Alibaba is expanding its AI strategy from models into chips, cloud infrastructure and agents. The company is training Qwen 4 and has outlined a long-term roadmap for models reaching 5–10 trillion parameters, while its new Zhenwu V900 accelerator is designed to deliver a major performance increase over the previous generation.

Executives from OpenAI, Anthropic and Hugging Face are briefing the UN Security Council on the rapid development of artificial intelligence. The discussion focuses on frontier capabilities, AI agents, safety and how institutions can respond as AI systems become increasingly autonomous.

Apple’s new Mac Studio with M5 Ultra and Mac mini with M6 push the company deeper into local AI computing, reducing dependence on cloud-based inference.