Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding

Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported its results on Tuesday, with second [...]

Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in this remote Chinese province

Alibaba's new AI supernode is rentable by the hour, built entirely on Chinese silicon, and smaller than every rival it's compared to. [...]

Rent a supernode by the hour - Alibaba brings frontier-scale AI compute to the public cloud, but only if you live in this remote Chinese province

Alibaba's new AI supernode is rentable by the hour, built entirely on Chinese silicon, and smaller than every rival it's compared to. [...]

Alibaba’s new small model runs on a laptop and scores like a cloud one

Alibaba has released a small AI model that runs on a personal computer and scores like a cloud one. The model, Qwen3.8-27B, has been downloaded more than a million times in a few days, The Information [...]

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

Rob Strechay, until recently managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, has joined VentureBeat as our first Lead Analyst and a founding analyst of VentureBeat Research. His arrival i [...]

Serval’s super agent Catalyst creates roving background agents to identify and fix IT issues before they’re ticketed

Serval is making Catalyst, its AI agent for building enterprise automations, generally available Thursday and enabling it by default for customers — allowing teams of AI agents to decide what should [...]

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat.The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including A [...]

Anthropic is planning to let enterprise customers store their own AI data

The AI company will still require 30-day data retention on its most powerful models, but businesses can keep that data on their own cloud infrastructure [...]

Apollo blames social engineering for a four-day breach in July

Apollo Global Management has told people that hackers reached their names, dates of birth, contact details, home addresses and Social Security numbers. The private equity firm set out the incident in [...]