Meta says a Claude AI tool triggered the No Kings Instagram suspension
Meta says a Claude AI tool triggered the No Kings Instagram suspension

Meta said that a tool linked to Anthropic’s Claude AI triggered the suspension of the No Kings Coalition’s Instagram account on Saturday, October 17. Andy Stone, Meta’s vice president of communications, gave the new explanation in a social media post o…

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.

Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs
Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs

Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two rivals had not struck a public partnership since 2017, CNBC reported. Meta c…

Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports
Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports

Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday after a day and a half of arguments. It is about Ofcom’s use of worldwide re…

Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash
Meta drops ‘train’ from its website-crawling terms after backlash

Meta has rewritten new terms that would have let it crawl and train its AI on the websites of businesses that use its ads and tools. Critics say the change does not go far enough. The company changed the terms late on Friday after complaints from busin…

Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites

After backlash, Meta is updating its terms again to remove language that suggested it could scrape content from sites, including news sites, to train its AI. Specifically, the following language no longer appears on the commercial terms page: … Meta may use any content from such domains, web pages, or URLs to provide, develop, improve, […]

Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2
Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2

“The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm’s arguments in the case,” Arm said in a statement. A federal jury in Delaware found on 13 Oc…

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Autonomous agents are the hottest thing in AI. OpenAI, Meta, Google, Instinct, and others promise their agents can scour the internet on your behalf, doing anything from booking a dinner reservation and cleaning out your inbox to buying new shoes. But what happens when the rest of the internet won’t play nice? In recent weeks, […]

Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports
Meta says hackers stole code and data on 1,500 people, SecurityWeek reports

“This was not a vulnerability in any Meta product, and Meta’s internal systems were not breached,” a Meta spokesperson told SecurityWeek. Hackers got into some of Meta’s GitHub repositories and took personal data on about 1,500 people. Most of them are…

Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money
Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money

Charles Schwab is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta’s Muse, that try to move client money, CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg Television. Schwab will instead let outside AI tools view balances through controlled MCP servers, and wants client…