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The $5B is the conditional bit:

The agreement includes a payment of approximately $18 billion, which can be used to fund youth online safety initiatives, among other state priorities. The payment will be distributed in annual installments over a 10-year period. Participating states will receive approximately 70% (approximately $12.7 billion) of the allocated payment over the decade. The remaining 30% (approximately $5.3 billion) will be released only after two specific conditions are met.

1. YouTube and TikTok implement a one-hour Daily Limit, Night Mode, and age assurance measures.
2. YouTube and TikTok each pay an amount matching the 30% figure, with half of the remaining funds tied to YouTube’s payment and half tied to TikTok’s.

And this gist of the article is that a lot of that would violate the First Amendment if the government forced Meta to do it, and putting it in a settlement instead of a law and making it an "industry standard" is just a way for the government to get around that.

In a post on the Microsoft 365 Admin portal (I am glad it’s not renamed yet), the company notes that “Microsoft 365 Roadmap is becoming the AI at Work Roadmap,” as it “centralizes AI-powered innovation tracking without changing access or workflows.”

They didn't rename a product. They renamed a roadmap to make it more general. That's not that bad; certainly nothing worth doomposting about.

And probably age verification so Meta can tell who's a minor.

Move fast and break things

No, not like that!

Edit: it cost $20 to join?! I’m out

They probably need the money to pay for their AI-based "fact-checking":

A new and notable feature is the automated fact-checking tool, a Gemini-based “veracity engine for real-time analysis” (“Vera” for short), which runs on every tweet.

Using a technology that's known for making shit up, for fact-checking, is so dumb, but it will probably bring in investors because AI.

OK, but the leak in the article seems to have been in 2016 when conditions were very different.

"Even" Claude? If the boss's wife wants to keep a low profile then the company's models are probably the most likely to help with that.

A little good press for GitHub to offset all the bad press from downtime.

The article says ASML is dependent on US suppliers. Cutting off sales to the US would probably backfire.

ASML is also dependent on American suppliers for its own production. In the past, American threats to disrupt the company’s supply chain have successfully convinced the Dutch government to further restrict ASML’s exports.

After the US nonsense over TikTok these guys should have skipped the US in their international release and waited for Trump to complain about the US being excluded.

The rest of the guide: