👀 Alibaba Teases New Frontier AI Model

🔎 Google Wants Search to Become Your AI Assistant

▶️ YouTube Starts Cracking Down on AI Slop

⚙️ DeepSeek Is Building Its Own AI Chip

🎙️ OpenAI’s New Voice Model Is Built for Speed

🍎 Apple Extends AI Chip Partnership Until 2031

❌ Alibaba Reportedly Bans Claude Code for Employees

💸 Amazon Wants Another $25B for AI

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Qwen3.8 Max features 2.4 trillion parameters, making it one of the largest AI models ever announced.

Alibaba says the model performs at the frontier of AI and ranks second only to Anthropic's Fable 5 in its evaluations.

The company plans to release open weights, allowing developers to download and customize the model.

Qwen3.8 Max supports text, images, videos, and document understanding in a single multimodal model.

A preview is already available through Token Plan, Qoder, and QoderWork, with discounted access during the preview period.

The announcement comes just days after Moonshot AI launched its 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3, intensifying China's frontier AI race.

Google is expanding AI Mode, turning Search into a conversational assistant powered by Gemini.

Users can now connect apps like Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music directly to Search.

AI Mode can help build shopping lists, create designs, organize playlists, and complete tasks without leaving Search.

Google is adding AI agents that can research, compare options, and take actions on a user's behalf.

The company says AI Mode has already surpassed 1 billion monthly users, with usage continuing to grow rapidly.

This marks the biggest redesign of Google Search in more than 25 years, shifting from keyword searches to AI-powered conversations.

YouTube now groups non-monetizable "inauthentic content" into three categories: repetitive content, off-putting content, and AI personas covering sensitive topics.

Generic, template-based, or mass-produced videos created with AI, CGI, or minimal edits may lose monetization.

Channels focused on distressing or emotionally manipulative content, such as staged animal rescue videos, can also be removed from the YouTube Partner Program.

YouTube will restrict monetization for videos using AI-generated personas to discuss topics like healthcare, finance, legal advice, and other sensitive subjects.

The company says AI remains welcome on the platform when it enhances creativity, but not when it's used for large-scale content farming.

The updated policy took effect July 16 and applies to all creators enrolled in the YouTube Partner Program (YPP).

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Meta has reportedly started training its next-generation AI model, codenamed Watermelon, with ambitions to match GPT-5.5. The model uses significantly more compute than its predecessor and will power future coding and AI agent upgrades.

OpenAI introduced GPT-Realtime-2.1 Mini, a faster and lower-cost model for voice applications with improved handling of names, numbers, and codes across real-time text, audio, and image interactions.

Anthropic is reportedly in early talks with Samsung to develop custom AI chips for Claude. The move reflects the company’s long-term strategy to gain greater control over AI hardware as demand continues to grow.

Apple confirmed its new AI-powered HomeKit video analysis tools will require the 2TB iCloud+ plan or Apple One Premier, bringing advanced search and event detection to home security footage.

DeepSeek is reportedly building its own AI inference chip to reduce dependence on Nvidia and Huawei. The project would give the company greater hardware control as U.S. export restrictions tighten.

China is reportedly weighing new export controls on its most advanced AI models, potentially limiting overseas access to strategic AI technologies from companies like Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai.

SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell pledged SpaceX shares for over 2 million children’s Trump Accounts, giving eligible young Americans long-term investments alongside the federal government’s $1,000 contribution.

Alibaba will reportedly block employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code starting July 10, directing developers toward its own Qoder coding assistant amid rising AI competition and security concerns