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New York Times TechAug 26, 2026
What Does $17.1 Billion Mean for Meta?
The Silicon Valley company agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion in penalties as part of a landmark settlement with states over social media addiction claims.

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New York Times TechAug 26, 2026
Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims
The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.

Mac RumorsAug 26, 2026
iPhone 17 Remains World's Best Selling Smartphone
The iPhone 17 retained its position as the world's best selling smartphone in the second quarter of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max and ?iPhone 17 Pro? holding the next two spots on the firm's quarterly ranking.


Mac RumorsAug 26, 2026
M5 vs. M6 Chip Buyer's Guide: How Much Better Really Is M6?
Apple yesterday announced the M6, its first chip built using a 2nm process and the first Apple silicon design to use three different CPU core types, but how does it compare to the M5?


ComputerWorldAug 03, 2026
Alibaba takes aim at OpenAI and Anthropic with Qwen3.8-Max launch
Alibaba on Monday introduced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model to date, expanding its enterprise AI portfolio with an open-weight model designed for software engineering, multimodal reasoning, and other knowledge-intensive business workloads.

In a blog post announcing the launch, Alibaba described Qwen3.8-Max as a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that activates only about 95 billion parameters during inference.

The company said the architecture is intended to improve inference efficiency while supporting coding, reasoning and multimodal tasks, with open-weight versions scheduled for release next week through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio.

"We believe it's one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to leading frontier AI models, second only to Fable 5," Alibaba said in an X post.

Benchmarks target Anthropic and OpenAI's coding models Alibaba published internal test results comparing Qwen3.8-Max against Claude Opus 4.8, Claude Fable 5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on coding benchmarks, including SWE-bench Pro and a proprietary evaluation the company calls NL2Repo-Bench.

The company said it evaluated competing models using each ven

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