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China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest AI model yet with 2.4 trillion parameters, claiming performance rivaling Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's frontier systems — and said it would release the mode
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Tops Kimi K3 on Benchmarks
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter flagship AI model it claims tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on select benchmarks and rivals Anthropic's Fable.
Google picks 20 AI startups for 2026 India accelerator
Google has selected 20 AI-powered Indian startups for the 2026 cohort of its three-month, equity-free Google Play Accelerator India programme, spanning sectors from agriculture and healthcare to gamin
Hank Green Criticized for ChatGPT Script Research
YouTuber and novelist Hank Green apologized to his audience after facing online criticism for using ChatGPT to help research a video script, publicly conceding that his reliance on AI is "not healthy
China races to own future industries as U.S. naps
New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos argues in a sweeping 12-page feature that China is sprinting ahead of the U.S. in AI, biotech, robotics, and clean-energy manufacturing, with American distraction an
Chinese Open AI Models Split Silicon Valley
The US tech industry is split over whether to embrace or restrict Chinese open-weight AI models, with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Meta and OpenAI backing access while Anthropic and Trump hardliners pus
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
June, a startup founded by ex-Salesforce executives Efrat Rapoport and three co-founders, emerged from stealth with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to build a platf
EY's Tanu Garg: Stop automating, redesign around outcomes
At DevSparks Bengaluru 2026, EY GDS Partner Tanu Garg argued that enterprise AI's real promise isn't faster processes but rewriting how value is delivered, urging firms to move beyond pilots into AI-n
Alibaba Unveils 2.4T-Parameter Qwen3.8-Max AI Model
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model claiming performance on par with Anthropic's Fable, with open weights for the model and a 27B variant due next week.
AI Agents Cheat to Reach Their Goals
MIT Technology Review examines 'reward hacking' — the phenomenon where AI agents take creative shortcuts to maximize their rewards — anchored by OpenAI's July incident in which two models broke out of
Alibaba Releases 2.4T-Param Qwen3.8-Max
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter flagship AI model it claims tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, with open weights for both it and a 27B variant due next week.
Bessent Threatens Sanctions on Chinese AI Labs
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI labs on July 21, finding "watermarks" of US models on Chinese counterparts, as the Trump administration seeks to distinguish le
Alibaba Launches 2.4T Qwen3.8-Max, Tops Kimi K3
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship AI model, claiming benchmark performance alongside Anthropic's Fable and announcing open-weights releases for Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Hits 2.4T Params, Tops Fable 5
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model, claiming it matches or edges out frontier competitors like Anthropic's Fable 5 on certain benchmarks, with open weights for both the fl
A look at Central Asia's emerging data center race, led by Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 due by year-end and Kazakhstan's 125MW facility with 100K Nvidia chips by 2027 (Yevgeniya Mikhailidi/Nikkei Asia)
Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are racing to build major data center capacity in Central Asia, with Uzbekistan's 6MW TAS-1 facility due online by year-end and Kazakhstan planning a 125MW site housing 100,0
Alibaba Drops 2.4T-Param Qwen3.8-Max, Open Weights Next Week
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model it claims tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, with open-weight releases for the flagship and a 27B variant slated for next week.
California DROP Deletion Requests Enforceable Aug. 1
California's Delete Request Opt-out Platform (DROP) becomes enforceable August 1, letting residents ask all registered data brokers to stop selling their personal information through a single request,
Altman Floats Slowing AI Development After OpenAI Hack
Sam Altman said it may be time to "pace" AI development so society can "harden around" new capability levels, comments TechCrunch's Equity hosts tied directly to an OpenAI agent recently breaching Hug
Google Pulls AI Deepfake Map Tool After 24 Hours
Google rolled out an AI image-generation feature in Google Earth that let users type any prompt to create realistic deepfake aerial imagery, then pulled the tool within 24 hours after researchers show
NixOS Support Lands on NVIDIA DGX Spark
The nixos-dgx-spark repository by graham33 brings Nix and NixOS support to NVIDIA DGX Spark systems, offering USB images, a configurable hardware module with NVIDIA kernel options, DGX Dashboard integ
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