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Alibaba is designing AI chips around agents, and that changes what the race is actually about

Alibaba has unveiled a new AI processor built specifically for AI agents, pairing the chip announcement with a multi-year silicon roadmap and a new large language model, signalling that the company is building an integrated AI stack, not just filling a gap left by US export controls. The Zhenwu M890, developed by Alibaba’s semiconductor subsidiary […]

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Alibaba Qwen Team Introduces Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash: Real-Time Multimodal Interpretation Across 60 Languages at 2.8-Second Latency

Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, a real-time multimodal translation model that processes audio and video simultaneously. The model covers 60 input languages and produces speech output in 29 languages at 2.8 seconds of latency. Key additions over the previous Qwen3 version include real-time speaker voice cloning, vision-enhanced comprehension via lip movements and on-screen text, and dynamic keyword configuration for domain-specific terminology. On FLEURS and CoVoST2 benchmarks, the model outperforms major commercial alternatives. It is available as an API-only model through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio using a WebSocket-based protocol.

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NVIDIA AI Releases Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model with 6× Tokens Per Forward Over Qwen3-8B

NVIDIA researchers have released Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a language model family that unifies three decoding modes in one architecture. The model supports autoregressive (AR) decoding, diffusion-based parallel decoding, and self-speculation decoding. It is available in 3B, 8B, and 14B parameter sizes. The family includes base, instruct, and vision-language variants. Sequential Decoding Limits Throughput Standard autoregressive (AR) language […]

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AI Exchange

In this monthly series, running alongside our existing Tech Exchange dialogues, FT journalists talk to the scientists, developers and business leaders exploring ever more applications for artificial intelligence, in every aspect of our lives

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The philosophy driving UNIQLO’s HR strategy: Made for all, hired from all

Walk into UNIQLO’s Orchard Central Global Flagship Store on a weekend, and you might find a group of children learning how to fold T-shirts with military precision—competing, laughing, and walking away with a custom-designed tee they made themselves. It is not a school field trip; it is an investment in the future of one of […]

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Meta sued over scam ads: Why HR should pay attention

A California county has sued social media giant Meta, alleging the company profits from fraudulent ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The complaint, filed May 11 in Santa Clara Superior Court, alleges Meta tracks about 15 billion fraudulent ads and earns roughly $7 billion a year in internal “violating revenue,” according to reporting based on […]

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Enterprise AI roadblocks and roadmaps, security and physical AI: Day two at TechEx

Day two of TechEx North America has been more of a deeper, critical examination of AI in the enterprise, but with a optimistic bent. The AI and Big Data programme opened with reference to what was termed the “AI graveyard” – that is, AI projects that seem to perform well in pilot, but don’t seem […]

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Google Launches Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026: A Standalone Agent-First Platform with CLI, SDK, Managed Execution, and Enterprise Support

Google used its I/O 2026 developer keynote to ship a meaningful architectural shift in how it packages AI-assisted development. The company announced Google Antigravity 2.0 — a standalone desktop application built entirely around agent orchestration alongside an Antigravity CLI, an Antigravity SDK, Managed Agents in the Gemini API, and enterprise support through the Gemini Enterprise […]

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