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Meta's trial over social media addiction is now underway in court, and it's a significant moment. US states allege the company deliberately hooked children on Facebook and Instagram. Meta's defense? That social media addiction doesn't exist. The outcome could reshape how platforms are regulated for years to come.
Shifting to the developer world, Cursor is making a bold move beyond its popular AI code editor, launching a code hosting platform designed to challenge GitHub directly. This comes as frustration with GitHub has been quietly building among developers, and Cursor is clearly betting that community is ready for an alternative built with AI at its core from the start.
And on the browser front, Mozilla is testing something it's calling a Smart Window inside Firefox — an optional sidebar that places an AI assistant of your choice right alongside your tabs. The key word there is optional. Mozilla is giving users a clear switch to disable it, which feels like a deliberate choice to distinguish itself from less transparent approaches to embedding AI in everyday tools.
Those are the stories moving the needle today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
