Reading Time: 3 minutesAlibaba is updating its artificial intelligence chatbot Qwen as it pushes to catch up with tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The revised app replaces the older Tongyi version and became available on both major app stores on Friday, last week. In its app-store descriptions, Alibaba calls Qwen the “most powerful official AI assistant for its models” […]
Quiet UI Came and Went, Quiet as a Mouse
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA few weeks ago, Quiet UI made the rounds when it was released as an open source user interface library, built with JavaScript web components. I had the opportunity to check out the documentation and it seemed like a solid library. I’m always super excited to see more options for web components out in the […]
Anthropic details cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI
Reading Time: 3 minutesSecurity leaders face a new class of autonomous threat as Anthropic details the first cyber espionage campaign orchestrated by AI. In a report released this week, the company’s Threat Intelligence team outlined its disruption of a sophisticated operation by a Chinese state-sponsored group – an assessment made with high confidence – dubbed GTG-1002 and detected […]
Visa builds AI commerce infrastructure for the Asia Pacific’s 2026 Pilot
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhen Visa unveiled its Intelligent Commerce platform for Asia Pacific on November 12, it wasn’t just launching another payment feature—it was building AI commerce infrastructure to solve a crisis most merchants haven’t noticed yet: their websites are being flooded by AI agents, and there’s no reliable way to tell which ones are legitimate shoppers and which are malicious bots. […]
The Range Syntax Has Come to Container Style Queries and if()
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe range syntax isn’t a new thing. We‘re already able to use it with media queries to query viewport dimensions and resolutions, as well as container size queries to query container dimensions. Being able to use it with container style queries — which we can do starting with Chrome 142 — means that we can […]
IBM: Data silos are holding back enterprise AI
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to IBM, the primary barrier holding back enterprise AI isn’t the technology itself but the persistent issue of data silos. Ed Lovely, VP and Chief Data Officer at IBM, describes data silos as the “Achilles’ heel” of modern data strategy. Lovely made the comments following the release of a new study from the IBM […]
New data centre projects mark Anthropic’s biggest US expansion yet
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew US data centre projects in Texas and New York will receive $50 billion in new funding, part of a plan to grow US computing capacity for advanced AI work. The facilities, built with Fluidstack, are designed for Anthropic’s systems and will focus on power and efficiency needs that come with training and running large […]
Baidu ERNIE multimodal AI beats GPT and Gemini in benchmarks
Reading Time: 3 minutesBaidu’s latest ERNIE model, a super-efficient multimodal AI, is beating GPT and Gemini on key benchmarks and targets enterprise data often ignored by text-focused models. For many businesses, valuable insights are locked in engineering schematics, factory-floor video feeds, medical scans, and logistics dashboards. Baidu’s new model, ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, is designed to fill this gap. What’s interesting […]
Google reveals its own version of Apple’s AI cloud
Reading Time: 3 minutesGoogle has rolled out Private AI Compute, a new cloud-based processing system designed to bring the privacy of on-device AI to the cloud. The platform aims to give users faster, more capable AI experiences without compromising data security. It combines Google’s most advanced Gemini models with strict privacy safeguards, reflecting the company’s ongoing effort to […]
Wiz: Security lapses emerge amid the global AI race
Reading Time: 3 minutesAccording to Wiz, the race among AI companies is causing many to overlook basic security hygiene practices. 65 percent of the 50 leading AI firms the cybersecurity firm analysed had leaked verified secrets on GitHub. The exposures include API keys, tokens, and sensitive credentials, often buried in code repositories that standard security tools do not […]
Honoring service: Voices from RingCentral’s Veteran community
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe spoke with members of our Veteran Employee Resource Group to understand what Veterans Day means to them — and what they hope others take away from their stories. Meet our veterans Alex Taus, Manager-Hypercare, served in the Army as an Infantryman from 2007 to 2012, deploying to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. […]
Chinese AI startup Moonshot outperforms GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5: What you need to know
Reading Time: 4 minutesA Chinese AI startup, Moonshot, has disrupted expectations in artificial intelligence development after its Kimi K2 Thinking model surpassed OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.5 across multiple performance benchmarks, sparking renewed debate about whether America’s AI dominance is being challenged by cost-efficient Chinese innovation. Beijing-based Moonshot AI, valued at US$3.3 billion and backed by […]
Beyond the call center: How intelligent virtual agents are reshaping the insurance experience
Reading Time: 4 minutesAmidst the swift evolution of customer expectations and ongoing digital transformations, insurance companies grapple with the challenge of harmonizing empathetic policyholder assistance with operational effectiveness. Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs) are proving to be a transformative solution, empowering insurers to deliver continuous support, optimize claims processes, and elevate policyholder contentment. Let’s explore how IVAs are revolutionizing […]
Headings: Semantics, Fluidity, and Styling — Oh My!
Reading Time: 4 minutesA few links about headings that I’ve had stored under my top hat. “Page headings don’t belong in the header” Martin Underhill: I’ll start with where the <h1> should be placed, and you’ll start to see why the <header> isn’t the right location: it’s the header for the page, and the main page content should live within the <main> element. A classic […]
10% of Nvidia’s cost: Why Tesla-Intel chip partnership demands attention
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe potential Tesla-Intel chip partnership could deliver AI chips at just 10% of Nvidia’s cost – a claim that represents a significant development in AI infrastructure that enterprise technology leaders cannot afford to ignore. On November 6, 2025, Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated publicly at the company’s annual shareholder meeting that the electric vehicle manufacturer […]