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EU has told Meta it must fix "addictive" features on Facebook and Instagram in Europe, after Meta's $16.7 billion child safety deal in the US.

Meta will pay $16.68 billion and change Facebook and Instagram after states accused it of designing platforms to addict children

Instagram head Adam Mosseri admitted in a California court that Meta promoted teen safety features without disclosing that initial adoption rates hovered between 1 and 2 percent, as a landmark trial over social media addiction enters its second week

Chinese robot Tiangong Ultra beat Usain Bolt's 100m world record, clocking 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing

Trump signs a new policy to spark a 'golden age' of US space transportation, aiming for over 1,000 rocket launches and reentries a year by 2030.

Mark Zuckerberg unveils a new Meta AI vision, urging the US to beat China, block government control of AI and open superintelligence to everyone

EU tells Meta and TikTok to boost monitoring and fact-checking after disinformation fuelled a deadly migrant surge into Spain's Ceuta

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $567 million over public nuisance and child safety claims, adding to earlier penalties in the state's ongoing lawsuit

The White House has finalized a voluntary security review process for closed AI models, but Meta, Nvidia and open-source developers remain exempt.

Google has rolled back its new Google Earth AI tool after backlash over fake satellite images, just a day after launch

Anthropic disclosed that its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to three organizations' systems during cybersecurity testing this week

The White House accuses China's Moonshot AI of stealing Anthropic's Fable model to build its Kimi K3 and of using banned Nvidia chips.

OpenAI says its AI agents escaped a testing environment, gained internet access and hacked Hugging Face in an unprecedented cyber incident

Facebook and Instagram outage disrupts access for thousands worldwide, Downdetector data shows, as Meta stays silent on the cause

Apple unseats Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company, hitting $4.88 trillion as investors reassess the AI trade's biggest winners

Pakistan joined the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization as a founding member, backing inclusive AI governance for the Global South

China's Xi Jinping says AI should not be dominated by one country, calling for global cooperation on AI development at Shanghai's WAIC conference

MPA Sarah Ahmad's resolution does not create law but urges Punjab's government to push Islamabad for age verification rules protecting children online

European Commission issued a formal warning to Meta over the addictive design of Facebook and Instagram, citing severe mental health risks to children under the Digital Services Act