Meta is a topic tracked in our intelligence system with 10 linked articles.
Meta is withdrawing from an industry renewable energy group while simultaneously accelerating significant investments in natural gas infrastructure to power its operations.
Paying hackers often invites repeat extortion; Proofpoint finds >1/3 of paid victims face a second demand, while multiple data-exfiltration incidents and large-scale security funding/deployment in AI-era security highlight ongoing risk.
Meta’s social-media addiction suit was dropped, while related settlements with peers and prior penalties underscore ongoing regulatory risk around platform engagement features.
Meta will alert parents if their teen discusses suicide or self-harm with Meta AI, with manual review and emergency-services contact if risk is detected, rolling out from four countries to a global launch by year-end.
TechCrunch roundup combines AI hardware privacy debates (Lorde on AI glasses), regulatory/legal developments (AI training lawsuits and token-spend caps), and major funding milestones (PixVerse, OpenAI researcher Miles Wang’s drug-discovery venture) with several hard numeric data points.
New York State enacted an executive order halting permits for new data centers 50 MW and larger, pending environmental review, with a potential one-year moratorium and additional legislative moves targeting 20 MW+ projects.
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