Alibaba
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Alibaba is a Chinese technology conglomerate whose T-Head unit has shipped 470,000 AI chips and whose Qwen team develops open-weight models including Qwen3.6-Plus, targeting real-world agent use cases.
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
SenseTime released SenseNova U1, an open-source model that processes images directly without text conversion, enabling faster inference and lower compute requirements. Ten Chinese chip designers, including Cambricon a...
The Day I Logged 1 In Every 2000 Public IPv4: Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS
Coordinated AI web scrapers from major cloud providers launched a 2-million-IP DDoS attack hitting 1 in every 2,000 public IPv4 addresses, demonstrating how hyperscaler networks can be weaponized at scale against infrastructure defenses.
Medical data of 500k Biobank volunteers listed for sale on Alibaba, UK minister reveals
500k anonymized UK Biobank medical records surfaced on Alibaba, exposing critical vulnerabilities in research data governance and re-identification risks despite supposed anonymization protections.
Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B delivers flagship-level coding performance at just 27B parameters, proving dense open-source models can match much larger competitors' capabilities.
Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want
Research across seven language models reveals that safety constraints are baked into pretraining and can't be fine-tuned away—even "uncensored" models exhibit measurable word-probability suppression for sensitive topics.