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# The Meta Reckoning, The Chip Supercycle Has No Ceiling, Earnings Season Sorts Winners From Worriers
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-08-28-am/
- Published: 2026-08-28T10:11:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-28T10:11:29.000Z
- Description: Meta’s $17B settlement is the story everyone will cite for the next decade of platform-liability arguments, and it landed on the same day Nvidia posted numbers so big they’ve started to feel routine.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-am, #scan

Meta's $17B settlement is the story everyone will cite for the next decade of platform-liability arguments, and it landed on the same day Nvidia posted numbers so big they've started to feel routine. Add an Nvidia-Hugging Face deal that would change the open-source AI stack, and it's one of those mornings where the news is actually as big as the headlines make it sound.

> **$17.1B** — Meta's settlement with 47 states over social media addiction claims, the largest of its kind. *(NYT)*

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#### [Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/technology/meta-settlement-social-media-addiction-lawsuit.html?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

47 states plus territories, and Meta agreed to actual product changes — not just a check. *(NYT)*

#### [Meta Agrees to Limit Teens' Time on Facebook and Instagram, Calls on TikTok and YouTube to Match](https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/26/meta-teen-time-limit/?ref=adjacent.media)

The "call on competitors to match us" move is doing a lot of PR lifting here. *(MacRumors)*

#### [The Meta settlement will put limits on Instagram for teens—they're still vulnerable](https://www.wired.com/story/the-meta-settlement-will-put-limits-on-instagram-for-teens-theyre-still-vulnerable/?ref=adjacent.media)

Child safety groups are already saying the deal didn't go far enough. *(WIRED)*

#### [Poland has asked the European Commission to fine Meta €250M over scam ads](https://thenextweb.com/news/poland-eu-fine-meta-250m-scam-ads?ref=adjacent.media)

Right on cue. *(The Next Web)*

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#### [Nvidia reports Q2 revenue up 106% YoY to $96.22B, net income up 126% to $59.7B](https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financial-results-for-second-quarter-fiscal-2027?ref=adjacent.media)

Triple-digit growth at this scale shouldn't still be possible; it is. *(Nvidia)*

#### [Source: Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion?ref=adjacent.media)

The open-source model hub becomes Nvidia property — a huge bet on owning the developer layer, not just the silicon. *(The Information)*

#### [Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over 'surging demand'](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/amazon-just-tripled-its-order-of-nvidia-chips-over-surging-demand/?ref=adjacent.media)

2 million more GPUs headed to AWS data centers through 2028\. *(TechCrunch)*

#### [Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/anthropic-continues-compute-gobbling-streak-in-45-billion-deal-with-nscale/?ref=adjacent.media)

Every AI lab is now also, functionally, an infrastructure company. *(TechCrunch)*

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#### [CrowdStrike reports Q2 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.47B, forecasts FY2027 above estimates](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/crowdstrike-beats-annual-revenue-forecasts-as-ai-threats-rise?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

AI threats are apparently great for the AI-threat-detection business. *(Bloomberg)*

#### [Salesforce scoffs at SaaSpocalypse fears with a crushing earnings beat](https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/26/salesforce-scoffs-at-saaspocalypse-fears-with-a-crushing-earnings-beat/?ref=adjacent.media)

Shares up 13%+ the same week it ties its whole product line to Claude — coincidence-adjacent. *(SiliconANGLE)*

#### [HP reports Q3 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $15.7B, but PC units down 16%](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-26/hp-falls-on-investor-concerns-about-pc-demand-trends?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Revenue up, units down, stock down 9% — the ASP story only works for so long. *(Bloomberg)*