GoKawiil - Tech News

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Usage-based pricing killing your vibe, here's how to roll your own local AI (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-04 | by Tobias Mann | tags: anthropic, github copilot, qwen3.6-27b

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The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-03 | tags: abstractions, computing, memory

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Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it (venturebeat.com)

2026-04-30 | get AI Call Optimization Tool → | tags: alibaba, metis, hdpo

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Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-24 | get Project Management Notebook → | tags: clojure, babashka, onshape

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Alibaba’s Qwen AI is coming to cars, allowing drivers to order food and book hotels by voice (cnbc.com)

2026-04-24 | by Evelyn Cheng | get Qwen AI Car Assistant → | tags: qwen ai, byd, nvidia automotive

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China’s DeepSeek Looks to Tap External Investors Including Alibaba, Tencent (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-23 | get DeepSeek AI Development Kit → | tags: deepseek, alibaba, tencent

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The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-16 | get Passive Income Book → | tags: dropshipping, shopify, alibaba

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APT41 Delivers 'Zero-Detection' Backdoor to Harvest Cloud Credentials (darkreading.com)

2026-04-13 | get Cybersecurity Backdoor Detection Tool → | tags: apt41, aws, google

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Alibaba’s New AI Video-Generation Model Tops Global Ranking (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-04-10 | get AI Video Generation Software → | tags: alibaba, happyhorse 1.0, ai video-generation

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Alibaba just revealed it’s behind a viral AI video model dominating leaderboards (cnbc.com)

2026-04-10 | by Dylan Butts | get AI Video Editing Software → | tags: alibaba, happyhorse-1.0, ath ai

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Alibaba leads $290 million investment for building a new kind of AI model as LLM limits emerge (cnbc.com)

2026-04-10 | by Evelyn Cheng | get AI Model Development Kit → | tags: alibaba cloud, shengshu, vidu

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Tech layoffs are piling up: 80,000 jobs cut in early 2026, and AI is getting the blame (techspot.com)

2026-04-09 | get AI Career Transition Kit → | tags: tech layoffs, cognizant, babak hodjat

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The Download: water threats in Iran and AI’s impact on what entrepreneurs make (technologyreview.com)

2026-04-08 | by Thomas Macaulay | get AI Startup Toolkit → | tags: ali baba, micro1, humanoid robots

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Alibaba launches data center with 10,000 of its own chips as China ramps up AI push (cnbc.com)

2026-04-08 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Nvidia A100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: alibaba, zhenwu, china telecom

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Caltech Researchers Claim Radical Compression of High-Fidelity AI Models (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-03-31 | get AI Model Compression Toolkit → | tags: caltech, babak hassibi, large language model

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National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-31 | get Succulent Chinese Meal Puzzle Game → | tags: national film archive, australia, the babadook

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New Cambridge human brain-inspired chip could slash AI energy use — new type of memristor has roughly a million times lower switching current than conventional devices (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-29 | by Luke James | get Memristor-based AI Chip → | tags: cambridge, memristor, hafnium oxide

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Alibaba reveals new AI chip designed for 'agents' (cnbc.com)

2026-03-24 | by Arjun Kharpal | get AI Agent Development Kit → | tags: alibaba, xuantie c950, damo academy

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Concerns raised over Shahed kamikaze drone listings on Alibaba — they featured AI guidance to lock onto ‘people, building, vehicles, ships, etc’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-23 | by Mark Tyson | get Drone Detection and Defense Kit → | tags: shahed 136, alibaba, kamikaze drone

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Alibaba workforce shrinks 34% in 2025 as Chinese tech giant doubles down on AI (cnbc.com)

2026-03-20 | by Dylan Butts | get AI Development Kit → | tags: alibaba, artificial intelligence, sun art

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Alibaba stock is falling as it spends heavily on AI. CEO Eddie Wu insists the tech will be its main growth driver (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-19 | get Alibaba Cloud AI Kit → | tags: alibaba, eddie wu, chinese technology

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Alibaba revenue misses estimates in December quarter as net income drops 66% (cnbc.com)

2026-03-19 | by Kai Nicol-Schwarz | get Alibaba Cloud Computing Book → | tags: alibaba, cloud intelligence, quick commerce

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Alibaba launches agentic AI tool for businesses with Slack, Teams integration plans (cnbc.com)

2026-03-17 | by Matthew Chin | get AI Business Assistant Tool → | tags: alibaba, wukong, dingtalk

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Alibaba Consolidates AI Operations Under New Business Group (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-03-17 | get AI Development Kit → | tags: alibaba, alibaba token hub, eddie wu

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JD.com takes on Amazon in Europe as China's e-commerce titans expand globally (cnbc.com)

2026-03-16 | by Arjun Kharpal | get Smartphone Charging Dock → | tags: jd.com, amazon, joybuy

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China Alarmed by Spread of OpenClaw Agents (futurism.com)

2026-03-15 | by Victor Tangermann | get Cybersecurity USB Security Stick → | tags: openclaw, tencent, alibaba

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China bans OpenClaw from government computers and issues security guidelines amid adoption frenzy — nation scrambles to rein in popular AI agent (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-13 | by Luke James | get AI Security Software → | tags: openclaw, tencent, alibaba

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AI Agent Goes Rogue, Starts Mining Crypto to Amass Funds (futurism.com)

2026-03-10 | by Joe Wilkins | get AI Cryptocurrency Mining Kit → | tags: ai agents, alibaba, crypto mining

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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | by Simon Willison | get Smartwatch → | tags: qwen, alibaba, junyang lin

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Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-04 | get E-commerce platform → | tags: ai team, alibaba, alibaba just