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Amazon plans to launch an AI content market, allowing publishers to directly sell content copyrights to tech companies, aiming to resolve copyright disputes over training data for large models and promote standardized content licensing.

Amid the AI model computing power race, Kimi by Moonshot AI faces peak-time shortages, prompting users to switch to fast mode or upgrade memberships, openly addressing the capacity crunch.....

AAuto launches the AI outbound call evaluation benchmark VoiceAgentEval in collaboration with Meituan, emphasizing practicality and covering 6 fields and 30 sub-scenarios, aiming to promote industry standardization through real business data.

Alibaba Cloud launched the new image generation foundation model Qwen-Image-2.0 on February 10, 2026, which integrates image generation and editing capabilities. The model adopts a 7B lightweight architecture, maintaining fast inference while offering four core advantages: professional text rendering capability, supporting ultra-long and complex instructions up to 1k tokens, and demonstrating excellent performance in multiple blind testing benchmarks.

DAMO Academy released the embodied intelligence brain foundation model RynnBrain and open-sourced seven full series of models to developers, including a 30B MoE scale model. This model is the first to grant robots spatiotemporal memory and spatial reasoning capabilities, significantly enhancing intelligent interaction levels and promoting the development of the domestic embodied brain base model open source ecosystem.

In 2026, ByteDance's Doubao AI joins the Spring Festival AI red envelope competition with a tech-focused campaign, offering over 100,000 smart products instead of cash subsidies, shifting the battle from monetary giveaways to futuristic tech experiences.....

When the US AI giant Anthropic expanded into India, it was sued for trademark infringement by the local company Anthropic Software. The latter claimed to have used the name since 2017, and recent activities by the American company have caused customer confusion.

Ant Fortune partners with CCTV Health Life, offering 10M daily health consultations via AI. It connects 5,000 hospitals and 300,000 doctors, providing end-to-end services from Q&A to medical care. Six academicians lead 1,000 top doctors with AI avatars in the app, enhancing rural access to professional healthcare.....

Tencent Hunyuan releases the ultra-small model HY-1.8B-2Bit, which reduces the equivalent parameter count to 0.3B through an industrial-level 2Bit quantization scheme, with memory usage of approximately 600MB and a size smaller than some mobile applications. This technological breakthrough solves the problem of significant precision loss in low-bit quantization, providing a new approach for efficient deployment of large models on consumer-grade hardware.

ByteDance's AI assistant Doubao joins the Spring Festival marketing campaign as a partner for the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, launching the 'Doubao Celebrates New Year' event. It offers over 100,000 tech prizes integrated with its AI model, such as Unitree robots and DJI drones, instead of traditional cash red envelopes.....

Yuewen Group's stock surged over 6% due to AI strategy optimism. CEO Hou Xiaonan highlighted AI's role in enhancing original content value, with plans to integrate AI across content incubation, IP development, and global promotion.....

Cursor unveils Composer1.5, a new AI coding model with breakthroughs in reasoning depth, speed, and handling complex tasks, powered by extensive reinforcement learning for a significant intelligence leap.....

Workday's founder Aneel Bhusri returns as CEO to steer the company through AI-driven changes, with the former CEO moving to an advisory role, reinforcing strategic direction and core values in the AI era.....

Alphabet plans to issue $20 billion in bonds, exceeding market expectations, to support AI competition. Investor response is strong, with over $100 billion in subscriptions, indicating high confidence in its future tech investments.....

Baidu's 'Project O' aims to strengthen Baidu App as a core AI hub, with its AI assistant reaching over 200 million monthly users, competing with rivals like Doubao and Qianwen. Unlike competitors launching standalone apps, Baidu focuses on enhancing its integrated platform.....

Xmax AI launches X1, the world's first real-time interactive video model blending virtual and real elements, enabling millisecond-level interaction. Users can deeply engage with virtual characters via smartphone cameras, transforming passive generation into active, lifelike experiences.....

Cerebras Systems raises $1B at a $23B valuation, tripling in a year. Its wafer-scale engine tech, backed by Benchmark Capital, signals market confidence in non-GPU computing.....

OpenAI's ChatGPT sees over 10% monthly growth, reaching 800 million weekly active users. The company is accelerating product updates, with a new chat model launching this week.....

Google is upgrading Chrome into an AI assistant with new integrated features, including a sidebar for Gemini users to compare shopping, summarize reviews, and search event times, advancing search towards intelligent agency.....

Alphabet plans to issue $20 billion in bonds to fund its $185 billion capital expenditure budget by 2026, focusing on AI infrastructure like chips, data centers, and cloud computing to compete globally.....