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August 27: Meta’s $16.7 Billion Settlement and 9/11 Trial Date
In tech and social media
Meta has agreed to pay $16.7 billion to settle claims brought by attorneys general from 29 states alleging its platforms harmed children’s mental health. The agreement resolves a major legal challenge to the company’s youth-safety practices, though a settlement is not an admission that the business model suddenly developed a conscience.
Separately, OpenAI says it is tightening security around frontier-model research, including stronger monitoring, sandboxing and network isolation. The company says the changes will add roughly 20% in computing overhead to some inference work, while pledging not to pass that cost directly to customers.
In national security
A military judge has set June 2028 for the capital trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described mastermind of the September 11 attacks. The date follows the rejection of a plea agreement, and puts the trial nearly 27 years after the attacks.
In the Middle East
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed is in Tehran seeking to revive talks between the United States and Iran. The effort comes with the US-Israel war on Iran nearing six months and no diplomatic breakthrough reported.
In the United Kingdom
Forty people who vanished from UK asylum hotels while they were children are still unaccounted for, years after their disappearances. The cases raise continuing questions over safeguards for children placed in the hotel system.
In Philadelphia
Authorities are seeking 21-year-old Jahylin Melchur in connection with two killings and a shooting in Hunting Park. Prosecutors say investigators believe the three men were targeted because they were gay. One victim, Sharef Holman, had been working in elder care and had been sober for more than a year, according to his sister.
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