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FILE - The TikTok logo is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. TikTok will begin labeling content created using artificial intelligence when it's uploaded from certain platforms. TikTok says its efforts are an attempt to combat misinformation from being spread on its social media platform. The announcement came on ABC's “Good Morning America” on Thursday, May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

TikTok to start labeling AI-generated content as technology becomes more universal

TikTok says it’s going to start automatically labeling content that’s made by artificial intelligence when it’s uploaded from certain platforms.
 
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez speaks on Wednesday, May 8, 2024, in Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico’s top prosecutor announced charges Wednesday against three men who are accused of using Meta’s social media platforms to target and solicit sex with underage children. (Jon Austria/The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Undercover operation nets arrests as New Mexico’s top prosecutor blames Meta for online predators

 
FILE - A car passes Facebook's new Meta logo on a sign at the company headquarters on Oct. 28, 2021, in Menlo Park, Calif. A group of Democratic state election officials sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook on Thursday, May 2, 2024, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar, File)

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election

 
FILE - Meta's logo is seen on a sign at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., Nov. 9, 2022. A lawsuit filed Wednesday, May 1, 2024, against Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is arguing that a federal law often used to shield internet companies from liability also allows people to use external tools to take control of their feed — even if that means shutting it off entirely. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File)

Lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook users have right to control their feeds using external tools

 
FILE - A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. A Delaware judge on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, dismissed a shareholder lawsuit asserting novel claims about the roles of corporate leaders and arguing that the loyalties of Meta directors and company founder Mark Zuckerberg should not lie exclusively with the social media giant. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge dismisses Meta shareholder lawsuit claiming that directors’ obligations extend beyond company

 

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Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify before Senate committee on child exploitation

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FILE - The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Oct. 14, 2022. The European Union said Tuesday April 30, 2024 that it's scrutinizing Facebook and Instagram over a range of suspected violations of the bloc's digital rulebook, including not doing enough to protect users from foreign disinformation ahead of EU-wide elections. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Meta under fire from European Union for not doing enough about election disinformation

 
FILE - The TikTok logo is displayed on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen, Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston. TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban. A battle in the courts will almost certainly be backed by Chinese authorities as the bitter U.S.-China rivalry threatens the future of a wildly popular way for young Americans to connect online. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Instagram and YouTube could be the biggest winners of a TikTok ban, but smaller rivals could rise too

 

How major US stock indexes fared Thursday, 4/25/2024

 

Meta Platforms, O’Reilly Automotive fall; Chipotle, TransUnion rise, Thursday, 4/25/2024

 
A currency trader passes by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 26, 2024. Asian shares mostly rose Friday despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and the rest of the world. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Stock market today: Asian benchmarks mostly climb despite worries about US economy

 
FILE - A Meta Portal Go is displayed during a preview of the Meta Store in Burlingame, Calif., on May 4, 2022. Meta reports earnings on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

Meta more than doubles Q1 profit but revenue guidance pulls shares down after-hours

 
FILE - The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. European Union regulators opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta on Monday March 25, 2024 in the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets that took effect earlier this month. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Apple pulls WhatsApp and Threads from App Store on Beijing’s orders

 
FILE - Joelle Pineau, Vice President AI Research, speaks at the at the Meta AI Day in London on April 9, 2024. Meta, Google and OpenAI, along with leading startups, are churning out new AI language models and trying to persuade customers that they've got the smartest or fastest or cheapest chatbot technology. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

Meta’s newest AI model beats some peers. But its amped-up AI agents are confusing Facebook users

 
FILE -- A sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., on Sept. 24, 2019. On Friday, April 12, 2024, Google announced it was testing removing links to California news websites from some people's search results. The search giant said it was preparing in case the Legislature passed a bill requiring it to pay media companies a fee for linking to its content. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Faced with possibly paying for news, Google removes links to California news sites for some users

 
Dr. Pei Wang teaches a artificial general intelligence class at Temple University in Philadelphia, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Mainstream AI research "turned away from the original vision of artificial intelligence, which at the beginning was pretty ambitious,” said Wang. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Tech companies want to build artificial general intelligence. But who decides when AGI is attained?

 
FILE - The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., Friday, March 17, 2023. Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario launched lawsuits Thursday, March 28, 2024, against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

4 Canadian school boards sue Snapchat, TikTok and Meta for disrupting students’ education

 
European Commissioner for Europe fit for the Digital Age, Margrethe Vestager speaks during a media conference regarding the Digital Markets Act at EU headquarters in Brussels, Monday, March 25, 2024. The European Commission on Monday opened non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets Act. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Apple, Google, Meta targeted under new European law meant to prevent cornering of digital markets

 
File - The Instagram logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Oct. 14, 2022. Instagram has started an automatic clamp down on the amount of political content appearing in its users' feeds, Saturday, March 23, 2024, but there is a relatively quick and easy way to turn off the controls if you don't want to keep the limitations place.(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

One Tech Tip: How to get around Instagram’s new limits on political content

 
FILE - People talk near a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. Australia's eSafety regulator announced Tuesday, March 19, 2024, that it had issued legal notices to Google, Meta, X, WhatsApp, Telegram and Reddit requiring each company to report on steps they are taking to protect Australian users of their platforms from extremist material online. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google, Meta and others face tough questions in Australia over cyber extremism threats

 
FILE - The TikTok logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen which displays the TikTok home screen, Saturday, March 18, 2023, in Boston. European Union regulators ratcheted up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok by looking into how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence such as the viral spread of deepfakes. The EU’s executive Commission said Thursday, March 14, 2024, it has sent questionnaires about measures for curbing generative AI’s risks to eight platforms and search engines. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Europe asks Google, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms how they’re reducing generative AI risks

 
FILE- In this March 13, 2019, file photo Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone in New York. A group of 40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts. The AGs called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Most teens report feeling happy or peaceful when they go without smartphones, Pew survey finds

 
FILE- In this March 13, 2019, file photo Facebook, Messenger and Instagram apps are are displayed on an iPhone in New York. A group of 40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Instagram and Facebook parent company Meta expressing concern over what they say is dramatic uptick of consumer complaints about account takeovers and lockouts. The AGs called on Meta to do a better job preventing account takeovers. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

State AGs send letter to Meta asking it to take ‘immediate action’ on user account takeovers

 
This undated photo provided by Laura Levitan shows herself in a self portrait. Levitan, the owner of Mod L Photography in Addison, Texas, uses Facebook and Instagram to correspond with potential clients. When the Meta outage happened on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, she was in the middle of posting and replying to inquiries. (Laura Levitan via AP)

Social media outages hurt small businesses -- so it’s important to have a backup plan

 
FILE - Google's first datacenter in Germany is pictured during its inauguration in Hanau near Frankfurt, Germany, Oct. 6, 2023. New European Union rules aimed at preventing tech companies from dominating digital markets will change what people see online starting Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

Europe’s Digital Markets Act is forcing tech giants to make changes. Here’s what that will look like

 
FILE - The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from human trafficking and child sexual exploitation. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Meta attorneys ask judge to dismiss shareholder suit alleging failure to address human trafficking

 
In this photo provided by LG Electronics, its CEO William Cho, from left, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LG COO Kwon Bong-seok pose for a photo after their meeting at LG Twin Towers headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2024. Zuckerberg discussed cooperation on extended reality (XR) devices with LG Electronics executives on Wednesday, as he visited South Korea for the first time in about 10 years. (LG Electronics via AP)

Zuckerberg meets LG, Samsung chiefs in Seoul as Meta ramps up AI ambitions

 
FILE - Meta's president of global affairs Nick Clegg speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 18, 2024. Adobe, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, TikTok and other companies are gathering at the Munich Security Conference on Friday to announce a new voluntary framework for how they will respond to AI-generated deepfakes that deliberately trick voters. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Tech companies sign accord to combat AI-generated election trickery

 

New York City files a lawsuit saying social media is fueling a youth mental health crisis

 
FILE - The icon for the dating app Tinder appears on a device, July 28, 2020, in New York. Tinder, Hinge and other dating apps are designed with addictive features that encourage “compulsive” use, a proposed class action lawsuit against parent company Match Group claims. The lawsuit filed Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, says Match intentionally designs its dating platforms with game-like features that “lock users into a perpetual pay-to-play loop” prioritizing profit over promises to help users find relationships. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

How dating apps turn love seekers into addicts, according to a new lawsuit

 
FILE - The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, on June 14, 2023. Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing labels on AI-generated images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not. Meta said Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 it's working with industry partners on technical standards that will make it easier to identify images and eventually video and audio generated by artificial intelligence tools. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Meta says it will label AI-generated images on Facebook and Instagram

 

How major US stock indexes fared Friday, 2/2/2024

 
FILE - People walk past the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in New York. Wall Street's best week of the year is getting even better Friday, Nov. 3, 2023, following a cooler-than-expected report on the job market. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Stock market today: Big Tech carries Wall Street to another record and winning week

 
FILE - A person stands in front of a Meta sign outside of the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., March 7, 2023. Meta releases results on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Meta posts sharp profit, revenue increase in Q4 thanks to cost cuts and advertising rebound

 
FILE - Aaron Ford, Attorney General of Nevada, answers a question during an interview at the State Attorneys General Association meetings, Nov. 16, 2023, in Boston. Ford has launched a go-it-alone legal fight accusing TikTok, Snapchat and Meta of creating what one lawsuit calls “an addiction machine” that exploits children too young to have self-control. Three lawsuits filed Tuesday, Jan.30, 2024, in state court allege the platforms put kids at risk of auto accidents, drug overdoses, suicides, eating disorders and sexual exploitation. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Nevada attorney general launches go-it-alone lawsuits against social media firms in state court

 
With people holding photos of their loved ones in the audience, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, to discuss child safety. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Meta, TikTok and other social media CEOs testify in heated Senate hearing on child exploitation

 
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