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Alibaba finally has a name on the door of its flagship model line — the day before that name takes the Apsara main stage. Alibaba has appointed Dayiheng Liu, one of its senior AI researchers, to lead the Qwen large language model team, ending months of ambiguity about who runs the
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Apple's first AI-era hardware is quietly living in its own employees' houses, and Zhipu is selling Chinese enterprises a privacy switch with a few visible holes in it. Apple is testing its long-delayed home hub in employees' homes and aiming to ship it between
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Jev's pitch was always that most AI calls in real software don't need a paragraph — they need a decision. In China that idea has found its first mass-market use, and the honest limits are already showing. TypeSafe's decision model has gone viral in
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Politico's tick-tock of the 19-day standoff is out, and the same week SoftBank went to the junk-bond market to keep its OpenAI stake growing. Here is what both say about how the AI build-out is actually governed and financed. Politico has reconstructed the 19
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A cancer-trial startup wants its model's reading of a CT scan to be the number a drug is judged by — and Apple's Siri home hub is already in employees' hands. Altis Labs raised $25 million to make an AI reading of a CT scan
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Two hard numbers landed this morning: the unit count Tesla wants from its humanoid line next year, and the price it is engineering the robot down to. Separately, the UN Security Council gets a briefing from OpenAI's chief. Tesla sent a four-department team into Ningbo on September
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Agent infrastructure got the money this week: a reliability layer for agents that fail silently, an accounting agent aimed at construction, and an industrial model in Hefei that now schedules power instead of just answering questions. Raindrop raised a $35 million Series A led by CRV to catch AI agents
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China's provinces are turning model access into a utility: Hubei just opened a government-linked marketplace where companies buy tokens like phone credit, while Apple's first AI home device moves into employees' houses and new data shows how far AI has actually reached China'
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Zhipu did the thing it promised and published its coding agent's source. What it published starts after the bug. Zhipu (2513.HK) pushed the full source of ZCode to a public repository on Sunday night, nine days after a developer showed the agent was packing entire workspaces and
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The decision model everyone has been arguing about is suddenly free to try, and the biopharma world-model crowd just got another $20 million. Also today: the case for paying for calibrated confidence. TypeSafe AI opened Jev to everyone on Sunday, scrapping the waitlist and giving every new account $5
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The AI build-out is finally showing up in the labor market — in the physical work most coverage skips. Also today: a UK startup bets on digital avatars of dead musicians, and the labs get big enough to move Singapore's rents. More than a million job seekers have
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The Japanese government and the country's leading machinery makers will jointly collect machine-learning data for physical AI, assigning unique IDs to individual pieces of factory equipment so the data can be pooled across manufacturers, Nikkei reported. The scheme targets applications such as autonomous robots, and it is