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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced today that he plans to ban access to social media for children under the age of 16, at a time of growing international criticism that internet giants are not adequately protecting their vulnerable users.

Australia's prime minister on Nov. 7 vowed to ban children under 16 from social media, saying the pervasive influence of platforms like Facebook and TikTok was "doing real harm to our kids."

The tech giants would be held responsible for enforcing the age limit and face hefty fines if regulators notice young users slipping through the cracks, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.

As throat-cut competition heating up to get ahead of their rivals, Microsoft and Meta are spending big in developing AI technologies, some investors are asking if that much spending is worth it.

Thirty companies, including US giant Meta (Facebook, Instagram), as well as researchers and associations, are calling on the European Union to “clarify” its regulations on artificial intelligence, in their open letter made public today.

A group of companies including Meta and Spotify blasted the European Union yesterday for its "fragmented and inconsistent" decision-making on data privacy and artificial intelligence (AI).

The firms along with several researchers and industry bodies signed an open letter claiming that Europe was already becoming less competitive and risked falling further behind in the age of AI.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes U.S. government pressure on his social media platforms to take down certain COVID-19 content in 2021 was "wrong," and said he would resist similar attempts in the future, according to a letter submitted to a U.S. congressional committee.

In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has claimed that the Biden-Harris administration exerted significant pressure on Meta to censor COVID-19-related content.

Through a public website, Stefanos Kasselakis and Tyler Macbeth are collecting from friends and relatives monetary gifts for their wedding, which will take place at the end of August in Chania.

Türkiye began unblocking Instagram Saturday evening after depriving access to millions of users for nine days.

"Following our negotiations with representatives of Instagram, we will unblock access starting from 9:30 p.m. (18:30 GMT) after they agreed to respond to our demands," transport and infrastructure minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said on X.

Türkiye and Instagram have made significant progress in their recent discussions concerning the access restriction that has now persisted for five days, Turkish Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloğlu said on Tuesday.