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receive back to Week in Review ! We ’ve get spate of news for you today : Amazon earnings , Apple earnings , ChatGPT sycophancy , Alibaba ’s AI models , and much more . Let ’s get to it !
Well?During Apple ’s pay call yesterday , Tim Cook revealed that the company paid$900 million in tariffslast quarter . But despite this , the CEOdidn’t announce any monetary value increase — yet .
Big Pearl Sydenstricker Buck : Defense technical school startup Mach Industries , which was founded by 21 - year - quondam Ethan Thornton , is about to come together a tonic $ 100 million in financing , source told TechCrunch . This young funding should take the inauguration ’s total backing to about $ 185 million to day of the month .
More mannequin : Alibaba harbinger this week thatit ’s free a kin of AI models , forebode Qwen3 , that it claims can surpass OpenAI and Google . According to Alibaba , the Qwen3 models are “ hybrid ” mannikin , and they ’re not yet usable for download .
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Shoot for the champion : Amazon ’s effort to produce a distance - based internet web began in earnest this week : The company fired off its first27 cyberspace satelliteson Tuesday . The first half of the meshwork needs to be deployed by mid-2026 to match the FCC deadline .
AI in your pocket : Meta isrolling out a stand up - alone AI app , which it unveiled at the caller ’s first LlamaCon upshot on Tuesday . The app earmark users to access Meta AI in an app , similar to the ChatGPT app and other AI supporter apps .
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Blocked : A judge in Indiablocked the cypher email supplier Proton Mailacross the country . This was in response to a effectual complaint filed by New Delhi - establish M Moser Design Associates , which allege that its employee had received emails contain obscene and common message broadcast via Proton Mail .
Cheaters never win : Cluely went viral latterly for its bold call of helping people cheat on everything . But some startups are claimingthey can take in Cluely ’s users .
Alexa+:Amazon ’s new digital assistant aims to let users speak with it in a more natural elan and eventually have agentic ability that allow it to use third - political party apps on a user ’s behalf . During Amazon ’s wage call this week , CEO Andy Jassy says that100,000 users now have Alexa+ .
AI where it matters : Airbnb seems to be choose a more metrical access with AI . It startedrolling out an AI - power customer servicebot in the U.S. last calendar month . CEO Brian Chesky suppose in February that the company would use AI for customer service before it started implementing it for other consumption like travel preparation or book ticket .
Epic ruling : Epic Games hasnotched a winin an ongoing legal dispute with Apple . Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a ruling that Apple was in “ willful violation ” of a 2021 enjoining that veto the company from imposing anticompetitive pricing . As a result , Fortnite could be back on iPhones as soon as next week .
tick off your configurations : Meta emailed Ray - Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now beenabled on the glass by nonpayment . This imply Meta ’s AI will study pic and video take with the glasses while certain AI features are throw on .
Yikes!OpenAI said it was“rolling back”the a la mode update to the nonpayment AI model powering ChatGPT , GPT-4o , after complaints about unknown behavior , in particular it being overly agreeable and validate . accord to OpenAI , the update , which was think to make the framework ’s nonpayment personality “ feel more nonrational and effective,”was inform too much by “ short - term feedback . ”Now the company salute to make change that wouldprevent this from happeningin the future .
