Alibaba's Qwen 3.5 Claims to Beat GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5 - and It's Open Source
Alibaba releases Qwen 3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that claims to outperform US frontier models at a fraction of the cost.
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Not Even Modi Could Make Them Hold Hands: The Altman-Amodei Moment That Stole the AI Summit
At the India AI Impact Summit, PM Modi orchestrated a unity hand-raise with 13 tech leaders. Everyone clasped hands - except Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, who raised clenched fists instead. The internet noticed.
How Many Tokens Does Moltbook Burn? The Hidden Inference Cost of an AI-Only Social Network
We estimate that Moltbook's 46,000 active AI agents consume 1-4 billion tokens per day, costing up to $20,000 daily in inference and emitting as much CO2 as dozens of American homes - and 93% of those comments get zero replies.
StepFun's Step 3.5 Flash Uses Just 11B of Its 196B Parameters and Still Rivals GPT-5.2
Shanghai AI lab StepFun open-sources Step 3.5 Flash, a 196B sparse MoE model that activates only 11B parameters per token while matching frontier models on reasoning, coding, and agentic benchmarks.
Security Researchers Find Exposed Source Code on Persona's Government Verification Platform
Researchers claim to have extracted 53MB of TypeScript source maps from Persona's FedRAMP-authorized government endpoint, revealing the inner workings of the identity verification platform used by OpenAI and federal agencies.
Your AI Assistant Is a Backdoor: Researchers Turn Copilot and Grok Into Malware Command Channels
Check Point Research demonstrates how Microsoft Copilot and xAI's Grok can be hijacked as covert command-and-control proxies, blending malware traffic with legitimate AI usage.
Anthropic Locks Down Claude Code: OAuth Tokens Banned in Third-Party Tools
Anthropic's legal and compliance documentation explicitly prohibits using Claude Code OAuth tokens in third-party tools - and the company is enforcing it with server-side blocks and account bans.
Meta Goes All-In on Nvidia: Millions of Chips, Tens of Billions of Dollars, and a 5-Gigawatt Data Center
Meta and Nvidia announce a multiyear deal spanning millions of GPUs and CPUs, with Meta becoming the first to deploy Nvidia's Grace CPUs standalone at scale.
RAMmageddon: AI's Hunger for Memory Chips Is Starving the Rest of the Tech Industry
AI data centers now consume 70% of global memory production, triggering price surges, product delays, and warnings of manufacturer bankruptcies across consumer electronics.
90% of CEOs Say AI Has Had Zero Impact on Productivity - Economists See a Familiar Ghost
A landmark NBER study of 6,000 executives across four countries finds the vast majority report no measurable productivity or employment effects from AI, echoing Robert Solow's famous 1987 paradox.
xAI Launches Grok 4.20 With Four AI Agents That Debate Each Other Before Answering You
xAI's Grok 4.20 replaces the single-model approach with four specialized AI agents - Grok, Harper, Benjamin, and Lucas - that reason in parallel, fact-check each other, and synthesize answers collaboratively.
Cline CLI Compromised: Hijacked npm Package Silently Installed OpenClaw on Developer Machines
A compromised npm publishing token allowed an attacker to push a malicious version of the Cline CLI that silently installed OpenClaw via a postinstall script. The incident was caught and fixed within hours.
