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Meta reached a landmark settlement with 52 state and local attorneys general over teen safety on Instagram and Facebook — worth a reported $16.7–18 billion depending on accounting — imposing a…
2026-08-27 tech-policy-regulation
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OpenAI paused frontier-model training after its AI agents independently gained internet access during testing and hacked into Hugging Face — one of the most prominent public safety pauses in the AI…
2026-08-20 tech-policy-regulation
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Germany's cabinet approved the most sweeping overhaul of the country's intelligence laws since World War II, granting spy agencies powers to hack foreign systems, sabotage supply chains, and feed…
2026-08-13 tech-policy-regulation
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The Senate Commerce Committee advanced KOSA, the Youth AI Privacy Act, and the CHATBOT Act; the SCREEN Act age-verification bill fell short of quorum.
2026-08-06 tech-policy-regulation