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NITI Aayog meets Meta, YouTube, industry bodies on online content blocking rules
NITI Aayog reportedly convened a closed-door meeting with major tech intermediaries and industry bodies to discuss content blocking requirements and transparency timelines under India’s IT Rules. The post NITI Aayog meets Meta, YouTube, industry bodies on online content blocking rules appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Meta adds parental controls to Threads nearly three years after launch
Meta has introduced parental supervision tools for Threads, allowing parents to track teen usage, set time limits, and manage privacy settings. The post Meta adds parental controls to Threads nearly three years after launch appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Meta’s unwinding of Manus shows even forced deals have merits
Disposal of Chinese agentic AI start-up has left the Facebook owner better off than it might seem
ACMA pledge scheme helps decimate dodgy device listings
Amazon Australia, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree and other audited.
AISN #77: New Model Releases From OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta
Also, economists and mathematicians expect near-term AI impacts, and AI 2040: Plan A
LWiAI Podcast #252 - GPT 5.6, Grok 4.5, Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, AI 2040
GPT-5.6 and Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, regulatory developments in AI and data centers, interpretability research from Anthropic, and the future of AI policy with AI 2040
Meta avisa: "Llevamos 20 años construyendo infraestructura para humanos, quizás tengamos 20 meses para reconstruirla para los agentes"
Las empresas han abrazado el boom de la IA agéntica, hasta el punto de que algunas se están ahogando en tantos agentes de IA . Los empleados están creando agentes sin control, disparando el consumo de tokens y provocando que muchos de esos agentes dupliquen tareas. Pero el verdadero problema de fondo es otro: la infraestructura sobre la que está corriendo todo esto no está preparada para soportarlo. La advertencia de Meta. Lo cuentan en Venture Beat . Durante la charla VB Transform 2026, el vice
Meta is reportedly considering a multibillion-dollar data center deal with Anthropic
It would open up a completely new business for the Facebook and Instagram maker.
Anthropic in early talks with Meta to acquire compute power
The talks come weeks after Anthropic announced a similar deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX to use the computing capacity at its Colossus 1 data center
The Missing Rival: China and the Limits of AI Antitrust
The standard AI competition story has plenty of supposed villains. It just keeps leaving out one of the biggest. Regulators and academics warn that a small group of firms—including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, with Microsoft and Meta sometimes added—will dominate generative artificial intelligence. Their advantages in computing power, capital, data, and distribution will harden ... The Missing Rival: China and the Limits of AI Antitrust The post The Missing Rival: China and the Limits
Smart glasses are deeply creepy. Why are celebrities like Kylie Jenner endorsing them?
Meta touts safety features – but for women, the dangers of these recording devices are obvious Imagine if every time you left the house, you couldn’t be sure that the stranger you met at a bar – or even the person walking by you in the street – wasn’t secretly recording you. It sounds like something out of a Black Mirror episode, but let’s face it, the era of wearable technology is fully upon us as everyday accessories have been developed to help track health and fitness data, receive smartphone
Fake copyright strikes used to extort from Instagram creators, alleges petition before Delhi HC
The petition filed by content creator Nitin Joshi alleges that false copyright strikes are triggering Meta's automated reviewing systems, suspending creators accounts which is followed by ransom demands. The post Fake copyright strikes used to extort from Instagram creators, alleges petition before Delhi HC appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
AI-slop pages targeting the Geelong Cats, Meta asked to step in
The Cats have asked Facebook to take action against pages that are repeatedly posting false and malicious AI-generated content about the club and its players. The club has warned fans to stick to official news sources for updates, as it be ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1594#7525)
YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media
YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a social media platform at all. The Google-owned video service has […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Relation Between eHealth Literacy and Online Health Information–Seeking Behavior: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Background: Online health information–seeking (OHIS) behavior shapes health self-management, and eHealth literacy—the ability to seek, appraise, and apply electronic health information—is regarded as its key driver. Previous reviews aggregated heterogeneous outcomes, focused on measurement properties, or examined single clinical populations, without isolating the eHealth literacy–OHIS link. Objective: This study quantified the strength and heterogeneity of the eHealth literacy–OHIS association a
26 Meta employees sue, alleging AI-driven layoff picks hit workers on medical and parental leave
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems to select people for layoffs, disproportionately targeting those on medical, parental or family leave. They are among the 8,000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, Meta said it would lay off in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday...
Update: Elsevier is Suing Meta For Whom? (And will we ever really know?): Some thoughts on copyright class actions claiming to represent authors
As we wrote in May, Elsevier is suing Meta over use of copyrighted works for training Meta’s AI models. It has a set of claims very similar to those in Kadrey v. Meta, but with a different purported class that includes authors and publishers who own copyright in academic journal articles and other academic works.
Meta employees sue over layoffs they say were driven by discriminatory AI selection systems
Former and current Meta employees are suing the company in a California federal court over AI-driven mass layoffs. Meta allegedly used internal AI systems to generate the layoff lists when it cut 8,000 workers, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or on parental leave. The article Meta employees sue over layoffs they say were driven by discriminatory AI selection systems appeared first on The Decoder .
Former employees sue over Meta's alleged use of biased AI systems during layoffs
Meta cut its workforce by 10 percent in May.
Current and former employees sue Meta, alleging discrimination in using AI to conduct layoffs
The lawsuit filed by current and former Meta employees underscores rising concerns about AI's impact on jobs and people with disabilities in the workforce.
Lawsuit claims Meta's layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans
Meta denies using AI to terminate workers with disabilities and medical problems.
Meta sued by 26 employees who say its AI systems targeted workers on medical leave for layoffs
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees have filed a federal lawsuit accusing the company of using AI-powered systems that disproportionately targeted workers with disabilities or who had taken medical leave when selecting people for mass layoffs. The suit, filed Monday in Oakland, California, alleges that Meta relied on productivity metrics and AI token usage data […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meta accused of using biased AI targeting for mass layoffs
A group of 26 former Meta employees is suing the company over claims that it used AI tools to unfairly target workers on leave with layoffs, as reported earlier by Reuters. In the lawsuit, the employees allege Meta determined which workers to dismiss based on performance data collected by a "constellation" of internal AI tools, […]
EU relaxes rules for smart glasses after US pressure
Commission exempts smart glasses like Meta's from batteries regulation, clearing a major hurdle to European expansion.
Meta is pushing brands onto its AI ad tools. The results are a mess
Meta is pushing advertisers to hand their campaigns to its AI. A Business Insider investigation found the tools spitting out gibberish copy, mangled limbs and products that no longer look like the products. Meta’s reply, in effect: that’s your problem. Meta wants brands to let its AI build their ads. A Business Insider investigation shows […] This story continues at The Next Web
Press-Release Governance
On 10 July 2026, the European Commission announced that it had preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the “addictive design” of Instagram and Facebook. The Commission considers that Meta should disable autoplay and infinite scroll by default, build in real screen-time breaks, and make the recommender system “less engagement-oriented”. The decision is better understood from its strategic and symbolic dimensions in view of its contestable legal basis. The post Press-Rel
Pluralistic: Gerontocracy's failure mode (14 Jul 2026)
Today's links Gerontocracy's failure mode: Where are the designated survivors? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: MSFT v MP3; UK industry v schoolkids; Gary Larson v comics sharing; Planned LED obsolescence; PoGo v Black neighborhoods; Gnarlier trolley problems; Royal Society v cryptographic backdoors; Theresa May v climate change; Google v search; Facebook v facts. Upcoming appearances: Edinburgh, Sydney, Melbourne, Brighton, London, South Bend. Recent appearances: Wher
‘Surveillance Chic’: can Meta make its smart glasses a viable fashion accessory?
Efforts to bring AI glasses to a broader demographic via a partnership with Kylie Jenner appear to have backfired
Helpfulness Hurts: Domain-Dependent Degradation of Mid-Trained Compassion Values Under Post-Training
arXiv:2606.26102v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Standard post-training pipelines apply supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) to make language models helpful, but these processes may inadvertently degrade values instilled during pre-training. We investigate whether the domain of post-training data differentially affects the retention of animal compassion values in a Llama 3.1 8B model mid-trained on compassion-oriented synthetic data, using both SFT (helpfulness v
Meta Plans Billions for First AI Data Center in Canada, Largest Outside the U.S.
The facility will be built in Sturgeon County, Alberta, and powered by a natural gas-fired plant.
Meta boosts investment in Hyperion data center campus to $50B+
Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to significantly expand the scope of its Hyperion data center project. The Facebook parent is seeking to build a sprawling artificial intelligence hub in Richland Parish, Louisiana. When Meta first disclosed the initiative in late 2024, it stated that the project budget would exceed $10 billion. It boosted the […] The post Meta boosts investment in Hyperion data center campus to $50B+ appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Meta has axed a controversial feature that allowed users to modify photos from public Instagram accounts using AI. The feature, which was rolled out earlier this week along with a batch of other AI tools, "missed the mark" and is no longer ... (report_number: 7508)
Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, lawsuit claims
July 14 (Reuters) - Twenty-six employees of Meta Platforms have filed a novel lawsuit accusing the tech giant of using AI-powered software that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or who took medical leave in selecting wor ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1584#7510)
Meta's Louisiana data center investment to reach $50 billion, aided by generous tax incentives
Meta said the planned Hyperion data center supercluster in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will be a 5GW facility and cost more than $50 billion.
Meta expanding plans for its largest data center
Meta will expand its largest data center to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity as investment in the project hits more than $50 billion, the company announced Monday. The Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, La., was announced in October and was originally projected to cost more than $27 billion as part of Meta's joint venture...
Judge dismisses Epidemic Sound’s second copyright lawsuit against Meta – but leaves the door open to amend
US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley granted Meta's motion to dismiss on Friday, July 10 Source
Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images, Reuters analysis finds
July 10 (Reuters) - A new AI detection tool from Meta, which the tech company previewed this week alongside the launch of its image-generation model, Muse Image, failed to identify some of its own AI-generated images once they were cropped ... (report_number: 7507)
Meta scraps AI image feature days after launch
Following privacy backlash.
Meta U-turns on AI feature amid privacy backlash
Editor's note: This report has been updated to clarify details related to the Sora video generator. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta took down a new artificial intelligence model from Instagram on Friday, just days after debuting this feature to immediate public backlash. The company advertised its Muse Image AI model on Tuesday as a...
Meta Removes A.I. Feature on Instagram After Days of Backlash
Users and Hollywood agencies raised privacy and copyright concerns about the new tool, Muse Image.