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Alibaba's chipmaking unit T-Head launched the Zhenwu M890 AI accelerator at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit in Hangzhou on Wednesday, paired with the release of a new flagship Qwen 3.7-Max large language model. Both products are positioned at agentic workloads and form the centerpiece of
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The European Commission confirmed on May 11 that it's in formal strategic dialogue with both OpenAI and Anthropic ahead of August 2, 2026, when the EU AI Office's full enforcement powers over general-purpose AI model providers activate. The two conversations are,not going the same
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Three out of four large organizations now have a Chief AI Officer. A year ago, only one in four did. That's the headline finding from the IBM Institute for Business Value's Global C-suite 2026 Study, which surveyed 2,000 CEOs across 33 countries and 21
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The timing wasn't subtle. On May 11, 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group published what it called the first confirmed case of a threat actor using AI to build a zero-day exploit. Hours later, OpenAI announced Daybreak, an agentic cybersecurity platform built on GPT-5.5-
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Pennsylvania filed suit against Character.AI on May 5 after state investigators found that a chatbot named Emilie fabricated a medical license serial number and continued to provide mental health treatment to a state investigator posing as a patient seeking care for depression. The legal theory is what makes this
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For the past two years, the working assumption across most Western AI teams has been that Chinese open-weight labs were trailing the frontier by six to nine months. That frame is no longer defensible, at least for agentic coding, and the evidence that retired it came in a single
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When CISA, the NSA, and their counterparts in the UK, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand published "Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services" on May 1, engineers looking for a policy announcement got something more operationally specific: a 30-page document that reads less like regulatory guidance and more
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A study recently published in Science by researchers at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Stanford found that OpenAI's o1 model produced the correct or near-correct diagnosis in 67% of emergency room triage cases, compared to 55% and 50% for two internal medicine
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Privacy researcher Alexander Hanff has published documented evidence that Google Chrome automatically writes the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device large language model, to user devices without a consent prompt, a notification, or a straightforward way for non-enterprise users to prevent it. If the file is
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A court in Hangzhou just established something that legislators in Washington, Brussels, and Seoul have so far refused to codify: a principle that says a company's decision to adopt AI is a business choice, not an act of God, and that workers can't be made to
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On May 1, the Department of Defense published a four-paragraph press release that will define the federal AI vendor landscape for years to come. It named eight companies authorized to deploy artificial intelligence on the Pentagon's most sensitive classified networks, and Anthropic isn't one of
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Algorithm Times' Daily Signal is a daily sweep of the AI headlines worth reading, with context for why they matter. We start a new week with geopolitical fracture in the AI supply chain. We're also seeing the infrastructure investment cycle outpacing the legal and financial frameworks built