TikTok settles landmark social media addiction lawsuit
TikTok has agreed to settle a social media addiction lawsuit just days before the case was set to go before a jury. The settlement was confirmed by attorneys for the plaintiffs, though its terms were not disclosed. The deal comes as jury selection begins this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court for claims that […]
Alibaba unveils new contender in AI language model
This week, Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen Team unveiled Qwen3-Max-Thinking, a proprietary language model designed to compete directly with top-tier reasoning systems from U.S. and European labs. The Chinese AI lab says the model can match and in some benchmarks, surpass the reasoning performance of OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 and Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, while running at a fraction […]
Sam Altman admits GPT-5.2’s writing quality was “screwed up” by OpenAI
OpenAI knowingly traded writing quality for technical gains in GPT-5.2 and got that balance wrong, CEO Sam Altman says. According to the CEO, the company is working on improvements for future GPT-5.x models. Speaking during a developer town hall on Monday, Sam Altman acknowledged that GPT-5.2’s writing output has frustrated users and lagged behind earlier […]
Amazon cuts 16,000 jobs in second round of layoffs in three months
Amazon said on Wednesday that it is cutting 16,000 jobs across the company. This would mark its second large round of layoffs in just three months as the tech giant restructures its workforce amid increased investment in artificial intelligence. In a blog post addressed to employees, Beth Galetti, Amazon’s senior vice president of people experience […]
