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Australia investigates tech giants over social media ban compliance

Tech companies can face a fine of up to A$49.5 million (S$43.9 million)

The poll found 94 per cent of respondents felt minors should be better protected from the damaging effects of social media.

Swiss back tougher social media rules for minors: survey

Neighbouring Austria is planning to ban users under 14 from social media

A jury in California has ruled that Meta and YouTube must pay financial damages to a 20-year-old who testified that beauty filters caused her serious anxiety.

The terrible cost of the infinite scroll

Will giants such as Meta and YouTube finally be forced to design less harmful products?

Meta announced in December that it would acquire Manus.

China bars Manus co-founders from leaving country amid Meta deal review: FT

The case highlights Beijing’s broader concerns about the loss of valuable technology to a geopolitical rival

Some members of Meta’s Reality Labs division were asked to work remotely on Wednesday (Mar 25) in preparation for the cuts.

Meta is cutting several hundred jobs amid record AI spending

The layoffs will affect employees both in the US and other international markets

Meta must meet the price targets by Feb 14, 2028, for the options to vest.

Meta boosts top executives’ pay with stock options as AI race heats up

The options are the social media giant’s first for its top brass and require steep stock milestones

The AI agent is helping Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg (centre) to get information faster, answers that he would typically have to go through layers of people to get.

Meta’s Zuckerberg developing AI agent to help with his CEO duties, WSJ reports

META chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is building a CEO agent to help him do his job, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a person familiar with the project.

Construction spending for data centres has climbed steadily in recent years.

Data centres overtake offices in US construction-spending shift

Tech companies have made data centres the latest darling of the real estate industry