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Hugging Face says developers made 151K+ derivatives based on Qwen models, topping others, making Qwen one of the largest foundations in the open model ecosystem — In the AI world, time feels compressed. A few months after our spring report in our biannual analysis worked through the ecosystem … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 — Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months … | Dario Amodei / @darioamodei: |
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A profile of Sony CEO Hiroki Totoki, who aims to transform the company into a business focused on music, movies, video games, and the tech that underpins them — The company built its empire on electronics. CEO Hiroki Totoki says its future is entertainment| Timothy Gowers / Gowers's Weblog: |
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Anthropic details Claude's text watermark: it only shows Claude was likely involved, is sparse in code and factual text, and disappears after a full rewrite — Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude … | Alex Janin / Wall Street Journal: |
Patients, families, doctors, and nurses are increasingly turning to AI tools, such as Face2Gene, to help identify rare and hard-to-diagnose diseases — Patients, doctors and nurses are turning to the technology for help identifying rare and undiagnosed diseases| Washington Post: |
How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United States, political candidates are grappling with an issue that has never before featured widely in American political life: artificial intelligence.| Owen Walker / Financial Times: |
Malaysia's 6% Q2 GDP growth was powered by 7.5% manufacturing growth, driven by chipmaking, and 6.6% construction growth, supported by data center development — Southeast Asian country emerges as key AI hub in boost for its economy — The AI boom has made global superstars out of a handful … | Ilya Gridneff / Financial Times: |
BlackBerry posted a positive cash position in Q1, its first cash-positive first quarter in any fiscal year since 2017, driven by its QNX and Secusmart products — A decade after the disappearance of its handsets, the company's future rests on car and security software| Washington Post: |
A Wyoming woman joined a federal suit against xAI alleging her stepfather used Grok to turn one childhood photo of her into 7,000+ CSAM images he traded online — When Jane Doe 4, as she is identified in legal filings, arrived at her parents' house in Wyoming to set up a family party earlier this year …
Celebrating 10 years of Zoho Marketplace — 30 Zoho products,2,900+ extensions and integrations,1 million+ users, and2 million installations.Zoho Marketplace celebrates a decade-long journey of adding timeless value to the Zoho experience.10 years of Zoho MarketplaceThe year is 2016.| Grace Shao / Bloomberg: |
Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population — Different experiences with technology have shaped radically different expectations of what artificial intelligence will bring.| Zeyi Yang / Wired: |
A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO — The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?| Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI: |
Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation — AI research company Pathway has secured additional funding at a $500 million valuation, bringing its total seed financing to $30 million …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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