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Hugging Face CEO and co-founder Clément Delangue said in a CNBC interview on Monday (August 3) that China is gaining the upper hand in the AI race through open-weight models and could catch up with U.S. models as early as this year. “They (China) are clearly dominant in the open model space...

Alibaba has released its latest large AI model, Qwen3.8-Max, featuring a total of 2.4 trillion parameters. It is the most powerful model in the Qwen family to date and will be open-sourced next week. According to a report by *IT Home*, in the third-party model evaluation leaderboard Arena...

According to CCTV News, Unit 2 of China General Nuclear Power Group’s (CGN) Guangdong Taipingling Nuclear Power Project formally commenced commercial operation on 3 August, marking the full completion and commissioning of Phase I of the first “Hualong One” nuclear power project in the Guangdong...

Thailand’s Department of Thai Traditional and Alternative Medicine (DTAM) under the Ministry of Public Health has released a draft Cannabis Control Bill that would strictly limit cannabis use to medical and scientific research purposes. The draft comprehensively prohibits commercial advertising...

Tropical cyclone “Dolphin” (白海豚) has undergone explosive intensification over the past three days, rapidly strengthening from a tropical storm into a super typhoon and raising the possibility that it could become the strongest storm of 2026 in the western North Pacific. According to the Hong...