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A New Mexico judge has ordered Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta to pay $25 billion in penalties over its handling of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, according to a court filing issued Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has offered a detailed explanation and a fresh apology after the Instagram account of the No Kings movement was suspended for several hours during nationwide rallies for suspicious behavior driven by AI usage. Leftists including Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who were silent for more than a decade of Meta censoring conservatives suddenly are expressing alarm about censorship.

Federal judges meeting in Boston heard tech industry warnings that AI-generated images and video are becoming nearly impossible to verify, as a judiciary committee considers whether courts need new rules for evidence that may be deepfakes instead of the real thing.

Although it cost a lot less than Digger, writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s Social Reckoning is an even bigger box office bomb.

Aaron Sorkin’s “The Social Reckoning,” a “companion piece” to David Fincher’s beloved “The Social Network” (2010), is tracking for a dismal $8 million debut, far under it’s predecessor’s $22 million opening.

Leaders in Artificial Intelligence, or “Super Intelligence” as President Donald Trump has officially rebranded it, on Tuesday signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, which House Speaker Mike Johnson described as the companies’ commitment to “robust internal controls and layers of internal and external review.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, a tool that links its Muse AI agent to workplace software popular with small and medium businesses including Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva and Slack.

Mark Zuckerberg has staked out his position in the industry’s growing argument over how fast AI should advance, aligning himself with President Donald Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang against Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and Elon Musk.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta says it has fixed a flaw in its AI system that suggested prompts surfacing personal information about users, including their children, after a viral complaint from an Instagram creator.

Andrew Tulloch, a top AI researcher who made headlines when Mark Zuckerberg lured him to Meta with a pay package that reportedly could have topped $1.5 billion, has left the social media giant after just one year.

Researchers say more than 250 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material have appeared on Meta’s platforms including Facebook and Instagram since early August, weeks after the company removed dozens of similar ads following reporting from Wired. Wired reports that

Basement, a New York City nightclub famous for its strict door policy, announced this week that it is banning smart glasses from its dance floor. Smart glasses, often derided as “pervert glasses,” allow users to record video and post it to social media seamlessly.

Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) said none of the social media platforms have committed to removing “inaccurate” information “about voting or candidates,” calling that “very scary.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta will pay $18 billion to settle a federal lawsuit accusing it of fueling a teen mental health crisis, but nearly a third of that sum depends on whether TikTok and YouTube agree to adopt the same safeguards. The social media giant is now directly calling on its largest competitors to follow Zuckerberg’s lead.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta agreed to pay roughly $18 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by 29 states over allegations that Facebook and Instagram harmed children through addictive design.

A former Meta safety engineer told a federal jury this week that company leaders repeatedly received warnings about harm to children on Facebook and Instagram and largely failed to act.

A former manager is suing Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms for unfair dismissal after he refused to validate claims that were intended to get a green card for a Chinese employee in 2024.

A coalition of 29 states have begun their federal trial against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, accusing the company behind Instagram and Facebook of knowingly building addictive products that harmed young users.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is headed to federal court to defend itself against claims brought by a coalition of 29 state attorneys general over youth social media addiction, calling the accusations that it misled users about app safety and harmed young people “unsubstantiated.”

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced Wednesday that it is entering a national partnership with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), tying the construction of its AI data centers to unionized labor for the first time.

A small cruise ship operating in Southeast Alaska made an unexpected detour Monday night to help a 21-foot skiff that had run out of fuel between Petersburg and Juneau. Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million superyacht reportedly was closer to the crippled vessel but ignored calls for help.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an essay outlining a philosophy for developing AI that he says should center on individual empowerment rather than concentrated institutional control.

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta Platforms to pay more than $900 million and restrict how much time young users in the state can spend on its apps, sharply raising the cost of a landmark child safety verdict against Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has disclosed that one of its AI models broke free from a cybersecurity test and accessed the internet to hack a third-party service, marking the latest incident in a growing pattern of autonomous AI systems evading their constraints.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has published an opinion piece arguing that AI capabilities should be distributed broadly rather than concentrated among a few powerful institutions. According to Zuckerberg, “In the next few years, people will be able to use superintelligence beyond human capacity to create and discover extraordinary new things, build new businesses, express our ideas, learn new concepts, and improve our lives, health, relationships and careers.”

Instagram has announced a new policy prohibiting videos captured with Meta smart glasses that feature harassment of strangers in public spaces, targeting creeps who film pranks and pickup attempts without clear consent. Meta’s smart glasses have picked up the nickname “pervert glasses” due to their misuse.

Artificial intelligence will strengthen the human connection, not replace it, a new AI campaign from Mark Zuckerberg claims, concluding that the advancement will help global connectivity overall – not reduce it.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a comprehensive marketing initiative on Thursday presenting an optimistic perspective on artificial intelligence development, emphasizing that the company’s core mission of global connectivity will be enhanced rather than diminished by emerging AI technologies.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta faces a federal lawsuit from 26 employees who claim the company’s AI systems targeted workers on medical, parental, or family leave for termination as part of the company’s massive lay off.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has removed a newly launched AI image generation tool from Instagram just days after its introduction, responding to widespread criticism over privacy and copyright issues. The feature allowed strangers to use images posted by unsuspecting users to create AI-generated pictures, leading to widespread criticism of the social media giant.

The European Commission announced Friday that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has breached the EU’s digital regulations due to addictive design elements on Instagram and Facebook that pose risks to user mental health.

Meta’s newly launched AI image generator, Muse Image, has sparked immediate privacy concerns after Mark Zuckerberg’s company automatically enrolled all adult users with public Instagram accounts in a feature that allows others to create AI images using their photos. Here’s how to prevent strangers from manipulating photos posted by you and your loved ones.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta could face penalties totaling $1.4 trillion if four states prevail in their lawsuit alleging the social media giant fueled a teen mental health crisis, according to company filings that describe the figure as outlandish and unprecedented. The penalty would nearly equal the entire market value of the company, currently just above $1.5 trillion.

The city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, has announced a suspension of wastewater acceptance from data center operations after a building contractor for Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta contaminated the municipal wastewater system with a rare bacteria.

In New York City’s East Village, a weeklong festival dubbed the “Summer of Ludd” is bringing hundreds of young people together to learn how to live without constant digital connectivity and to resist the omnipresence of technology companies.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has failed to convince a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general alleging the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children while hiding the associated risks.