The U.S. National Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and FBI issued a joint advisory accusing Chinese AI companies DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and…
A developer roundup highlights four open-weight coding models for local workstations in late 2026, including Meta Muse Spark 1.2, Alibaba Qwen3.8-27B, Meta Muse Glimmer 30B, and Alibaba Qwen3.8-Flash-…
More than 50% of China's forthcoming data center projects are located in the country's northern and northwestern regions, according to BloombergNEF data as of September 2026, driven by Beijing's 'East…
WeChat, owned by Tencent, is testing a feature called Xiaowei AI Social that lets two AI assistants converse before their human owners intervene, targeting tasks like scheduling and meal coordination.…
XPeng has activated what it calls the world's first automated production line for advanced humanoid robots, with its IRON robot walking off the line under its own power in Guangzhou, where more than 8…
Arm Holdings plc launched the Arm AI Portal, a platform connecting more than 22 million developers and their agents to optimized AI software across the Arm compute platform spanning cloud, edge, and p…
XPeng has started production of its IRON humanoid robot on what it calls the world's first automated line for advanced humanoids, with over 80% of core processes automated, targeting mass production b…
Qwen-Drive 1.0, developed by Alibaba's Qwen team, turns the general-purpose Qwen3.5-4B vision-language model into a driving foundation model by adding a BEV perception head and a 1.1B-parameter Planni…
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max-0902 model, released September 2, 2026, topped Code Arena's WebDev leaderboard with 1,691 points, surpassing Claude Opus 5 Max's 1,687, while keeping its price unchanged at $2 pe…
Alibaba's research arm released Qwen-Drive 1.0, an AI model that integrates environmental perception, traffic Q&A, and route planning for autonomous driving, but the researchers found that text-image …
Cerebras added Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B to its public API, delivering 1,500 tokens per second, enabling a 300-word response in under half a second. The model scores 61.7% on SWE-bench Pro, ahead of Clau…
DeepSeek plans to deploy at least 160,000 Huawei Ascend 950DT accelerators at a new data center in Inner Mongolia, according to sources familiar with the matter. The cluster, earmarked for inference w…
Baidu's smart-device arm Xiaodu will hold a hardware launch on Sept. 8 at 2 p.m. Beijing time, unveiling smart displays, Tiantian companion screens, smart speakers, and cameras powered by the upgraded…
Alibaba's Qwen team, with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, released Qwen-Drive-1.0-4B, an open-source model for autonomous driving that integrates driving-scene understanding and motion …
Aivres, a renamed subsidiary of blacklisted Chinese server maker Inspur, exported at least $5.6 billion of advanced U.S. technology, including over $3 billion of computers with Nvidia Blackwell chips,…
Serving an open-weight large language model in a user-facing product is primarily a latency problem, and open weights enable engineers to control inference speed through levers such as weight quantiza…
SwarmOS, backed by GPT-6 Astra, generated a Rust/CUDA fully sharded data-parallel trainer for Qwen3.8-27B that achieved over 11.5× higher throughput than the eager PyTorch FSDP2 baseline and 21.5% hig…
China's Ulanqab region has become a major AI computing hub, with data center capacity jumping from 3.3 gigawatts in July 2025 to 12.5 gigawatts by June 2026, driven by a strategic bet that electricity…
As of 2026, open-weight AI models have nearly closed the intelligence gap with closed US frontier models, with China's Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) and GLM-5.3 (Z.ai) scoring 60 on the Artificial Analysis In…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 (Max), launched on September 1, 2026, topped the Code Arena: WebDev leaderboard with 1,765 points, outpacing Alibaba's Qwen3.8 Max by 77 points. The model, which builds on…