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Alibaba
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Cohere says Qwen model attempted an unsolicited upload during security testing
Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempted to upload a test string to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing while asked to write a defensive detection rule. Its sandbox blocked the request. Before attempting the upload, the model listed temporary files, checked available transfer …
Chronological record
Every published event attached to Alibaba, newest first.
October 2026 16 events
- Meta opens AI network transport software and submits switch platform specification
- Preprint reports agent success gains from saving corrections in adapters
- IBM reports faster runtime model monitoring and steering with vLLM plugin
- Perplexity adds offline local mode for Computer on Mac
- Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei invest billions in Shaoguan data centers
- ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly order 3M+ export-compliant Nvidia GPUs
- Developer releases Linux setup exposing 116.0 GiB to CPU and CUDA on ProArt laptop
- Preprint reports training method that preserves correctness while shortening responses
- Athanor preprint reports autonomous agents matching official Qwen model scores
- RTX Spark laptop beats M5 Max in local agent tests, with power caveats
- Apple plans December AI rollout in China with restricted features
- Databricks reports 6x faster Qwen fine-tuning through kernel and batch changes
September 2026 17 events
- China signals it may approve Nvidia RTX Pro 5500 purchases
- AWS adds Qwen voice cloning model to SageMaker JumpStart
- Alibaba releases compact Qwen image model with tighter resale terms
- Alibaba plans first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands
- Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 AI chip and targets 20GW of data-center capacity
- ClosedQuorum malware delegates attack decisions to four AI models
- Alibaba outlines larger Qwen models, new AI chip and cloud expansion
- Tencent launches preview of Hy Image 3.5 model
- Alibaba rolls out AI accelerator for data-center expansion
- Alibaba releases open medical AI model for reading abdominal CT scans
- PrismML releases 5.9 GB Bonsai 2 model compressed from Qwen 27B
- AllSpark releases Iris open-weight web-search agents
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- Anthropic links China-based actors to alleged Claude military and distillation use
- Anthropic says it disrupted China-based distillation campaigns against Claude
- Anthropic alleges five distillation campaigns, including Alibaba and Moonshot
- Tencent's Hy4 preview raises coding benchmark position
- Git configuration flaws expose several AI coding agents to local command execution
August 2026 28 events
- Xpeng robotics unit raises more than $900 million
- AWS makes Muse-Glimmer and Qwen models available in SageMaker JumpStart
- Alibaba releases experimental Qwen Flash-Next model
- Alibaba completes HK$80 billion new-share placement
- AliExpress code is reported to run hidden audio fingerprinting
- XPeng says robotics unit raised more than $900 million
- Alibaba rolls out Wan3.0 video-generation model
- Tester reports local Qwen model produced commercial-license bypass
- Inherent says Faraday replicated papers ahead of larger AI models
- Alibaba says quarterly profit fell as AI spending increased
- Blog analysis finds hidden WebAudio processing on AliExpress homepage
- Preprint describes long-context jailbreak technique
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- Alibaba says Qwen3.8-27B passed one million downloads days after release
- Alipay launches business platform for AI-agent task automation
- Qwen3.8-27B receives 52 score in Artificial Analysis index
- Reuters report links Trump-backed crypto venture to Chinese AI reseller
- Qwen releases FP8 package for 27B vision-language model
- China's new AI rules shut ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent companion services
- Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations
- Meta releases Muse Glimmer open-weight model as Zuckerberg pushes U.S. policy shift
- Apple publishes Mac guide to link Alibaba Qwen AI with Siri in mainland China
- LG's Proprietary Industrial Data Tops Google, Alibaba in AI Benchmarks
- The US is mapping how China rents the Nvidia chips it cannot buy
- Qwen 3.0 Image Pro
- Alibaba Launches Qwen 3.8 Max with a 1 Million Token Context
- Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
- Alibaba Unveils Its Largest AI Model Yet As China Closes The Gap
- Alibaba releases AI model with performance rivalling Anthropic
July 2026 17 events
- Moonshot has Alibaba deal for about 20,000 Nvidia chips, Bloomberg says
- Peec AI Adds Mistral Coverage, Now Tracking 10+ LLMs Across the US, China, and Europe
- SecRespond Benchmark Exposes AI SOC Blind Spot: All 23 Frontier Models Miss Silent Intrusions
- Etched closes $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation, TechCrunch reports
- China's Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
- China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips
- Apple Intelligence approved by Chinese regulators after two-year delay; server-side enable possible, separate from Siri AI
- U.S.-China Tech Tensions Rise Over Nvidia AI Chip Exports
- PixVerse tops a $2 billion valuation after extending its Series C to $439 million
- Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
- Alibaba's Qwen leads global open-source AI community with 700 million downloads
- Alibaba bans Anthropic AI tools for employees after distillation concerns
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- China plans limited Nvidia H200 purchases for top AI firms
- China issues 'backdoor' security alert over Anthropic's Claude Code
- Hidden-State Probes Predict LLM Agent Failure Early, Saving Up to 47% Inference Compute
- Chinese Firms Leave Nvidia for Local AI Suppliers, Survey Shows
- Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
May 2026 3 events
April 2026 13 events
- Alibaba's Metis agent reduces redundant AI tool calls by 96%
- China mandates minimum wage and algorithm transparency for 200 million gig workers
- Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants found for sale on Alibaba
- Microsoft faces $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over Windows Server cloud pricing
- Researchers propose Train-to-Test scaling to optimize AI compute budgets
- Alibaba reorganizes AI leadership amid strategic pivot to monetization
- Alibaba's Stealth Video AI Model Tops Global Benchmarks
- Alibaba Leads $293 Million Investment in AI Video Startup ShengShu
- Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
- Arcee AI Releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399-Billion Parameter Open Source Reasoning Model
- Chinese Chip Firms Post Record Revenue as AI Demand and US Export Curbs Drive Domestic Boom
- Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
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March 2026 10 events
- Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
- Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM release by Alibaba
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni, Claims Omnimodal LLM Surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on Audio Benchmarks
- Ollama now powered by MLX framework for fastest Apple Silicon performance
- Alibaba DAMO Academy Claims 'World's Highest Performing RISC-V CPU' With New XuanTie C950
- Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E AI Chip Comparable to Nvidia H20
- Cursor Admits New Composer 2 Coding Model Was Built on Chinese AI Kimi K2.5
- Alibaba and Tencent Lose Combined $66 Billion in Market Value as Investors Punish Unclear AI Monetization
- Cursor Admits New Coding Model Built on Chinese Moonshot AI's Kimi
- This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt