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Battle of paradigm shifters: Musk vs Altman over OpenAI's original purpose can shape AI's moral & commercial futureMusk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI, along with Microsoft, has turned into a broader debate over who controls the future of artifi...
Juries take the lead in the push for child online safetyTwo juries have held social media giants accountable for harming young users. This marks a significant shift, validating a new legal strate...
Undercover investigation of Meta heads to trial in New Mexico in first stand-alone case by stateNew Mexico is leading a groundbreaking trial against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Prosecutors allege Meta created a ...
Jury selection begins in landmark social media addiction trialJury selection begins Tuesday for a landmark trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately de...
Social media giants Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta face landmark trial over addiction claimsDefendants in the suit are Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta, the tech titans behind YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Meta cofounder and chief exe...
Technology is fast and the courts are slowA US judge ruled Meta did not illegally crush competition when it bought Instagram and WhatsApp, pointing to rising rivals like TikTok and ...
Meta's victory opens the way for Silicon Valley to go deal shoppingA federal judge ruled Meta did not illegally stifle competition by acquiring Instagram and WhatsApp, potentially reopening the door for big...
US judge sides with Meta in AI training copyright caseMusicians, book authors, visual artists and news publications have sued various AI companies that used their data without permission or pay...
Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI trainingThe Wednesday ruling from US District Judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco's federal court to dismiss major cop...
President Trump signs Take It Down Act, addressing nonconsensual deepfakes. What is it?President Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a bipartisan law targeting non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes. Introduced by Senato...
US jury awards WhatsApp $168 million in NSO Group cyberespionage suitA US jury awarded WhatsApp $168 million in damages against Israeli firm NSO Group for using Pegasus spyware to hack users’ phones. The cour...
US prepares to challenge Meta's social media dominanceMeta has countered that it faces ample competition in social media from TikTok, Snap, Reddit and LinkedIn, and that regulators approved the...
Meta secures legal victory against former employee over tell-all memoirMeta has obtained a temporary injunction prohibiting former employee Sarah Wynn Williams from promoting or distributing her tell-all book, ...
Meta seeks to block further sales of ex-employee's scathing memoirSarah Wynn-Williams last week released "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism," a book that describes a ser...
Ireland fines Meta $263 million over Facebook hacksMeta, Facebook's parent company, has been fined €251 million by Irish regulators for a 2018 data breach affecting 29 million users globally...
Elon Musk moves all X lawsuits to Texas court: WaPo reportsExperts see this as a strategic move to shield X from increasing criticism, particularly over election misinformation and claims of conserv...
Ireland fines Meta €91 million over EU data breachAn Irish regulator helping to police European Union data privacy said Friday it had fined Facebook-owner Meta 91 million euros ($102 millio...
Meta, Alphabet, ByteDance, Snap must face social media addiction lawsuitsUS district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California ruled against Alphabet, which operates Google and YouTube; Meta Platforms, ...
Mental trauma: African content moderators push Big Tech on rightsThe first union for content moderators in Africa has been established in Nairobi with the aim of improving working conditions and holding B...
ETtech Explainer: EU’s $1.3 billion fine on Meta is one of many penalties on Big Tech globallyBig Tech companies worldwide have come under the lens of antitrust regulators, policymakers and enforcement agencies amid concerns about pr...