XPeng's robotics business raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation of more than $6.3 billion, the largest single-round private financing in China's embodied AI industry, led by IDG Capital w…
XPeng Robotics, the robotics arm of Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng Inc., raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation of $6.3 billion, in a round co-led by IDG Capital and Gaorong Ventures…
A report by security research group Crimson Flare warns that popular open-weight AI models can be easily modified to bypass safety measures, potentially enabling terrorists to build explosives and che…
Alibaba launched Wan3.0, a video-generation model that can create clips up to 30 seconds long from documents, spreadsheets, slides, and web pages, available through Alibaba Cloud's Model Studio and AP…
Alibaba has priced a record HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) share placement to fund its full-stack AI buildout, selling 710 million ordinary shares at HK$112.70 each, a 3.6% discount to its New York clo…
Alibaba's Hong Kong shares fell 9.8% to HK$111.00 on Monday after the company launched a US$10.2 billion share sale at HK$112.70 per share, an 8.4% discount to Friday's close, to fund AI development. …
Michael Burry, the investor known for betting against the U.S. housing market, has sold his entire Alibaba stake and moved it into JD.com, saying he no longer plans to switch back. Burry's decision fo…
Qwen, Alibaba's AI team, has released Qwen-Image-2-Pro, a 20-billion-parameter text-to-image model now available on Replicate. The model excels at rendering complex text, particularly Chinese logograp…
Wan-Video's Wan-2.7-T2v, built on Alibaba's Wan 2.7 architecture, is an advanced text-to-video model that generates up to 15-second 1080p videos with synchronized audio. It uses a diffusion transforme…
Alibaba's open-source terminal coding agent Qwen Code now supports full observability via OpenTelemetry, enabling users to monitor token usage, model calls, and tool executions in SigNoz. The feature,…
Michael Burry, the investor known for betting against the 2008 housing market, said in a Substack post on August 23 that he moved his entire Alibaba position into JD.com, citing Alibaba's HK$80 billio…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company reported July 2026 revenue of NT$467.58 billion ($14.5B), up 44.7% year-over-year, driven by AI demand that accounted for 66% of second-quarter revenue. Mean…
Alibaba published open weights for Qwen3.8-Max on August 12, scoring 86.1 on OSWorld-Verified, beating GPT-5.6 Sol Max (83.2) and Claude Fable 5 (85.0), but the open checkpoint is text-only with a 32K…
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 27B open-weight vision model, released under Apache 2.0, takes 21 minutes and 22,276 reasoning tokens to draw a pelican riding a bicycle as an SVG, according to Simon Willison's tes…
Analog Devices reported record fiscal third-quarter revenue of $4.02 billion, up 40% year over year, driven by data center optical and power business growth of over 100%, which now accounts for about …
A new ledger tracking 2026 open-weight AI model releases finds that the gap between announcement and actual weight availability on Hugging Face ranges from zero to over a week, with Moonshot AI's Kimi…
Qwen 3.8 27B, a local LLM from Alibaba's Qwen team, achieves milestone-level coding performance on consumer hardware, with a user reporting it as the first local model that convinced them to integrate…
Alibaba introduced Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI-focused base agent that operates phones, PCs, web apps, and search environments by understanding on-screen elements and executing clicks, and it reportedly outp…
Qwen 3.8, a 27B-parameter open-weights model from Alibaba, delivers coding output in the Claude Haiku-to-Sonnet range but is 15-20 times slower than Claude Sonnet, according to tests by a developer on…
CCSH Corporation plans a $4.9 billion IPO on the Shanghai STAR Market to fund Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp (YMTC), China's leading memory producer, as part of a state-engineered recapitalization t…