Alibaba Unveils AI Model
Alibaba’s announcement of its Qwen3.8-Max-Preview model, a 2.4-trillion-parameter system positioned as second only to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5, arrived at the World AI Conference in Shanghai just as the company absorbed a €550 million fine from the…
Apple’s App Store Hits $1.4T
Apple’s App Store ecosystem has scaled to an unprecedented $1.4 trillion in annual commerce, a figure that underscores how the company’s software platform now rivals the GDP of many nations while simultaneously serving as the foundation for hardware…
AI Replaces Super-Apps
China’s largest technology companies are accelerating a fundamental redesign of how users interact with digital services, betting that conversational AI agents will replace today’s super-app interfaces as the primary gateway to commerce, information, and…