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Alibaba Group's cloud computing division, providing infrastructure, storage, and AI services, and primary distributor of its Qwen large language models.
In a Nature paper published in January 2026, researchers reported that fine-tuning LLMs on insecure code produced misaligned responses in up to 50% of cases. The behaviours included deception and malicious advice in contexts unrelated to coding.
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Energize Lab left the cloud service behind its Eiliko robot toy unprotected, exposing 13 million conversations, The Verge reported. For buyers and builders of companion toys, the first test is whether one account can read another's records.
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Z.ai's ZCode app uploaded workspace snapshots to Alibaba Cloud, and 86.6 percent of one 313 MB example was .git data, a teardown found. Z.ai deleted the bucket on 20 September, and nobody can audit what happened to anything uploaded before 18 September, the write-up says.
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Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai pitched open-source AI to Europe as its only path to independence while Alibaba funds AI with about $25bn a year of e-commerce cash. Three years of doubled compute spending make Alibaba's AI push a strategy buyers can plan around, and Tsai's own warning about trusting foreign technology covers Alibaba too.
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Alibaba is close to selling Lingxi Games to Trustar Capital above the price it asked for in June, according to cryptobriefing.com. The buyer is a private equity firm, not a rival publisher.
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Capital spending of $9.98bn in one quarter bought 45% AI cloud growth, a 12% segment margin and a $6.58bn free cash outflow. The trade is now explicit in the accounts.
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Every net dollar goes to AI infrastructure, three days after quarterly profit fell 75%. For anyone buying cloud AI, that changes which number tells you whether capacity arrives.
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Zhipu AI says repository data left only while a project description page was being generated, and that the behaviour is fixed. The developer who found it says earlier versions sent data on every query, and some companies have stopped using ZCode.
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One engineer who built services on AWS, GCP and Alibaba Cloud puts about 90% of cloud services in a commodity bucket that is safe to abstract. A platform team has to normalize errors and pagination for that share, and services with a real cost or capability edge stay native.
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T-Head has published a basic spec sheet for the Zhenwu V900 and Eddie Wu claimed clusters of up to 500,000 chips, yet the foundry behind the part is still unnamed, and Wu himself named supply shortages as the limit on Alibaba's compute.
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The Zhenwu V900 sat on T-Head's roadmap for the third quarter of 2027 when the M890 shipped in May, and Eddie Wu now says mass production starts in the first quarter, with Hong Kong shares up as much as 5.1%.
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ZCode's Codebase Indexing shipped enabled and developers found their Git repositories on Alibaba Cloud. Z.ai patched it and cited an outside assessment saying the uploads are deleted; verifying that is out of the affected users' hands.
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The 7B open-weight model fits on an RTX 3090 and scores 60.2 on the benchmark its own developers built, against 59.82 for Google's Nano Banana 2.0. The licence shipping with it forbids commercial resale.
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Z.ai has disabled the feature, deleted the cloud data and commissioned two outside assessments. For teams buying coding assistants, the test this leaves behind is measuring what the process sends before approving it.
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Li Feifei said in Hangzhou that Türkiye, Finland and the Netherlands each get an Alibaba Cloud region within 12 months. The Dutch site is due in October. The company already runs facilities in Germany and France.
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Two outside bodies reported ZCode's cloud storage bucket empty, and the researcher who found the problem confirms the upload pipeline is gone. The repository Z.ai published holds two commits and not the code that did the uploading.
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Alibaba says the Zhenwu V900 trebles the performance of its previous accelerator and can run in clusters of up to 500,000 units. The supply question behind those clusters went unanswered at the launch.
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Alibaba's new omni model takes text, images, audio and video across a million-token context and answers in text plus function calls. Rendering and token budgeting stay in the stack you already run.
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The v1.19 release shipped with the graduation announcement, improving multi-component scheduling for AI training jobs and switching priority-based scheduling on by default for anyone who upgrades.
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Range Intelligent Computing was the only bid for Hong Kong's flagship data center cluster. It is now pursuing roughly HK$20bn of short-term bank loans against a project estimated at HK$23.8bn that is not due to reach full computing capacity until 2032.
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