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Meta is facing its largest child safety penalty yet, with a New Mexico judge ordering the company to pay five hundred sixty seven million dollars over harms caused to children across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. It's the latest in a growing wave of legal pressure on social platforms to reckon with how their products affect younger users.
Shifting to a quieter corner of the tech world, a small startup called Liquid AI is making a notable claim this week. Their new open-weight language model, LFM two point five, is designed to run entirely on local hardware — no cloud connection, no expensive GPUs — and reportedly works on devices as small as a Raspberry Pi. It's a reminder that meaningful AI progress isn't always measured in billion-dollar data centers.
And if you're flying anytime soon, the airline industry has a message for you about lithium-ion batteries. Carriers are renewing warnings about the risks these batteries pose in luggage and carry-ons, citing fire hazards that ground crews and cabin staff have increasingly had to manage. It's a story about how the hardware powering our everyday devices carries real-world consequences.
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