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Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Moonshot's Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and it plans to release Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B's weights next week — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. released its latest flagship AI model, with performance claims putting it alongside global leaders like Anthropic's Fable.
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| Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 — A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among …
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| Henry Siu / The Information: |
Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens — Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group made its new flagship model, Qwen3.8-Max, widely available on Monday through application programming interfaces …
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| New York Times: |
An unsecured police dashboard exposed China's extensive tracking of foreigners, aggregating data from surveillance cameras, facial recognition tools, and more — An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data.
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
YouTuber Hank Green faces online criticism after using ChatGPT to help research a script, and says his LLM usage “is not healthy for me or good for the world” — Hank Green, a novelist, comedian, and YouTuber with 3.2 million subscribers, recently apologized to his audience for his growing reliance on AI chatbots.
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| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A detailed recap of the real-world target hacks by OpenAI and Anthropic models, exposing failures in AI alignment training and lack of meaningful supervision — If I had a nickel for every major leading AI lab that sheepishly admitted that the model it thought was sandboxed had …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February — British entrepreneur behind Olix raises $312mn from investors including Arm in effort to take on Nvidia
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
The EU's AI Act enforcement powers take effect, letting it evaluate AI models before regional release, restrict market access, fine model providers, and more — The European Union gained new powers to inspect AI models, restrict EU market access and fine model providers …
More: Euronews
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September — South Korean AI chip designer DeepX Co. has secured fresh funding at roughly four times its previous valuation … | Daniel Thomas / Financial Times: |
Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a “wide-ranging” review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA — Ian Cheshire tells FT that watchdog will need ‘more resources’ to enforce online safety rules as it takes on wider brief| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
A profile of Nanit, a maker of AI-equipped baby cameras for hyper-detailed tracking, which says it has 1M daily users and $100M+ in annual revenue — Young parents are increasingly willing to embrace tracking and analytics for their children — part of a broader cultural obsession … | Irina Anghel / Bloomberg: |
Indeed: UK employers are creating jobs for senior staff in software engineering and IT, where AI enhances the value of experience, while cutting back elsewhere — UK employers are creating jobs for experienced staff with artificial intelligence skills and cutting back elsewhere …
More: Reuters
| Francesca Perry / Financial Times: |
A look at the growing tensions over AI data centers in London, Europe's biggest data center hub, as housing, power, and water come under increasing strain — The city has become the largest hub for AI power centres across Europe, competing with homes for energy, space and water.
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