Meta Agrees to Pay Up to $18 Billion Over Social Media Claims August 26, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg Meta Platforms Inc. said it agreed to pay up to $18 billion in landmark settlements to resolve allegations from multiple...
Alabama AG Launches Probe Into OpenAI After Hugging Face Breach August 26, 2026 Alabama’s attorney general said the state had opened an investigation into OpenAI after its models hacked technology company Hugging Face...
Plane Crashed on Second Attempt to Land in Heavy Fog in Alaska, Killing 8, Officials Say August 26, 2026 By Becky Bohrer and Josh Funk A plane that crashed at a remote military site in western Alaska, killing all eight people on board, had been...
Yale Police Officer Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud August 26, 2026 A New Haven man has been arrested and charged with illegally collecting workers’ compensation benefits from the state while being...
Freestone Acquires Illinois-Based 360 Benefits August 26, 2026 Freestone Insurance Group, a Shore Capital Partners portfolio company, has acquired 360 Benefits, an employee benefits focused brokerage based in...
SpaceX Plans $100 Billion Louisiana Site in Post-IPO Growth Push August 26, 2026 By Loren Grush and Dana Hull SpaceX plans to build a new $100 billion launch site for its Starship rocket on the southern coast of Louisiana,...
Produce Supplier Taylor Farms Frequently Fails to Submit Annual Injury Reports: Reuters August 26, 2026 By Waylon Cunningham Taylor Farms, the produce company at the center of a U.S. cyclospora outbreak, frequently failed to submit federally required workplace...
Boston Scientific Hit by Cyberattack, Global Operations Affected August 26, 2026 Boston Scientific said on Wednesday that a cybersecurity incident had disrupted global operations, including some information systems used to process...
Ex-Meta Staffer Says 99% of Teens Shunned Early Safety Tool August 26, 2026 By Madlin Mekelburg A former data scientist at Meta Platforms Inc. testified that less than 1% of teenagers were early adopters of a...
Legal & General Says Meta Isn’t Doing Enough to Keep AI Clean August 26, 2026 By Alastair Marsh and Tim Quinson As the world’s hyperscalers throw vast sums of money into the infrastructure needed for AI, some of their investors are...