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The Tokyo District Court judged that fake ads on Facebook and Instagram infringed on Yusaku Maezawa's publicity rights but dismissed his request for an injunction against Meta.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 11, 2026
Tokyo court dismisses suit against Meta over fake ads involving entrepreneur
The ruling is believed to be the first judicial decision on whether fake ads impersonating celebrities infringe on?their rights.
Voters cast their ballots at the Faiss Middle School voting center in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 5, 2026
‘We’re not for sale’: Americans want to pump brakes on data centers
Voters in dozens of American cities approved restrictions or outright bans on data centers during Tuesday’s midterm elections.
New Mexico has accused Meta of lying to Facebook users in the state about who had access to their data and its handling of hate speech and misinformation posted on the platform.
BUSINESS
Oct 22, 2026
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case
The ruling came in a case stemming from allegations that Cambridge Analytica obtained data from millions of Facebook users without their consent.
Yokohama District Court on Thursday dismissed a damages lawsuit against Meta Platforms and its Japanese unit over fake ads using celebrities’ names and images without permission, becoming the first of six district courts in Japan to rule on such cases.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 16, 2026
Yokohama court dismisses suit against Meta over fake ads
The court was the first to rule on a series of similar lawsuits filed with six district courts across Japan.
Protesters calling for a pause in AI development rally outside Anthropic’s headquarters before marching to the offices of OpenAI and xAI in San Francisco in March.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2026
Preventing artificial intelligence from triggering a world war
A mechanism for distinguishing unintended harm from deliberate attacks is urgently needed.
NEC displays samples of submarine cables on Thursday at its headquarters in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 25, 2026
NEC building 1-petabit-capacity subsea cable for Meta
The Petal cable will help meet the growing data transmission needs of artificial intelligence companies.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reveals the Muse Charm device during the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Wednesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 24, 2026
Meta launches AI gadget Charm as race for post-smartphone hardware heats up
From smart glasses and pins to handheld gadgets, companies are betting artificial intelligence will reshape how consumers interact with technology.
Meta’s Muse allows users to delegate tasks such as shopping, travel booking and form-filling to an AI agent.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 24, 2026
Meta’s Muse rekindles fears over winners and losers as personal AI agent emerges
Muse allows users to delegate tasks such as shopping, travel booking and form-filling to an AI agent.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech, as a pair of Ray-Ban smart glasses appear on screen, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 27, 2023.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 23, 2026
From smart glasses to AI pins, privacy fears challenge tech’s next big bet
The same features that make AI-powered wearables useful risk becoming the barrier to their adoption.
The OpenAI offices in San Francisco on July 21, 2026. OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
Sep 17, 2026
Why it’s difficult for tech companies to rein in AI
Concerns over artificial intelligence safety are escalating at a critical moment for the AI industry.
A customer looks at the menu at an AI bar in Beijing on Aug. 9, where visitors can access DeepSeek for free. Price wars in China are becoming a threat to its large-language model makers.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2026
How much longer can China afford cheap AI?
There are now nearly 1,000 large-language models on offer in China.
As the European Union considers how to protect and empower young people in a digital world, it must resist the impulse to rely solely on a social?media ban for minors.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2026
Social-media age bans won’t make children safer — but this will
A more effective strategy to protect young people would force tech firms to remove addictive features by holding them to product-liability standards—as with most other industries.
Meta policy bars children under 13 from using Facebook or Instagram and permits teenagers to use the platforms with some limits on content.
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 1, 2026
Settlement requires Meta to check young users’ ages. How will that work?
The owner of Facebook and Instagram recently came to an $18 billion legal settlement with U.S. states that is aimed at curbing children’s use of social media.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gives the keynote speech during the Meta Connect annual event, at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, in September 2024.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2026
Don’t buy Zuckerberg’s ‘good guy of AI’ act
Zuckerberg’s essay announces the creation of a new $1 billion Future Is for Everyone Fund, but concrete details are scant, and the move is seen as a charm offensive.
Meta Platforms' headquarters in Mountain View, California
BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2026
Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm
Meta’s up to $18 billion settlement with nearly all U.S. states over social media harm to teenagers has opened a new front in a global government fight to protect children.
In a landmark deal with state attorneys general across the U.S., Meta agreed to pay up to $18 billion and implement design changes such as limiting the amount of time users under 18 can spend scrolling on its apps.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Kids will be kids, and that’s the biggest risk with Meta’s new safeguards
Guardrails can only work as well as a company’s ability to accurately identify a user’s age, and young people around the world have repeatedly found ways to get past restrictions.
Olivia Konar, joined by other demonstrators, holds a banner with the names of young people who allegedly died due to the impacts of social media, during a protest outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building & US Courthouse in Oakland, California, on Aug. 18.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 27, 2026
Meta says it’ll pay up to $18 billion in social media claims
Key parts of the deal require Meta Platforms to put new guardrails on its platforms, including restricting how much time youths can scroll.
Witness Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, leaves the courthouse in Oakland, California, on Tuesday.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 26, 2026
Instagram head Mosseri denies encouraging suppression of child social media risks
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, is a central witness in a U.S. lawsuit over whether Meta Platforms designed Instagram and Facebook to addict children.
U.S. President Donald Trump shows off an image of his planned ballroom at the White House on May 19.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2026
Big business bought political influence. The bill is now due.
Corporate leaders’ attempts to buy political access under Trump could leave businesses exposed to public backlash and future administrations.
Former Meta employee Arturo Béjar, who has emerged as a go-to whistleblower witness for states and personal injury attorneys suing Meta and other social media platforms.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 20, 2026
Ex-Meta staffer says daughter, 14, was prey on Instagram
Meta has denied wrongdoing, saying it has continuously improved tools to protect kids and calling the states’ proposed penalties “outlandish.”
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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