Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China’s chatbot race shifts to AI agents
Qwen3 is Alibaba’s latest large language model, which it says combines traditional LLM capabilities with “advanced, dynamic reasoning.”…
AI darling Anthropic’s dizzying rise could be a warning
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Atlassian’s Mike Cannon-Brookes freezes hiring amid global tech sell-off and AI concerns
Australian software giant Atlassian has called a halt on hiring engineers and filling other related roles, rolling back…
How Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M at a $4B valuation in 4 months
The co-founders of startup Ricursive Intelligence seemed destined to be co-founders. Anna Goldie, CEO, and Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO,…
Why the ‘AI scare trade’ might not be done
New York  — A sell-off rippled through software, real estate and trucking stocks this past week as investors…
AI Has Made It Absurdly Expensive to Capture and Store Your Photos
Photographers are starting to see the real-world effects of Big Tech’s bottomless hunger for AI innovation: storage prices…
Starmer to extend online safety rules to AI chatbots after Grok scandal | Internet safety
Makers of AI chatbots that put children at risk will face massive fines or even see their services…
Anthropic tries to hide Claude’s AI actions. Devs hate it • The Register
Anthropic has updated Claude Code, its AI coding tool, changing the progress output to hide the names of…
Casio’s AI pet Moflin will haunt my dreams
After a few weeks living with Casio’s AI-powered pet, Moflin, I finally understand why my mother hated my…
China’s humanoid robot Robotera L7 performs stunning sword dance
China’s Robotera has released a new video showcasing its L7 robot performing a traditional Chinese sword dance. Released…
Discord will decide which servers to age-gate ‘with a combination of automated detection with AI validation and human review’
In March, Discord will be rolling out facial scanning and ID checks globally for users who don’t want…
The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)
Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash,…