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Meta founder, chairman and CEO who published 'The Future is for Everyone' and controls a majority of Meta's voting power.
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Rest of World asked six AI observers about Meta's "AI for everyone" manifesto. The most concrete rebuttal was a paused data center in Kenya, not a philosophical objection.
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More than half of Americans under 30 say they are more concerned than excited about AI, and one survey suggests different messaging barely moves that. Plan around it.
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A former engineering director testified that Instagram ran a "don't ask, don't tell" approach to under-13 users and graded staff on engagement. Twenty-five more state trials follow.
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Arturo Bejar's sworn testimony in Oakland turns "we didn't know" into a documentary question, and puts every executive's internal warning record on the exhibit list.
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Arturo Bejar testified in Oakland that Meta's internal culture made wellbeing features practically impossible to ship. That turns a four-state consumer case into an argument about how product orgs run.
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States want roughly $200 billion and product changes; Meta says the ask reaches $1.4 trillion. The OpenAI and Ellison stories are real but, as reported, carry no magnitude.
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Republicans who cheered the AI buildout are running on "guardrails" and tax-break repeal. For anyone underwriting capex against state abatements, the discount rate just moved.
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A vendor tells the Guardian he has drilled out the capture LED on about 100 pairs, 15 to 20 minutes each. Rules built on a visible indicator now enforce nothing.
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A supervoting share class and a board-appointing trust would let seven founders with a modest combined stake keep the final word after a listing that could be among the largest ever.
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Raul Torrez is drafting bills that would remove penalty caps and extend liability to AI chatbots, one day before 29 attorneys general opened against Meta in Oakland. States are setting the floor.
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Claire Stapleton, who helped organize Google's 20,000-person 2018 walkout, has a memoir out as the company signs defense and ICE work and reshuffles its AI leadership.
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Instagram removed nine of more than 20 flagged harassment clips, left near-identical ones live, and then Reels began serving the genre without being asked.
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A CNBC/Generation Lab survey of 18-34-year-olds found every named AI leader distrusted by a majority, in a band from about 65% to about 81%. Consumer AI ships into a verdict already reached.
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Juleanna Glover is telling a possible Democratic majority to aim its limited investigative bandwidth at fringe targets. The committees say they are still picking lanes.
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A CNBC and Generation Lab survey of 1,088 Americans aged 18 to 34 puts distrust of Palantir's Alex Karp at 81% and Anthropic's Dario Amodei at 76%. The best-liked AI chief executive still loses 65-35.
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A staggered unlock schedule runs to Q2 2027, per cryptobriefing.com. August's tranche was 911.5m shares; Musk's block is about seven times bigger and still months out.
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A CESifo working paper randomised 12,365 French adults into four weeks of chatbot conversation. The talks rated more pleasant, while loneliness, life satisfaction and depressive affect all moved the wrong way.
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A month after Adam Mosseri promised to take down harassing videos filmed on Meta glasses, Business Insider found dozens still live. Stated policy is not an operating control.
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In a Wired interview, Tim O'Reilly argues that releasing model weights leaves the harness and the memory layer closed, which reproduces 1990s Microsoft lock-in under a friendlier label.
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The Airbnb CEO says founders are afraid to build for consumers. The statistic he cited describes a funding pipeline, not a mood, and he helps govern the institution that produced it.
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Muse Glimmer ships as Apache 2.0 weights sized for a 24GB card. Muse Spark 1.2 stays on Muse Code and the Meta Model API. Plan capacity for two tiers, not one.
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