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Ziff Davis is a digital media company whose brands include ZDNET, PCMag, IGN, and Mashable, covering tech news, gaming, and reviews.
Three summary judgment briefs in the consolidated news publisher case describe the same conduct using denominators that never meet, and the one the court adopts will set what licensed text is worth to every buyer.
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OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol has Astra-level intelligence at a fifth of the price, charging $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output. That saving reaches the API workloads teams build themselves, while the Dots agents launched with it run on Astra inside seat plans that got dearer.
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iOS 26.6.1, iPadOS 26.6.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.6.2 close 29 flaws with no known attacks. Publication is the trigger event, and 21 of the 29 sit in WebKit.
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ChatGPT is the first AI assistant pulled into the Digital Services Act. It was filed as a search engine, which puts annual risk assessments, independent audits and researcher data access on OpenAI Ireland by the end of November.
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Discovery quotes unsealed on Thursday have Nick Turley, Greg Brockman and Satya Nadella describing the products as substitutes, while OpenAI and Microsoft have told a Manhattan court that their training does not replace journalism.
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The news publishers' partly unsealed summary judgment motion quotes Microsoft's CEO on substitution and on licensing paywalled training data. Microsoft says he was speaking to broad principles about how people find information, and that his words are not conclusions about copyright.
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OpenAI says better caching and inference let it cut API prices for Sol and Luna by half, and the cost advantage it claims for the cheap tier over the old top tier comes in at one tenth on the benchmark it published and one hundredth in its summary.
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Amazon's robots.txt now disallows ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot, and in ZDNET's tests the shopping agent sent a buyer to Walmart, eBay and a retailer called Soaplicity instead of Amazon listings.
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Redactions came off a 92-page plaintiffs' brief in the consolidated OpenAI copyright case on Thursday. Inside are internal Microsoft and OpenAI documents on substitution, memorised training data and collapsing publisher click-throughs.
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The Justice Department told a New York federal court that licensing would make a robust AI industry harder to build. Vivek Shah, whose company is a plaintiff, answers with OpenAI's own compute forecast and the music industry's royalty bill.
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Sam Altman answered Dario Amodei's call for a slowdown with an offer to write common safety standards before any legislation. Product plans built on the current release cadence now depend on when a lab decides to pause.
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The ChatGPT Mac app can now record clicks, typing and app switches from allowed apps into local memory files. Pro users self-enable; Business and Enterprise need an admin to grant access.
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OpenAI has put its paused computer-use model into a few customers' hands, where the speed gain arrives alongside a reasoning trail outside investigators say is harder to follow. The containment work now sits with the customer.
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OpenAI told Mashable that none of its models had ever been rated critical before this one, and it is shipping anyway with the sharpest cyber skills held on a partner list. That leaves defenders with a timing problem.
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The per-work figure in this week's complaint is small enough to look modest and large enough that, multiplied across a corpus, the provenance of training data stops being a legal footnote and becomes a budget line.
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A third of Americans have asked a chatbot for medical guidance and 95% of them found it at least somewhat helpful. Asked about loneliness and depression, the same public turns two to one against.
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The data-removal firm's 2026 ranking puts Gemini and Meta AI among the riskiest and Vibe, ChatGPT and Pi among the safest. It is a procurement input, but it grades policies, not contracts.
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