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Alibaba releases four open-source Qwen 3.5 Small models ranging from 0.8 to 9 billion parameters, delivering multimodal reasoning on consumer hardware while the 9B variant outperforms models up to 13 times its size on key benchmarks.

Narayen will remain as board chair while Adobe searches for a successor amid a stock slide from $688 to under $250 and mounting AI competition.

Cloudflare's 2026 Threat Report documents a pivotal shift: attackers now log in rather than break in, using stolen session tokens and AI-assisted credential theft to bypass MFA, as DDoS volumes doubled and nation-state pre-positioning inside critical infrastructure intensifies.

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that activates only 17B parameters per pass, beats rivals on instruction-following benchmarks, and ships at 1/18th the cost of Gemini 3 Pro.

UK startup Wayve secures $1.5B from NVIDIA, Microsoft, Uber, and three automakers for its AI foundation model approach to self-driving, just as BMW and Mercedes shelve their in-house Level 3 programs.

Amazon Threat Intelligence tracked a low-skill actor who used DeepSeek and Claude to compromise 600+ FortiGate devices across 55 countries, signaling AI is lowering the barrier to large-scale cyberattacks.

A security researcher's disclosure of a prompt injection flaw in Cline's AI-powered GitHub issue bot was weaponized eight days later to steal npm publish tokens and install unauthorized software on developer machines.

From cURL killing its bug bounty to Godot maintainers burning out, the flood of low-quality AI-generated pull requests and security reports is forcing open source communities to fundamentally rethink how contributions are accepted.

Two product launches within four days signal that safe execution of LLM-generated code with real credentials has become a mainstream infrastructure problem.

Mozilla delivers on its kill switch promise: Firefox 148 adds a single toggle to block all current and future AI features, arriving February 24.

China's Zhipu AI releases a 744-billion-parameter open-source model trained on Huawei Ascend chips that matches Claude and GPT on key benchmarks, sending its stock up 34 percent.

Amazon beats Q4 revenue estimates with AWS growing 24%, but a $200B capex plan — $51B above consensus — and 16,000 job cuts signal the true cost of competing in AI