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NetEase Youdao (网易有道) open-sources Confucius 4 foundation model with chain-of-thought compression for cost reduction
NetEase Youdao has released the 4.0 version of its vertical education foundation model, Confucius 4 (子曰4), under a fully open-source license. The 27B-parameter multimodal model achieves state-of-the-a...
Alibaba Cloud upgrades its full-stack Agent technology system, unveils in-house AI chip Zhenwu M890
Alibaba Cloud at a summit on May 20 announced a sweeping, Agent-first re-architecture of its entire technology stack spanning chips, cloud infrastructure, models, and inference. Key releases include t...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind leadership unveiled the company's most significant prod...
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind leadership unveiled the company's most significant product refresh in 25 years at the I/O 2026 developer conference, centering on deeply embedding AI agent...
Ant Group launches new AI model and open-source strategy at Tech Day 2025
Ant Group, the Chinese fintech affiliate of Alibaba, unveiled a new proprietary AI foundation model and announced an open-source strategy during its 2025 Tech Day event in Shanghai. The company demons...
LetinAR raises $18.5M for AI glasses optics, targets 2027 IPO
South Korean startup LetinAR has raised $18.5 million from Korea Development Bank and Lotte Ventures, among others, ahead of a planned 2027 IPO. Founded in 2016 by CEO Jaehyeok Kim and CTO Jeonghun Ha...
**Weilan Tech's BabyAlpha A3 robot dog bypasses Nvidia compute stack with custom heterogeneous cluster**
Chinese robotics company Weilan Technology (蔚蓝科技) has unveiled the BabyAlpha A3, a consumer-grade quadruped robot that breaks from industry convention by replacing Nvidia's single-chip architecture wi...
SAP Blocks Open-Source AI Agents, Protecting Licensing Model and Proprietary AI Assistant Joule
German enterprise software giant SAP has begun actively blocking unauthorized open-source AI agents—specifically targeting the OpenClaw project—from accessing its core business applications. The compa...
OpenAI GPT-5.5 Tops AI Safety Institute Cybersecurity Evaluation, Outpaces Anthropic Mitos in Cybersecurity Evaluation
OpenAI's latest generative AI model, GPT-5.5, has achieved the highest score in a in cybersecurity capability evaluation conducted by the UK government's AI Safety Institute (AISI). According to a rep...
Zhipu AI (智谱) releases open-source flagship model GLM-5.1 with 8-hour sustained task execution
Chinese AI lab Zhipu AI (智谱) has released GLM-5.1, its newest open-source flagship foundation model, which the company claims can autonomously execute continuous tasks for up to eight hours. The model...
Kled and Luel dispute reveals defensibility challenge for AI data marketplaces
Kled founder Avi Patel has accused YC-backed Luel of copying his company's approach to paying individuals for personal data used in AI training. Kled, which has raised $10 million total from investors...
Pixal3D turns single image into GLB mesh, advancing cheaper 3D asset production
TencentARC's Pixal3D, a SIGGRAPH 2026 project from Tsinghua University, Tencent ARC Lab, and Victoria University of Wellington, converts a single image into a GLB mesh with pixel-aligned generation, a...
AI exploit benchmarks put Mythos at the center of cyber startup strategy. New testing from Berkeley...
AI exploit benchmarks put Mythos at the center of cyber startup strategy. New testing from Berkeley RDI's ExploitGym benchmark shows Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview succeeded on 157 of 898 real-worl...
OpenClaw updates AI Agent platform, signaling paradigm shift to agentic systems
OpenClaw, described as the world's first consumer-facing AI agent platform, has released a major update in March 2026. The platform now supports autonomous task execution — understanding complex instr...
Microsoft has revoked Anthropic's Claude Code licenses for thousands of internal developers, designe...
Microsoft has revoked Anthropic's Claude Code licenses for thousands of internal developers, designers, and project managers across its Experiences + Devices organization, transitioning them to its ow...
Greg Brockman Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Executive Shake-Up
OpenAI has made official the promotion of co-founder Greg Brockman to lead product strategy, consolidating ChatGPT, the coding agent Codex, and the API under one unified product team. The move, previo...
Anthropic is shifting focus to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft over the agent control plane, the o...
Anthropic is shifting focus to compete with OpenAI and Microsoft over the agent control plane, the operating layer of AI agents, rather than just model quality for enterprise adoption. Why it matters:...
Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, has unveiled a preview of Thinking Machines Lab’s new “interaction models” that natively understand continuous human communication through camera and microphone inpu...
Baidu CEO Robin Li declared an industry-wide pivot from foundation model competition to AI agent dep...
Baidu CEO Robin Li declared an industry-wide pivot from foundation model competition to AI agent deployment at the Create 2026 developer conference in Beijing, themed Agents at Scale. Li argued that b...
Deeply (디플리) secures 3rd straight ICASSP paper acceptance, expanding acoustic AI in manufacturing and public safety
South Korean acoustic AI startup Deeply (디플리) announced that two of its papers were accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2026, marking the third consecutive year its work has been recognized at the world's premier...
Thinking Machines Lab unveils full-duplex AI vision, three months after Chinese rival open-sourced similar tech
Thinking Machines Lab (TML), the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Lilian Weng, published its first technical vision today: a full-duplex real-time conversational AI model that can process and gene...