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Alibaba technology, cloud, AI, e-commerce, developer tools, and China tech coverage.
Apple Intelligence China Beta Starts November 4 With Qwen, but No Siri AI
Apple Intelligence enters beta in mainland China on November 4 and launches with iOS 27.3 in December. Here is what Qwen adds, which iPhones qualify and what is still missing.
Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900 Turns China’s AI Push Into a Full-Stack Scale Test
Alibaba’s Zhenwu V900 pairs 216 GB of memory with a Qwen 4 roadmap and a 20 GW cloud target. Here is what is shipping, what remains a claim, and what buyers should verify.
Alibaba’s $600M Settlement Turns Marketplace Compliance Into a Platform Risk
Alibaba and AUS Merchant Services will pay $600 million to resolve U.S. allegations that marketplace, messaging, and payment controls failed to stop illegal pharmaceutical and pill-press sales. The case shows why e-commerce compliance is now a platform architecture problem, not just a seller-policy problem.
Alibaba’s Claude Code Ban Turns AI Coding Tools Into a Vendor-Risk Test
Alibaba will reportedly bar employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in workplace environments starting July 10 after concerns over hidden anti-abuse fingerprinting inside the coding tool. The dispute shows why companies adopting AI coding agents now need to audit vendor controls, client behavior, regional restrictions, and data handling with the same seriousness they apply to any privileged developer software.