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Meta, 29 states head to court in biggest test yet of youth social media litigation

By Diana Novak Jones Aug 12 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms will face a coalition of state attorneys general in a California federal court trial beginning on Wednesday over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, a case that could expose the company to massive damages and force it to make sweeping changes to its platforms. The trial in Oakland, expected to last seven weeks, ‌will test Colorado, Kentucky, California and New Jersey's allegations that Meta designed its platforms to keep young users hooked and misled consumers about their safety. It will also address cl

3 Reasons We Love Meta (META)

3 Reasons We Love Meta (META) Over the past six months, Meta's shares (currently trading at $591.67) have posted a disappointing 11.8% loss, well below the S&P 500's 11% gain. This was partly due to its softer quarterly results and may have investors wondering how to approach the situation. Given the weaker price action, is this a buying opportunity for META? Find out in our full research report, it's free. Why Are We Positive on Meta? Famously founded by Mark Zuckerberg in his Harvard dorm, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) operates a collection of the largest social networks in the world - Facebo

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'Avoid disaster': Sanders urges Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic to freeze AI development

[AI acronym floating over futuristic circuit board] Yuliya Taba/iStock via Getty Images Senator Bernie Sanders has urged leading AI companies to freeze development, warning that firms have lost control over models that could trigger disastrous consequences for millions. In a letter [https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/AI-Pause-Letter-FINAL.pdf] to the chief executives of OpenAI (OPENAI [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/OPENAI]), Anthropic (ANTHRO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ANTHRO]), and Meta (META [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/META]) on Monday, Sanders cited statements by

Meta Platforms (META) Opens AI Models As $1 Billion Fund And Lawsuits Add Pressure

Track your investments for FREE with Simply Wall St, the portfolio command center trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Meta Platforms (NasdaqGS:META) is pushing to open source superintelligent AI models and has launched Muse Glimmer as part of this effort. Mark Zuckerberg outlined a plan to make advanced AI widely accessible rather than keeping it locked behind premium services. Meta announced a US$1b fund aimed at supporting communities located near its data centers. The 9th Circuit allowed thousands of social media addiction lawsuits against Meta to proceed, increasing l

AI firm Manus to resume 'independent' operations after China blocks Meta deal

China has been cracking down on a practice known as "Singapore-washing," which is when companies leave the country to take advantage of looser regulations and funding opportunities (GREG BAKER) AI startup Manus said Tuesday it would resume "operating as an independent company," months after Beijing blocked Meta's multi-billion-dollar acquisition of the Chinese-developed, Singapore-based company. Some data going back to late December will be deleted as a result, and Manus urged users impacted by the change to back up their data. "This is part of our separation from Meta; we must take this step

Manus returns to independence after China blocks Meta acquisition

Manus announced Tuesday that it will resume operating as an independent company, as it works to comply with Beijing's order to reverse Meta's $2 billion acquisition of the startup. Manus is an AI agent startup that originated in China in 2022 and later moved its base to Singapore, according to CNBC. Meta announced the acquisition of Manus in December 2025. China's National Development and Reform Commission issued a directive in April ordering the parties to unwind the transaction, citing the country's rules on foreign investment. As part of the separation, some Manus users will have data delet

How Nvidia’s Huang and Meta’s Zuckerberg Are Combating the AI Backlash

Intel increases stock offering to $20 billion, SpaceX stock rises after first lockup ends, Archer Aviation to absorb Boeing’s air taxi business, and more news to start your day. Continue Reading

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Meta's AI Boom Just Hit a New Hurdle

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is agreeing to comply with Texas Governor Greg Abbott's stricter data-center standards as the company accelerates one of the largest AI infrastructure buildouts in the market. The move removes some regulatory uncertainty around Meta's expansion in Texas, but it also highlights a growing investor concern: massive AI data centers increasingly need to fund their own power, water and grid infrastructure rather than rely on local ratepayers. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with META. Is META fairly valued? Test yo

Meta announces $1B fund for communities near its data centers

Yahoo Finance Tech Editor Dan Howley analyzes Meta (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg's vision for open-source "personal superintelligence," his criticism of rival AI labs, and Meta's $1 billion initiative to support communities hosting its data centers. Video Transcript 00:00 Speaker A Zuckerberg in this kind of manifesto discusses how uh the world needs to use uh to to be more open when it comes to AI and put it in the hands of more people rather than a select few. So he kind of derides his rivals uh like Anthropic and Open AI, kind of saying, why should they have all of this concentrated power uh i

AMD Brings Meta's New AI Model to PCs

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD, Financials), the chipmaker competing with Nvidia in AI computing, is bringing Meta's new Muse Glimmer 30B model directly to supported PCs and workstations. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 4 Warning Signs with AMD. Is AMD fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. The model can run on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ processors and Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics cards, giving developers another way to use advanced AI without sending every workload to the cloud. That is the real appeal. Running models locally can reduc

Meta Stock Rises as $1 Billion AI Strategy Unfolds

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META), the social-media and AI powerhouse behind Facebook and Instagram, unveiled its next big AI swing Monday, and the strategy is becoming hard to miss: Zuckerberg wants Meta's models everywhere. Shares gained approximately 0.9% in regular trading as the company introduced Muse Glimmer, an agentic AI model built to run computer tasks using just a single graphics card. Meta also plans to release the weights for the more powerful Muse Spark 1.2. That is the real play. Instead of keeping its best technology locked behind expensive

Meta dangles $1 billion fund for ‘customized investments and programs’ in its data center towns

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is putting a face to his AI mission. The 42-year-old social media founder posted his vision for the future of AI in a letter published on Meta's website on August 10. It included a commitment to more open-source AI, government oversight and personal AI helpers for everyone. Must Read Jeff Bezos backs a platform that lets anyone invest in rental homes for as little as $100 — 6 ways to build wealth like a landlord without actually being one Dave Ramsey warns nearly 50% of Americans are making 1 big Social Security mistake. Here's what it is and 3 simple steps

Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals

Social media companies like Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and Google are facing a long road of litigation over claims that they intentionally designed their products to be addictive to minors. According to a report from Reuters, San Francisco's 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied these platforms' attempt to defend themselves from thousands of lawsuits through an argument based on Section 230, which protects publishers and platforms from being held liable for users' posts. The companies argued that Section 230 could also protect them from the claim that they did not warn the public about addicti

Meta Is Waging a PR Offensive for AI, but It Faces an Uphill Battle

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pitching a future of widely available AI, but public skepticism of the technology—and of Meta itself—could complicate that vision. Continue Reading

Meta (META) Unveils Muse Glimmer as Open-Source AI Spending Debate Intensifies

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) released a new open-weight AI model called Muse Glimmer on August 10, a compact system built for agentic tasks that can run on a Mac or PC with a single graphics card. CEO Mark Zuckerberg used the launch to press Washington for lighter rules on open-source AI, arguing that Chinese developers have pulled ahead. The release lands squarely inside the debate that has been rattling Meta's stock all summer: whether the company's AI ambitions are actually worth what they cost.Meta (META) Unveils Muse Glimmer as Open-Source AI Spending Debate Intensifies Bull Case: A Model

Meta's Latest AI Move Turns Heads

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) is escalating its challenge to closed AI ecosystems, unveiling Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run locally on consumer hardware. The release extends CEO Mark Zuckerberg's open-source push and gives developers another way to build AI agents without relying entirely on cloud infrastructure potentially broadening Meta's influence across the fast-growing AI software stack. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with META. Is META fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calcul

Meta's Zuckerberg reveals AI plans in lengthy manifesto, derides rivals for concentrating power

Meta (META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out his vision for AI in a lengthy manifesto on Monday, saying that the company is focusing on building AI superintelligence for everyone, while criticizing rival AI labs, claiming that they are concentrating power in the hands of a few corporations rather than in the hands of individuals. "Rather than centralizing superintelligence, we should distribute it widely and give every person the ability to direct it," Zuckerberg wrote. "This has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where individuals can use this powerful new capability to reac

Why Meta shareholders should be 'alarmed' right now

Yahoo Finance Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley, Semafor business reporter Rohan Goswami, and Yahoo Finance Senior Autos Reporter Pras Subramanian discuss the latest Meta (META) headlines. Video Transcript 00:00 Speaker A Meta out this morning with the news of they call it Muse Glimmer. It's a new AI model, light enough to run at home on your own computer. You download it, you can tweak it however you want, kind of appealing to the the customer, the you and I. We also saw Mark Zuckerberg coming out this morning with this, I think it was 6,500 word essay arguing the personal super int

Tech stocks today: Meta lays out new AI path, Intel to sell $15 billion in stock

Tech stocks experienced a dip in early trading Monday following Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's outline of his AI vision and Intel's announcement to sell $15 billion in stock. Zuckerberg highlighted a democratic approach to AI development and introduced Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model. Intel's stock sale aims to fund growth amidst the ongoing AI boom, with Supermicro and CoreWeave set to report earnings later in the week.

Meta shares rise on Muse Glimmer launch and a radical AI vision

Investing.com -- Meta's stock popped 2.4% this morning following the launch of Muse Glimmer, a highly efficient, 30-billion-parameter AI model capable of running on a single GPU. Positioned as a lightweight, distilled version of the more powerful Muse Spark 1.2, Glimmer is tailor-made for "agent-like" tasks—think schedule management, rapid prototyping, and file organization. By releasing the model weights for free on Hugging Face, Meta is directly countering the permissive licensing strategies of Chinese rivals like DeepSeek and Alibaba, while carving out a distinct lane against US giants (Ama

Another Bad News For Meta Stock Fans

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta (NASDAQ:META) is heading toward another major legal test as U.S. states pursue claims over the alleged effects of Facebook and Instagram on children, with a federal trial in California scheduled to start Aug. 18. The legal pressure has been building across several cases. A New Mexico judge recently ordered Meta to put $567 million into a fund addressing children's mental health, following $375 million in civil penalties in the same matter. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with META. Is META fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. Meta's broader fight involves California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey, while attorneys general from 29 states are pursuing separate claims under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. A federal judge allowed those claims to proceed in June after rejecting Meta's request for dismissal. The proceedings could also bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg back to the witness stand. His expected testimony follows an appearance in another California case involving allegations that social media contributed to a teenager's addiction. View Comments

Meta's New AI Model Takes Aim at China

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Meta Platforms Inc. (META, Financials), the social media and AI giant, launched a new open-weight model as Mark Zuckerberg tries to strengthen the company's position in an increasingly competitive AI race. Warning! GuruFocus has detected 2 Warning Sign with META. Is META fairly valued? Test your thesis with our free DCF calculator. The new model, Muse Glimmer, is smaller than the flagship systems built by companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic. Instead, it is designed for agentic tasks and can run directly on a Mac or PC using a single graphics card. That could matter as companies look for cheaper and more flexible ways to deploy AI without relying entirely on expensive cloud-based models. Meta also plans to release more open-weight models, while Zuckerberg is pushing for fewer U.S. restrictions on how they are developed. His concern is increasingly China. Models from Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot are gaining ground in the open-weight market, while many leading U.S. systems remain closed. For Meta, the strategy offers another way to differentiate itself after spending heavily to rebuild its AI ambitions. Shares were up about 1% before the