Overview
- Alibaba’s Qwen app integrated Taobao, Alipay, Taobao Flash Sale, Fliggy and Amap to enable AI ordering, shopping and flight booking, opened testing to all users and reported over 100 million monthly active users two months after launch.
- Qwen introduced 400+ new features including in-chat Alipay payments, government service access and AI phone calls to book restaurants, and its consumer chief said third‑party service connections are planned.
- OpenAI and Cerebras announced a 750 MW deployment of wafer‑scale systems for inference from 2026 to 2028, with The Wall Street Journal reporting the agreement exceeds $10 billion, and OpenAI highlighting lower latency for real‑time interactions.
- Anthropic released Claude Cowork as a research preview for macOS Claude Max subscribers, enabling file‑level read/edit/create actions with task queues and parallel work, while warning that file access can trigger destructive operations without explicit instructions.
- CounterPoint Research estimated about 16,000 humanoid robots were installed globally in 2025, with China accounting for over 80% of shipments and the top five OEMs holding 73% share, indicating early commercial scaling.