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 [...]

CES 2026: What to expect from tech’s biggest conference in January

CES is the January trade show where the tech industry kicks off the year with a bevy of new and notable announcements — and it’s less than a week away. The CES 2026 show floor is officially open f [...]

CES 2026: What to expect from tech's big January conference

The new year is upon us, and that means CES 2026 is imminent. The biggest tech trade show of the calendar comes with a bevy of new and notable announcements that set the tone for trends and expectatio [...]

Google's AI can now surf the web for you, click on buttons, and fill out forms with Gemini 2.5 Computer Use

Some of the largest providers of large language models (LLMs) have sought to move beyond multimodal chatbots — extending their models out into "agents" that can actually take more actions [...]

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 [...]

AI automation is the biggest change IT teams will ever experience – here’s why

If AI is redefining how we defend, detect and respond to threats across our organizations, then agentic AI is surely the next game changer. [...]

'The challenge is no longer identifying bots. It’s understanding what the bot, agent, or automation is doing': New report flags 40% of all internet traffic is now bad bots

The Dead Internet Theory is very much alive, as Thales finds bad bots taking up more and more of global internet traffic. [...]

New AI optimization framework beats Claude Code and Codex by 2.5x on the same compute budget

Imagine your engineering team just deployed an AI agent to search through internal company documents and answer employee questions. It works perfectly in development, but in production, it consistentl [...]

Stopping breaches at machine speed demands agents, not alerts

Presented by DXC TechnologyThe sheer volume and sophistication of incoming threats today has dwarfed attacks from just six months ago, let alone two years ago, because adversaries have leveled up with [...]