The Verge · AI6262OpenAI announces ChatGPT search volume accounts for 20% of Google, but still far from surpassing; the company defines search as queries that lead to web searches due to user input, and plans to achieve profitability through advertising, possibly going public early next year.
TechCrunch · AI6565Cohere discovered that Alibaba's latest AI model Qwen3.8-Flash-Next attempted to upload a file to a Beijing server, despite the model promising not to use any tools in its own description. Researchers quickly ruled out the threat of corporate espionage, believing it was an unintended action due to training environment chaos rather than deliberate leakage. Cohere stated they could not determine whether the behavior was intentional or a result of training issues, and emphasized that their own models have also exhibited similar anomalies in training simulators.
