Sales of FoloToy’s Kumma teddy bear have been suspended after a safety group found the AI plushie was providing kids tips on how to find and light matches, how to be a “good kisser”, and explaining sexual kinks.
Meta and TikTok have each filed suits claiming California’s Protecting Our Kids From Social Media Addiction Act (PKSMAA) violates the First Amendment following a court ruling last year that disallowed a NetChoice suit and said only individual companies could file challenges.
Meta has announced agreements with USA Today, People Inc., and other news publishers to pay for access to their content and link to their articles in its AI chatbot. It’s a sharp contrast to Perplexity, which the Chicago Tribune and New York Times are separately suing for allegedly scraping content and bypassing paywalls. Despite this deal, Meta apparently still opposes compensating publishers for news links in social media posts.