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Meta is in hot water, with internals emails showing the company torrented more than 80 TB of copyrighted and pirated books from questionable online databas...

Meta Will Not Develop ‘Critical Risk’ AI Models

Meta has defined its AI policy to govern its future development, saying it will stop developing AI models it deems a "critical risk."...

Threads Begins Testing Ads

Threads is officially moving forward with ads, testing them "with a handful of brands," according to Threads chief Adam Mosseri....

Linux Foundation Launches ‘Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers’

The Linux Foundation has launched the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers," an effort to further the development of Chromium-based web browsers....

Mark Zuckerberg Says Its AI Will Be Leading Model In 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is touting the company's AI, saying he believes it will become "the leading assistant" and "the leading state of the art model" in...

Trump Takes Aim At EU’s Fines of American Tech Companies

President Trump has come out swinging against the EU, accusing the block of using regulation and resulting fines as "a form of taxation."...

Meta’s Ambitious AI Leap: Zuckerberg Outlines Vision for 2025

In a bold declaration of Meta's...

Meta to Make ‘Performance-Based Cuts’ Impacting 5% of Staff

Meta is making a change to how it deals with low-performing employees, accelerating their exit from the company, with approximately 3,600 impacted....

Meta Does An About-Face As It Switches to Community Moderation

In an apparent bid to avoid the ire of President-elect Trump, Meta has announced it will end its fact checking program and rely on a Community Notes model....

US Appeals Court Kills Net Neutrality

The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt a near-fatal blow to net neutrality rules, overturning the FCC's latest attempt to ensure an open internet....

EU Wants Apple to Make AirDrop Interoperable With Android

The EU is continuing its efforts to break down walled gardens, including Apple's, with its latest effort aimed at forcing the company to open AirDrop....

Elon Musk’s Case Against OpenAI Receives a Major Boost From Meta

Meta has entered the fray between Elon Musk and OpenAI, asking a judge to prevent OpenAI from transitioning to a for-profit company....

Boston Globe’s Bluesky Traffic Dwarfs Threads

Threads may have orders of magnitude more users than Bluesky, but the latter accounts for far more traffic to The Boston Globe than Meta's platfor...

Meta ‘Planning One Hell Of’ An Undersea Cable

Meta is reportedly getting back into the subsea cable space, "planning one hell of a cable" that will span much of the globe....