UK to resume frontier AI testing after US talks, minister says
October 12, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
The UK will resume testing of frontier AI models following recent negotiations with the US, AI minister Kanishka Narayan said Monday, as he outlined government plans to strengthen the country's cyber defenses ... (more story)
Instagram ‘Instants’ didn't meet EU risk assessment threshold, Meta says
October 12, 2026
| Sara Brandstätter
Instagram’s Instants feature didn't meet the threshold requiring an additional risk assessment under the EU’s digital services law, Meta Platforms has said, adding that it reviewed the risks and briefed the Eu... (more story)
Australia's digital duty-of-care faces push for compensation rights
October 12, 2026
| Sean Maguire
Australia’s proposed digital duty-of-care, expected to be introduced in parliament this week, faces demands by the Greens for compensation rights and fines tied to tech companies’ global revenue. The duty-of-c... (more story)
Meta criticized over ‘concerning’ evidence approach by US judge in social media case
October 09, 2026
| Xu Yuan
Meta Platforms was reprimanded by a US judge over the way it has applied legal privilege to internal communications and documents, as it faces requests to re-review hundreds of thousands of documents for an up... (more story)
MultiPlan to answer for disappearing iPhone texts in US antitrust case, judge says
October 09, 2026
| Clayton Vickers
MultiPlan will have to answer interrogatories over whether specific executives chose to enable disappearing messages on their iPhones after being served a litigation hold in a case involving US antitrust claim... (more story)
Meta hasn’t submitted risk assessment for Instagram Instants, EU Commission says
October 09, 2026
| Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms hasn't submitted a risk assessment to the European Commission for Instagram’s “Instants”, the commission told MLex on Friday, a few days after UK regulator Ofcom announced an investigation into ... (more story)
EU's DSA probe into X not yet done due to technical challenges, Virkkunen says
October 09, 2026
| Sara Brandstätter
Social media platform X remains under EU investigation after almost three years because some probes are "technically challenging" and can be prolonged by continual changes to platforms’ services, the EU’s digi... (more story)
Information demands to TikTok, X and Meta Platforms defended by UK regulator
October 09, 2026
| Imogen Howse
UK communications regulator Ofcom has defended information demands it issued to TikTok, X and Meta Platforms, saying it needs the data to decide where to focus its work tackling online harms. The three social ... (more story)