<span>STORY: From a landmark court case to a base on the moon… this is Tech Weekly.</span><span>:: Tech Weekly</span><span>Meta and Google lost a landmark court case in the U.S over youth addiction to social media.</span><span>The tech giants were found liable for designing platforms dangerous to children and teens.</span><span>The case focused on a 20-year-old woman who said she became addicted to YouTube and Instagram at a young age because of their attention-grabbing design.</span><span>Both companies were hit with damages of a combined total of $6 million but each plans to appeal.</span><span>The Pentagon was temporarily blocked from blacklisting AI company Anthropic by a U.S. judge.</span><span>The fallout began when Anthropic didn’t allow its AI system, Claude, to be used for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. </span><span>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the company a national security supply-chain risk – and it was blocked from certain mliitary contracts.</span><span>It led Anthropic to sue in California federal court – where the judge said the administration’s actions appeared aimed at punishing the firm, rather than protecting national security.</span><span>The head of NASA said the U.S. ‘will never again give up the moon’.</span><span>Jared Isaacman further announced plans for a lunar base.</span><span>“But this time the goal is not flags and footprints. This time the goal is to stay. Today, we are providing a demand signal for frequent crewed missions well beyond Artemis V.”</span><span>U.S. astronauts are due to fly to the moon and back without landing on the lunar surface in April as part of the Artemis program.</span><span>An unusual guest joined U.S. first lady Melania Trump at a summit in Washington.</span><span>A robot walked to the podium with her as other first spouses from around the world looked on.</span><span>The robot introduced itself to attendees as a ‘humanoid’ called ‘Figure 3’ and said it was built in the U.S.</span><span>The appearance was part of the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition summit.</span><span>And sources told Reuters customer testing of Huawei’s new AI chip went well.</span><span>The new 950PR is designed to challenge Nvidia in the Chinese market.</span><span>The sources said it’s drawn the attention of tech giants like ByteDance and Alibaba, who plan to place orders.</span><span>They added Huawei plans to ship around 750,000 950PRs this year and mass production should begin in April.</span>
