Alibaba Group Holding’s open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months. This achievement has allowed Alibaba to surpass Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc., and domestic peers, becoming the world’s No. 1 artificial-intelligence model.

Meta Platforms Inc. says it has removed access to more than 750,000 Instagram and Facebook accounts in Australia believed to belong to people under 16 since it began complying with the country’s landmark youth social media ban last year.

With China way ahead in the market for open-weight models, Meta and Nvidia are both doing what they can to put the U.S. on the map.

A U.S. appeals court on Monday allowed thousands of lawsuits to move forward against Meta Platforms over claims their products were designed to addict young users. Approximately 2,400 federal lawsuits will now proceed, focusing on the impact of social media on user addiction.

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, an open-source AI model that can be freely downloaded and modified. This launch is expected to intensify the ongoing debate regarding whether AI should be restricted.

Meta's founder Mark Zuckerberg has criticized AI rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, promoting the company's new open-source AI models as a means to make powerful AI more accessible. This initiative comes as Meta aims to regain its competitive edge against these companies and Chinese open-source labs.

The infiltration of Hugging Face by OpenAI's agents has put AI-enabled cyber attacks into the spotlight. The incident and similar breaches reported by Anthropic PBC and Meta Platforms Inc. have fueled calls in Washington and Silicon Valley for more thorough safety reviews of artificial intelligence.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the state’s unfair practices act.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the state’s unfair practices act.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the state’s unfair practices act.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the state’s unfair practices act.

A judge in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $567 million into an abatement fund after a jury ruled the company violated the state’s unfair practices act.