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Alibaba Becomes China's AI Backbone — Funding Its Own Stack While Powering Apple's

Alibaba Becomes China's AI Backbone — Funding Its Own Stack While Powering Apple's

Alibaba is positioning itself as the indispensable node of China's AI ecosystem, raising $10.2 billion to build out its own full-stack AI capabilities. It is also serving as the infrastructure partner behind Apple's first.

WHY IT MATTERS  The moves show Alibaba expanding both its own AI stack and its role in a major partner's rollout.

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Hugging Face Exploring Sale at $13B+ Valuation

Hugging Face is exploring a sale that could value the AI model repository at $13 billion or more, according to a Business Insider report published on August …

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CoreBreak Exposes Dispatch-Layer Vulnerability Class Across Three Major Agent Platforms

[ANALYSIS] The wave of agentic AI vulnerabilities disclosed in recent weeks reveals a structural truth the industry has been slow to internalize: the most consequential security failures in AI agen…