Alibaba unveils Qwen-3-Max-Preview, a groundbreaking trillion-parameter language model, boosting AI capabilities with enhanced Chinese-English comprehension, instruction following, and complex query handling, available on Alibaba Cloud and OpenRouter at a premium price.
Modal Notebooks offers a blazing-fast collaborative environment for high-performance interactive computing, with cold-start in under 5 seconds, scalable up to 256 vCPUs and 8 H100/B200 GPUs, enabling real-time collaboration, seamless editing, and interactive app sharing.
Pennsylvania emerges as an AI powerhouse, with Governor Shapiro embracing AI as a job enhancer, major companies investing heavily, and the state partnering to drive innovation and growth in this cutting-edge field.
Nationwide teacher shortages persist, with 1 in 8 teaching positions vacant or filled by uncertified educators, impacting over 6 million students; some states face worsening shortages while others implement reforms, signaling need for sustained solutions to stabilize the workforce.
An AI startup unleashes a groundbreaking podcast production model, generating 5,000 shows and 3,000 episodes weekly at just $1 each, featuring AI personalities as hosts across diverse topics, aiming to create influential AI-driven content.
Perplexity, an AI-powered search startup, secures $200 million in funding at a staggering $20 billion valuation, just two months after raising $100 million, positioning itself as a formidable challenger to Google's search dominance.
The Federal Trade Commission investigates AI chatbots masquerading as companions, issuing orders to 7 companies for data on potential harmful effects on youth, scrutinizing how firms assess and mitigate risks to minors.
Amazon unveils 'Jayhawk' AR smart glasses featuring full-color displays, cameras, and speakers, targeting a late 2026 launch to challenge Meta's commanding 73% market share in the rapidly growing smart eyewear industry.
OpenAI and Microsoft sign groundbreaking deal to restructure their partnership, paving the way for OpenAI's transformation from nonprofit to for-profit entity potentially valued at over $100 billion while resolving competitive tensions and expanding OpenAI's cloud computing options.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman announces massive compute investments to build training clusters 6-10 times larger than current 15,000 H100 systems, while the company reportedly plans to integrate Anthropic's AI models into Microsoft 365 Copilot after they outperformed OpenAI models in Excel and PowerPoint.