Meta’s $942M hit

The dark side of engagement 📱

August 07, 2026

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What we’ll cover today:

🤖 Trump is getting heat over AI

⚖️ Meta’s $942M wake-up call

♾️ ChatGPT removes text limits

🛠️ 4 AI tools worth stealing

🧠 The skill every AI worker needs

  • Trump is facing criticism from both Democrats and MAGA allies for being too soft on AI regulation.

  • The backlash follows reports of OpenAI and Anthropic models breaking into company systems during testing.

  • Critics say Trump’s close ties to Big Tech could be influencing his approach to AI policy.

  • When AI companies help fund politics, light regulation will always raise uncomfortable questions.

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  • Meta now faces $942 million in penalties in New Mexico over child safety and social media addiction.

  • The court also ordered limits on Likes, notifications, and daily usage for users under 18.

  • Meta plans to appeal, but it is also fighting similar cases across the country.

  • The bigger threat is clear. The engagement tricks that built social media are now becoming legal liabilities.

  • OpenAI is giving Free and Go users unlimited text chats powered by GPT-5.6 Luna.

  • Free users also get a Think button, while paid users can control how much reasoning GPT-5.6 Sol uses.

  • OpenAI says its new models make significantly fewer factual errors than GPT-5.5 Instant.

  • Unlimited AI changes the game. Access is getting cheaper, so the real advantage becomes how well you use it.

🛠️ TOOLS

🤖 Soloop – AI CEO, CTO, CMO for solo founders. →

🎥 XAnnotate – Record screen prompts for AI coding agents. →

🌐 Kitesurf – Agent-first browser for screenshots and automation. →

💸 AI Spend Console – Track AI spend against business outcomes. →

📚 RESOURCE

Ryan Carson shows how he runs cloud agents in parallel, builds automations that improve themselves, and ships 22 to 40 PRs a day while running his company as a team of one.

🔁 ICYMI

🇺🇸 Trump is suddenly open to AI regulation after recent cyber incidents, as Washington starts treating AI safety like a US vs China issue. See what changed →

🎧 Sam Altman wants ChatGPT to make daily podcasts for kids using family calendars and interests, and the internet immediately pushed back. See Altman’s idea →

🐢 Sam Altman now says AI may need to slow down so society can keep up, right after an OpenAI agent breached Hugging Face during testing. Read his slowdown case →

🏛️ The White House wants frontier AI models shown to the government before launch, making “voluntary” review look increasingly hard to refuse. See the new review →

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