Workers in China worry over being replaced as they adapt to the growing impact of AI on jobsRapid adoption of AI in many fields, from computer programmers to script writing and physical tasks, is pushing people out of their jobs or...
24 Aug, 2026, 09.14 AM IST
Alibaba stock slumps in Hong Kong after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AIAlibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 billion ($10.21 billion) share placement finalised at HK$112.70 apiece - an 8.4% discount to its Friday cl...
24 Aug, 2026, 08.02 AM IST
Ox Alpha stealth model appears on OpenRouter, sparks guessing game over its creatorOx Alpha, an unidentified AI model that recently appeared on OpenRouter as a “stealth model”, is drawing attention from developers because ...
23 Aug, 2026, 06.06 PM IST
Alibaba proposes $10 billion share placement to fund global AI driveThe Hangzhou-based firm has been ploughing tens of billions of dollars into AI, with its shareholders eager to see how it will monetise the...
23 Aug, 2026, 04.38 PM IST
Alibaba reports 9% rise in quarterly revenueAs businesses increasingly deploy artificial intelligence applications, demand for the cloud computing power needed to train and run those ...
20 Aug, 2026, 03.38 PM IST
Baidu CEO vows to return Ernie to AI frontier as revenue miss sinks sharesIts Ernie large language model has gone months without a major upgrade, while competitors such as Alibaba and Moonshot have continued to r...
19 Aug, 2026, 11.29 AM IST
Global Market: Trump-backed World Liberty partners with platform offering Chinese AI modelsTrump-backed World Liberty Financial is collaborating with Hong Kong-based WorldClaw, which offers access to Chinese and US AI models. The ...
18 Aug, 2026, 12.45 PM IST
How Trump and his family are profiteering from Chinese AI which his administration labels as dangerous for the USAmid increasing scrutiny, the Trump family's business dealings with Chinese AI companies come into the spotlight. The partnership between W...
18 Aug, 2026, 12.16 PM IST
ByteDance signs AI copyright pact with Hollywood trade groupThe deal, which covers ByteDance's Seedance video and Seedream image-generation models, follows a cease-and-desist letter the MPA sent in ...
18 Aug, 2026, 12.03 PM IST
Trump crypto firm backs venture offering AI from restricted Chinese companiesWorldClaw, founded earlier this year, offers customers access to a suite of AI models and accepts World Liberty's crypto tokens as payment....
18 Aug, 2026, 10.47 AM IST
Alibaba to sell Lingxi Games in more than $2 billion deal, source saysAlibaba and Trustar have reached a formal agreement after several rounds of talks, according to an internal memo sent to Lingxi staff on Mo...
17 Aug, 2026, 12.57 PM IST
- Zhipu’s new AI model takes aim at OpenAI, Anthropic in China’s race to close the gap
Chinese AI firm Z.ai has launched its new GLM-5.3 model. This release intensifies competition with OpenAI and Anthropic. The model offers i...
14 Aug, 2026, 02.03 PM IST
Apple trains its own AI model for China market with Alibaba's supportThe AI model was developed in partnership with Alibaba Group and trained with the Chinese tech giant's support, the people said, declining ...
14 Aug, 2026, 10.04 AM IST
DeepSeek releases official V4 Pro model as it steps up expansionDeepSeek said the V4-Pro-0813 greatly enhances agent capabilities and is available through the API, APP and Web channels. The company also ...
13 Aug, 2026, 07.20 PM IST
ETtech Explainer: Meta's stop-start strategy for its open source AI modelsGlimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model, is much smaller than leading AI models from rivals and is designed for agentic tasks. It can run on ...
10 Aug, 2026, 09.09 PM IST
Apple says Mac users in China can connect to Alibaba's Qwen AI serviceApple published a guide for Chinese Mac users to connect Alibaba's Qwen AI service. This integration allows enhanced Siri responses and Wri...
08 Aug, 2026, 06.23 PM IST
Qwen 3.8-Max launches with 2.4 trillion parameters. Don't trust the benchmarks just yetAlibaba launched its large AI model Qwen3.8-Max with many parameters. This model supports extensive context windows and multimodal inputs f...
04 Aug, 2026, 12.30 PM IST