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The CEO of People Inc. is taking aim at Google, accusing the search giant of abusing its market power in the AI era. The complaint centers on how Google's crawlers and search dominance may be squeezing out smaller players trying to build AI-driven products — a sign that antitrust pressure on big tech is far from finished.
Shifting gears, OpenAI has launched a limited preview of GPT-five point six, rolling it out to a small group of trusted partners. The model comes in three variants, spanning their most powerful offering yet down to their most affordable, suggesting OpenAI is thinking carefully about who pays what for how much intelligence.
And in a story that sits at the intersection of technology, geopolitics, and parenting, wealthy families connected to names like Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg are reportedly enrolling their children in Mandarin language programs. As China's global influence continues to grow, the thinking seems to be that fluency is no longer just a cultural asset — it is a strategic one.
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