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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Cambridge Analytica Privacy Violations

The penalty, one of the largest levied against a tech giant, stemmed from a lawsuit by New Mexico claiming the social media company had misled users about their data privacy.

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Meta’s annual Meta Connect event at the company’s Menlo Park, Calif., campus.

Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played

An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.

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Stacey Wales with an enlarged photo of her brother, Christopher Pelkey. She created a video using artificial intelligence to depict her dead brother speaking at the sentencing of his killer.

Anthropic’s Blacklisting by the Pentagon Was Legal, Federal Judges Rule

The Pentagon had “ample support for its conclusion” that the A.I. company’s products could pose a national security risk, according to a Washington appeals court.

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Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei.

Uber to Pay $40 Million to Parents of Woman Fatally Hit by Car

Emily Normandin-Parker, 23, was struck and killed on a California freeway after an Uber driver ordered her and a friend out of his car in August 2023.

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The case touched on the legal extent to which Uber is responsible for the actions of its drivers.

Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly

The measures, which fall short of a breakup demanded by the government, effectively ensure that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed.

© Lucas Foglia for The New York Times

Google offices in San Francisco.
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