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Apple has obtained approval from Chinese authorities to launch Apple Intelligence in the country, a step for which partnerships with Alibaba and Baidu proved essential.

Zhilin Yang envisioned the future of Moonshot AI as a combination of OpenAI’s technological idealism and ByteDance’s corporate philosophy. Aresu’s insight

Alibaba is experiencing a comeback as a key player in AI thanks to the open-source Qwen models that dominate global rankings. However, it faces internal divisions, enormous infrastructure costs, monetization challenges, and increasing geopolitical tensions.

ByteDance, Alibaba, and others will remove the ability to create virtual characters to converse with. The decision follows Beijing’s new regulations aimed at limiting the risks of emotional dependency and psychological involvement with artificial intelligence.

Anthropic is closing the backdoors that allow Chinese companies like Ant Financial and ByteDance to illegally access Claude through foreign entities or VPN connections. All the details.

Alibaba has agreed to pay $600 million to settle an investigation in the United States related to the illegal sale of drugs. However, the Chinese e-commerce giant also faces accusations from Anthropic and is involved in a lawsuit with the Pentagon, which has placed it on a list of companies linked to Beijing’s armed forces.

Anthropic has accused the Chinese group Alibaba (which the Pentagon considers close to Beijing’s armed forces) of illegally extracting information from Claude: this practice is known as “distillation,” which Chinese AI companies often use to keep the costs of their models low. All the details.

The Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has sued the United States government for being placed on the list of companies linked to Beijing’s military apparatus. All the details.

The Pentagon has added Alibaba, Baidu, and Byd to the list of companies affiliated with the Chinese armed forces. The move comes less than a month after the meeting in Beijing between Trump and Xi, which evidently did not erase the political rivalry between the two nations. The details and context.

Despite the collapse in profits and the first operating loss since 2021, Alibaba jumps in the stock market thanks to optimism about investments in AI, in which it will continue to invest even more than expected. However, the giant continues to underperform compared to competitors Zhipu and MiniMax, who focus solely on AI. Facts, figures, and comments.

The Thai company Obon is suspected of smuggling Super Micro Computer servers containing Nvidia microchips into China: among the buyers is reportedly Alibaba, which is on the United States “blacklist.”

According to the think tank International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and Alibaba, through the use of AI and in collaboration with agrochemical companies such as Bayer, BASF, and Corteva, influence farmers on what to grow, often focusing on the most productive and profitable crops. Facts, figures, and comments.