Meta updated its commercial terms of use in a way that appeared to allow it to use web content to train and improve its AI products, prompting legal experts to flag possible scraping and AI training concerns; The Verge later reported that Meta removed the provision. The removed language specifically referenced use of content to “train” and “maintain the integrity” of Meta products and services. Meta says the change only clarifies that the crawling terms applied to ads and business products and does not change how it uses web crawlers.
Taiwan plans to prosecute people who ship AI servers and advanced semiconductors to Chinese buyers without authorization under a criminal provision of its Foreign Trade Act. The rules would cover these items starting from an as-yet-undecided start date, and penalties have not been set. The shift replaces the current blacklist-based approach, tightening export controls across all China-bound buyers and giving prosecutors a criminal tool for diverted chips.
Giorgos Tsetis argues that AI leaders currently face no personal legal accountability for safety failures, unlike his experience in consumer health where personal liability drove product safety practices. He points out that current AI safety efforts and commitments—such as the White House accord signed at the end of September—are voluntary. He says this should change by making named senior AI executives personally legally responsible, with consequences for decisions that knowingly ship serious risks or hide problems.
Meta updated its commercial terms to remove language that could have been read as allowing it to scrape content from websites, including news sites, for training its AI. The specific wording being removed was a sentence saying Meta “may use any content” from certain domains, web pages, or URLs. As a result, that potentially broad scraping-for-training interpretation is no longer supported by the terms on the commercial terms page.
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