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… 500,000 UK Health Records Listed for Sale on Alibaba Three scientific research institutions have been found selling British citizens’ health information on Alibaba, the British government and the nonprofit UK Biobank revealed this week. …
… In June, Anthropic accused the Chinese tech giant Alibaba of illicitly stealing its IP through distillation attacks. …
The Chinese manufacturer Unitree Robotics, among the most active robot-makers in the field, is preparing to bring its most affordable model, the Unitree R1, to international markets through Alibaba Group's marketplace. …
… Researchers from Alibaba also received one of the conference’s best-paper awards for work related to the company’s open source AI model Qwen. …
… Its performance is comparable to leading Chinese closed source models like Alibaba’s Qwen and ByteDance’s Seedream, but it still lags behind industry leaders like GPT-Image-2.0, which came out just a week ago. …
… The startup is also a venture capital darling: It completed six rounds of fundraising in just 13 months from investors including the Chinese government, Alibaba’s Ant Group, and HongShan Capital, Sequoia Capital’s Chinese spinoff. …
… In 2025, the group posted a 6.75 percent drop in sales and a staggering 55.6 percent decline in operating profit, primarily attributed to a sharp drop in demand for its watches in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Swatch Group shareholders are not happy. …
… In June, Anthropic told lawmakers that Alibaba had systematically distilled its models in order to build its own, called Qwen. …
… Last month, it sent a letter to the US government accusing the Chinese tech giant Alibaba of a distillation attack—essentially extracting information from Anthropic’s models through systematic prompting to develop its own AI tools. …
… And this was a group of researchers at UC San Diego and Oberlin College who spent more than 10 years trying to hack a plane. …