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How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together

29 August 2026 at 12:02
State attorneys general spent months in negotiations. Then, as its legal losses mounted, the social media giant’s new top lawyer brought a huge settlement to the table.

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Meta’s $17.1 billion agreement with states followed losses in court over claims that the social media is addictive and harmful to children.

OpenAI and 100 Others Warn That Window to Defend Against A.I. Attacks Is Narrowing

27 August 2026 at 20:55
In an open letter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others said that a wave of A.I.-enabled cyberattacks was coming and that organizations and governments needed to prepare themselves.

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Sam Altman of OpenAI, which has joined more than 100 tech companies in publishing an open letter warning of a wave of cyberattacks driven by artificial intelligence.

“Anxious Generation” Author Jonathan Haidt on the Meta Settlement

27 August 2026 at 17:42
In “The Anxious Generation,” he laid out the evils of social media for kids. The landmark Meta settlement seems to agree.

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Jonathan Haidt’s 2024 book on the harms to children from social media was a best seller.

Nvidia’s Profit Doubles to $59.69 Billion Thanks to A.I. Spending

27 August 2026 at 04:05
Quarterly revenue also more than doubled, to $96.22 billion, the company said, topping expectations on Wall Street.

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Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, made a big bet years ago on chips and software for artificial intelligence.
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