A New Mexico jury found Meta liable Tuesday for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children. Meta has been ordered to pay the maximum penalties for each violation of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws, amounting to $375 million. “Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees,…

The US Department of Defense appears to be illegally punishing Anthropic for trying to restrict the use of its AI tools by the military, US district judge Rita Lin said during a court hearing on Tuesday. “It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Lin said of the Pentagon designating the company a supply-chain risk….

For generations, Ida Huddleston and her family have owned a farm in Northern Kentucky. And they’ve turned down at least one multimillion-dollar offer to preserve it. Last year, a “major artificial intelligence company” offered them $26 million to sell part of their farm for a proposed data center, according to a recent report from WKRC….

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday added all foreign-manufactured consumer routers to its Covered List — the federal government’s running blacklist of communications equipment deemed a national security threat. The move effectively bans the sale of new WiFi routers made outside the country. The ban is sweeping, as virtually every consumer router on the market…

The Federal Communications Commission has banned new consumer internet routers manufactured outside the US, citing national security concerns. The ban doesn’t affect any routers already in American homes or currently on sale in the US, but all new routers aimed at the consumer market will need to be approved. While the headline is that foreign-made…

Canada’s BKR Capital announced Monday that its Fund II has closed $20 million CAD (around $14.5 million USD), bringing it closer to its $50 million CAD target. This fund is looking to back “high-growth technology companies led by founders from the Black community, building solutions for the future of work, living, and global connectivity,” managing…

A quick look at the best Amazon Shark deals ahead of the Big Spring Sale There are few home categories that Shark doesn’t have a stake in. Floor care has been its bread and butter for a while, of course. But skincare, hair care, and and air care, too? It’s Dyson-level variety at this point….

Soft plastics are notorious for jamming sorting machines, slipping through processing lines, and wreaking havoc on the environment. They’re also not accepted in most municipal curbside recycling programs. Facilities for recycling these types of plastic exist, but getting waste to these locations clean and free of what some call “wishful recycling” items (compostable cups, plastic…