A grey market in China resells access to Anthropic's Claude at 70-90% below official API prices through 'transfer stations' that mass-produce accounts, swap models, and capture user data. Anthropic ac…
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts open-weight model with 41 billion active parameters per task, t…
PrismML released Bonsai 27B, a 27-billion-parameter AI model compressed to 3.9 GB that runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 11 tokens per second, the first model at that capability tier to fit on a smartph…
Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open weights model, now available on Design Arena. Inkling ranks #9 on Design Arena's agentic Web Apps leaderboard, making it the highest-ranking US-based…
China, California, and New York have enacted laws restricting companion AI chatbots, citing risks of addiction, mental harm, and social disruption. China's new law, effective today, bans free user-bui…
Alibaba's U.S.-listed shares rose up to 4% in premarket trading after the company confirmed its Qwen AI model will power Apple Intelligence features for users in China across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and v…
A developer built Recona, an AI agent that reconciles Paystack payments against open invoices using Qwen, for the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud. During testing, Qwen correctly identified …
Apple Intelligence, Apple's generative AI offering, has been approved for launch in China by the Cyberspace Administration of China, following a deal to integrate Alibaba's Qwen AI model into Apple's …
Apple is in early talks with PrismML, a startup that compresses large AI models to run on a phone, as the company seeks to run more of Siri's work locally. PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi told CNBC that App…
China's Interim Measures for AI Anthropomorphic Interactive Services took effect July 15, banning AI behaviors that trigger 'strong emotional attachment or dependence,' forcing ByteDance's Doubao, Ali…
A developer pitted China's best open AI models—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—against each other using real workloads and a custom benchmark suite. The developer found that DeepSeek's V4 Flash offered …
Alibaba's US-listed shares rose 3.7% on Wednesday after China's Cyberspace Administration approved Alibaba's Qwen AI model to power Apple Intelligence across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS for users…
Apple has won Chinese regulatory approval to roll out Apple Intelligence in mainland China, with Alibaba's Qwen powering the AI features. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) approved Apple's …
Apple has registered its on-device generative AI service, Apple Intelligence, with China's Cyberspace Administration, clearing a regulatory hurdle for launch on iPhones in the country. The service wil…
Apple Intelligence has been approved by China's Cyberspace Administration, allowing the AI system to launch on iPhones in the country for the first time. The on-device generative AI service will use m…
ByteDance told Doubao users on 15 July that custom AI agents built on the platform had stopped working, leaving a read-only archive accessible until 15 October, after which data will be handled under …
Alibaba has integrated its Qwen AI model, known as Tongyi Qianwen, into Apple Intelligence for Chinese users, enabling on-device text comprehension, image understanding, and content generation across …
ByteDance has disabled Doubao's user-built agent feature, affecting 350 million monthly active users and over 8 million custom agents, after China's new Interim Measures for anthropomorphic AI interac…
A freelance developer tested four Chinese AI models—DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM—for a client dashboard requiring text summarization, aiming to reduce API costs. DeepSeek V4 Flash emerged as the top …
PrismML has unveiled a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen model that slashes memory requirements by up to 15 times, a technical leap that could accelerate Apple's AI ambitions by enabling more sophi…