How automation is easing IT’s patching pressure

As exploit windows shrink, automation may be the only sustainable path for patch management. [...]

Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use

Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large lan [...]

EMERGING and Promethean Raise $300M Experience Fund With $500M Hard Cap to Invest in Hospitality AI, IP Holdings, and Automation Platforms

EMERGING and Promethean Investments launched The Experience Fund (XPR) on August 14, 2026, a $300 million vehicle with a $500 million hard cap that will invest in artificial intelligence, IP holdings [...]

DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge

DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" since its rollout. But in real-world testing, it completed just 53.8% of a batch of [...]

Prince Kohli, President and CEO of Sauce Labs – Interview Series

Prince Kohli, President and CEO of Sauce Labs, is a veteran technology executive with extensive experience spanning artificial intelligence, enterprise software, cloud computing, automation, networkin [...]

The best VPN deals: 88 percent discounts on ProtonVPN, ExpressVPN, Surfshark and more

A virtual private network (VPN) is useful in several ways — a good one can stream foreign TV shows and events, save you from giving up information to hackers and keep you anonymous to protect agains [...]

Black Friday VPN deals include up to 75 percent off Proton VPN two-year plans

Now is arguably the best time of year to sign up for a VPN, or gift a subscription to someone. Black Friday VPN deals are already available, with one of the best being on our favorite VPN overall. Pro [...]

Par Chadha, Founder, CEO and CIO of HandsOn Global Management – Interview Series

Par Chadha, Founder, CEO and CIO of HandsOn Global Management, is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive with decades of experience building and scaling technology-enabled businesses. Sin [...]

Alibaba's small, open source Qwen3.5-9B beats OpenAI's gpt-oss-120B and can run on standard laptops

Despite political turmoil in the U.S. AI sector, in China, the AI advances are continuing apace without a hitch.Earlier today, e-commerce giant Alibaba's Qwen Team of AI researchers, focused prim [...]