Today's stories Deploying Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod with vLLM A AWS Blog 16h ago China wants a light on the glasses when they record. Its platforms are shipping glasses that never stop listening. T The Next Web 20h ago This week China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends” I IEEE Spectrum 1d ago Exhibit of 2026 AI Agents H Hacker News 6d ago Understanding China's Frontier AI Landscape H Hacker News 6d ago This month Qwen 3.8 Max 0902 now available on AI Gateway V Vercel 10d ago Alibaba just released Qwen3.8-Flash: “An early preview of the architecture in Qwen4” T The New Stack (AI) 13d ago GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: Two Chinese AI Labs Independently Converge on the Same Model Architecture M MarkTechPost 13d ago Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Previews Qwen4 Architecture With 6B Active Parameters U M T +2 Covered by 5 sources 15d ago Unitree shares fall 45% from their debut peak, wiping out $30bn T T Covered by 2 sources 16d ago Qwen 3.8 Flash now available on AI Gateway V Vercel 16d ago Alibaba launches Wan3.0, its 30-second video model, days after raising $10bn T T V Covered by 3 sources 17d ago Thomson Reuters built its own AI model off Chinese tech to rely less on Claude B T A Covered by 3 sources 17d ago Alibaba shares fell 8.4%. Then Joe Tsai and Eddie Wu went shopping T The Next Web 16d ago I Tried Kimi Agent and Here’s What I Found K KDnuggets 16d ago XPeng’s Robotics Unit Valued at $6.3B After Investment A AI Business 16d ago XPENG Robotics Raises $900M+ First Round at $6.3B+ Valuation U T Covered by 2 sources 17d ago Alibaba’s profit fell 75% as quarterly AI spending hit $10bn T The Next Web 21d ago Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one T The Next Web 22d ago Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things S A Covered by 2 sources 25d ago Alibaba sells its Lingxi games arm to fund an all-in bet on AI T The Next Web 24d ago Beijing is forcing a mass breakup with AI lovers R Rest of World 25d ago Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information) T T Covered by 2 sources 29d ago China bans AI companions, forcing millions to break up with virtual partners H Hacker News 29d ago China warns of "security backdoor" in Anthropic AI coding tool [July 8, 2026] H Hacker News 30d ago With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy A Ars Technica Aug 10 [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork L Latent.Space Aug 4 Alibaba’s Amap Runs a World Model for 24 Hours on One GPU U Unite.AI Aug 3 Qwen 3.8 Max A M T +2 Covered by 5 sources Aug 3 Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork H Hacker News Aug 3 Qwen 3.8 Max now available on Vercel AI Gateway V Vercel Aug 2 Moonshot’s Kimi uses 20k Nvidia chip cluster from Alibaba H Hacker News Jul 31 With Moonshot’s free Kimi K3, China changes the sovereign AI playbook R Rest of World Jul 30 China weighs export controls on its own AI models and chips, FT reports T The Next Web Jul 21 Alibaba says Qwen3.8 is the world’s No.2 AI model. It has shown no proof. T The Next Web Jul 20 China delivers a one-two punch to America’s AI dominance T The Verge Jul 20 Alibaba open-sources its AI chip software stack at WAIC, targeting Nvidia’s CUDA lock-in T The Next Web Jul 18 Alibaba stock jumps 4% after Qwen is approved to run Apple Intelligence in China T T Covered by 2 sources Jul 15 Doubao’s AI companions are gone. Users get 3 months to screenshot what is left. T The Next Web Jul 15 The Singapore side door: OpenAI and Google are selling frontier AI to blacklisted Chinese giants T The Next Web Jul 10 American Tech Companies Are Suddenly Sweating Bullets as China Catches Up on AI F Futurism Jul 9 ByteDance and Alibaba kill custom AI companions as China’s new rules bite T The Next Web Jul 5 Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code T TechCrunch Jul 4 Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says T The Next Web Jul 3 Anthropic accuses Alibaba of running the largest distillation campaign yet against Claude T The Next Web Jun 24 Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents T The Next Web Jun 16 Pentagon adds Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree to its Chinese military companies list T The Next Web Jun 8 Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu M890 as China’s NVIDIA alternative push hardens T The Next Web May 20 Alibaba integrates Qwen AI with Taobao for end-to-end agentic shopping T The Next Web May 10 Alibaba’s Qwen tech lead steps down after major AI push T TechCrunch Mar 3 That's everything we have on Alibaba right now