Instagram’s Teen ‘Break’ Was Mostly a Reminder Nobody Turned On
Instagram did not make its early Take a Break tool mandatory after teens largely ignored it. In August 2026 testimony…
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Alabama Put OpenAI’s Agent Escape Under Subpoena
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened a consumer-protection investigation and issued OpenAI a subpoena on August 24, 2026, over safeguards…
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ChatGPT and Perplexity Cited Israel-linked Hanover Institute Articles in Politico Tests
ChatGPT and Perplexity cited articles from the Hanover Institute for Public Policy in Politico’s tests of questions about Gaza, anti-Zionism…
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Meta Must Pay $567 Million in New Mexico Youth-Safety Case
Meta must pay $567 million over five years into a New Mexico youth-harm abatement fund and adopt state-specific safety measures…
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EU AI Labels Are Live From 2 August
Article 50 of the EU AI Act started applying on 2 August 2026, and that means AI systems serving users…
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Hims & Hers Faced a Privacy Reckoning
Hims & Hers was sued on July 29, 2026, by the FTC, joined by Utah and California through Los Angeles…
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Artists Are Winning AI Voice Clone Fights Elsewhere
Artists’ strongest AI-era legal wins are coming from impersonation law, not copyright. The key reason is that right-of-publicity doctrine can…
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Anthropic Really Did Scan Millions of Bought Books
Anthropic did buy, cut up, and scan millions of print books for Claude, according to Judge William Alsup’s June 23,…
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LG Monitors Can Auto-install Store Apps
LG monitors did appear to install software on some Windows PCs without a user prompt, but the delivery path was…
