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TikTok Settles with Alabama in Social Media Suit - DTH

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 27, 20265 min
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Alabama Attorney General announces a settlement with TikTok in social media case, Apple to appeal a $5.7 billion patent infringement verdict, and Microsoft Excel is testing a feature enabling a cell to hold multiple values simultaneously. Check out the show notes here. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/dth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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These are the daily tech headlines for Sunday, September 27, 2026. I'm Jen Cutter.

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These are the daily tech headlines for Sunday, September 27, 2026. I'm Jen Cutter. OpenAI announced the company is pausing training of its AI models amid more reports of agents causing incidents in unexpected ways. In a statement to press, OpenAI stated training will resume, quote, only when we are confident

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that we have additional safeguards. The company added it expects to may have to hit pause again in the future as other issues surface. This is the second time OpenAI hit pause on development in the last three months.

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The first time was in July with the revelation of the hugging-face incident. On Friday, a federal jury awarded Taction Technology approximately US$5.7 billion in damages, finding that Apple infringed on two of the company's patents. Taction filed suit against Apple in 2021 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern

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