of Astra's development after concluding the model may hit a 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold, following July's Hugging Face breach.
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Data Center Gas Plants Could Lift US Emissions 20%
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Data Center Gas Plants Could Lift US Emissions 20%
BloombergNEF tracked 99 gas plants built specifically to power AI data centers that could emit 318 million metric tons of CO2 a year -- enough to lift US power-sector emissions 20%, and a third if run at full capacity.
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Alibaba Sells Gaming Studio Lingxi for $2B to Fund AI
REGULATION$2B+ divestiture
Alibaba Sells Gaming Studio Lingxi for $2B to Fund AI
Alibaba agreed to sell gaming studio Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital for more than $2 billion, redirecting capital and management attention toward the $53 billion AI and cloud buildout it pledged in June 2026.
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Meta's $1.4 Trillion Youth-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland
REGULATIONUp to $1.4T sought
Meta's $1.4 Trillion Youth-Safety Trial Opens in Oakland
Opening statements began Tuesday in Oakland federal court in the states' youth-safety case against Meta, where attorneys general are seeking damages that approach the company's own market capitalization.
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Meta's Federal Child-Privacy Trial Begins in California
REGULATION$1.4T disputed exposure
Meta's Federal Child-Privacy Trial Begins in California
A coalition of 29 state attorneys general opened a federal trial against Meta in California on August 18, alleging the company designed Instagram and Facebook to be addictive to children -- with Meta disputing the states' math on how much is at stake.
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AI's Richest Jobs Are Leaving Women Behind
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AI's Richest Jobs Are Leaving Women Behind
Women make up only 29% of AI-skilled workers globally even as AI creates some of the fastest-growing, highest-paying jobs in the economy, while separately facing disproportionate displacement risk from automation.
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Treasury Proposes Rules for Who Can Sell Stablecoins
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Treasury Proposes Rules for Who Can Sell Stablecoins
The US Treasury proposed rules under the GENIUS Act requiring stablecoin issuers to hold a federal or state license, with mandatory compliance starting January 2027.
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Supreme Court Rejects Verizon's $47M FCC Bid
REGULATION$47M fine upheld
Supreme Court Rejects Verizon's $47M FCC Bid
The Supreme Court denied Verizon's petition to recover a $47 million FCC fine over the sale of customers' real-time location data, ending the carrier's path back to a lower court that might have ordered a refund.
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SEC Accuses Boiler Room of $74M SpaceX, Anthropic Fraud
REGULATION$74M raised, $23M in fees
SEC Accuses Boiler Room of $74M SpaceX, Anthropic Fraud
The SEC accused a Long Island-based operation, the Spaventa Group, of running a boiler room that sold retirees marked-up private shares in SpaceX, Anthropic, Anduril and Perplexity, collecting more than $74 million and $23 million in undisclosed fees.
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Pornhub Owner Aylo to Pay $120M in Abuse Suits
REGULATION$120M settlement
Pornhub Owner Aylo to Pay $120M in Abuse Suits
Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, agreed to pay $120 million over seven years to settle lawsuits alleging it profited from child sexual abuse material, and to adopt new age-verification and content-review requirements.
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Meta Faces $1.4T Exposure as AG Trial Opens
REGULATIONUp to $1.4T exposure claimed
Meta Faces $1.4T Exposure as AG Trial Opens
A coalition of 29 state attorneys general opens the youth-safety trial against Meta on August 18, with Meta's own lawyers estimating damages could reach $1.4 trillion and states arguing $200 billion is more realistic.
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Apple's Spyware Alert Hits Unprecedented Scale
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Apple's Spyware Alert Hits Unprecedented Scale
Apple's latest mercenary spyware warning reached users in 110 countries on August 13, the largest single wave in the program's history, according to researchers tracking the notifications.
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