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Morning Brief host Julie Hyman sits down with Yahoo Finance Breaking Business News Reporter Jake Conley and Washington Crossing Advisors senior portfolio manager Chad Morganlander to discuss the latest updates with the New York Times's (NYT) lawsuit against OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Microsoft (MSFT).
Trump has called AI risks a hoax while Amodei, Altman and Musk want a slowdown
The stock market fell as oil prices and Treasury yields soared, but rebounded Friday on the CPI inflation report. Apple, Oracle, Meta were key movers.
Florida is suing Netflix for billions, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children for advertisers while publicly promising families a safe alternative to social media surveillance. The outcome could unravel the economics powering Netflix's fastest-growing business.
Oil prices and Treasury yields weighed on the indexes, But Meta, AMD were winners. Apple unveiled its foldable iPhone. Inflation data looms.
The team digs into the details of the settlement and how it will impact Meta.
Meta’s $17 billion settlement with state attorneys general includes a long list of restrictions for teen users, but it won’t hold back its underlying business.
Asian shares were mostly higher in early Friday trading, as regional market sentiment got a boost from the rally on Wall Street, mostly from big technology stocks. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.6% in morning trading to 64,622.33. Hong Kong's Hang Seng jumped 2.1% to 25,751.26, while the Shanghai Composite added 0.8% to 3,973.27.
Amazon.com (AMZN) trades at $255, down 10% over the past month and about 10% below its 52-week high. The second quarter of 2026, reported in July, was a strong one: revenue rose 20% year over year to $200.6 billion and operating income rose 43%, though about $1.2 billion of that income came from tariff refunds and an energy-contract accounting gain. That makes the drop worth sizing, because this is a stock with a long habit of falling further than the market.
Meta Platforms will pay up to $18 billion and significantly overhaul its teen-usage policies across its platforms.
AMZN stock dropped on Monday after a Wall Street Journal report said the FTC plans to sue the company over how it prices ads on its retail site.
Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc shares fell 2.8% on Monday following a report by the Wall Street Journal that the Federal Trade Commission will file a lawsuit against the company over allegations related to its advertising pricing practices.
The suit represented an uncertainty for the company and shareholders.
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is reportedly in discussions with states to settle its high-profile trial over alleged harm to young social media users. Meta, States Discuss Potential Settlement The Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant and state attorneys general are discussing a mid-trial settlement while a federal trial is ongoing, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is accused of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to keep teens addicted to
Meta just settled one of the largest state attorney general cases in tech history, and the stock did not move. Jim Cramer has a theory about why investors treated a major legal victory like it never happened.
The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about the harms the platforms could pose to young users.
The settlement, reached during a federal trial in Oakland, requires Meta to add usage limits and nighttime blocks for teenage users
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) is reportedly in discussions with states to settle its high-profile trial over alleged harm to young social media users. Meta, States Discuss Potential Settlement The Mark Zuckerberg-led tech giant and state attorneys general are discussing a mid-trial settlement while a federal trial is ongoing, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is accused of intentionally designing Facebook and Instagram to keep teens addicted to
Nvidia enters earnings week with its stock priced for perfection, but a single crack in its numbers could send investors scrambling for the exits. The question is whether any weakness even exists, and what happens if the market finds out the hard way.
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Meta Platforms (META), Alphabet's (GOOGL) Google and Snap (SNAP) face one fewer teen social media ad
Open-source artificial intelligence is no longer the discount alternative to Silicon Valley's frontier labs. It is setting the pace on the newest battleground: the laptop sitting in front of the user. The pitch behind that lead was simple. Download the weights, run the model on your own hardware, ...
A child safety trial opening Tuesday in federal court is hammering Meta Platforms stock and pulling Pinterest and Snap down with it, even though neither faces the bench, as potential damages the company itself has flagged approach its entire market cap.
A federal appeals court just stripped away the legal shield that social media platforms have relied on for decades, and Snap is absorbing the first blow with thousands of lawsuits now cleared to proceed against it.
Jeff Bezos filed a Form 144 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 3, proposing to sell up to 15 million Amazon shares worth approximately $4.07 billion. Within the same week, Sky Sports reported that Bezos had joined a consortium closing in on a deal for a roughly one-third ...
An appeals court ruled more than 3,000 lawsuits against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat over addictive design claims targeting youth can proceed.
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