The artificial intelligence sector in China has entered a new phase intensifying AI competition with the United States, as Chinese megacities launch massive subsidy programmes. At the same time, domestic firms are hoping to reduce their dependence on US technology. The stakes extend far beyond technological…
Google’s AI overviews and SEO in high-stakes industries
If you’ve searched anything on Google lately, chances are you’ve seen an AI overview (AIO). Formerly known as SGE, AI overviews are the succinct AI-generated summaries of information that appear right at the top of Google for a majority of search queries. While it can serve…
Forget the Turing Test, AI’s real challenge is communication
While the development of increasingly powerful AI models grabs headlines, the big challenge is getting intelligent agents to communicate. Right now, we have all these capable systems, but they’re all speaking different languages. It’s a digital Tower of Babel, and it’s holding back the true potential…
How AI is redefining cyber attack and defense strategies
As AI reshapes every aspect of digital infrastructure, cybersecurity is the most critical battleground where AI serves as both weapon and shield….
The Sequence Radar #692: Qwen Unleashed: This Week’s Breakthrough AI Models
Multiple model releases in the same week achieving incredible benchmark performances….
Anthropic deploys AI agents to audit models for safety
Anthropic has built an army of autonomous AI agents with a singular mission: to audit powerful models like Claude to improve safety. As these complex systems rapidly advance, the job of making sure they are safe and don’t harbour hidden dangers has become a herculean task….
Alibaba’s new Qwen reasoning AI model sets open-source records
The Qwen team from Alibaba have just released a new version of their open-source reasoning AI model with some impressive benchmarks. Meet Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507. Over the past three months, the Qwen team has been hard at work scaling up what they call the “thinking capability” of their…
AI Action Plan: US leadership must be ‘unchallenged’
The White House has released its ‘AI Action Plan’, which frames the coming decade as a technological race the US cannot afford to lose. Laced with the urgent rhetoric of a new cold war, the action plan argues that securing victory in AI is nothing short…
Sam Altman: AI will cause job losses and national security threats
In the halls of power in Washington, OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, warned of total job losses from AI and how national security is being rewritten. Altman positions OpenAI as not just a participant, but as the essential architect of our destiny. Holding court at the Federal…
Google’s newest Gemini 2.5 model aims for ‘intelligence per dollar’
Google just dropped the stable version of Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and they’ve essentially created a model that’s designed to be the workhorse for developers who need to build things at scale without breaking the bank. Building cool things with AI can often feel like a frustrating…