Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri told a California court on Wednesday that he does not believe social media use should automatically be labeled as a clinical addiction. He was testifying in a major trial that is examining whether companies like Meta and YouTube intentionally designed their platforms to hook children in…

The move is part of a major new partnership with OpenAI under the ambitious Stargate UAE initiative, which aims to build what would be the world’s largest AI supercomputing cluster. OpenAI revealed that it is teaming up with Abu Dhabi–based tech group G42 on a high-profile project designed to create…

The social media addiction trial in Los Angeles heated up this week as YouTube’s engineering VP, Cristos Goodrow, took the stand to defend the platform’s intentions. During his testimony, Goodrow pushed back against claims that YouTube is designed to hook users, arguing instead that the goal is to provide value…

About five years ago, Facebook made headlines when it shut down its facial recognition system that automatically suggested tags for people in photos. At the time, the company said it wanted to strike a better balance between innovation and growing concerns around privacy, legality, and misuse of biometric data. Now,…