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Meta, Google, and TikTok have each filed lawsuits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta in an attempt to block a law that restricts social media features it deems addictive for users under 16.

Separate lawsuits were filed by Google, Meta and TikTok, which have been battling a flood of claims that their services are addictive.

Muse Voice, a feature that lets users call and video chat with Meta's consumer AI agent, Muse, is now available to everyone in the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.

Meta President Dina Powell McCormick said that the Democratic wins in the midterm elections are going to make it a lot harder for companies to build data centers, adding that the industry has “not done as good a job as we needed to explain the benefits of these investments.”

Huge 1GW data centers from OpenAI, Meta, SpaceX, Amazon, Google and others were a key issue in the midterms, largely due to concerns over power and water use. Liquid cooling keeps water use low inside many modern AI data centers, but external cooling still requires large power or water draw in hot climates.

Speaking at the WSJ Tech conference, Dina Powell McCormick said the company is more optimistic about scaling up its existing data centers.

Meta previously gave its AI internal codenames like Mango, Watermelon, and Avocado. Now that it has cutting-edge AI, Meta wants to be taken a bit more seriously.

Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup that allows users to spin up software projects by deploying multiple agents into parallel workspaces.