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Joe Tsai, Co-founder and Executive Vice-Chairman of Alibaba Group Credit: BEYOND Expo Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai has revealed that the company’s engineers worked through the Chinese New Year holiday to accelerate AI development after the company felt pressured by DeepSeek’s breakthrough. Speaking at the VivaTech conference in Paris, Tsai said…

A former senior product executive at DingTalk, Alibaba’s enterprise messaging unit, published a lengthy internal letter upon leaving the company, criticizing Alibaba’s cultural erosion, failed M&A strategy, and lack of innovation. The post prompted a rare response from Alibaba founder Jack Ma. Why it matters: The memo has triggered wide…

Alibaba’s internal culture has shifted from mission-driven to KPI-obsessed, eroding employee motivation. A departing R&D executive’s 10,000-word memo has sparked soul-searching and leadership responses. Failed acquisitions and innovation bottlenecks reveal Alibaba’s deep strategic malaise. Alibaba Group once epitomized China’s entrepreneurial rise. Founded in 1999 by Jack Ma, its mission to…

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang recently said China is “not behind” the US in artificial intelligence. Other US tech giants might disagree. At Google I/O, the search giant unveiled its latest Gemini AI model, claiming it has the world’s fastest AI, with a token output speed ten times that of China’s DeepSeek.…

Tottenham Hotspur’s search for a new manager goes on following the sacking of Ange Postecoglou earlier this month. The Australian was dismissed just two weeks after guiding the Lilywhites to Europa League glory, becoming just the third manager in the club’s history to win a European trophy. Despite beating Manchester…

The top stories and transfer rumours from Sunday's newspapers... SUNDAY MIRROR Man Utd have yet to agree a deal with Brentford, leaving the door open for Spurs to make their move for Bryan Mbeumo. The offer on the table at Old Trafford is around £150,000-a-week with add-ons taking the package…

Navigation for News Categories Jack Mathis has home advantage for the Hamilton event. Photo: Supplied Waikato's Jack Mathis was encouraged by his sister-in-law to enter the New Zealand Certified Builders Apprentice Challenge and, after winning the regional competition, he now has the home advantage at the national finals in Hamilton…

Kaizer Chiefs FC’s bosses are working hard to make a massive statement ahead of next season! The Glamour Boys finished outside of the league’s top-eight once again last season. And now, reports suggest Kaizer Chiefs are going all in on the transfer market with the hope of building a formidable…

Tencent and Alibaba have reimagined their browsers as AI-first platforms , placing new bets on intelligent assistants and multimodal search. AI agents integrated into browsers now perform full workflows , like downloading and parsing financial reports on command. Alibaba’s Quark uses its in-house Tongyi model; Tencent blends its Hunyuan model…

May 30, 2025 4:39 PM Image credit: VentureBeat with Ideogram Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Alibaba Group has introduced QwenLong-L1, a new framework that enables large language models (LLMs) to reason over…