Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Max Takes Second Place on AI Coding Leaderboard
The ranking that software engineers refresh obsessively changed its top tier this week. Qwen3.7-Max, Alibaba’s newest flagship model, scored 1541 on Code Arena, a widely cited third-party benchmark for AI…
DuckDuckGo Installations Surge as Google Pushes AI Into Search
The numbers arrived on Monday with a neat symmetry: for six consecutive days, more Americans downloaded DuckDuckGo’s app, and the week’s total rose 18.1% over the week before, the company…
Kuaishou’s Kling AI Posts 300% Revenue Jump as Video Model Finds Paying Users
The conventional wisdom about China’s AI industry has been that its models impress and its revenue disappoints. Kuaishou is building a counter-example. In the first quarter of 2026, the company’s…
Micron Crosses $1 Trillion as Memory Stocks Lead a Split Market
The closing bell on May 26 split Wall Street into two markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.23%, the S&P 500 rose 0.61%, and the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.19%.…
JD.com Says It Isn’t Bidding for Britain’s The Very Group
Executives at The Very Group, the British online retailer owned by the Barclay family, spent part of this week answering questions about a buyer that isn’t coming. Reports circulated that…
An AI Found a macOS Kernel Flaw. Apple Just Patched It.
The bug report arrived from an unusual place: a chatbot. Apple’s security advisory says Claude, the AI assistant built by Anthropic, discovered a kernel-level vulnerability in macOS during autonomous testing,…
7-Eleven Data Breach Exposes 185,000 Records
The most personal numbers a company can hold, names, birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers, were taken in a data breach at 7-Eleven, according to a report by TechCrunch.…
UMG, TikTok Renew Pact With New AI Music Rules
Last year, a wave of AI-generated covers, pop hits sung by voices that no longer needed singers, sent the music industry scrambling. Labels watched recordings they did not authorize circulate…
Uber Burns Through Its AI Budget in Four Months
Uber Technologies set an artificial intelligence budget for 2026 that was supposed to last the year. It lasted four months. Andrew Macdonald, the company’s president, said publicly that Uber exhausted…
Pichai on AI Search: ‘The Foot of the Mountain Is Here’
For most of the past two decades, the question of what keeps Sundar Pichai up at night would have been answered with a list of regulators and rivals. This week,…
