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Alibaba Cloud’s Wuying team is developing QwenBook, an AI device shaped more like a tablet and designed around native agent functions, DoNews, citing LatePost, reported. The team is defining the product and hardware in-house while bringing Wuying’s cloud-computer and device-cloud capabilities into the project. The early-stage prototype is aimed at…

The Chinese tech giant is betting big on homegrown silicon and massive-scale AI as US export restrictions reshape the global chip landscape Alibaba just laid out one of the most aggressive AI roadmaps in the industry. CEO Eddie Wu took the stage at the company’s annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou…

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source image model that combines text-to-image generation and image editing in a single workflow. The model’s visual generation component has 7 billion parameters. Qwen-Image-2.1 natively supports transparent image generation and editing, local edits, and composition using up to 10 reference images. Qwen said…

A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted archive waiting to be sent to Alibaba’s cloud storage. It had failed 564 times. A smaller file had already gone. Minxiao Chang and Wency Chen reported the account for the South…

Must Read The Morning Lead Severe overfishing is putting Atlantic mackerel at risk of collapse. Now the crisis is visible on supermarket shelves. FANS OF TINNED fish may have come across a new addition to supermarket shelves – jack mackerel. Despite having a similar name and appearing alongside mackerel, jack…

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China has been cracking down on monopolistic behaviour. PUBLISHED ON September 19, 2026 9:15 AM SHANGHAI - China's market regulator is investigating Meituan unit Beijing Sankuai Information Technology for suspected violations of unfair competition laws, the country's official CCTV broadcaster reported on Saturday (Sept 19). China has been cracking down…

Alibaba DAMO Academy Open-Sources Expert-Level Abdominal CT Model DAMO RADAR in ScienceRead More

Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an artificial intelligence model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed tomography (CT) scans, marking the latest step in the firm’s growing medical AI efforts. The vision-language model, called Damo Radar...Read More

Credit: Alibaba Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal model that can process text, images, audio and video in a single workflow. The model supports a 1-million-token context window and is now available through the Qwen AI platform. Alibaba said Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash improved its average score by more than…