Financial Times:
OpenAI faces rising pressure from rivals three years after ChatGPT's debut; Similarweb says Gemini users chat longer per visit than ChatGPT and Claude users  —  Three years since the debut of ChatGPT, the $500bn start-up is facing significant challenges to its dominance in AI

Jonathan Kemper / The Decoder:
Alibaba Technical Report: Qwen3-VL beats GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on visual tasks and has 100% accuracy on “needle-in-a-haystack” tests for 30-minute videos  —  A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model.

Kathrin Hille / Financial Times:
Taiwan raises its 2025 GDP growth forecast to 7.37%, up from 4.45% forecasted in August, the fastest in 15 years, as AI demand boosts its electronics exports  —  Growth forecast for 2025 raised to 7.37%, the fastest rate in 15 years  —  Taiwan has sharply raised its economic growth forecast …

Kamya Pandey / MediaNama:
India's Department of Telecommunications directs WhatsApp and other messaging apps to implement SIM binding to ensure each account remains tied to an active SIM  —  The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to make it impossible …

Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review:
An interview with Google DeepMind Nobel laureate John Jumper on the creative “off-label” uses for AlphaFold, combining AlphaFold's power with LLMs, and more  —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  In 2017, fresh off a PhD on theoretical chemistry, John Jumper heard rumors that Google DeepMind …