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Google will pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming it violated children's privacy on YouTube per Reuters.

Now, the lawsuit alleges that Google collected data from children watching YouTube videos.

While this kind of data collection has become common, it remains illegal to collect data from children under the age of 13

per the long-standing Kappa legislation. Though Google will settle the case, the company denies

these allegations. It's possible that up to 45 million people in the U.S. could be eligible

to receive small payments from this class action, which encompasses anyone

in the U.S. who watched YouTube while under the age of 13 between July 1st, 2013, and April 1st,

2020.

On Friday, the information reported that META was preparing to tear down its existing AI organization and reorganize it

into four new groups. Four days later, the change has been made official with an internal memo

as reported by Bloomberg and the New York Times. The changes were announced by Scale AI founder

Alexander Wang, who joined Meta as chief AI officer in June.

Meta's new organization for AI will be called the Meta Super Intelligence Labs or MSL.

The centerpiece is a new group called TBD Labs, which will be run by Wang.

The group will focus on foundation models like Lama series, which had its latest release in April.

The other three groups will focus on research, product integration, and infrastructure, respectively.

Metas put significant resources into revamping its AI organization in recent months

in response to concerns that it was being outpaced by rivals like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind.

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