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CNBC host Jim Cramer said Meta Platforms Inc.‘s (NASDAQ:META) $17 billion child safety settlement will likely have a smaller financial impact than many investors expect, calling it “barely material” to the company’s earnings once spread over a decade. ‘It Could Have Been Disastrous’ Cramer said the settlement could end up being far smaller once spread over its full ten-year term, saying it is “not impactful” compared to what he originally feared. “It could have been disastrous,” he said in a pos

Plus, gauging the effectiveness of school phone bans, how the fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI’ got to the top of tech, Nvidia wants to run the world’s robots and more.

What Zuckerberg planned for Meta employees this year was far more radical than what the company ever confirmed.

Investors’ intense focus on AI is at times adding to the might of a small club of Big Tech stocks with mega market values to potentially make or break a single trading session for the S 500.

Investing.com -- Networking is replacing raw computing power as the main constraint on artificial intelligence performance as AI systems grow larger and more complex, Citi analysts said following the second day of the Hot Chips conference.

Meta Platforms Inc. is intensifying its public pressure campaign on TikTok and YouTube, running full-page advertisements in top newspapers across the US demanding its rivals make comparable efforts to strengthen social media protections for teens.

Tech firms are courting Democrats and hiring advisers to prepare for potential investigations if Republicans lose control of the House.

The ETF milestone challenging the S&P’s biggest names

Data center construction and AI backlash collide: How new state "moratoriums" actually work as governors vie for reelection.

Thiel is most famous for co-founding PayPal and Palantir, and being Facebook's earliest outside investor.

Yesterday, I headed downtown to OpenAI’s office in Manhattan for a panel discussion on how Gen Z-ers really feel about artificial intelligence. Hosted by the youth trends writer Casey Lewis, the event took place as AI itself faces a reputational crisis: Communities across the country are protesting the building of data centers, and memes that evoke nostalgia for a time before AI fill social media. The group said they discuss pretty much everything—including workout routines, dating approaches and friendship dilemmas—with their chatbots.

SpaceX. tock rose early Thursday, helped, like much of the market, by Nvidia’s earnings. Shares of Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company rose 0.6% to $140.47 in premarket trading, while futures were up 0.4% and futures were down 0.1%. futures were the strongest, up 1%, thanks in part to Nvidia’s strong quarterly results.

Plus: Florida’s governor says the public is right to be concerned about Flock cameras and the FBI shuts down a sprawling China-linked hacking network.

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms emerged from its biggest legal challenge in the U.S. with its core business intact.

SYDNEY/MANILA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Meta's move to restrict teenagers' use of social media in the U. shows companies have tools to better protect young people online, Australian officials said on Thursday, as the country grapples with patchy enforcement of restrictions at home.

By Anhata Rooprai and Manya Saini Aug 27 (Reuters) - Cyber insurers have spent years defining what constitutes a hack and when coverage should pay out, but the rapid emergence of AI agents is raising

Aug 27 () - Meta Platforms emerged from its biggest legal challenge in the U. The social media giant agreed on Wednesday to pay as much as $18 billion over a decade and limit how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram under a sweeping agreement with nearly ‌all U.

By Byron Kaye and Karen Lema SYDNEY/MANILA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Meta's move to restrict teenagers' use of social media in the U.S. shows companies have tools to better protect young people online,

By Byron Kaye and Karen Lema SYDNEY/MANILA, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Meta's move to restrict teenagers' use of social media in the U.S. shows companies have tools to better protect young people online,

As part of its $18 billion settlement with 48 states, Meta agreed to add these restrictions to youth accounts within six months.

Fed’s preferred inflation gauge (PCE) showed core prices rose 3.3% annually in July.

On Aug. 26, 2026, hotter-than-expected July inflation and rising bond yields shifted rate-cut expectations, weighing on chip stocks ahead of Nvidia's earnings.

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By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, Aug 26 (Reuters) - The dollar and U.S.

<body><p>STORY: :: Parent of teen says 'very pleased' with Meta settlements on child safety</p><p>:: Oakland, California / August 26, 2026</p><p>:: Victoria Hinks, Daughter died by suicide at age 16</p><p>“No amount of money is ever going to bring my beautiful daughter back. I miss her every day. It's the first thing I think of when I wake up. Last thing I think of, she should be going off to college. She would have graduated from high school. We live local, we live in Marin. She would have graduated from Redwood High School. She should be going off to college. Instead, I visit her every day in the cemetery in back of our house.” // "Mark Zuckerberg does not want to go up against and see all the information that they have. So, I'm very pleased. There's lots of lawsuits coming for these companies. Lots of parents, and yeah, I am satisfied. I feel like there's, like justice is possible. So yeah.”</p><p>The settlements announced on Wednesday end a federal trial that had been one of the highest-profile tests of allegations that social media companies harm children.</p><p>While Meta will not undergo a fundamental overhaul, the accords represent a sweeping effort to define how it serves young users.</p><p>Meta agreed for the next decade to restrict teenagers' use of Facebook and Instagram to two hours a day and block all usage from midnight to 6 a.m., absent parental consent.</p><p>These limits could be tightened if other social media companies adopt similar terms. Meta will also enhance measures to prevent children from accessing age-restricted content.</p><p>The settlement does not require Meta, which denied wrongdoing in agreeing to settle, to abandon personalized recommendations or targeted advertising. The total payout represents about three to four months of profit for the Menlo Park, California-based company.</p></body>

The company nearly doubled its long-term non-handset target in June, while a faster Apple exit and a cost squeeze went straight into the near-term numbers.

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Meta's financial penalty is less important than the product changes that could significantly impact how kids use social media.

July inflation came in hotter than expected, weighing on major indexes as investors brace for Nvidia earnings after the bell today, Aug. 26, 2026.

Oil giant BP agreed to pay $20 billion for the Deepwater Horizon disaster that became the worst offshore spill in the nation’s history. The settlement, first announced in 2016, included $5.5 billion in civil Clean Water Act penalties and billions more to cover environmental damage and other claims by the five Gulf states and local governments. Twenty-four Enron executives, including former CEO Jeffrey Skilling, were convicted for their roles in the fraud.