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29 U.S. States Open Trial Against Meta Over Child Safety on Facebook and Instagram

29 U.S. States Open Trial Against Meta Over Child Safety on Facebook and Instagram

A bipartisan coalition of 29 U.S. states opened trial proceedings against Meta on August 18, 2026, accusing the company of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to addict children in pursuit of profit. Meta rejected the accusation.

WHY IT MATTERS  The trial could determine whether Meta intentionally designed its platforms to addict children for profit.

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Inference Cost Engineering: Tensor Management, Storage Tiering, and RAG Routing Converge

The most consequential cost lever in AI infrastructure is no longer the GPU itself — it is everything that happens before and around the GPU. [ANALYSIS] Across tensor management, storage tiering, a…

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