Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
Alibaba debuts Qwen 3.5, adding “visual agentic capabilities” to independently execute tasks, and says it is 60% cheaper to use and 8x better at large workloads  —  Alibaba on Monday unveiled a new artificial intelligence model Qwen 3.5 designed to execute complex tasks independently …

If you watched the Super Bowl, you might have noticed that a lot of the ads were for weight-loss drugs. Even Serena Williams was selling them. That’s because demand for GLP-1s has skyrocketed over the last year, with users more than doubling from 2024.  GLP-1s are relatively new and the industry is rapidly expanding, so […]

TikTok creator ByteDance says that it is working to improve safeguards on its new AI video generator after Disney, Paramount, and Hollywood trade groups accused the tool of violating copyright protections. Concerns were raised after hyperrealistic videos generated by the Seedance 2.0 model went viral last week, with the likeness of actors, such as Tom […]

Erik Brynjolfsson / Financial Times:
Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring  —  New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K+ of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots  —  GPT-4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots  —  OpenAI is forcing thousands of people to break up with its most controversial AI model.