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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 07: A 7-year-old teenage boy looks at a phone screen on December 07, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024 requires social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, X, Reddit, Threads, Twitch, and Kick to implement age-verification systems and take reasonable steps to prevent account creation by users under 16, with non-compliant platforms facing penalties of up to A$50 million. (Photo by George Chan/Getty Images)

Reining In Big Tech: How California lawmakers plan to regulate AI and social media

As the legislative session moves closer to the end, California lawmakers will decide on bills that tackle issues including social media safety and AI’s impact on jobs.

FILE - SpaceX's mega rocket Starship prepares for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

SpaceX rocket launches NASA dark energy telescope in hunt for distant worlds

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - APRIL 13, 2026: Scenes around Googleplex the global headquarters

Hollywood studios have sued over AI. Now Google is courting them to use its tools

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 27: A map labeling Lake Ontario as "Lake America" is displayed as U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter after signing an executive order during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 27, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" amid an ongoing trade war between the U.S. and Canada. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

‘We’re not changing it’: SoCal-based Mapquest takes stand against Trump’s ‘Lake America’

Padres de familia sostienen fotografías de sus hijos fallecidos durante una protesta contra las plataformas de redes sociales fuera del edificio federal Ronald V. Dellmus, el martes 18 de agosto de 2026, en Oakland, California. (AP Foto/Noah Berger)

What Meta’s $17-billion settlement revealed about the harms of social media

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting about military families, in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Judge says Pentagon’s measures against Anthropic were ‘illegal and baseless’

TOPSHOT - Lights are reflected in the harbor channel from a cruise ship passenger terminal at the Port of Los Angeles along the Pacific Ocean in Los Angeles, California on August 19, 2026. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

Is Long Beach ready for a floating nuclear power plant? Here’s what to know

FILE - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the Paley Center in New York, Oct. 25, 2019. Zuckerberg competed in his first Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu tournament this past weekend, taking home two medals. Zuckerberg took part in the BJJ Tour competition on Saturday, May 6, 2023 in Woodside, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Meta’s ‘Big Tobacco moment’ leaves parents asking if social media is too dangerous for kids

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