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Alibaba Group has released the new generation of its large language model that can understand text, audio, images and video. But this time, the Chinese tech giant is releasing the model, Qwen3.5-Omni, as a proprietary model—unlike its open-source predecessor. The fact that Alibaba decided not to ...
DeepSeek’s AI chatbot suffered its longest outage since the Chinese company’s flagship model went viral early last year, with users reporting that both its website and app were down for over 10 hours from Sunday night. The service was restored Monday morning. DeepSeek offered no public ...
Here’s a startling statistic: The last time Amazon shares traded as cheaply as they are now, as a multiple of earnings, was during the 2008 financial crisis, according to Koyfin data. Indeed, Amazon’s stock is so cheap that it’s trading at a discount to Walmart for the first time ever. Considering that Amazon’s revenue is growing at roughly a 12%-plus annual basis, and Walmart at closer to 5%,...
Starcloud, a Washington state-based startup developing solar-powered data centers in space, said Monday it has raised $170 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation including the investment. Benchmark and EQT Ventures, a VC firm that spun out of private equity giant EQT, led the Series A ...
Last week, Apple removed vibe coding app Anything from the App Store, The Information reported Monday. Apple told the app maker that it had violated an App Store rule prohibiting apps from rewriting code that changes the functionality of the app. The move comes in the midst of a broader ...
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are exploring whether certain bets on prediction markets have violated insider trading and other laws, CNN reported, citing unnamed sources. Officials for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York recently met with representatives of Polymarket to ...
Apple may have prematurely launched its artificial intelligence product in China. In an iOS update this week, some Chinese users noticed that Apple’s AI features, called Apple Intelligence, finally arrived on their iPhones. But soon afterwards, the update was pulled, according to Bloomberg’s ...
Microsoft on Monday announced new features in its 365 Copilot software, which uses AI features from both OpenAI and Anthropic to automate work in its Office and Teams products. One new feature, called Critique, uses OpenAI’s models to compile research on a topic, and then directs Anthropic’s ...
Apple appears to have escalated its crackdown on vibe coding by recently booting one such app out of its App Store for violating its rules.
Last Thursday, Apple removed the app, Anything, from the App Store, according to Dhruv Amin, co-founder and CEO of the eponymous startup that makes the app. Apple’s action came a week after The Information reported that the company had blocked updates of...
Nasdaq will change a rule for its flagship stock index to allow newly public companies to gain entry much more quickly, in a move that would help SpaceX and other companies expected to have gigantic initial public offerings this year. In a rule change outlined Monday and effective May 1, ...