Alibaba reported a 75% drop in quarterly profit to 10.5 billion yuan ($1.6 billion) for April-June, as capital expenditures on AI infrastructure jumped 75% to 67.7 billion yuan (about $10 billion). Re…
Alibaba Group Holding reported a 9% jump in revenue to nearly 269 billion yuan (US$40 billion) for the quarter ended June, driven by demand for its cloud computing from China's AI boom, but net income…
Chinese AI models are closing the gap with U.S. rivals in cost-effectiveness and quality, according to tests where seven Chinese models built a coffee shop website, challenging the dominance of U.S. f…
Binance launched Binance Ai Pro beta on March 25 for eligible users, allowing AI agents to execute trades and run strategies in a separate virtual sub-account with no withdrawal permissions, but losse…
A 1960s publicity portrait of Hammer Films actress Veronica Carlson has been altered by a generative AI image editor, which superimposed a plastic comb onto her hand, and the flawed result is being so…
A developer demonstrates how to run local large language models with Ollama and integrate them into a Spring Boot application using Spring AI, building an AI customer support assistant that keeps data…
Cursor and Anthropic extended agent autonomy with containment: Cursor cloud agents now start from events and give each subagent its own virtual machine, while Claude Managed Agents added memory from s…
Tether released Qwak, a free, open-source local AI platform that bundles text generation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), fine-tuning, image and video generation, and speech into a single offlin…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen 3.8 27B, a dense 27 billion parameter multimodal model that scored 51 on the Artificial Analysis agentic index, trailing only Kimi K2, a 2.8 trillion parameter model.…
Ornith 1.5 9B, a 9-billion-parameter dense language model from ornith-ai, failed real-world agentic and coding tasks in a local test on a single Nvidia A100 GPU, despite benchmark claims that it rival…
A user building a local AI workstation reports that a GMKtec Strix Halo with 128 GB unified memory runs Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF:Q8_0 at over 44 tokens per second with a 262144 context window, while…
An engineer detailed the setup of an NVIDIA DGX Spark for AI development, covering system updates, dependency installation, and configuration of Ollama with models like Qwen3.8 and Qwen2.5-Coder. The …
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) reports fiscal Q1 2027 earnings on Aug. 20 before market open, with shares trading at a trailing P/E of 19 and a forward P/E of 20, a PEG of 0.517, and analyst …
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has reclaimed its status as the most popular Chinese tech stock among investors, driven by a $53 billion AI and cloud infrastructure spending plan and the competitive Qwen s…
A developer detailed a setup for running Qwen3.8 27B, an agentic coding model, locally on a 24 GB VRAM machine using llama.cpp and the pi coding agent. The configuration achieves about 8 tokens per se…
A benchmark comparison of seven quantized Qwen3.8-27B checkpoints on an RTX 5090 found the cyankiwi/Qwen3.8-27B-AWQ-INT4 quant to be the most accurate, with only 156 top-1 token flips (2.193%) across …
A developer's six-week, data-backed comparison of US and Chinese AI models reveals that Chinese models like DeepSeek V4 Flash and Qwen3-32B offer comparable quality at a fraction of the cost, with out…
A practical guide published in late July 2026 evaluates the true costs of 'free' AI tools, distinguishing between free entry points, free allowances, trials, and local software. It recommends a combin…
A startup CTO developed a benchmarking playbook for AI coding models, testing ten models across five real tasks and scoring them on correctness, code quality, documentation, and edge cases, then divid…
A developer is seeking open-source replacements for Llama 3.3 70B Versatile after Groq shut down the model, focusing on smaller parameter sizes with comparable performance for RAG, agentic workflows, …