Vol 26, No 11 · May 11, 2026
OpenAI and Meta Global Updates
AI news is noisy, it's difficult to separate reality from marketing hype and click-farming. Especially in the media & entertainment space.
This project attempts to filter the noise by watching the following signals: tracking exactly what companies tell us through their terms of service, and how their outputs look side by side.
The Ledger is just starting, and kinks are getting worked out – your feedback is wanted.
What changed in AI platform agreements this week
We are tracking over 50 companies and 235+ policy documents daily. Things that govern how your data is handled, who owns what and who’s on the hook when something goes wrong. These are things you should be reading, but don't have the time for - plus they are super confusing.
If something truly concerns you, reach out to a lawyer - there are no guarantees we catch all changes, something vital to you may be missed or misinterpreted. Docs are diff'ed and summarized by multiple LLMs, then researched, edited and published by a non-lawyer human.
OpenAI has reversed its categorical denial of cross-context behavioral advertising and now affirmatively does it. The previous policy stated plainly that OpenAI does not "sell" or "share" personal data for cross-contextual behavioral advertising and does not process personal data for targeted advertising purposes. That sentence is gone.
Meta's global Meta AI Terms of Service shrank this week. The list of prohibited user activities went from 14 bullets to 8. The six deletions are not random.
What changed: Six prohibitions, all tracking EU AI Act Article 5 language, were removed from the global Meta AI ToS:
Freepik — the stock-asset-and-AI-tools company — is rebranding to Magnific, the name of one of its own acquired AI products. The change is uniform across the company's tracked documents, with a continuity banner across the top of each: "Freepik is now Magnific. Your account, projects, files, subscription, and 250M+ stock assets come with you."
The substantive change is in the AI Products section of the Terms of Use, where two new prohibitions have been added...
The workflow-automation platform n8n refreshed its privacy policy this week with several additions that limit what n8n can do with user data, rather than expanding it. Readers familiar with the rest of this issue will recognize the contrast on their own.
What changed: A new, plainly worded commitment that n8n will not train AI on user data has been inserted
(every document in the suite except the new Studio terms) — A CMS re-render swept the entire doc set, swapping bullet markers from - to * and stripping escape characters throughout. None of the words changed; all of them moved.
Terms of Service) — "Expert Support" was renamed "Enterprise Support" throughout. No change in the support tier itself — just the marketing label on the tier.
The effective date moved backwards in time, from April 21, 2026 to June 20, 2025. Possibly an inadvertent revert; either way, the most recent visible "Last Updated" line on the document now precedes our scrape window by nine months.
Cloudflare's email obfuscation was removed and the underlying plain-text mailto links restored. Marginally easier to email the company; marginally easier for spambots to find them too.
