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Social media addiction trial: an LA jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users on the dangers of their platforms; both plan to appeal — A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google's YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users …
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Sonja Sharp / Los Angeles Times: Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds InstagramYouTube were designed to addict kids
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps
Associated Press: Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial
Andy Boxall / Android Police: Landmark verdict holds Meta and Google liable for addictive by design social media apps
Jason Aten / Inc: A California Jury Just Said What People Already Thought About Instagram and YouTube
Zoe Kleinman / BBC: ‘A game-changing moment for social media’ - what next for big tech after landmark addiction verdict?
Financial Times: Meta and Google liable for social media harm to children's mental health in landmark US case
Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: The L.A. verdict could haunt social media platforms
David Dayen / American Prospect: Social Media's Endgame Moment
Sebastian Pier / PhoneArena: Meta ordered to pay millions of dollars in damagesstarts layoffs
Snaggy / The Joy of Tech: Forum tidbits! — NOTE: Our Forums and CMS and RSS were nixed when our host updated Perl …
Annabel Bowles / ABC: Social Media
Shalom Levytam / iClarified: MetaGoogle Found Liable in Social Media Addiction TrialOrdered to Pay Millions
Wendy Davis / MediaPost: Jury Sides Against MetaGoogle In Media Addiction Trial
Kelly Stonelake / Overturned: Statement On Today's Landmark Verdicts Against Meta and YouTube
Kristin Stoller / Fortune: A court just ruled that tech addiction is real—and dangerous. It could be Meta and YouTube's Big Tobacco moment
Rina Chandran / Rest of World: MetaYouTube verdict can ripple through social media markets worldwide
Sky News on YouTube: Live outside LA court after Meta and YouTube found liable for social media addiction
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Meta and YouTube Lose First Social Media Addiction TrialJury Awards $3 Million
Jonathan Small / Entrepreneur: A Jury Just Found Meta and YouTube Liable in Addiction Case. They Must Pay $3 Million — and It's Just the Beginning.
Colin Lecher / CalMatters: Jury finds MetaGoogle liable for teen's mental distress in landmark social media trial
Kelly Stonelake / Overturned: Breaking: Meta and YouTube Found Guilty of Addicting and Harming Teens
New York Post: MetaYouTube found liable for woman's debilitating social media addiction in $3M landmark trial
Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A Legal Decision That Could Change Social Media
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Andy Stone / @andymstone: Meta statement on LA verdict: “We respectfully disagree with the verdict and will appeal. Teen mental health is profoundly complex and cannot be linked to a single app. We will continue to defend ourselves vigorously as every case is differentand we remain confident in our record of protecting teens online.”
Tim Wu / @superwuster: Here is the long-term significance of today's Los Angeles social media trial victory: it is a move away from a conversation about speech and innovationand toward bringing public health concerns decisively to the legal forefront. Read more here: https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meghann Cuniff / @meghanncuniff: “He's the guruso to speakand he should have reallyreally known what he was going to say out to us jurorsbefore he even said anything,” the juror said of Zuckerberg.
Ed Markey / @senmarkey: My Statement on the Social Media Addiction Trial Verdict [image] “Big Tech's Big Tobacco moment has arrived. Today's verdict against Meta and Google is a historic moment for protecting young people online...”
Mike Swift / @swiftstories: Just to correct the Guvin this caseit was actually the state of New Mexico that stepped upalthough California @AGRobBonta will be the lead state in the state AG trial scheduled for August in Oakland.
Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie: The '90s debate over violent TV/movies/videogames is backnow with more ‘science’ and moral panic.
@wsjopinion: The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for the plaintiffs bar—not for children or society. https://www.wsj.com/...
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: No. Don't blame parents for a product that was painstakingly designed by thousands of people to addict teens. Meta knew that Insta hurt teen girls. They knew it led to body dysmorphia; they even saw evidence it led to thoughts of self-harm. They did it anyways and made billions.
Rebecca Kern / @rebeccamkern: This is a huge rulinga break in the Section 230 defense Meta and YouTube have been using for years
Governor Gavin Newsom / @cagovernor: Big Tech is finally answering for the harm it has caused our children — after years of fighting against common sense regulationstoday's verdict shows that they can't escape accountability. California isn't backing down. We've enacted the nation's strongest protectionsand we'll keep holding companies accountable if they put profit over the lives and well-being of children.
Meghann Cuniff / @meghanncuniff: Two jurors spoke to reporters in the courthouse hallway about their $6 million verdict against Meta and YouTube. ($3M compensatory | $3M punitive70% Meta | 30% YouTube) One said Mark Zuckerberg's testimony “was notit was — he changed itand that didn't sit well with us.”
Rahm Emanuel / @rahmemanuel: Anybody could have seen this coming. Finally Big Tech is being held accountable for the damage it's done to our adolescence. The jury tells you where public opinion is. No time to rest on our laurels. Now it's time to take it to the next step. Congress has to act and ban social
Jonathan Haidt / @jonhaidt: Great analysis from Tim Wu: Social media is a defectivehazardous productand states have the right to act to protect their children from dangerous products.
U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor / @usrepkcastor: Meta is being held responsible for putting kids on their platforms in danger 👏🏼 Reminder that Big Tech knows exactly what they're doingand the Billionaires in charge are trying to stop Congress from regulating them and protecting your kids.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn: Juries in New Mexico and California are decisively holding Meta accountable. NowCongress must do the same by passing the Kids Online Safety Act. [video]
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: On landmark Meta and Google child harm verdictsit's critical to note this isn't a one-off. It's been 10+ years of prioritizing profits over people. Massive surveillance advertising + monopoly businesses. Cambridge Analytica. Data leakage. Search + adtech monopolies. Recidivism.
Tom Steyer / @tomsteyer: We need to ban social media for children under 16. The evidence linking these platforms to young people's mental health issues is too clear.
Senator Schuyler VanValkenburg / @scvanvalkenburg: We can protect free speech and kids. For too long we've let social media companies addict our kids to their products. It's why I carried SB854 to create a more responsible default for how our kids use social media. To make it less addictive. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Kamala Harris / @kamalaharris: Long before today's rulingwe knew social media was harming our young people. Teensparentsadvocatesand even casual observers begged tech and elected leaders to take action. While we applaud this decisionwe have much more work to do to protect young people online and support their mental health and wellness.
Meghann Cuniff / @meghanncuniff: The two jurors who disagreed with every answer (both are women) did not speak to reportersbut their tones during polling indicated they REALLY disagree. After 8 days of deliberationthe defense teams will have a lot to dig through as they prepare their motions for new trial.
Naomi Nix / @naominixwrites: There are so many takeaways from the LA and New Mexico rulings but I'll highlight three. 1) The academic researchwhich has limited experimental designshas been mixed on the connection between mental distress and social media. The companies own docs were crucial to the case.
Rob Bonta / @agrobbonta: Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico have found Meta responsible for what we at CA DOJ know to be true: Meta is prioritizing profits over the safety of children and violating consumer protection laws. We congratulate @NewMexicoDOJ and CA families for standing up to Meta and securing favorable outcomes. CA DOJ looks forward to holding Meta accountable in our own upcoming August trial in the Bay Area.
Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino: How you design and display your speech product is an editorial choice integral to the speech itself. How a publisher lays out his newspaper or website is an editorial choice. So is adding cliffhangers to the end of TV shows. Those choices are — and should be — protected by the First Amendment. Andyesthey are choices made to entice people to consume more speech. That's OK!
Adam Thierer / @adamthierer: While many will be divided on the outcome of “Internet addiction” cases like thisone thing should be clear: Cases like this will likely unleash a trial lawyer bonanza via a much broader wave of (mostly frivolous) lawsuits. Every tort lawyer in America is probably thinking about ripping down their “Been in a Crash?” billboards right now and replacing them with “Addicted to the Internet?” signs. It'll be a search for deep pockets at firstbut the litigation hell will quickly expand to cover firms and platforms of all nature and sizes. The contingency fee payouts for the tort bar will be gloriousbut it's unclear what it all means from there for the public or providers. Likely a lot more heavy-handed censorship and privacy invasions by platforms to comply with junk science-based jury verdicts and looming legislative threats on top of it all. Biggest tech players have the ability to weather the storm. Mid- and small-sized platforms won't.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn / @marshablackburn: Today's verdict in the landmark social media case marks a monumental victory for parents and children who have had the door slammed in their face by Big Tech for years. It's time for Congress to enshrine protections for American families into law by passing #KOSA. @SenTedCruz
Tristan Harris / @tristanharris: The verdict is in. MetaYouTube both found negligent in social media addiction trial. Everything we predicted in 2013-2017. https://www.cnbc.com/...
Akilah Hughes / @akilahobviously: I've never read comments or seen video responses on NetflixHuluDisney+HBOMax... YouTube is deluding itself. [image]
Senator Dick Durbin / @senatordurbin: These back-to-back decisions in New Mexico and California show that Big Tech has become Big Tobacco. Nowit's time for Congress to sunset Section 230 once and for all.
Akilah Hughes / @akilahobviously: We are gonna zoom out from this era one day and ask wtf we were thinking letting a bunch of narcissistic tech dudes lead the culture.
Josh Hawley / @hawleymo: For years these scumbag social media companies have ruined kids' lives and made BILLIONS off it. Today they got caught. Now Congress needs to find some courage and do its job to protect more kids from these con artists
Abigail Velez / @abc7abigail: “We disagree with the verdict and plan to appeal. This case misunderstands YouTubewhich is a responsibly built streaming platformnot a social media site.” -José CastañedaGoogle spokesperson
@judiciarydems: BREAKING: In ANOTHER loss for Big Techa California jury just ruled against MetaYouTube in landmark social media addiction trial.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / @enbrown: Because of Section 230state attorneys general are stuck prosecuting individual criminals—a task paramount to public safetybut not great at garnering massive payouts to state coffers or getting national attention. THAT'S why they hate it.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / @enbrown: Saying “this isn't about speechit's about consumer protection” or “this isn't about speechit's about product design” is just the latest tactic from state attorneys general greedy for cash & cache. they've been trying this in different forms for decades https://reason.com/...
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / @enbrown: The Meta ruling is badno matter how much you dislike Meta or how much New Mexico tries to pretend its about “product design” It's an attempt to get around Section 230 (& 1A) protectionshold platforms liable for user speechdo universal age verification & end encrypted msg [image]
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: (4) Re-upping this from earlier. We need to wake up to the role that psychologists and neuroscientists have played within companies like Meta in making the platforms more addictive. [image]
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: A few quick reflections on the Meta/Google verdict: (1) A jury of regular people has managed to do what Congress and even state legislatures have not: Hold Meta and Google accountable for addicting young people to their products... (2) This is a stark warning to AI chatbot companies like OpenAICharacter AI and Meta itself... (3) I've already seen some people saying that the award amount ($3M) seems low...this was *not* a class action case but rather a test case...if you multiply $3M by the millions...who have been hurt by companies like Metathis starts looking like an existential threat to the business model of addictive design. Let's hope it is.
Tristan Snell / @tristansnell: Social media is officially the new tobacco It is DESIGNED to be ADDICTIVE And it is time for them to pay
Tom Malinowski / @malinowski: This is a huge deal. If juries are affirming that social media is designed to be addictive & are awarding damageslegislators should now be able to ban the addictive features that have done so much harm to the mental health of our kids and the fabric of our democracy.
Jonathan Turley / @jonathanturley: The verdict against Google and Meta is clearly a seismic event with thousands of lawsuits in the works. Howeverthe legal basis for this ruling remains highly challengeable in my view. I have taught torts for 30 years and remain skeptical about the causation links in the case...
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: (4) When I was working for Senator FrankenI learned that the NSA was the nation's top recruiter of math PhDs. Now is a good time to recognize that tech companies employ armies of psychologists. Some work to help users. Most make the platforms more “engaging,” i.e. addictive. [image]
Ron DeSantis / @rondesantis: Big implications right here... [image]
Tim Wu / @superwuster: No more excuses for defective social media products https://www.nbclosangeles.com/ ...
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: Quick thoughts on the Meta/YouTube verdict: (1) A jury of regular people has managed to do what Congress and even state legislatures have not: Hold Meta and Google accountable for addicting young people to their products. Astonishinglythe tech giants have managed to avoid [image]
Jonathan Haidt / @jonhaidt: Victory in the social media trial in LA! As of todaywe are in a new world: a new era in the fight to protect children from online harms. A jury sided with Kaley and therefore with millions of children: Big Tech is harming kids on an industrial scale. For yearsparents were told these harms were exaggeratedanecdotalor simply the unavoidable cost of growing up online. Todaya jury affirmed what parents have long known: Meta and YouTube were designed to exploit young peoplewith devastating consequences [...]
Eric Daugherty / @ericldaugh: 🚨 BREAKING: In a MASSIVE jury verdictGoogle and Meta have just been found LIABLE for getting children addicted to social media — a $3 million reward in damages has been ordered to one plaintiff “This is blood in the water.” This could impact THOUSANDS of social media cases. [video]
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Glenn Moss: Appeals of course..and certainly a chance to get overturned or sent back...but the significance of this verdict at trial cannot be ignored. …
Michael Toscano: Earlier todayMr. Zuckerberg was namedwith a dozen or so other Big Tech CEOsto the White House's President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Policy. …
Kelly Stonelake: Juries in Los Angeles and New Mexico delivered what history will record as a turning point: accountability has arrived for Big Tech. …
Kelly Stonelake: BREAKING: In landmark social media addiction lawsuita jury of our peers said that social platforms Meta and YouTube caused harm and failed to warn the public. …
Nicki Petrossi: Thoughts on the big win — New Mexico vs. Meta — and how it relates to the case here in California. #BigTechOnTrial #VerdictWatchDay9
Lennon Torres: The parents don't get their kids back and we don't get our childhood's back. But today hope shines through with a guilty verdict on all counts against Meta and Google. …
Ashvin Sood: WellI haven't posted in a while but today something changed. — Todaywe are seeing that legal entitites are taking social media to task. …
Dan Jeffris: Interestingbecause I sat in a meeting in Palo Alto over 7 years ago with a VC guy who stated unequivocally that to be a successful app company in Silicon Valley your technology had to be addictive. …
Mike Dowdle: GUILTY!! Meta and YouTube were found liable in the K.G.M v. Meta and YouTube case (Snap & TikTok settled pre-trial). …
Lily Rhodes: It's happening. — Just nowa Los Angeles jury found both Meta and YouTube liable in the landmark social media addiction trial. …
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Randi Weingarten / @rweingarten: Corporations shouldn't be able to push addictive products on our kids. We took steps to reign in Big Tobaccoand now Big Tech is being held accountable for the addiction and mental health problems it knowingly causes while rushing to profit. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/m...
Mischa / @mischamouse: Let the literal flood of lawsuits begin. I'd enjoy seeing Zuckerberg sued into poverty. — www.bbc.com/news/article...
Attorney General Jennifer Davenport / @newjerseyoag: The verdicts against Meta confirm what we've known all along: they are harming our kids. — As a parentI am committed to holding Meta accountable - and we'll do just that when we go to trial later this year. Our kids deserve better. — www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
Lauren Feiner / @laurenfeiner: Wow - huge win across the board for plaintiff Kaley G.M. in the landmark social media addiction case against Meta and YouTube. On the heels of Meta's loss in New Mexico just the day before. www.theverge.com/policy/90065...
Elf M. Sternberg / @elfsternberg: Facebook argued that child exploitation and abuse is a fact of lifeso it had only minimal responsibility to prevent people from using its products to commit it. The court didn't buy it: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ...
Naomi Nix / @naominix: There are so many takeaways from the LA and New Mexico rulings but I'll highlight three. — 1) The academic researchwhich has limited experimental designshas been mixed on the connection between mental distress and social media. The companies own docs were crucial to the case.
Richard Blumenthal / @blumenthal.senate.gov: This verdict is the beginning of real justice for parents across the country that have suffered & faced heartbreaking loss from Big Tech's greed. 1/
Richard Blumenthal / @blumenthal.senate.gov: I would urge any member of Congress that continues to do Mark Zuckerberg's bidding to look at this verdict & their conscience. It's time to enact the Kids Online Safety Act into law. 3
Richard Blumenthal / @blumenthal.senate.gov: It is also powerful proof that the Kids Online Safety Act—to provide accountability & protections for all young people in America—is urgently needed. 2/
Emily Hunt / @emily.space: If this verdict holdsI can see this lawsuit being a landmark case: if social media companies are liable for making addictive appsthen it could massively limit the extent to which they can use algorithms to harm people.
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Kara Swisher / @karaswisher: This aged well: “Here's how I see it: FacebookTwitter and Google's YouTubehave become the digital arms dealers of the modern age. These companies began with a gauzy credo to change the world. But they have done that in ways they did not imagine — by weaponizing pretty much everything that could be weaponized.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
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Stefan Bohacek / @[email protected]: “The trial is a test caseknown as a bellwethertied to about 2,000 other pending lawsuits brought by parents and school districts arguing that social media giants should be considered manufacturers of defective products for hooking a generation of young people to social media feeds.” …
Tiffany Li / @[email protected]: This is a big deal. Court finds Meta and Google liable for kids' social media addiction under product liability theories. This strategy gets around Section 230 protections because the focus is on the platforms' product designsnot the content posted by users. https://www.latimes.com/...
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r/NPR: Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman who compulsively used social media as a small childawarding her $6 million in social media addiction trial
r/InterstellarKinetics: BREAKING: A Jury Just Ordered Meta And YouTube To Pay $3 Million In The First-Ever Social Media Addiction TrialOpening The Door To 1,600 More Lawsuits 💰💥
r/BoycottUnitedStates: Jury finds Meta and Google liable in social media addiction trial! Let's get rid of their products next? :)
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The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs barnot kids or society; parenting helps mitigate the harms and most kids don't face severe issues — The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for the plaintiffs barnot for children or society.More:
Matthew Broersma / Silicon UK: Los Angeles Jury Finds MetaGoogle Liable Over Youth Harms
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review: L.A. Jury Finds Social Media Companies Liable for User's Depression
Nick Heer / Pixel Envy: Meta Loses Two Landmark Cases Regarding Product Safety and Children's Use; Google Loses One
Dawn Chmielewski / Irish Independent: Google and Meta lose $3m case taken over social media addiction
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Aaron Stupple / @astupple: Like a casinorestaurants manipulate users with carefully designed soundssmellsand tasteshijacking users' brains with foods we never encountered in our evolutionary pastall in the name of profit.
Aaron Stupple / @astupple: PSA: Big Tobacco sells a chemical that goes inside your brain and binds receptors that produce a feeling. Social media companies route you to people's speech and drawings that you might be interested independing on what you think about what you see and hear.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: This verdict will lead to “a lot more heavy-handed censorship and privacy invasions by platforms to comply with junk science-based jury verdicts and looming legislative threats. Biggest tech players have the ability to weather the storm. Mid- and small-sized platforms won't.”
@ennuiboy420: Taylor Lorenz always coming to the defense* of brain rotted phone addicted kids and their tech oligopoly enablers is so funny cuz like girl YOU'RE a victim. You can see that right. Lmao
@eckhartsladder: Taylor Lorenz is consistently on the wrong side of so many issues related to children and technology. A child having a bad home life means that we shouldn't protect them from other dangers or punish those who target them? Insane.
Sacha Haworth / @sachalouise: this is actually not what the verdict says and Taylor knows that. jurors found IG and YT made KGM's existing depression & anxiety worse — andcruciallythat both Meta & Google knew their products did this and didn't change anything. And buried the proof. And lied.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Outside the LA courthouse parents who say social media addiction killed their children outline the policies they want to come as a result of this legal win: - Senate version of KOSA w/ strong duty of care - Reform/repeal Section 230 - Age verification laws [video]
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Many parents who claim their children were/are “victims” of social media just have LGBTQ kidsautistic kidsand are already making this exact argument sadly: https://www.independent.co.uk/ ...
Michael McGough / @michaelmcgough3: Worth a readwhich is something I don't say about a lot of Wall Street Journal editorials. https://www.wsj.com/...
Hoots Hootman / @punishedhoots: Sonone of this means these platforms aren't addictive. In factadolescents with adverse childhood experiences are more susceptible to addictions so it makes sense
@nnnnnnxox: Stop shilling for big techtheyre designed specifically to pick up on trauma and insecurities and amplify it. Thats why we are in this mess today
Meghann Cuniff / @meghanncuniff: I think we may hear about this from the two jurors who said no to every question if they talk to the defense attorneys and the defense files a motion for new trial.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Her mother beat herabused herweighed her dailycalled her father sister tried to take her own life and her father abandoned her. Yet none of that apparently led to this poor girl's anxietydepression and body dysmorphiait was lip gloss review videos on youtube
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety lawsLA and New Mexico juries take the leadholding social media companies accountable for harming young users — A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young usershighlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.More:
Prabhanu Kumar Das / MediaNama: US Jury Holds MetaGoogle Liable for Addictive Design Harming Teen Mental Health
Sreedhar Potarazu / The American Bazaar: The jury just confirmed what we knew in 2015 about social media and children
New Mexico Department of Justice: New Mexico Department of Justice Wins Landmark Verdict Against Meta
Morgan Lee / Associated Press: MetaYouTube face thousands of cases on whether they harmed children after bellwether cases go against them
Julia Angwin / New York Times: Big Tech Should Pay for What It Has Done to Us
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Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin: The tide is turning. The dollar amount in this lawsuit- $6 million - is lowbut the implications are massive. Tech companies are finally being held liable for designing harmful products. My latest for @nytopinion (gift link) on why this win matters. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Meghann Cuniff / @meghanncuniff: Inbox: “With this verdictNew Mexico becomes the first state in the nation to prevail at trial against a major tech company for harming young people. ... The jury found Meta liable for both claims brought by the State of New Mexico under the Unfair Practices Act.” [image]
Erin Burnett OutFront / @outfrontcnn: Former Meta employee says Mark Zuckerberg did not reply to his message about the danger Instagram poses to childrenincluding his own daughter. “The research I did at Instagram found that 1 in 8 kids get unwanted sexual advances. 1 in 5 feel worse about themselves... he didn't [video]
| Wall Street Journal: |
Back-to-back jury verdicts holding Meta liable could spur a flood of litigation against social media companies and threaten to undermine Section 230 protections — Social-media giants confront existential dilemma as a flood of litigation challenges their product designsMore:
Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: US jury verdicts against MetaGoogle tee up fight over tech liability shield
Business Insider: Meta and Google lose landmark trial as jury finds them liable for harming young users' mental health
Rahul Goreja / Business Standard: How MetaYouTube were found ‘negligent’ in social media addiction lawsuit
Michael Robuck / Mobile World Live: MetaGoogle lose landmark social media addiction trial
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Alan Eyre / @alaneyre1: Excellent news. Hopefully the first of many such verdicts. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller: @BedoyaUSA “The jury also decided that Meta and Google's actions should trigger punitive damageswhich means there will be a separate phase of the trial where the jury will decide what amount of damages are appropriate to punish the multi-trillion-dollar companies for their conduct.”
Meghann Cuniff / @meghanncuniff: I discussed the $6 million verdict against Meta and YouTube tonight in the child social media addiction trial. [video]
Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino: I'm concerned about this verdict and the overall trend of treating speech platforms as addictive — and therefore dangerous — products. Alsothe verdict diminishes the responsibility parents have to raise healthy kids. For example: “Kaley says she began using YouTube at age 6 and Instagram at age 9 and told the jury she was on social media ‘all day long’ as a child.” Where were the parents?
Jason Kint / @jason_kint: It doesn't. So stop being concerned. @TaylorLorenz shared this so cc her. It's the product design not the content. That has been and will be instagram and facebook's angle with friends and proxies to try to soften press coverage and parent outrage for harming their children.
Jean Twenge / @jean_twenge: Surethe “where are the parents?” argumentbecause it's so easy to keep kids off social media when age isn't verifiedparental permission isn't requiredthe parental controls in the apps are so hidden and hard to use hardly any parents use themand kids fear being the only
Paul J. Pastor / @pauljpastor: Strong disagree. These are corporate products firstnot speech platformsand that distinction is vital. The same principles of common/social good that govern environmental pollution can & should be applied here. Parents are vitalbut their action is not enough in this case.
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: Good flag that $3M may just be the beginning...
Tom Malinowski / @malinowski: Imagine a company was monitoring your child's behaviordeduced she was depressedthen phoned her to say “You might consider suicideand can we send you some videos about that?” That's how social media algorithms are designed to work. The 1st Amendment does not protect this.
Meghan Bobrowsky / @meghanbobrowsky: New story from us on what the back-to-back verdicts mean for Metaft this interview w/ a juror in the LA case who spoke to @erichschwartzel She said Zuckerberg seemed unprepared during testimony which was surprising for “the guru” whose products were at the center of the case [image]
Nico Perrino / @nicoperrino: @jason_kint @TaylorLorenz How you design and display your speech product is an editorial choice integral to the speech itself. How an editor lays out his newspaper or website is an editorial choice. So is adding cliffhangers to the end of TV shows. Those choices are — and should be — protected by the
Jill Filipovic / @jillfilipovic: I think these are fair concerns but I'm not sure “where are the parents?” matters here. If cigarettes are addictive and dangerousespecially for kidswe don't saywellput 'em in the candy aisle and let parents do their jobs to make sure kids only have one or two a day.
Vance Ginn / @vanceginn: Empower parentsnot politicians.
Julie Barrett / @juliecbarrett: This is a critical point that really must be at the forefront of our discussions about children and the digital world. Ultimatelyparents have the duty and responsibility to protect their childrento enforce boundariesand to shield their children from the known harms online. At 6 and 9 years oldI also have to ask...where were the parents???
Paris Martineau / @parismartineau: this is a huge deal and a sign of the changing legal tides for big tech. the plaintiffs attorneys here were early adopters of a novel legal strategy that uses product liability law to sidestep tech firms' go-to defense (section 230) & hold them accountable for negligent design [image]
Manuel Guzman / @manuelguzman: Parents used to set time limits for tv viewing when I was growing up. Letting your 6 year old kid spend all day on YouTube is crazy.
Theo Bertram / @theobertram: Feels like tipping point on social media & kids. Mondaya longitudinal study from Imperial College London showed children who spent more than 3 hrs a day later suffered increased anxiety & depressionwhile Meta & YouTube lost ‘addiction by design’ legal case regarding a minor.
Aaron Stupple / @astupple: Jury finds talking to people is addictive.
Sam Adler-Bell / @samadlerbell: will somebody PLEASE think of the massive monopolistic companies that simply want to make a little profit off the anxietiesself-hatredsand resentments of their users??
Brian Reed / @brihreed: Evidence at this trial put the lie to “it's the parents!” An internal study from @Meta and @UChicago found that parental involvement doesn't curb compulsive social media use - even when parents use Meta's own parental controls. They don't work; Meta knew it; still blamed parents.
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A jury in the Los Angeles social media trial awards the plaintiff $3M in compensatory damages and $3M in punitive damages; Meta will pay $4.2M and YouTube $1.8M — A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.
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Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Major court ruling says social media apps are intentionally addictive; Meta & Google lose
Austin Sarat / The Guardian: The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for children - and the US justice system
Ben Turner / LiveScience: Live Science Today: Meta and Google fined for causing social media addiction and how dogs were our friends for millennia
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: Congress Held Hearings. Juries Held Meta Accountable.
Josh Milton / Metro.co.uk: A landmark social media addiction trial just took place - could it happen in the UK?
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: MetaYouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child
Tufayel Ahmed / Kansas City Star: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Praise Landmark Ruling Against MetaGoogle
George Daniel / Lawyer Monthly: Can You Sue Meta (Facebook or Instagram) for Addiction or Mental Health Harm?
Darren Lyn / Anadolu Ajansı Güncel Haberler: MetaYouTube found liable for $3M in social media addiction trial
Jill Filipovic / Throughline: Social Media Is to Blame for Mental Health Harmsa Jury Finds
Soumyarendra Barik / The Indian Express: MetaYouTube found liable for ‘addiction’ in the US. Could it have implications in India?
Melania Watson / B&T: Meta To Appeal ‘Addictive Design’ Ruling As Court Finds Instagram & YouTube Liable For Teen's Harm
Io Dodds / The Independent: ‘Beyond massive’: How a court victory by a teenager addicted to Instagram and YouTube could upend the whole tech industry
Martin Peers / The Information: Meta's Future Value and the Social Media Verdict
Rob Nicholls / Bizcommunity: Meta and Google just lost a landmark social media addiction case. A tech law expert explains the fallout
Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: Meta and YouTube just found negligent in landmark social media addiction case — ‘a significant blow to social networks’
Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter: After YouTube and Meta are found liablewhat's next for social media addiction trials?
Clare Duffy / CNN: Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial
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Bobby Allyn / @bobbyallyn: One of the jurorswho gave her name as Victoriaaddressed reporters in the courtroom hallway after the verdict standing next to the jury foremanMatthew. Victoria said: “we wanted them to feel itwe wanted them to know this was unacceptable.”
Alvaro Bedoya / @bedoyausa: Jurors have now recommended an additional $3 million in punitive damagesfor a tentative total of $6M to K.G.M.the plaintiff. Every single AI company running parasocial chatbots is going to be holding some long meetings over the next few days.
Richard Hanania / @richardhanania: Woman gets $3 million in a jury trial because she says YouTube and Meta made her mentally ill. I'm concerned about kids and social media. But the hostility to personal responsibility and lawlessness of this decision is much worse. https://www.wsj.com/...
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Marty Lederman / @martylederman: Serious question: Was this actually YouTube's defense? “YouTube argued ... that its features were not designed to be addictive.” (If sodid they think they might have jurors who have never visited YouTube?) — www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
Kate Klonick / @klonick: It is really early to tell the significance of this bc it could all be reversed on appeal on both whether the judge's early 1A and 230 decisions were correct (which allowed this to proceed to trial) and then the jury's decision as well. — This will likely be years before it is final — or not! [embedded post]
Rep. Kim Schrier / @repkimschrier: This is an important step forward in holding big tech accountable for the harm they are causing young people. — apnews.com/article/soci...
Kate Klonick / @klonick: Jury just came back with an additional $3M in punitive damages so grand total of $6M. — ~2000 Plaintiffs consolidated on the case are in different situations but even as a bottom number for settlement that puts the loss around $12B just for the California state cases that are currently brought. …
Casey Newton / @caseynewton: This verdict seemed very likely the moment that TikTok and Snap settled rather than go to trial. A landmark moment for Big Tech www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
Will Oremus / @willoremus.com: Yesterday a jury in New Mexico found that Meta endangered children online. Today a jury in California found Meta and YouTube negligent for addictive product design. — And now: “There are thousands more lawsuits waiting to be heard... ” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/ 2...
James McLeod / @jamespmcleod.ca: This is a big deal; Canada should take notice. — Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case — Jury found them negligent in app designsharming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. — www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/t...
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Meta confirms laying off staff on March 25; a source says Meta laid off ~700 employees in its Reality Labs unitas well as in recruitingsalesand Facebook — Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employeesa person with knowledge of the company saidthe latest downsizing … More:
Alexei Oreskovic / Fortune: Meta's back-to-back courtroom losses: a harsh reality check to delusional hubris
Suhasini Srinivasaragavan / Silicon Republic: 15 jobs to go in Meta's Irish operations as global cuts announced
Isa Muhammad / PocketGamer.biz: Meta cuts roughly 700 jobs as it shifts resources toward artificial intelligence infrastructure
Pranav Dixit / Business Insider: Some Meta employees were told to work remotely for the day as layoffs loom
Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: Meta Is Laying Off Workers to Fund AI While Giving Executives Massive Raises
BT Shorts / Business Today: Meta cuts 700 jobsas it doubles down on AI
Marie Joy Toledo / International Business Times: Meta Fires 700 Employees While Executives Could Pocket $921M—What's Really Happening?
Tom Williams / Information Age: MetaYouTube lose landmark social media case
O'Ryan Johnson / The Register: Meta cuts about 700 jobs as it shifts spending to AI
Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: Meta to lay off hundreds of employeesThe Information reports
Moses Jeanfrancois / Inc.com: Meta Layoffs Shake Up Company as AI Reshapes Workforce
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta is cutting several hundred jobs
Ariel Zilber / New York Post: Meta lays off hundreds more workers as Mark Zuckerberg pivots away from costly ‘metaverse’ push
Cris Tolomia / Quartz: Meta layoffs reportedly imminent as HR tells wearables and ads departments to work from home
Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta is reportedly laying off more workers.
Jyoti Mann / The Information: Meta Platforms to Lay Off Hundreds
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@_investinq: Meta just handed its top executives the biggest pay packages since the company went public in 2012on the same day it laid off hundreds of workers. The CFOthe Chief Product Officerthe head of techand the COO are all getting stock options worth potentially hundreds of [image]
Amanda Goodall / @thejobchick: When I said Meta layoffs were coming... I didn't say it lightly. Even when the Comms Director publicly disagrees with me. Reality Labs and Facebook employees being hit. Business Insider article out today about this says: “A spokesperson for Meta declined to comment.” Do with that what you will.
Danielle DiMartino Booth / @dimartinobooth: Some @Meta employees directed to work remotely on Wed as company prepares layoffs...news comes after it was reported >20% of ~79,000 employees could be let go (~16,000)...would be largest workforce reduction since 2022-23 restructuringwhen Meta eliminated >21k. @BusinessInsider
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Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing employees into AI-native “pods” focused on specific outcomesas part of a shift toward a flatter organization — - A large division within Meta Reality Labs is undergoing an overhaul to become fully “AI-native.”
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OpenAI shelves its erotic chatbot “indefinitely” as it refocuses on its core productssources say after technical issues as well as staff and investor concerns — Decision follows staff and investor concerns about sexual AI content — OpenAI has shelved plans to release an erotic chatbot … More:
Steve Dent / Engadget: OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot ‘indefinitely’
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: OpenAI halts “Adult Mode” as advisorsinvestorsand employees raise red flags
Stan Schroeder / Mashable: OpenAI's adult chatbot probably isn't happening
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Google sets its post-quantum cryptography migration deadline for 2029aiming to “secure the quantum era” as “quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear” — Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day …
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Google Online Security Blog: Security for the Quantum Era: Implementing Post-Quantum Cryptography in Android
Pedro Solimano / DL News: Google is accelerating its timeline for quantum reckoning. Here's when BitcoinEthereum need to be ready
Sinisa Markovic / Help Net Security: Google races to secure encryption before quantum threats arrive
Olivia Stephanie / crypto.news: Google accelerates quantum safe encryption timeline to 2029
Pradeep Viswanathan / Neowin: Google starts preparing Android for post-quantum cryptography era
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: Android 17 Gets Quantum-Safe Encryption Across Full Security Stack
Derek B. Johnson / CyberScoop: Google moves post-quantum encryption timeline up to 2029
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Google Sets 2029 Deadline to Deal With Quantum Threat—Is It a Problem for Bitcoin?
Ilia Temelkov / PhoneArena: Google is preparing Android 17 to protect you from the upcoming security apocalypse
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority: Google's future-proofing Android 17 against tomorrow's quantum hackers
Alex Scroxton / ComputerWeekly.com: Google targets 2029 for post-quantum cyber readiness
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Nic Carter / @nic_carter: I'm sure bitcoin can agree on a path forwardwrite and test a series of updatessoft fork them inand fully migrate 50m addresses in 3 years. Especially with how proactive the core devs are being
@newsfromgoogle: Building for the future means preparing for the quantum era today. Our security teams have just introduced our 2029 timeline for PQC migrationwarning that quantum computers could break standard encryption much sooner than many previously expected. Learn more in @ArsTechnica.
Craig Gidney / @craiggidney: I would bet against Q day by 2030but I wouldn't bet against it at 10:1 odds. ~10% risk is unacceptably high hereso I'm very in favor of transitioning to quantum-safe cryptography by 2029: https://blog.google/... Yes this means I 90% expect to be made fun of in 2030. Oh well.
Bas Westerbaan / @bwesterb: If 2026 wasn't enough already: Google's worried Q-day is as early as 2029. https://blog.google/...
Phil Venables / @philvenables: Google just shifted PQC migration goal to 2029. Others likely to follow given projected advances of quantum computing capability toward a cryptographically relevant quantum computer (CRQC). https://blog.google/... Will we see a CRQC by 2029? Most likely notbut to be safe
Nic Carter / @nic_carter: Google updates their quantum migration deadline to 2029: “Google's introducing a 2029 timeline to secure the quantum era with post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration. Last monthwe called to secure the quantum era before a future quantum computer can break current encryption. [image]
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@durumcrustulum.com: I expected 2028 but still; moving the authentication migration upnot just key agreement [embedded post]
@wowbaggert: 1) This is a good goal — 2) In the current climateI would bet a thousand dollars their plan is to get this all done fast “with agents doing the code updates!” which will result in another new class of security holes inserted into previously secure code.
Dan Goodin / @dangoodin: Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Daythe point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key algorithms that secure decades' worth of secrets belonging to militariesbanksand nearly every individual on earth — arstechnica.com/security/202...
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Dan Goodin / @[email protected]: Google is dramatically shortening its deadline readiness for the arrival of Q Daythe point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades' worth of secrets belonging to militariesbanksgovernmentsand nearly every individual on earth. …
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Microsoft says it will use GitHub Copilot interaction datalike inputsoutputsand code snippetsto train its AI models from April 24unless users opt out — The generative AI models powering ChatGPTCopilot Geminiand other assistants were created with mountains of training data.
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Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy
Thomas Claburn / The Register: GitHub hits CTRL-Zdecides it will train its AI with user data after all
Anamarija Pogorelec / Help Net Security: GitHub jumps on the bandwagon and will use your data to train AI
Harkaram Grewal / Implicator.ai: GitHub Reverses PolicyWill Train AI on Copilot User Data Starting April 24
Maximilian Schreiner / The Decoder: GitHub will use Copilot interaction data to train AI models starting April 2026
Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer: GitHub Will Use Copilot Interaction Data for AI Training by Default
Arthur Kay / Ghacks: GitHub Enables Copilot Data Collection For AI Training By Default With Opt?Out Setting
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Frank / @jedisct1: I'm surprised it was not already the case TBH > From April 24 onwardinteraction dataspecifically inputsoutputscode snippetsand associated context from GitHub Copilot users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out https://github.blog/...
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The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into Snap for failing to protect kids on Snapchatincluding whether it does enough to assess its users' ages — Investigation comes amid growing scrutiny of the impact and liability of technology platforms towards kids.More:
European Commission: Commission investigates Snapchat's compliance with child protection rules under the Digital Services Act
Alexander Martin / The Record: EU investigating Snapchat and pornography sites in child safety crackdown
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Snapchat hit with EU probe into alleged failure to prevent child groomingillegal goods sales
Gian Volpicelli / Bloomberg: EU Targets SnapchatPorn Websites in Child Protection Push
| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuationup from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software — The companywhich develops autonomous military technologyalso plans to buy a maker of simulation software as interest in next-generation defense soars.| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly $62M worth of export-controlled Nvidia A100s and H100s into China — The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.More:
US Department of Justice: Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China
Jowi Morales / Tom's Hardware: Super Micro shareholders sue company over securities fraud after AI chip smuggling bust — furious investors say company concealed dependence on illicit sales to China
Sinisa Markovic / Help Net Security: Mission to smuggle $170 million worth of AI tech to China collapsed for three men
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@fbi: Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged With Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China @FBIAtlanta Read more about this case: https://fbi.gov/... [image]
Bill Bishop / @niubi: Chinese National and Two U.S. Citizens Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Artificial Intelligence Technology to China https://www.justice.gov/... Another Nvidia chip smuggling casethis time to Thailand. sounds like compliance worked this time [image]
@jkylebass: Another dayanother case of Chinese spies stealing from the U.S. to advance their military capabilities. Thank you@FBIfor your continued work protecting our national security.
Steve Herman / @newsguyusa: A national of China and two Americans are alleged to have sought millions of dollars' worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company for illegal shipment to China through Thailand. https://www.justice.gov/... https://flipboard.social/...
Ryan Fedasiuk / @ryanfedasiuk: This weekthe House Foreign Affairs Committee will mark up one of the most important bills of 2026: The Chip Security Act. After more than a year in the makingwe stand on the cusp of revolutionizing 🇺🇸's approach to export control — to PROMOTE U.S. AI. Here's how: 🧵 1/ [image]
@kakashiii111: New DayNew Smuggling Charge. This Time: Thailand. The DOJ just unsealed charges against three individualsa Chinese national and two US citizensfor conspiring to smuggle export-controlled AI chips to China through Thailand. The alleged scheme involved ordering 750 servers [image]
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Nintendo says its new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for their physical and digital versions in the USbeginning in May — Nintendo of America has announced thatbeginning in Mayit will introduce differing pricing for physical and digital versions of its Switch 2 games.More:
Tom Phillips / IGN: Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Games Will Now Be More Expensive Than Digital VersionsWith $10 Price Difference for Yoshi and The Mysterious Book
Rhiannon Bevan / TheGamer: Nintendo Announces Price Changes For First-Party Switch 2 GamesDepending On Whether They're Physical Or Digital
Demi Williams / TechRadar: Nintendo confirms the cost of physical Switch 2 games ‘is not going up’ after announcing digital titles will cost less than physical versions in the US
Steve Vegvari / iPhone in Canada: Nintendo to Charge Less for Digital Switch 2 Games Starting in May
Ryan Parreno / Gameranx: Nintendo Is Officially Lowering Prices For Digital Versions Of 1st Party Switch 2 Games
Sickr / My Nintendo News: Nintendo clarifies that physical games won't go up but digital will be cheaper
Adam Vjestica / The Shortcut: Nintendo Switch 2 price change: physical games will be more expensive than digital soon
Derek Strickland / TweakTown: Nintendo price adjusts new Switch 2 games in US regiondigital to be cheaper and physical more expensive
Denny Connolly / VICE: Nintendo Announces Game Price Changes for Switch 2
Pulasthi Ariyasinghe / Neowin: Nintendo Switch 2 physical games to cost more than digital versions going forward
James Ratcliff / GameRant: Some Nintendo Switch 2 Physical Games Are Getting More Expensive
William D'Angelo / VG Charts: Nintendo Published Switch 2 Games to Have Separate Physical and Digital Prices Starting in May - News
Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: Nintendo to start charging different prices for first-party digital and physical games
Patricia Hernandez / Polygon.com: Physical and digital Switch 2 games will have different pricesNintendo says
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Matthew Ball / @ballmatthew: The Switch 2 continues to get more expensive (e.g. removing the Mario Kart + Switch 2 bundleincreasing accessories prices)just not through direct hardware hikes. Nintendo Switch Online is probably next
@choctopusyt: Looks like digital is $60 and physical is $70. Hoping the new price point sticks for future first party releases for the sake of most gamers who have no preference. As a physical collectorit sucks to have to pay the premium. More people are definitely going to lean towards [image]
@wario64: Nintendo: “The cost of physical games is not going up. “This means that when Nintendo sells digital versions of Nintendo published games exclusive to Nintendo Switch 2 to consumers in the U.S.those prices will have an MSRP that is lower than their physical counterparts.” [image]
Kabi / @kirpinkfury: FINALLY! There's no reason why digital games should cost the same as physical ones. Nintendo has effectively dropped the last nuke towards Game Stop and physical game retailers though.
@dragonogon: am i the only one who thinks this is abysmal why should physical buyers be punished for buying physical? fuck off dude.
Andy Robinson / @andy_vgc: Nintendo of America has announced thatbeginning in Mayit will introduce differing pricing for physical and digital versions of its Switch 2 games. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will retail for $10 more ($70) physically than digitally. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/ ...
Kennedy Clark / @younghavok: Nintendo yet again proving that they are the most pro consumer console maker in the business. You love to see it.
@smashjt: Digital will not be cheaper. Physical will be MORE expensive. You want to impress peopleNintendo? Cut the digital price to what your SAME margins are for physical after shippingstore cutsand fees.
@botalksgames: Well this is massive. Digital first party Nintendo games will be cheaper than physical moving forward.
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r/nintendo: Nintendo has issued a statement to IGN regarding the price of physical games going forward“The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up”.
r/TwoBestFriendsPlay: Nintendo Clarifies ‘The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up’ Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games
r/NintendoSwitch2: Nintendo Clarifies ‘The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up’ Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games
r/NintendoSwitch: Nintendo has issued a statement to IGN: ‘The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up’ Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games
r/Games: Nintendo Clarifies ‘The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up’ Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games
r/consoles: Nintendo Clarifies ‘The Cost of Physical Games Is Not Going Up’ Following Decision to Charge Different Prices for U.S. Physical and Digital Switch 2 Games
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Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to push integrating tech into US children's educational and social lives — The first ladyMelania Trumpbelieves that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.”More:
Associated Press: Melania Trump shares the spotlight with a robot at an education and technology event
Lucas Ropek / TechCrunch: Melania Trump wants a robot to homeschool your child
Lee Moran / HuffPost: Gavin Newsom's Team Inserts Donald Trump Into Melania Trump's Robot Walk And... Wow
Bhaskar Sharma / Digit: Meet Figure 03: The humanoid robot seen walking with Melania Trump and why it is going viral
W. Hackwhacker / Hackwhackers: Pic And Headine Of The Day — Daily Kos this morning: — From the Daily Kos article:
David Edwards / Raw Story: Melania Trump proposes resurrecting ‘Plato’ as ‘humanoid’ robot — to replace teachers
Benzinga: Gavin Newsom Says ‘No’ To Melania Trump's Vision Of ‘Always Patient And Always Available’ Plato-Like Robot Educators
Sam Francis / Robotics & Automation News: Melania Trump presents humanoid robot at White Househighlights role of AI in education and careers
Aidin Vaziri / San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area startup's robot joins Melania Trump at the White House
Giselle Castro-Sloboda / CNET: Melania Trump Escorted by Talking Humanoid Robot at White House Tech Summit
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Zephyr Teachout / @zephyrteachout: Yeah we need a moratorium on AI in schools
Ryan Rozbiani / @ryanrozbiani: 🇺🇸: There are Robots in the White HouseKinda Creepy First Lady Melania Trump arrives for her roundtable on AI educationjoined by a Figure Robot. [video]
Warren Gunnels / @gunnelswarren: I don't want my daughter's teacher to be a humanoid robot named Plato. I want her teacher to be a human being that is paid a living wage and is not forced to work 3 jobs to survive.
Stew Peters / @realstewpeters: MELANIA TRUMP: “Imagine a humanoid educator named Plato. Access to the classical studies is now instantaneous. Humanity's entire corpus of information is available in the comfort of your own home.” Melania Trump pushes for robots to replace real teachers. [video]
Andy Kim / @andykimnj: Or...we could just hire teachers
@humanoidnetwork: Robotics integration is accelerating across every major global industry. The scale of this emerging market is unprecedentedyet the broader public has barely scratched the surface of its full potential. For those seeking meaningful exposure to this evolutionthe convergence
@sketchesbyboze: They're trying to eliminate human teachers at a time when less than a third of students can read on a basic level. Students don't need fancy techwhich has already made learning nearly impossible. We're spending billions to produce a nation of illiterates.
Anish Moonka / @anisha_moonka: That robot walking next to Melania Trump belongs to a company worth $39 billion. It's called Figure 03made by Figure AI. Goldman Sachs projects the entire global market for humanoid robots will be $38 billion by 2035. One company is already valued higher than the whole industry
Sabby Sabs / @sabbysabs2: Here comes your job replacement.
Adam Deats / @adamdeats: This shit is so embarrassing.
@sarcasmstardust: Dear god this is dystopian. Do you have any idea the developmental benefits that come from human interaction with children? I don't want robots as teachers. I want humans who are paid wellrespectedand supported.
Gina Hinojosa / @ginahinojosatx: This is M3GAN. It's a horror movie. No one wants this but edtech profiteers. The commodification of our children is out of control.
@cszabla: “we swear we can compete with asia we developed a robot intelligent enough to replace melania”
Mario Nawfal / @marionawfal: 🇺🇸 Melania Trump raises the idea of humanoid robots being used as teachers. I've seen enough Terminator movies to know how this ends [video]
Matt / @mattxiv: healthcare please
Cassandra MacDonald / @cassandrarules: ThanksI hate it. Uncle Ted was right.
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Uber partners with China-based Pony AI and Croatia-basedRimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi serviceinitially debuting in Zagreb — The companies are already testing autonomous vehicles in Croatiawhere they will launch their first commercial service.More:
Athena Browning / Zag Daily: Three-way Uber deal targets Zagreb for Europe's first commercial robotaxis
Mariella Moon / Engadget: Uber and Pony.ai are testing a robotaxi service for Europe
Lei Kang / CnEVPost: Pony AI partners with Uber and Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service in Croatia
Ana-Maria Stanciuc / The Next Web: UberPony.aiand Rimac's Verne announce Europe's first commercial robotaxi service
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: A little-known Croatian startup is coming for the robotaxi market with help from Uber
Alessandro Parodi / Insurance Journal: UberAutonomous Mobility Firms to Launch Europe's First Commercial Robotaxis
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Pony AIUber to Launch Robotaxis in Croatia in Europe Push
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Daniel Ren / South China Morning Post: China's Pony AI to launch robotaxi service in Europe with Uberlocal start-up
Pony AI Inc.: PONY AI Inc. Scales with 160% Robotaxi Revenues Growth YoY and 500%+ Fare-Charging Revenues Surge YoY in Q4Targeting Deployment in 20+ Cities by Year-End
Phate Zhang / CnEVPost: Pony AI posts first quarterly profittargets 3,000 robotaxis globally this year
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Mistral launches Voxtral TTSan open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languagesincluding Hindi and Arabicbased on Ministral 3B — French AI company Mistral released a new open-source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support.| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril's manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims “inaccurate” — From drones to missiles to submarinesthe $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made.Bluesky:
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Revolut says it aims to base 40% of its global workforce in India by the end of 2026increasing its local headcount to 5,500; Revolut has 12,000 staff globally — European fintech firm Revolut plans to have around 40% of its global workforce based in India by the end of 2026 as it expands its India global capability centre.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool to suggest replies based on a user's conversationsthe ability to touch up photos with Meta AIand more — WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updatesincluding one that generates AI-powered suggested replies based on your conversations.More:
Mike Sorrentino / CNET: WhatsApp's New Update Makes it Easier to Switch PhonesFree Up Storage
Anna Washenko / Engadget: WhatsApp rolls out updates including multiple accounts for iOS
Sweta Kumari / Business Standard: WhatsApp may soon let you send messages that disappear after being read
Jay Bonggolto / Android Central: WhatsApp's big update fixes the three things users have been yelling about for years
Megan du Toit / Bizcommunity: Africa is not just chatting; it is closing deals
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Sources: Chinese chipmaker CXMT hit ~$8B in 2025 revenueup 130% YoYand projects ~$435M in adjusted net incomeexcluding one-time itemsahead of an IPO — ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. more than doubled revenue to $8 billion in 2025giving the strategically important Chinese chipmaker … | Steff Chávez / Financial Times: |
The US Army selects Carlyle and KKR to build two data centers on military basesset to cost $2B eachas its token usage rises 8x during the US' war in Iran — Army secretary says Iran war underscores need to adapt to AI's growing role in modern warfare — The US Army has selected Carlyle … | Sebastian Mallaby / Wall Street Journal: |
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@scaling01: ARC-AGI-3 scores for GPT-5.4Gemini 3.1 Pro and Opus 4.6 Gemini 3.1 Pro: 0.37% GPT-5.4: 0.26% Opus 4.6: 0.25% Grok 4.2: 0% [image]
@beffjezos: Human: 100% AI: <1% Finally a non-saturated benchmark! hill climbing this will require quite a few algorithmic innovations.
Jeremy Howard / @jeremyphoward: These games are kinda fun to play! :)
Derya Unutmaz / @deryatr_: ARC-AGI-3 is an important benchmark. HoweverI have a major issue with the “Human score 100%” statement. How many humans have tested all 1000 puzzles? How were people selected? This was not published for previous ARCs either. In one casethe human score was based on I think 2
François Chollet / @fchollet: Keep in mind: ARC-AGI is *not* a final exam that you pass to claim AGI. Including ARC-AGI-3. The benchmarks target the residual gap between what's hard for AI and what's easy for humans. It's meant to be a tool to measure AGI progress and to drive researchers towards the most
Andy Konwinski / @andykonwinski: ARC-AGI-3 benchmark: - 100% solvable by humans - 1% solvable by AI Everybody keep building benchmarks that agents utterly fail at! Proud this was a Laude Slingshot; will fund other benchmarks that reset SotA to 1%: https://www.laude.org/...
Greg Kamradt / @gregkamradt: The 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games On averagethey are easier for humans and AI Howeverthe difficulty rangesthere are very easy games and games which are more difficult Easy for AI: https://arcprize.org/... Hard for AI: https://arcprize.org/...
François Chollet / @fchollet: ARC-AGI-3 scores agents on how close they are to human action efficiency. All ARC-AGI-3 environments were solved by at least 2 human testers out of 10 (most of the time it was 5+). We use the action count of the 2nd best tester (to avoid outlier performance) as our human
Zvi Mowshowitz / @thezvi: The real metric is ‘time until he is pleased to announce ARC-AGI-4the only unsaturated agentic AI benchmark.’
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: ARC-AGI-3 took me a few triesbut it is definitely human winnable. I am curious how much of the very initially very low performance of frontier models is harnessvisionand toolsversus how much are limitations of LLMs. I guess we will find out! https://arcprize.org/...
@iruletheworldmo: if we saturate arc 3 this year and there's no meaningful shift in the economyit's clear benchmarks have become a gimmick between labs and providers to hill climbmarketmake bread. whilst it's exciting to see a benchmark the models perform so poorly at. and i love this
François Chollet / @fchollet: At the momentARC-AGI-3 is the only unsaturated agentic AI benchmark. Sub-1% scores from frontier models on the private test set. If you want to be among the first to know when an AGI breakthrough happensmonitor the ARC-AGI-3 leaderboard. Any sudden score jump will mean something important has changed about AI capabilities. This happened twice before: sudden ARC-AGI progress marked the advent of AI reasoning (December 2024 jump on ARC 1) and the rise of agentic coding (late-2025 jump on ARC 2) ARC-AGI-3 will be your early warning signal.
Mike Knoop / @mikeknoop: ARC-AGI-3 and ARC Prize 2026 are now live with $2,000,000 in prizes! As of todayversion 3 is the world's only unsaturated agentic intelligence benchmark. Humans score 100% and frontier AI scores ~0%. Play here: https://arcprize.org/... While no single version of ARC is
François Chollet / @fchollet: ARC-AGI-3 is out now! We've designed the benchmark to evaluate agentic intelligence via interactive reasoning environments. Beating ARC-AGI-3 will be achieved when an AI system matches or exceeds human-level action efficiency on all environmentsupon seeing them for the first time. We've done extensive human testing that shows 100% of these environments are solvable by humansupon first contactwith no prior training and no instructions. Meanwhileall frontier AI reasoning models do under 1% at this time.
Bryan Landers / @bryanlanders: It's alive! This 3rd version of ARC-AGI represents an incredible amount of work from the ARC Prize team. Hundreds of games. Thousands of levels. Go build agents!
Greg Kamradt / @gregkamradt: Today we're launching ARC-AGI-3 135 Novel Environments (nearly 1K levels) we build by hand It is the only unsaturated agent benchmark in the world Each game is 100% human solvableAI scores <1% This gap between human and AI performance proves we do not have AGI Agents today [video]
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Philipp Schmid / @_philschmid: Todaywe're releasing Lyria 3 music generation models (Pro/Clip) in @GoogleAIStudio and Gemini API! 🎵 - Lyria 3 Pro generates full songs (minutescontrollable via prompt)$0.08/song. - Lyria 3 Clip creates 30-second audio clips$0.04/song. - Control tempotime-aligned [image]
Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_: Lyria 3 Pro is expanded to three minute tracks. I've been enjoying playing with the 30 second versionbut this will be a big improvement. It's not live for me yet. When it is I will test this out today. Lyria is more powerful than people realizeyou can do some cool stuff.
@geminiapp: All Lyria 3 and Lyria 3 Pro outputs are embedded with SynthIDour imperceptible watermark for identifying Google AI-generated content. Simply upload a file and ask Gemini if it was generated using Google AIand Gemini will check for SynthID. [video]
@geminiapp: Lyria 3 Pro is rolling out today to Google AI PlusPro and Ultra plans. Get started at https://gemini.google.com/music or in the appchoose “Create Music” in the tools menuand select “Thinking” or “Pro” from the model picker. Share your custom tracks in the replies. 👇
@geminiapp: Longer tracks = more possibilities. Now that you can create tracks up to 3 minutes longhere are some ways to use Lyria 3 Pro: • Higher fidelity tracks with verseschorusesand bridges • Longer instrumentals for staying focusedstudyingor deep work • Custom tracks for
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: I had access to the new Google Lyria 3 Pro music AI. Its quite good. I've been ruining(?) Rilke by giving the AI the First Elegy & asking it to make it “more 1990s boy band” ("oooo the beginning of terrorgirl") Catchy! It is also nuts that you can ask an AI to do this & it can [video]
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Jake Chapman / @vc: Sanders and AOC should be removed from office for this. It's treason or stupidity or political pandering amounting to treason. May as well attach a rider to this bill paying for every American to have a free Duolingo Mandarin subscription because we'll all need to get fluent.
Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: I really think the left has lost the way on tech policy
@toly: This is literally the dumbest post and we are all dumber for having to read it. All the ai companies are trying to give away ai as cheap as possible so all consumers have access to it. So it is AI that works for all of us. His solution is to stop building datacenters in
Bernie Sanders / @berniesanders: We are rapidly creating technology that could surpass human intelligencewith enormous risks to jobssociety and humanity itself. AI must work for all of usnot just a handful of billionaires. That's why I'm introducing a moratorium on new AI data centers. [video]
Rat King / @mikeisaac: people can certainly take issue with his positions and plan of actionbut sanders seems to be one of the few members of congress seriously reckoning with what the labor consequences of the coming AI age could be (now joined AOC)
Anton Leicht / @anton_d_leicht: this seems unworkable even on narrow safety meritsbut political dynamics are such that it might still become the most salient version of the ‘safetyist’ position. that'd mean it further poisons the politics both for bipartisan convergence and moderate leadership on the issue.
Noah Smith / @noahpinion: WowAI Safety now has some politicians on board
Miles Brundage / @miles_brundage: As I and others have written about for yearsexport controls *could* be used to drive safety and security in AI. But a big problem w/ the Bernie/AOC strategy is that the US does not have its house in order so can't make non-hypocritical demands of others https://x.com/...
Mike Solana / @micsolana: crazy how in the 21st century we have people in congress who legitimately want to hurt the country
Lennart Heim / @ohlennart: Bernie and AOC want to ban all the chip exports if you don't follow their laws and regulations. [image]
David Ulevitch / @davidu: This is the way.
Steven Fiorillo / @stevenfiorillo: This is crazy. Technological innovation ever stopsit only advances. America needs to be the leader in AI. This proposal would not just hurt America economicallyit would weaken our national security. We have the lead in the next evolution of technology and we should expand
Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_: Both the left and right have been trying to capture the anti-AI publicthe problem is there's too many of them to fit in one tent. Maybe by 2028 the left pulls it off. [image]
U.S. Senator John Fetterman / @senfettermanpa: The emerging chassis of AI must be built by America. We can put appropriate guardrails in place without handing the win on AI to China. A moratorium is China First. [image]
Andrew Curran / @andrewcurran_: Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' AI Data Center Moratorium Act contains a moratorium on all US datacenter upgrading and constructionas well as a ban on the export of all US-origin GPU's. Press conference this afternoon. [image]
Nat Purser / @natpurser: i appreciate this attempt to get at the international dimension of thisbut a couple thoughts (beyond the political viability): 1) what constitutes “ai safety legislation”? chinasaudi arabiathe EU all have ai governance frameworks. will be interested to see how they define
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Molly Taft / @mollytaft.com: NEW: i took a look at legislation @sanders.senate.gov is intro'ing today to impose a data center moratorium “until legislation is enacted that safeguards the public from the dangers of AI” — it's a major line in the sand for progressives looking to tie data center opposition w AI safety
Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life: AOC and Bernie Sanders have unveiled a bill that will pause all new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place. — I am confident we will see a Butlerian Jihad in our lifetimes. We are simply unprepared for a world where AI can outperform white collar workers at their jobs.
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Shishir / @shishirshelke1: Apple might've just pulled the smartest move yet. The $1B Google deal is way deeper than anyone expected. “Apple has complete access to the Gemini model in its own data center facilities. Apple can use that access to produce smaller models that power specific tasks or are small [video]
Clem / @clementdelangue: everyone distills from everyone and AI outputs are mostly fair use imo (same as internet content which is mostly ai generated anyway)
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: Huh. I am not sure distilling Gemini models to run on phones is going to result in the generally capable agents that people will soon expectbut we shall see.
@paytondev: “Apple can...produce smaller models that...are small enough to run directly on Apple devices” we're so back
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Matthew Prince / @eastdakota: This is Google's DeepSeek. So much more room to optimize AI inference for speedmemory usagepower consumptionand multi-tenant utilization. Lots of teams at @Cloudflare focused on these areas. #staytuned
@googleresearch: Introducing TurboQuant: Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedupall with zero accuracy lossredefining AI efficiency. Read the blog to learn how it achieves these results: https://research.google/... [image]
Alexander Doria / @dorialexander: You only have to read it to realize it's incremental engineering gainsother similar methods exist (KIVIPolarQuant)there are trade-off (random notation is not free)
Alexander Doria / @dorialexander: People going insane on a one year old mid paper makes me very pessimistic over tech literacy. Maybe just as well if the next effective agents take over.
Ethan Mollick / @emollick: AI slop science posts keep moving marketsthis time by misinterpreting or mis-dating papers. Science fictionbut dumb.
Jukan / @jukan05: Brothat shit you guys are hyping dropped in April last year. Why are you acting like it's new now? [image]
David Friedberg / @friedberg: Since the first Presidential scientific advisory boardestablished by FDR in 1933Presidential science and technology councils have supported policies that advanced research goalsenabled breakthrough scientific discoveriesdrove the development of new technologiesand
Prince Canuma / @prince_canuma: Just implemented Google's TurboQuant in MLX and the results are wild! Needle-in-a-haystack using Qwen3.5-35B-A3B across 8.5K32.7Kand 64.2K context lengths: → 6/6 exact match at every quant level → TurboQuant 2.5-bit: 4.9x smaller KV cache → TurboQuant 3.5-bit: 3.8x [image]
Markos / @markosaaig: I'm laughing here with @jukan05 because this dropping shows exactly who understands the memory system and who don't. Probably the same people who constantly only scream micronSK have a low forward PE TurboQuant lowers cost per token. and expands the context window so you can
Omer Cheema / @omercheeema: In every AI chatthe model keeps your entire conversation in KV cache. On a 70B modelthat alone can eat 40GB+ of GPU RAMmore than the model. Google just dropped TurboQuant: a new compression algorithm that shrinks the KV cache by 6x down to just 3 bits per value — with
Jukan / @jukan05: The fact that memory stocks are crashing because of Google's Turboquant is a pretty good indicator of how many clueless people this market is filled with. It's like saying Aramco should crash because Toyota came out with a next-generation hybrid engine.
Jen Zhu / @jenzhuscott: When I was consulting for @HBO Silicon Valleyzero-loss compression was the holy grail Richard Hendricks chases that perfect middle-out algo could shrink everything w/out breaking a single bit. Google just did something even more practical for the AI era: TurboQuant compresses [image]
Shay Boloor / @stocksavvyshay: $MU and $SNDK are getting hit hard at the open from the release of $GOOGL TurboQuant. The market is reading it as a potential headwind for memory names because long-context AI inference may now need far less memory per workload. [image]
Ben Bajarin / @benbajarin: Okclasslisten up. Your homework today is to come up with scenarios where TurboQuant is negative to memory demand and scenarios where it may actually boost memory demand.
Max Weinbach / @mweinbach: On TurboQuantI see 2 possible outcomes 1. we reallocate memory towards larger models and larger contextso freed up memory goes to improving models 2. we keep everything as is and just shrink costs to generate tokens I'd wager we see the shift towards 1not 2
@kimmonismus: Thats freaking awesome: Google Research has introduced TurboQuanta compression algorithm (presenting at ICLR 2026) that shrinks the memory footprint of large language models by at least 6xwithout any retraining or drop in accuracy. It works by converting data into a polar [image]
Amin Karbasi / @aminkarbasi: I left @GoogleResearch almost two years agoso it makes me genuinely happy to see our work on polar quantization (my last project)which eventually led to extreme compressionbeing recognized there. It is a nice reminder that good fundamental work tends to find its place with
@fundaai: If you consider how paper publication processes typically work at major labs like Gemini and Googleit's reasonable to assume that the most impactful results in the Gemini domain are unlikely to ever be published. Even the papers that do get released are presumably based on
Julien / @julientechinvst: Memory makers bloodbath tomorrow (likely). It a huge progress and is an step forward in removing the memory bottleneck. Nowit will put more pressure on logic side though
Myles / @themylesfiles: I'm an interactive learnerso I turned Google's TurboQuant paper into a @marimo_io notebook. Random rotations → Beta distributions → optimal 3-bit quantization → 6x memory savings on LLM KV caches. Way easier to grok when you can drag a slider and watch the math happen.
Jordan Nanos / @jordannanos: Jevons paradox for KV cache
@f4micom: i hope this is open and i hope that if it's not it inspires an open implementation of the same base concept
Prakash / @8teapi: Interesting. By releasing this publicly they can reduce memory demand across the sectorwhich helps because they were slow to secure memory capacity in Asia
Karan / @kmeanskaran: Mark my wordsinference engineering will be an evergreen in-demand skill for the upcoming years. If you are in applied MLthen it's a top priority skill. People using AI will growalong with companies integrating AI. Nowadaysspeed matters the most and we are losing
Brian Roemmele / @brianroemmele: We are testing TurboQuant at the Zero-Human Company and are fascinated by the speed up! We are at a consistent 5x increase! More testing...
Benedict / @bqbrady: All you had to do was pay attention to the polar coordinates lecture in Trig and you could have discovered a 6x reduction in KV cache memory. High school math vindicated
Anish Moonka / @anisha_moonka: Every time you message an AI chatbotthe model stores your entire conversation in temporary memory called a KV cache (a cheat sheet so it doesn't re-read everything from scratch). On a large model like Llama 70B running a long conversationthat cache alone eats 40GB of GPU
@sudoingx: thank you google. for all your contributions to make the world a better place. we need more of this not more of altman gambles.
Josh Kale / @joshkale: This post got ZERO attention but is BY FAR the biggest AI news this week Google just published TurboQuant: a compression algorithm that makes AI inference 8x faster while using 6x less memory. No retraining. No accuracy loss. The biggest cost is inference which happens billions [image]
Tae Kim / @firstadopter: Wat! “Our new compression algorithm that reduces LLM key-value cache memory by at least 6x and delivers up to 8x speedupall with zero accuracy lossredefining AI efficiency.” [image]
Raffi Hotter / @raffi_hotter: This algorithm uses one of my favourite theorems in maththe Johnson-Lindentrauss Lemmawhich says you can drastically reduce the dimensionality of n points to just log(n) dimensions and still preserve pairwise distances
@0xsero: Testing this tomorrowwill report back if it works on Qwen3.5 Might be able to run much larger models if this works. [image]
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Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me: PolarQuant: 6x memory reduction 8x speed improvement — weirdlythis works for both KV-cache and vector DBs — the gist is they convert from cartesian coordinate vectors into polar coordinatesand since they're always normalized to 1.0they drop the magnitude too — research.google/blog/turboqu...
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