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Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8 Max, Claims It Trails Only Anthropic Fable 5; Shares Rise 5.4%

Alibaba previewed a 2.4 trillion-parameter artificial intelligence model on Sunday that the company says ranks behind only one system in the world today: Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5. Hong Kong-listed Alibaba shares jumped as much as 5.4 per cent on Monday on the news, even as the company offered no benchmarks, model card, or independent test

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Meta’s Iris AI Chip Passes Testing; Broadcom Now Designs Chips for Three Major AI Rivals

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Meta Platforms will begin manufacturing its first in-house AI training and inference accelerator, code-named Iris, in September 2026, marking the company’s most ambitious push yet to break its dependence on Nvidia and AMD for the compute that runs Facebook and Instagram. The chip is the inaugural product of a four-generation roadmap for the Meta Training

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World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization: 29 Countries Back a New Shanghai AI Governance Bloc

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Twenty-nine countries back WAICO as China pledges AI training, weather tools and a Global South-focused framework for governing artificial intelligence.

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Anthropic Ends Claude Fable 5 Subscription Limbo: Permanent Access for Max, Credits-Only for Pro

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Anthropic ends the Claude Fable 5 subscription limbo with permanent access for Max subscribers and credits-only access for Pro, as Project Glasswing scales Mythos 5.

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DeepSeek Files for $71 Billion IPO, Joining 2026’s $3 Trillion AI Listing Wave

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DeepSeek files for a mainland China IPO at a $71 billion pre-money valuation, joining SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic in a 2026 listing wave worth $3T+.

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Hemispheric Emerges from Stealth With $52M to Build Descartes, the First Frontier NeuroAI Brain-Decoding Model

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Tel Aviv-based Hemispheric raised $52M and launched Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter NeuroAI model trained on 250,000 hours of EEG from 100,000 participants to decode brain activity.

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China’s Moonshot AI Drops Kimi K3, the Largest Open-Source Model Yet at 2.8 Trillion Parameters

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Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 launches with 2.8 trillion parameters, 1M token context, and pricing under half of Anthropic Opus. Here’s how it stacks against frontier US models.

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Anthropic Gives US K-12 Teachers Free Access to Claude, Joins Race for the Classroom

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Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers: free premium access for verified US K-12 educators, Learning Commons curricula, and a 9-tool K-12 partner ecosystem. Aims at OpenAI and Google in the classroom AI race.

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Reflection AI Locks In $1 Billion Compute Deal With Nebius

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Reflection AI signs a more than $1 billion deal with Nebius for Nvidia GB300 chips through 2029, deepening the open-source AI lab’s infrastructure bet.

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DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Warns AGI Is Closer Than Lawmakers Think

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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis issued a public reckoning over Artificial General Intelligence this week, warning that AGI could arrive within the next few years and that the world is not prepared. In a LinkedIn essay on Tuesday, the Nobel laureate compared AGI to the discovery of electricity or fire, arguing its impact could overshadow

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