Meta has spent more than a year advocating for new laws requiring app stores to give parents control over kids’ app downloads, and just saw an early victory in the states. But Google charges that it’s really just a misguided effort to “offload” Meta’s own responsibility to keep kids safe.

Google says Meta is offloading its responsibility to keep kids safe by backing a Utah bill that puts the onus on app stores to verify users' ages. It's urging the governor to veto it.

Google is pushing back against other major technology companies’ efforts to put the responsibility of age verification on the app stores, arguing the onus is on both the stores and developers to boost children’s safety.

A group of major energy users have signed a pledge to support tripling global nuclear power capacity by 2050. Nuclear power is seeing a resurgence in popularity thanks in part to significant growth in power demand due to AI.

Google recently signed a deal to purchase nuclear energy from multiple SMRs from Kairos Power. Kairos expects to deploy the first SMR by 2030, followed by further deployments through to 2035. In total, the US-only deal covers up to 500MW across six to seven reactors.

Tech giants including Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Google have signed on to a nuclear industry pledge to support tripling nuclear power capacity by 2050.