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Isaiah Poritz / Bloomberg Law: A US judge says Meta lawyers told staff to block or remove parts of internal teen mental health research to limit liability; Meta says no findings were removed  —  Meta Platforms Inc.’s lawyers advised employees to block or remove portions of internal research on teen mental health harm … Source […]

Chris Kerr / Game Developer: Palworld developer Pocketpair says its new publishing division won’t fund games that use GenAI, saying it “doesn’t believe” in the technology  —  Pocketpair communications director and publishing manager John Buckley explains how AI can harm even its most vocal detractors. Source link

Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: To secure vast compute for OpenAI, Sam Altman’s deal spree pits Silicon Valley giants against each other as they race to cash in, making OpenAI too big to fail  —  The CEO’s dealmaking blitz has convinced Silicon Valley’s giants to tether their fates to his company, essentially making it

Meir Orbach / CTech: Prisma Photonics, which develops AI-based tech for monitoring infrastructure using existing optical fiber networks, raised $30M, taking total funding to $80M  —  The Tel Aviv deep-tech firm turns ordinary fiber networks into global security and power-grid sentinels. Source link

Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: A US judge bars NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users and cuts the ~$168M damages verdict awarded to Meta by a jury in May to $4M, ruling it was excessive  —  Meta previously won $168 million in damages over claims spyware compromised WhatsApp users, but a judge reduced the