Alibaba launched its biggest AI model yet, claiming it rivals Anthropic's best

The 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max is now available via API, with open weights set to follow next week [...]

Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race and could dominate by year's end

Clément Delangue told CNBC that Chinese developers are collaborating openly while U.S. labs are "building in silos" [...]

You can now visit 85,000 square miles of the UK in Minecraft

Visiting Great Britain just got cheaper and a whole lot more low-resolution. The Ordnance Survey (OS), the official mapping body of the country, just made available a free, open version of its digital [...]

House Homeland Security Panel Calls Altman In Over OpenAI Breach

The U.S. House of Representatives' cybersecurity committee has asked OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a briefing on the company's rogue AI agent that attacked AI platform Hugging Face, Reuters repo [...]

Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened. [...]

OpenAI says Apple 'is getting this wrong' after trade secret lawsuit

Apple sued OpenAI and two of its former employees for trade secret theft. OpenAI has just published its response. [...]

AI Alliance Drafts Confidential Incident Reporting Rules With Public Deadlines

The Linux Foundation on August 4, 2026, published a Request for Comments for the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a draft framework that would bind members of the Open Secure AI Alliance to report [...]

From Prediction to Accountable Action: Designing Uncertainty in Femtech AI

In women’s health, accuracy is necessary, but it is only the first layer of product safety. It’s important for the system to know when a prediction is strong enough to act on and is built to say s [...]

OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.

The legal fight between Apple and OpenAI turned public and personal this week. OpenAI published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” airing private messages and emails to rebut Apple� [...]