Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion in New Mexico Privacy Case
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in civil penalties for Facebook's privacy misrepresentations, far below its $219.5 billion exposure.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
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Anthropic Pitched Congress a Draft AI Safety Bill It Wrote Itself
Anthropic drafted a federal AI safety bill and quietly pitched it to Congress, with a US$1 billion harm threshold and a judge's sign-off to block a model.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Trump and Six AI Chiefs Sign a Voluntary Frontier-Safety Accord, With No Enforcement
Six AI chiefs signed a voluntary frontier-safety accord at the White House on September 29, 2026, naming no auditor and carrying no enforcement mechanism.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Twenty Nations Back a Call to Control Frontier AI Models at the UN
Finland and Norway's Call for Control of Frontier AI Models, backed by about 20 nations, pushes for independent testing and a UN-linked verification body.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Abbott Halts Texas Data Center Environmental Permits Pending an ERCOT Audit
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered regulators to halt all data center environmental permits until ERCOT finishes auditing the state's grid connection waitlist.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Trump Says He Will Create an AI Force and Name an AI Czar, With No Details Yet
President Trump says he is forming an AI Force and will name an AI czar, but gave no details on structure, authority, budget, size, or military status.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
Judge Brinkema Spares Google an Ad-Tech Breakup, Orders Prebid Interoperability
Judge Brinkema rejected the DOJ's Google ad-tech breakup, ordering Prebid interoperability, real-time bid-data sharing, and a six-year compliance monitor.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
NHTSA Orders Tesla to Swear the Cybercab Is Legal to Sell
NHTSA issued a Special Order demanding sworn answers by September 30 on how Tesla's driverless Cybercab complies with safety standards written for human drivers.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Two Robinhood Engineers Are Charged With Trading on the Listings They Built
Federal prosecutors say two Robinhood engineers used a private listing channel to front-run token announcements on Hyperliquid, earning more than $50,000 each.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
The EU Moves to Keep Under-15s Off Social Media and AI Chatbots
A leaked European Commission draft would bar under-15s from social media and video platforms, and impose safety-by-design rules on games and AI companions.
By TPW Editorial7 min read
Portuguese Group D3 Sues Meta, TikTok and YouTube Over ‘Addictive Design’
Portugal’s D3 has filed four collective actions in Lisbon against Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, alleging their design is deliberately addictive.
By TPW Editorial8 min read
A Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Make AI Safety a Legal Duty
Senate negotiators are drafting a duty of care for frontier AI developers, with the Commerce Department able to seek a court order blocking an unsafe model release.
By TPW Editorial10 min read
California Bans ‘Addictive’ Feeds for Under-16s and Reins In AI Chatbots
California’s governor signed 13 online-safety bills, banning addictive social-media features for under-16s and imposing new chatbot safeguards and audits.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Instagram’s Mosseri Says an Algorithm-Free Feed Is ‘Much Worse’ as Australia Moves to Regulate
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri says a chronological feed is ‘much worse’ for users, as Australia moves to require an algorithm opt-out and White House pushes back.
By TPW Editorial9 min read
Hawley Opens a Senate Probe Into OpenAI's Rogue-Agent Breach of Hugging Face
A GOP-led Senate subcommittee has given OpenAI until October 1 to answer 16 questions and hand over documents about the July breach and its handling of rogue AI.
By TPW Editorial4 min read