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Alibaba Ships Qwen-Audio 3.1, Cuts Voice API Prices By Up To 95% — Sep 26, 2026 — Alibaba's five-model Qwen-Audio 3.1 stack undercuts ElevenLabs and OpenAI Realtime pricing, adds ASR-Next speaker ID and TTS-Next single-pass mixed au...Novo Nordisk Taps Anthropic's Claude Science To Speed Drug Discovery — Sep 17, 2026 — Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk names Anthropic a strategic partner, deploying Claude Science and agentic coding tools across its R&D workflows to short...Tripo AI Raises Approximately $446M Series B And B+ To Scale 3D-Native Foundation Models — Sep 6, 2026 — Beijing-based Tripo AI, operated by VAST, closed roughly $446 million across Series B and Series B+ rounds led by MPCi and unveiled Tripo P2.0, the fi...Fei-Fei Li's World Labs Debuts Atlas Omni World Model For 3D Generation And Robotics Sim — Sep 6, 2026 — World Labs' new Atlas model natively handles text, images, video and 3D, beating specialist reconstruction and camera-control baselines on both tasks.Apate.AI Bags $8M Seed To Send Autonomous Bots After Phone Scammers, Eyes US Push — Sep 2, 2026 — Sydney-based Apate.AI has raised A$11.4M (roughly $8M) in a seed round led by Silicon Valley's Lobby Capital to scale its army of AI personas that kee...HUMAIN Backs Arabic.AI And Tarjama To Push Arabic-First Enterprise AI Into Saudi Market — Sep 2, 2026 — Saudi Arabia's PIF-backed HUMAIN has taken a strategic stake in Arabic.AI and Tarjama to pair its sovereign AI infrastructure with Arabic-first transl...Alibaba Ships Qwen3.8-Flash With 6B Active Params, Undercuts Rivals By 12x — Sep 1, 2026 — The 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model activates just 6B per token, previews Qwen4 architecture and lists at $0.16 / $0.47 per million tokens.Wrtn Raises $72M Series C at $722M+ Valuation for Global Push — Aug 26, 2026 — Seoul-based AI service company Wrtn Technologies said August 26 it raised roughly 100 billion won ($72.23 million) in Series C funding at a valuation...Alibaba Unveils Qwen-UI-Agent, GUI Model Beats GPT-5.6 And Claude 4.8 — Aug 22, 2026 — Alibaba's Qwen-UI-Agent, a GUI-focused foundation model, tops MobileWorld, OSWorld-Verified and WebArena while outscoring GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Opus...OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Ads To 31 European Markets Next Week — Aug 20, 2026 — OpenAI will expand ChatGPT Ads to 31 European markets starting the week of August 24, its largest ads rollout to date and a direct push into ad revenu...Alibaba Launches HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI Music Model Built on Natural-Language Prompts — Aug 19, 2026 — Alibaba has officially launched HappyShrimp 1.0, a generative AI music model that turns natural-language descriptions of emotions, stories or memories...Anthropic Q2 Revenue Tops $11.5B, More Than Doubles Q1 Take — Aug 18, 2026 — Anthropic told investors that preliminary Q2 2026 revenue exceeded $11.5 billion, a 14-fold jump year over year and more than double the first quarter...xAI Ships Grok Imagine Image 2.0 With Region Editing — Aug 16, 2026 — xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026 as the new Quality Mode on grok.com/imagine and Grok apps, adding region-level editing, up to fiv...Apple Trains Own China LLM With Alibaba To Power Apple Intelligence — Aug 16, 2026 — Reuters says Apple has built a bespoke China-only large language model with Alibaba's help to power Apple Intelligence on iPhones sold on the mainland...NVIDIA Launches Nemotron 3.5 Lightning And NeMo Switchyard For Always-On Agents — Aug 11, 2026 — NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B MoE open model that delivers 4x faster output for long-running agents, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an ope...Cognita's Generative Chest X-Ray Model Wins FDA Breakthrough Nod — Aug 7, 2026 — Cognita CXR, an industry-first generative vision-language model that drafts chest X-ray reports for radiologists, has received FDA Breakthrough Device...CopySight Raises $3M Seed From Mucker Capital For AI Copyright Risk Layer — Aug 2, 2026 — Los Angeles-based AI IP governance startup CopySight has closed a $3 million seed round led by Mucker Capital and launched CopyScore V2, extending its...Intrusion Acquires VigilAigent To Bolt Agentic AI Onto TraceCop Cyber Stack — Jul 26, 2026 — NASDAQ-listed Intrusion Inc. closed its acquisition of AI-native MSSP VigilAigent from Tego Cyber, adding ~$3.5M ARR, 1,000 customers and the Oracle a...FAA Clears Drone Amplified MONTIS For U.S. Avalanche Control Operations — Jul 26, 2026 — The FAA granted Drone Amplified regulatory approval for its MONTIS avalanche control drone on July 8 — the first drone system explicitly authorized fo...ESA Installs Equal1 Bell-1 Silicon-Spin Quantum Computer At Frascati Data Centre — Jul 26, 2026 — The European Space Agency's ESA-ESRIN centre in Frascati, Italy has begun installing its first on-premises quantum computer, Equal1's 6-qubit silicon-...