

The first invoices arrive in September. Meta wants the basis changed before they do. Meta has filed a judicial review against Ofcom over the way the regulator calculates fees and penalties under the UK’s Online Safety Act, the High Court was told on Thursday. The dispute is narrow on its surface and substantial underneath. Ofcom’s […]

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Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, joined by author Scott Turow, filed a proposed class action in Manhattan on Tuesday alleging Meta pirated millions of their works to train Llama. After Judge Chhabria’s June 2025 ruling, plaintiffs with stronger market-harm evidence have been waiting their turn. On Tuesday morning, five of the world’s largest […]


The financing scaffolding around AI infrastructure keeps growing. Bloomberg reported on Sunday that Meta Platforms is working with Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase on a financing package of roughly $13bn for a single data centre in El Paso, Texas. If completed at the size discussed, it would be one of the largest single-site digital-infrastructure financings […]

Update, 4 May, 12:30 Phase two of New Mexico v. Meta Platforms opened on Monday in Santa Fe with three meaningful additions to what was previously known. According to Reuters, state Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office is now expected to call roughly 15 witnesses, including expert testimony on the technical feasibility of the proposed remedies, […]
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