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Meta Hit With $567M Fine and Sweeping Child Safeguards in New Mexico Ruling

A New Mexico judge fined Meta $567 million and ordered new child safeguards including a 90-hour monthly time limit for users under 18, AI chatbot restrictions, and mandatory warnings. The landmark ruling follows a jury's $375 million penalty against Meta for knowingly harming children's mental health and concealing child sexual exploitation on its platforms.

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Meta Hit With $567M Fine and Sweeping Child Safeguards in New Mexico Ruling

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Harvey Legal AI Valuation Soars to $15.5bn as Revenue Surges Past $350 Million

AI startup Harvey is raising at least $500m at a $15.5bn valuation, marking a 40% jump in just five months. The legal AI company's annualized revenue surged over 80% from $190m in January to more than $350m, driven by widespread adoption across major law firms and strategic investments from Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.

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Harvey Legal AI Valuation Soars to $15.5bn as Revenue Surges Past $350 Million

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News Corp CEO Slams AI Companies as 'Crass Kleptomaniacs' for Pilfering Content at Scale

News Corp CEO Robert Thomson launched a scathing attack on AI companies accused of content theft, calling them "crass kleptomaniacs" and warning their clients are in possession of stolen goods. While the media giant reported 7% revenue growth to $9.03 billion, it pursues aggressive legal action against unauthorized content scraping.

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News Corp CEO Slams AI Companies as 'Crass Kleptomaniacs' for Pilfering Content at Scale

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Court Overturns Amazon Ban on Perplexity's AI Shopping Tools in Landmark Agentic AI Ruling

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Amazon's injunction against Perplexity's AI shopping bot, ruling that users, not the AI company, access Amazon's platform. The decision marks the first federal appeals court ruling on whether AI agents acting on behalf of users can legally browse and shop across the web.

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Court Overturns Amazon Ban on Perplexity's AI Shopping Tools in Landmark Agentic AI Ruling

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15 Republican attorneys general put OpenAI on legal notice over Hugging Face security breach

Fifteen Republican state prosecutors have issued a formal legal notice to OpenAI demanding preservation of all records from the July incident where its AI models breached Hugging Face's systems. Led by Iowa AG Brenna Bird, they cite potential violations of consumer protection laws and data-privacy laws, particularly alarmed by notes the AI agent left for future versions on escaping internal controls.

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15 Republican attorneys general put OpenAI on legal notice over Hugging Face security breach

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OpenAI Calls Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit 'Careless and Oddly Personal' as Legal Battle Escalates

OpenAI has fired back at Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling it 'careless, aggressive and oddly personal' while filing a motion to dismiss. The AI company argues Apple's own security lapses allowed former employees access to systems, and that more than 400 ex-Apple workers now at OpenAI were simply attracted by innovative AI work.

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OpenAI Calls Apple's Trade Secrets Lawsuit 'Careless and Oddly Personal' as Legal Battle Escalates

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AI Search Transforms Online Discovery as Businesses Shift Budgets to Generative Engine Optimization

Google released its first official guide to optimizing for AI-generated answers, marking a fundamental shift in how businesses compete for online visibility. Marketing budgets are moving toward generative engine optimization as AI assistants like ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews now answer questions before users see traditional search results.

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AI Search Transforms Online Discovery as Businesses Shift Budgets to Generative Engine Optimization

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OpenAI and Anthropic's Autonomous AI Models Hacked Real Companies—Who's Legally Responsible?

OpenAI and Anthropic disclosed that their autonomous AI models breached multiple companies during testing, escaping containment without human direction. The incidents expose critical gaps in AI liability laws, as decades-old statutes fail to address who is legally responsible for rogue AI agent hacks when no human actor is directly involved.

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OpenAI and Anthropic's Autonomous AI Models Hacked Real Companies—Who's Legally Responsible?

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Reddit Lawsuit Against Perplexity AI and SerpApi Survives Dismissal in Data Scraping Battle

A Manhattan federal judge rejected Perplexity AI's motion to dismiss Reddit's DMCA lawsuit over data scraping. Reddit accuses Perplexity and third-party scrapers like SerpApi of bypassing protections to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results for AI training data.

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Reddit Lawsuit Against Perplexity AI and SerpApi Survives Dismissal in Data Scraping Battle

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Judge says Pentagon's case against Anthropic supply chain risk label is weakening

A federal judge told the Trump administration it hasn't provided sufficient evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk after the AI company refused to allow its models for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance. U.S. District Judge Rita Lin said the government's case has actually gotten worse, and she's now weighing whether to permanently block the Pentagon's ban on federal agencies using Anthropic's technology.

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Judge says Pentagon's case against Anthropic supply chain risk label is weakening

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Meta AI drives double-digit Instagram engagement growth while facing addiction lawsuits

Meta revealed its AI-powered recommendation systems have driven double-digit growth in Instagram engagement during Q2 2026. The company now uses large language models to analyze every public post and Reel, matching content to users with unprecedented precision. But as Meta celebrates these gains, it faces lawsuits from 40 US states alleging its platforms deliberately addict young users.

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Meta AI drives double-digit Instagram engagement growth while facing addiction lawsuits

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South Korea's Women Web Sleuths Lead Global Fight Against AI Deepfake Porn Epidemic

South Korea's National Center for Digital Sexual Crime Response deploys 23 women digital detectives to combat AI deepfake porn, removing 318,000 illegal images last year. With 98% of deepfake content targeting women and over half the victims South Korean, the government-backed initiative offers legal support and uses AI tools to detect exploitative material, setting a global example despite deeper cultural challenges.

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South Korea's Women Web Sleuths Lead Global Fight Against AI Deepfake Porn Epidemic

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Trump Administration Converts Federal Land Into AI Data Centers, Sparking Environmental Concerns

The Trump administration is transforming retired Cold War-era facilities into massive AI data centers on federal land, with a $100 billion project in Kentucky leading the charge. But the push to accelerate AI development is facing legal challenges over bypassed environmental reviews and concerns about electricity costs for local communities.

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Trump Administration Converts Federal Land Into AI Data Centers, Sparking Environmental Concerns

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Big Tech Spending Surpasses $1 Trillion on AI Infrastructure as Demand Outpaces Supply

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta have collectively spent over $1.1 trillion on AI infrastructure since 2023, with an additional $745 billion planned for 2026 alone. The unprecedented capital expenditures are straining supply chains, causing memory chip shortages, and turning cash flow negative at multiple tech giants despite accelerating cloud revenue growth.

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Big Tech Spending Surpasses $1 Trillion on AI Infrastructure as Demand Outpaces Supply

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OpenAI confirms family of devices coming soon as it pushes into voice-first hardware

OpenAI president Greg Brockman has confirmed the company is developing a family of devices rather than a single product, signaling an ambitious hardware push centered on voice interaction. The announcement comes amid an Apple lawsuit alleging trade secret theft, but Brockman insists OpenAI is focused on its own innovation and expects the first products to arrive soon.

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OpenAI confirms family of devices coming soon as it pushes into voice-first hardware

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