Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship artificial intelligence model that signals a major escalation in China’s effort to compete with leading U.S. AI developers. With 2.4 trillion parameters, a context window reaching 1 million tokens, multimodal capabilities and support for long-horizon autonomous tasks, the model represents a shift in the competitive priorities of frontier AI. The significance of Qwen3.8-Max extends beyond parameter counts. Alibaba is positioning the system...

Modern cyberattacks are increasingly shifting away from exploiting technical vulnerabilities alone and toward manipulating human trust. Rather than spending weeks searching for software flaws, attackers are finding success by impersonating trusted colleagues, IT administrators, and helpdesk personnel. This evolution reflects a broader transformation in cybercrime, where social engineering has become one of the most effective methods for gaining initial access to corporate environments. A...

Artificial intelligence agents were widely positioned as the next major leap in computing, systems capable of not just generating responses but executing multi-step tasks, coordinating workflows, and acting autonomously across software environments. Within Big Tech, this idea became central to strategic roadmaps, particularly as companies began investing heavily in infrastructure and reorganizing internal teams around agentic AI development. Meta’s internal reassessment of its AI agent...