Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal MoE model it calls "second only to Fable 5." The preview is live on Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork at 10% of standard pricing.

A community developer fine-tuned OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 traces into a 1B model that runs fully local. a 657MB smallest build, 128K context, and visible reasoning.

CFO Wendell Huang said the first Arizona fab is achieving yields "as good as" TSMC’s flagship fab in Taiwan.

InterPositive was founded in 2022 and operated in stealth before being acquired by Netflix.

Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup TechCrunch

Shocking AI Breakthrough: A 1997 PC With Just 128MB RAM Runs Modern AI. Here's How They Did It Talk Android

The fear of becoming obsolete is a rising source of anxiety as artificial intelligence emerges in the workplace. Staying strongly connected with others will help The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work Earlier this year Paul* discovered…

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources.

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China's latest AI breakthrough is forcing Silicon Valley to confront a terrifying possibility: Building the world's smartest models may no longer be enough to win.

Also: The company tries out AI recording for Genius Bar appointments.

Moonshot AI has told investors it’s preparing to list in as early as six months, seizing the opportunity to tap capital markets after its latest model upended industry perceptions of China’s burgeoning capabilities and sent global tech stocks reeling.

Judges are becoming AI firewalls, setting guidelines for lawyers and litigants entering their courtrooms and reprimanding those who fail to vet their research or cite fake AI-generated cases. But judges are also navigating how to use the tech themselves.

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge.

OpenAI is selling its first hardware. without any help from Jony Ive. It describes the Codex Micro as a “command center for agentic work” but it’s really a 13-switch wireless keyboard customized to help developers keep tabs on what their Codex agents are doing. It costs $230.

Linus Torvalds has a complicated relationship with AI, seeing both its good and bad points. But his latest remarks on the usefulness of AI may have raised a few eyebrows in open-source circles.

The current wave of AI marketing risks obscuring a basic point: businesses cannot improve what they cannot first measure correctly, says Bobby Perel, MD of Peresoft.

South African startup Howzit AI is an artificial intelligence (AI) platform, similar in function to ChatGPT but designed specifically around local languages, affordability and everyday South African use cases.

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As chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them.

Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenaAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.

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As AI applications become more complex, the infrastructure powering them needs to evolve. Corey Sanders, SVP of Product at CoreWeave, joins Chris to discuss why AI requires a fundamentally different approach than traditional cloud computing.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself.