The Qwen app gets access to Taobao and Tmall’s catalogue of more than 4 billion items, plus Alipay-native checkout, in what is the largest agentic-commerce launch yet from a Chinese platform. Alibaba is integrating its Qwen AI app with Taobao and Tmall…
Maryland is complaining to the federal energy regulator about PJM’s plan to charge it $2 billion for grid upgrades that will mostly benefit data centers, especially as the state claims that the majority of these developmen…
A network to smuggle restricted Nvidia AI hardware has been found: it shipped to Alibaba, among other destinations.
A grey-market economy of API proxy services in China is reselling access to Anthropic’s Claude models at as little as 10% of the official price.
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In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny. Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain…
The tech industry laid off more than 73,000 workers in the first four months of 2026. In a classroom inside a Hollywood recording studio, a 51-year-old hip-hop artist was teaching 75 college students how to build the AI agents that are replacing them. …
More jurisdictions across the United States have been enacting a data center ban, with the total number of active bans reaching 50 as of April 2026.
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OpenAI’s Codex Chrome extension pushes the coding agent into signed-in browser work, making it more useful for real tasks while raising new questions about access, approvals, and agentic AI risk.
Utah State Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R.-Layton) got into a physical confrontation with an ABC4 reporter as they tried to cover the harassment being made against his employees by people against the proposed Box Elder County dat…