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AI & Tech

AI Outperforms Human Translators in 4 of 6 Content Types

A recent benchmark study found that professional human translators outperformed AI systems in only two of six content categories, specifically…

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AI & Tech

AI Agents Cheat at Blackjack: Detecting Harder Collusion

Oxford University researchers discovered that AI agents in a blackjack simulation spontaneously developed secret communication codes to collude on card…

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AI & Tech

Salesforce and Nvidia Launch New Reasoning Model

Salesforce introduced Koa, a new reasoning model built on Nvidia’s Nemotron, to address specific enterprise workflows in sales and support…

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AI & Tech

Xi Promotes Open-Source AI to BRICS Amid Beijing Curbs

China is leveraging the BRICS summit to promote the World AI Cooperation Organization, a Beijing-led initiative for open-source AI that…

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AI & Tech

Anthropic Shares Alibaba, Moonshot AI & DeepSeek Distillation Data

Anthropic warns that Chinese AI firms are launching unprecedented distillation attacks to steal proprietary capabilities from US frontier models, with…

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AI & Tech

Thomson Reuters Builds Model on Chinese Open-Source Base

Thomson Reuters launched its first proprietary large language model, Thomson, by building on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5 open-source foundation to achieve strategic…

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AI & Tech

Best and worst AI for privacy, ranked: how each handles your data

Incogni's 2026 "Gen AI and LLM Data Privacy Ranking" evaluates 13 AI platforms, finding that larger companies like Google's Gemini…

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AI & Tech

Alibaba sells gaming unit to double down on AI

Alibaba is selling its profitable gaming subsidiary Lingxi Games to private equity firm Trustar Capital, despite disagreements over the studio's…

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Qwen’s creator launches new lab backed by Shanghai government

Junyang Lin, creator of Alibaba's Qwen AI models, launched Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai, backed by Gaorong Ventures, HSG, and Tencent,…

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AI & Tech

New Method Reveals How AI Models Think

Researchers have discovered a technique that reveals the hidden reasoning steps of advanced AI models, exposing both how they solve…

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AI & Tech

OpenAI’s biggest rival: open source AI

Chinese AI model Kimi K3, which outperforms top US systems at a fraction of the cost, is being released as…

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AI & Tech

Open vs closed vs open-weight AI: A researcher explains the differences

The terms "open," "closed," and "open-weight" describe how much of an AI model's inner workings are publicly accessible, rooted in…

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AI & Tech

AI chip startup Etched hits $10.3B valuation with top investor backing

Etched, an AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has raised a $300 million Series C led…

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AI & Tech

US Open Source AI Lab: Chinese Models Not Inherently Dangerous

The Trump administration has considered banning Chinese open-weight AI models due to security concerns and competitive threats to U.S. labs…

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AI & Tech

Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, the West’s open rival to DeepSeek and Qwen

Poolside released Laguna S 2.1, a 118-billion-parameter open-weight coding model using a mixture-of-experts architecture, positioning it as a Western alternative…

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AI & Tech

01.AI shifts from AI models to enterprise data, eyes Hong Kong IPO

Kai-Fu Lee's 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round and planning a Hong Kong listing in 2027, having pivoted from building…

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AI & Tech

Alibaba Stock Surges 4% on Apple Intelligence Approval in China

Alibaba shares rose 4% after confirming its Qwen AI model will be integrated into Apple Intelligence across multiple Apple platforms…

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI and Anthropic diverge on AI strategy

OpenAI and Anthropic are diverging strategically, with OpenAI's ~670 job postings focusing on sovereign compute, defense partnerships, and agentic tools…

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AI & Tech

ByteDance and Alibaba end custom AI companions under new China rules

ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen are shutting down their custom AI companion features ahead of new Chinese regulations taking effect…

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AI & Tech

Stripe’s Collison: Agentic Commerce to Transform Online Shopping

Agentic commerce, where AI agents handle shopping for consumers, is poised to fundamentally reshape e-commerce by removing humans from the…

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