Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules
Meta is holding back $5.3bn unless TikTok and YouTube match its teen rules

Meta will hold back about $5.3bn of its teen safety settlement. The money moves only if TikTok and YouTube adopt the same rules and pay matching sums. The company set out the structure in a newsroom post on Wednesday, hours after agreeing to settle the…

Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case
Meta will pay up to $16.68bn to settle the 29-state youth safety case

Meta has agreed to pay a maximum of $16.68bn to settle claims brought by states across the country. They alleged the company designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers about their safety, and improperly collected the personal …

Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production
Attacks on US firms have moved from stealing data to stopping production

Reuters has been keeping a running tally of American companies breached during 2026, and read end to end, it is more instructive than any single entry in it. The names run from Nike and Coca-Cola to Novo Nordisk and Abbott Laboratories, and almost none…

Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern
Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety concern

Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face evaluation. Any of them, at any point, with no date limit attached. That is request eight of sixteen in a subpoena the state…

The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness
The SEC has subpoenaed four banks over Situational Awareness

American securities regulators have subpoenaed the banks that lent Situational Awareness the money it used to make its AI bets. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants the timing of the fund’s trades, and its communications with lenders about the …

Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3
Moonshot AI wants 30% of what US clouds earn from Kimi K3

Moonshot AI is in early discussions with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google about hosting Kimi K3 on their cloud platforms, seeking up to 30% of the revenue those services generate, according to Reuters. It would be the first arrangement of its kind between…

The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional
The EPA wants to make data centre pollution disclosure optional

The US Environmental Protection Agency has proposed making public disclosure of air pollution from minor sources voluntary rather than mandatory, a change that would cover the diesel generators clustered around data centres. It follows the same directi…

Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth
Intuit is separating Mailchimp out and guiding it to zero growth

Intuit is moving Mailchimp out of its main business and into a segment of its own. The first standalone forecast it has ever published for the marketing tool is for no growth at all. Mailchimp will bring in $1,256mn to $1,266mn in fiscal 2027, Intuit s…

OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing
OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing

OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was doing. Chris Malone, its head of data centers, is no longer with the company, an OpenAI spokesperson told Dina Bass at Bloomb…

Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back
Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back

Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter confirmed the hire to Axios. Ina Fried reported it on Monday. Metz starts this week and reports to Alexandr Wang, who runs Meta’s A…