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Meta just turned its own teen safety settlement into leverage, tying nearly a third of the payout to whether YouTube and TikTok agree to play by the same rules, a shrewd move that could reshape how the whole industry handles child safety, or expose how little pressure a settlement can actually put on rivals.
Today we are covering:
Meta ties 5.3 billion dollars of its 18 billion dollar teen safety settlement to whether TikTok and YouTube match its new limits
A federal judge rules the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic was “illegal and baseless,” clearing the AI company for military contracts
OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 other companies warn that AI is making cyberattacks on hospitals and water systems dangerously cheap
