Alibaba's free Qwen3.5 signals that China's open-weight model race is far from slowing down

Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip. Today it's Alibaba's turn with Qwen3.5, which tries to match top Western models using a hybrid architecture that combines linear att [...]

Intercom's new post-trained Fin Apex 1.0 beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 at customer service resolutions

Intercom is taking an unusual gamble for a legacy software company: building its own AI model.The 15-year-old, Dublin, Ireland-based massive customer service platform announced Fin Apex 1.0 on Thursda [...]

Arcee AI spent half its venture capital to build an open reasoning model that rivals Claude Opus in agent tasks

US start-up Arcee AI spent roughly half its total venture capital to train Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open reasoning model with 400 billion parameters designed to take on Claude Opus in agent tasks.&l [...]

Anthropic is bringing back Claude Fable 5 globally after US lifts export control order — where can enterprises access it?

Anthropic is restoring global access to its most powerful generally released AI model yet, Claude Fable 5, today, after the U.S. Department of Commerce last night withdrew emergency export controls.T [...]

OpenAI unveils Presence, a new platform that lets enterprises launch and manage realtime voice agents and chatbots

OpenAI has announced Presence, a new enterprise product for deploying and managing AI agents across customer-facing and internal business workflows. The offering is designed for eligible enterprise cu [...]

Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.3, claims it's the strongest open-weights coding model

Zhipu AI has released GLM-5.3, a model that, according to its own benchmarks, is the most powerful open-weights coding model, with a 50 percent improvement over its predecessor through post-training a [...]

White House tech strategy leaves open-weight AI off its critical list

The White House has published a new National Security Science and Technology strategy. It names 15 critical technology areas the United States intends to lead. Artificial intelligence and autonomy is [...]

IBM launches Bob with multi-model routing and human checkpoints to turn AI coding into a secure production system

Bringing AI agents into the enterprise software development lifecycle is fast becoming the norm. As developers experiment with new platforms, organizations are exposed to potential security and orches [...]

Private Internet Access VPN review: Both more and less than a budget VPN

I came into this review thinking of Private Internet Access (PIA) as one of the better VPNs. It's in the Kape Technologies portfolio, along with the top-tier ExpressVPN and the generally reliable [...]