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OpenAI published a blog post announcing an update to ChatGPT’s Model Spec to enhance safety for users aged 13 to 17 amid wrongful-death lawsuits alleging the chatbot coached teens to suicide or failed to address suicidal expressions appropriately.
The company has encountered substantial pressure over recent months regarding the safety of its flagship AI product for teenagers. Multiple legal...
Warner Bros. Discovery’s board rejected Paramount Skydance’s $108 billion takeover bid, reaffirming commitment to its $82.7 billion merger agreement with Netflix announced on December 5, 2025, which awaits regulatory approval for closure next year.
The board unanimously concluded that the tender offer launched by Paramount Skydance on December 8, 2025, fails to serve the best interests of Warner...
Google began rolling out Gemini 3 Flash, a more efficient version of its latest AI model, approximately one month after launching Gemini 3 Pro in November. The new model delivers pro-grade reasoning performance comparable to the flagship at reduced cost, with benchmarks showing it surpasses prior generations including Gemini 2.5 Pro and competes directly with OpenAI’s GPT-5.2.
The rollout...
Amazon is discussing a $10 billion investment in OpenAI along with supplying Trainium AI chips and additional cloud computing services through Amazon Web Services, according to the Financial Times.
The proposed investment would elevate OpenAI’s valuation above $500 billion. Discussions highlight potential issues in OpenAI’s investment structures, particularly circular agreements where funds cycle...
YouTube will cease providing music-streaming data to Billboard for U.S. charts after January 16, 2026, protesting a revised formula that weights paid on-demand streams more heavily than ad-supported streams.
Billboard recently updated its chart-ranking methodology to assign greater value to paid and subscription-based on-demand streams relative to ad-supported free streams. The publisher stated...
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed by Oregon author Elizabeth Lyon accuses Adobe of training its SlimLM AI model on pirated books, including her guidebooks, through the SlimPajama-627B dataset derived from the RedPajama collection containing Books3.
Adobe has pursued extensive development in artificial intelligence over recent years. The company launched multiple AI services starting in 2023,...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission issued a civil investigative demand to Instacart regarding its AI-powered pricing tool, Eversight, after a study showed shoppers paying up to 23% more for identical groceries, including organic granola, from the same stores.
Reuters reported the FTC’s action seeks explanations for these price differences observed on the grocery delivery platform. The study...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced to staff on Wednesday that Peter DeSantis, a longtime AWS executive, will lead a new AI-focused organization responsible for the company’s AI models such as Nova, silicon development, and quantum computing to accelerate AI tools.
DeSantis has worked at Amazon for 27 years, with the past eight years serving as senior vice president for AWS. AWS operates as the cloud...
Meta is limiting link posts to two per user on Facebook for professional mode accounts and Pages unless users hold a paid Meta Verified subscription costing $14.99 per month.
Social media strategist Matt Navarra observed the test over the last week through screenshots showing affected users restricted to two links. The restriction applies specifically to users in professional mode, which converts...
Cisco announced that hackers linked to China are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its AsyncOS software across Cisco Secure Email Gateway, Cisco Secure Email, and Web Manager appliances, enabling full device takeover with no patches available yet.
The company detected the hacking campaign on December 10. This campaign targets physical and virtual appliances running Cisco AsyncOS software....