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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | July 19, 2026 QWEN 3.8 IS COMING… AND THIS AI MONSTER COULD SHAKE UP THE WHOLE INDUSTRY Alibaba’s rumored 2.4-trillion-parameter heavyweight is already throwing punches before its official release. Alibaba just rolled another massive AI machine toward the ring — and judging by the early hype surrounding Qwen 3.8, the competition may want to start protecting its face. The Qwen team has reportedly unveiled Qwen3.8-Max-Preview , an early version of what is expected to become the company’s next flagship artificial-intelligence model. Reports say the full system could contain approximately 2.4 trillion parameters , making it one...

Wall Street Meltdown ``` AI’S GOLDEN BOYS GET ROCKED While Oil Prices Go Nuclear Nvidia slips, global tech markets take a beating and escalating tension with Iran sends crude oil surging. ``` Wall Street’s artificial-intelligence party just got hit with one brutal reality check. The technology companies that spent months acting like they owned the market were slapped around again Friday, dragging major indexes lower across the United States and sending shock waves through markets around the world. The S&P 500 dropped 1% , the Dow lost more than 400 points and the technology-heavy Nasdaq fell 1.4% . That...

GOOGLE KEEPS DELAYING GEMINI 3.5 PRO—AND THE AI HYPE CLOCK IS TICKING After months of enormous expectations, carefully placed teasers and breathless predictions about Google’s next major AI model, users were told Gemini 3.5 Pro was almost ready. Google had already unveiled the model at its I/O conference in May. CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly said it would arrive “next month.” That meant June. Simple enough—or so we thought. JUNE CAME AND WENT Google spent May presenting Gemini 3.5 Pro as its next frontier model: smarter, more capable and better equipped to handle difficult coding projects, long-running tasks and autonomous AI...

After lavish praise, enormous expectations and breathless claims about Kimi 3’s coding abilities, I decided to subscribe and put the newly released AI model to the test myself. I was not asking it to build the next Grand Theft Auto. I did not request a massive open-world adventure, a complicated multiplayer server or a revolutionary new game engine. I asked it to make Pac-Man. My exact prompt was: “Create a Pac-Man game clone using a single HTML file. Let’s make the visuals, SFX and gameplay identical.” Simple enough—or so I thought. THE TWO-HOUR PAC-MAN MARATHON BEGINS Kimi 3 got...

Nvidia is taking the AI battle out of the chatbot window and dropping it straight onto the factory floor — where robots could soon see, think and make decisions without waiting for a human to tell them what to do. The chip giant has revealed Cosmos 3 Edge , a new artificial-intelligence model built to operate directly inside robots, autonomous machines and other real-world devices. And Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is betting that Japan — home to some of the biggest robotics and manufacturing companies on the planet — could become ground zero for this next AI explosion. THE...