The landmark bipartisan legislation to become law on Jan. 1 strengthens California’s protections for children online and when using artificial intelligence.

The social media giant proposed commercial terms of service that would have permitted the company to scrape the websites of all its business account users, obtaining free access to news and other content for its own purposes, including training of AI products.

Tech interests have spent tens of millions of dollars this year on state legislative races alone. Industry advocates say they want to protect innovation from overregulation.

The proposed settlement resolves claims that Meta designed its Facebook and Instagram platforms to addict children, misled consumers about their safety and improperly collected children's personal data.

Santa Clara County is going after Menlo Park-based Meta Platforms Inc., accusing the social media giant of facilitating 15 billion scam ads daily on Facebook and Instagram, accounting for $7 billion in revenues per year.

The parent companies of YouTube, Instagram and Facebook was ordered to pay $3 million to the family of a teenaged girl in a personal injury case in Los Angeles Superior Court.

New Mexico becomes the first state to win trial verdict against Meta for misleading consumers and endangering children and will ask a judge in May for an injunction against the tech giant.

Meta says its new AI Support Assistant will transform its approach to content enforcement, more accurately finding and removing severe content violations like scams and illegal content.

Leaders from the AFL-CIO, representing 2.3 million nationwide members, say Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to focus on the technology’s harms to win support for her presidential run.

Lawsuits in California federal and state court are unearthing documents embarrassing to tech companies — and may be a tipping point into federal regulation. TikTok and Snap reached settlements in the case while Meta and Google are continuing as defendants.

The federal suit alleged that Facebook, which later became Meta, overpaid to acquire Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014 as part of a strategy to eliminate social networking competitors.

The lawsuit by three Facebook users claimed that Meta misrepresented its data protection policies to suppress competition.

In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps, as some observers say the impact of AI shifts innovation’s epicenter away from San Jose.

The state’s attorney general asked the company how it plans to transfer assets out of its charitable nonprofit.

In a landmark antitrust case, the Justice Department asked a federal judge to force the company to sell its popular Chrome browser. The Department of Justice and a group of states had until the end of Wednesday to propose remedies in an antitrust lawsuit they won in August.