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Instagram and YouTube ‘engineer addiction’ in young people, landmark trial hears | Science, Climate & Tech News

Instagram and YouTube ‘engineer addiction’ in young people, landmark trial hears | Science, Climate & Tech News

Instagram and YouTube have been accused of “engineer[ing] addiction in children’s brains”, in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA. Mark Lanier, representing plaintiffs who accuse social media companies of developing harmful and addictive platforms, described the case as being “as easy as ABC”, which he said stands for…

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Social media companies accused of “addicting the brains of children” as trial begins

Social media companies accused of “addicting the brains of children” as trial begins

The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court began on Monday. Instagram’s parent company Meta and Google’s YouTube face claims that their platforms deliberately addict…

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Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the ‘vending machine test’ – and we may want to be worried about how it did | Science, Climate & Tech News

Claude Opus 4.6: This AI just passed the ‘vending machine test’ – and we may want to be worried about how it did | Science, Climate & Tech News

When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness – including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test. Yes, AIs run vending machines now, under the watchful eyes of researchers at Anthropic and AI thinktank Andon Labs….

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