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Equifax Customers Have a Month to Claim a Piece of $2.2M Class Action Settlement

If you used Equifax’s consumer credit reports service in 2022, you may be eligible to claim part of an upcoming $2.2 million settlement payout. The case centered on allegations that Equifax violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act, a federal statute that dictates credit reporting companies must “follow reasonable procedures to assure maximum possible accuracy of the information concerning the individual about whom the report relates.”

The class action lawsuit, Bradberry v. Equifax Information Services LLC, alleged that Equifax “wrongfully reported duplicates of negative accounts” on certain consumer reports, and that these duplicated debt tradelines are a result of the company having inadequate datakeeping policies and procedures. The lawsuit alleges that Equifax “negligently and recklessly disseminated false and damaging information” regarding the credit of certain customers.

Essentially, the lawsuit alleges that Equifax’s negligent reporting made some customers’ debts appear larger than they actually were, potentially creating situations where affected individuals...

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China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

The AI arms race reached a fever pitch on Monday after Chinese e-commerce and cloud provider Alibaba called into question America’s technological lead with the launch of Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model that goes toe-to-toe with the best models from Anthropic and OpenAI. The new model

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LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why

* LinkedIn will hold GPU investment and its compute and storage footprint flat rather than expanding its AI data centers * The company says it roughly doubled the efficiency of its existing GPUs in six months through accumulated improvements to utilization, model distillation, and workload allocation, not a single breakthrough * This makes

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Asana built AI agents that won't leak secrets | VentureBeat

Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked. In a fireside chat with VentureBeat'

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Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI market: autonomous software engineering and long-horizon enterprise

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China turns up the heat with open model blitz as US model makers panic

LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year &mdash; but it has a good reason why

Asana built AI agents that won't leak secrets | VentureBeat

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

LinkedIn says it won't be spending big on AI hardware this year — but it has a good reason why