Alibaba Is Taking On AI Giants 🍭

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• Alibaba's AI Power Move

• Utah’s Digital Babysitting

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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AI Cold War Dilemma
Eric Schmidt and AI leaders caution against a U.S. AGI Manhattan Project, warning it could trigger cyber retaliation from China. Instead, they propose 'Mutual Assured AI Malfunction'—because nothing says stability like preemptive cyberattacks.

Reddit Warns Users for Upvoting ‘Bad’ Content Now
Reddit is cracking down on users who upvote posts that break its rules. The site will now warn people who repeatedly upvote banned content, starting with violent posts.

Google’s AI Search Mode Could Kill the Open Web
Google’s experimental AI Mode might make the internet a ghost town. Instead of directing you to sources, it spoon-feeds you filtered answers. Great for convenience, disastrous for web traffic and information diversity.

Alibaba's AI Power Move
Alibaba’s QwQ-32B Takes On AI Giants Like DeepSeek

Alibaba’s Qwen Team is back with QwQ-32B, an open-source AI model that aims to be both powerful and efficient.

Despite being significantly smaller than DeepSeek-R1, it competes at a similar level while demanding way less hardware. Reinforcement learning does the heavy lifting here, making it a strong contender in reasoning-heavy tasks like math and coding. Plus, its open-weight license means businesses can freely integrate and build on it.

Looks like the AI space just got even more competitive—OpenAI and DeepSeek better keep an eye on this one.

Utah’s Digital Babysitting
Utah Passes App Store Age Checks, Internet Implodes

Utah just became the first state to force app stores like Apple’s and Google’s to verify users’ ages before they can download apps.

The idea is to keep kids safe online by making parents approve their downloads. Meta, Snap, and X are all fist-bumping Utah, saying this solves the patchwork of online safety regulations. But critics worry this could be a serious privacy headache, especially for adults who don’t feel like proving their age just to grab an app.

And with the Supreme Court set to weigh in on age verification laws, this fight is far from over.

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Everything Else You Need To Know 📈

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Apple’s AI Cliffnotes: Apple is taking a page from Amazon’s playbook and rolling out AI-generated review summaries in the App Store with iOS 18.4. These bite-sized summaries will highlight user feedback—both the good and the bad—and refresh weekly.

Elon Musk’s Ethics Under Fire in Capitol Hill Battle: The Senate voted to strip the CFPB of its ability to regulate digital payments, a decision that conveniently benefits Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) and Tesla. Now, lawmakers want a federal ethics probe into whether Musk leveraged his government ties at DOGE to nuke regulations that could hurt his bottom line.

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