Techmeme: A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

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Marcel Thee / Nikkei Asia:

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Aisha Down / The Guardian:

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Financial Times:

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Sejal Sharma / Hindustan Times:

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Olivia Carville / Bloomberg:

A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction — Kaley Glenn-Mills' lawsuit reshaped the fight to protect children from social media. She says she still can't stop scrolling.

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Bloomberg:

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Robert P Baird / The Guardian:

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Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis:

Meta could use its compute for its own models, ad scaling, SpaceX-like neocloud deals, and hosting 3rd-party models; it may be close to an Anthropic deal — Zuck Takes Plan B? SpaceX 2.0, Bedrock 2.0, MSL Isn't Giving Up, Scaling RecSys by 10x... ClusterMAX ranking coming soon?

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M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:

Meta getting into the cloud business has been inevitable for a long time, as it seeks to diversify beyond ad revenue and monetize its AI buildout

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