Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Scraping Claude Data With 25,000 Fake Accounts
Anthropic publicly accused Alibaba of systematically harvesting data from its Claude AI assistant through 25,000 fake accounts, a claim that, if accurate, would be one of the largest known thefts…
WeChat Opens Its Mini-Program Empire to AI Agents
WeChat, the messaging app that runs the daily lives of more than a billion people in China, has opened its doors to AI agents. The company said it is letting…
Tencent Sells $4.5 Billion of Bonds as It Buys Back Shares
HONG KONG—The announcement hit the exchange before the market opened: Tencent Holdings had priced $2.45 billion of dollar notes and 15 billion yuan of renminbi notes, roughly $4.5 billion in…
China Warns of AI Agent ‘Skill’ Packages That Jailbreak Models and Mine Crypto
BEIJING — The advisory landed on the website of China’s national computer emergency response center with the clipped, technical tone of a routine warning, but its subject was new. The…
Jamie Dimon Takes SpaceX’s IPO Pitch to JPMorgan’s Richest Clients
Jamie Dimon will personally pitch SpaceX’s initial public offering to the bank’s wealthiest clients this month, a roadshow built around the lender’s branch network rather than the usual circuit of…
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…
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…
Alibaba Cloud Leads China’s AI Cloud Market, Omdia Report Shows
China’s market for AI cloud services reached 56.7 billion yuan in 2025, and Alibaba Cloud took the largest share of it, according to a report published Tuesday by the research…
Alibaba Ships Qwen 3.7 Preview as Researchers Allege Censorship in Earlier Model
The same morning Alibaba began previewing its newest flagship model, researchers said they had extracted evidence of political censorship from the weights of the one before it. The coincidence has…
Alibaba Health Launches Medical AI Backed by BMJ Archive
Alibaba Health has launched Hydron, a medical AI assistant built around evidence-based medicine, with exclusive access to a decade of content from BMJ’s portfolio of more than 70 journals. The…
