AI agents are moving beyond answering questions and generating short code snippets toward completing complex tasks that require sustained reasoning, repeated tool use, and hundreds of interactions. Building agents that can reliably operate for hours, however, introduces a difficult engineering problem: training infrastructure must handle unpredictable execution times, enormous interaction histories, and delayed rewards without wasting expensive GPU resources. Alibaba's Qwen team has...

Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase in which understanding language and generating content may no longer be enough. The next frontier is physical intelligence, AI systems that can model environments, predict how objects behave, understand spatial relationships, and help machines operate safely in the real world. AMD’s agreement to acquire World Labs for approximately $8.2 billion is a major signal that this transition is accelerating. The transaction brings one of the most...

Meta Connect 2026 presented a clear direction for the company’s hardware and artificial intelligence strategy: computing is moving away from screens and toward devices that remain available throughout the day. The centerpiece of that strategy is the growing family of AI glasses built through Meta’s partnerships with Ray-Ban, Oakley, and EssilorLuxottica. Alongside new hardware, Meta is extending Muse, its personal AI agent, beyond smartphones and computers and into wearable devices. The...