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Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM
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AWS Blog China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening.
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The Next Web This week
China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”
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IEEE Spectrum Exhibit of 2026 AI Agents
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Hacker News Understanding China's Frontier AI Landscape
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Hacker News This month
Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway
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Vercel Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4”
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The New Stack (AI) GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture
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MarkTechPost Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With 6B Active Parameters
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+2Covered by 5 sources Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn
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Covered by 2 sources Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway
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Vercel Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn
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Covered by 2 sources Thomson Reuters built its own AI model off Chinese tech to rely less on Claude
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Covered by 3 sources Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping
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The Next Web I Tried Kimi Agent and Here’s What I Found
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KDnuggets XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After Investment
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AI Business XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation
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Covered by 2 sources Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn
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The Next Web Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one
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The Next Web Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
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Covered by 2 sources Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI
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The Next Web Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers
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Rest of World The man who built Qwen has a new lab, and the Shanghai government is an investor
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The Next Web China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners
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Hacker News China warns of "security backdoor" in Anthropic AI coding tool [July 8, 2026]
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Hacker News With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
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Ars Technica [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork
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Latent.Space Alibaba’s Amap Runs a World Model for 24 Hours on One GPU
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Unite.AI Qwen 3.8 Max
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+2Covered by 5 sources Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
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Hacker News Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway
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Vercel Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba
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Hacker News With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook
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Rest of World China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports
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The Next Web Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof.
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The Next Web China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance
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The Verge Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in
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The Next Web Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China
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Covered by 2 sources Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left.
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The Next Web The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants
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The Next Web American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI
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Futurism ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite
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The Next Web Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
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TechCrunch Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says
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The Next Web Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude
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The Next Web Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents
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The Next Web Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list
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The Next Web Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens
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The Next Web Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping
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The Next Web Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push
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TechCrunch That's everything we have on Alibaba right now