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The European Commission fined AliExpress €550 million for Digital Services Act failures tied to counterfeit and unsafe products, the largest DSA penalty issued so far.

AI video startup PixVerse's Series C extension brings the round to $439 million and pushes its valuation above $2 billion, as it pivots from video clips toward real-time interactive worlds.

China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for domestic deployment, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering most features and Baidu in a smaller role, ending a two-year delay.

Alibaba's chip unit T-Head detailed the Zhenwu M890, a 144GB AI accelerator it says triples the prior 810E, alongside a 128-chip supernode server.

Qwen3.7-Max debuts at Alibaba's Cloud Summit in Hangzhou as the company's most capable agent model, sustaining continuous autonomous execution for 35 hours in internal testing.

Alibaba's new flagship tops SWE-bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0 and four other coding leaderboards, but ships as a proprietary hosted model rather than an open-weight release.

Alibaba's Damo Academy has announced the XuanTie C950, a 5nm RISC-V CPU core capable of natively running hundred-billion-parameter language models, marking RISC-V's first serious entry into high-end AI computing.

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.

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.