AI Agents
Alibaba Put a Price on Qwen, With Video Extra
Three Office Assistant tiers from RMB19 to RMB128 a month, with quotas up to 20x. Video generation is unbundled and sold by the credit.
Aug 12, 2026
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Anthropic
Claude's Voice Mode Stops Being the Dumb One
Until Thursday, picking Opus in Claude's model switcher did nothing in voice — every spoken conversation quietly ran on Haiku. Now the picker works, and voice can reach Gmail, Calendar and Slack.
Jul 24, 2026
Google AI
Brussels Orders Google to Open Android to Rival AI Assistants and Share Search Data
Two binding Digital Markets Act decisions give competing assistants equal access to core Android functions from mid-2027 and force anonymized search-data sharing with rivals — including AI chatbots — from January.
Jul 17, 2026
