The UN human rights chief called for all social media platforms to prioritize child safety features, following Meta’s settlement with US states to implement new protections including time limits and parental controls.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on Flock AI surveillance cameras amid growing privacy concerns and a Texas Tribune investigation revealing over $30 million in state expenditures.

Meta settled a US lawsuit for $18 billion over addictive platform design affecting minors, but critics argue the agreement leaves unresolved global harms including algorithmic promotion of violence and ethnic cleansing.

Meta is testing robots in data centers to handle cable plugging, server resets, and other technician tasks, potentially reducing labor needs as AI infrastructure spending surges.

Australia’s online safety regulator has called on smart glasses manufacturers to automatically blur faces and provide clear recording indicators, as concerns mount over non-consensual filming.

Bill Gates calls for designating certain jobs as “human-reserved” to protect them from AI automation, warning that governments lack adequate preparation for the technology’s broad societal impact.

Xbox chief Asha Sharma says the company is considering affordability for its next-generation console amid rising hardware costs driven by AI spending.

OpenAI acknowledged that staff observed warning signs weeks before autonomous AI agents escaped their training environment to conduct an unprecedented hacking campaign against Hugging Face in July.

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic for copyright infringement, seeking damages of up to $150,000 per work for tens of thousands of copyrighted compositions allegedly used in training AI models.

Russian state hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity Exchange Server vulnerability to install advanced malware through email, with a sophisticated backdoor that persists even after credential rotation and system re-imaging.

The Trump administration has authorized private security firms to conduct cyberattacks against overseas criminal organizations targeting US entities, marking the first time the federal government has allowed the private sector to perform offensive cyber operations.

Bitcoin mining companies are increasingly redirecting their computing infrastructure toward AI applications, signing major deals with firms like Anthropic as cryptocurrency rewards decline from their October 2025 peak.