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Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

Meta Platforms chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says that competition and liability give AI companies enough reason to act individually on safety, appearing to break from calls by leaders of...

Meta’s US settlement raises new questions in Australia

27 August 2026 | by Byron Kaye

Meta’s move to restrict teenagers’ use of social media in the US demonstrates that the companies have tools to better protect young people online, Australian regulators said on Thursday,...

Meta to pay $25bn to settle lawsuits on social media addiction

27 August 2026 | by Diana Novak Jones

Meta Platforms will pay up to US$18 billion ($25 billion) over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under an agreement with nearly all...

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri on the stand at Meta addiction trial

26 August 2026 | by Greg Bensinger

Instagram’s top executive Adam Mosseri has taken the witness stand to testify in a trial over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children without proper regard...

Deal or levy: Parliament passes big tech news laws

20 August 2026 | by David Allen

Parliament has passed the government’s revamped media bargaining laws, clearing the way for levies on tech platforms that fail to strike deals with Australian news outlets over the use...

Meta’s landmark US trial on child online addiction begins

19 August 2026 | by Diana Novak Jones

Meta Platforms rejected accusations by US states that it intentionally sought to addict children to its Facebook and Instagram platforms in pursuit of profit, at the start of a...

Tech giants face swift crackdown if new eSafety powers approved

14 August 2026 | by David Allen

The eSafety Commissioner will move quickly to summon documents from tech giants and issue social media ban breach orders if handed new regulatory powers, a Senate committee has heard....

Meta purges another 200k teen accounts as crackdown looms

13 August 2026 | by Justin Hendry

Meta has taken down a further 200,000 accounts suspected of belonging to Australians under 16 and promised more action, as it stares down regulatory action and higher fines for...

Big tech to pay more news outlets under reworked media law

13 August 2026 | by Byron Kaye

Australia will raise the number of deals large tech firms must strike with local news outlets under a revamp of its media licensing laws to be introduced to parliament...

Rowland escalates smart glasses as privacy priority

7 August 2026 | by Justin Hendry

Cheap smart glasses from Kmart have forced Australia’s stalled privacy law reforms back into focus, with the federal government pressing the national regulator to urgently assess whether further intervention...

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Zuckerberg says AI labs have enough incentive to build safely

Meta’s landmark US trial on child online addiction begins

Big tech to pay more news outlets under reworked media law

Rowland escalates smart glasses as privacy priority

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