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Tester reports local Qwen model produced commercial-license bypass

A tester reported that Qwen 3.8 27B analyzed a commercial application locally and produced a working licence-check bypass in about 30 minutes. The account says the model conducted static analysis, reconstructed cryptographic material, corrected an initial error and ultimately demonstrated the bypas…

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Every published event attached to Alibaba, newest first.

August 2026 20 events
  1. Inherent says Faraday replicated papers ahead of larger AI models
  2. Alibaba says quarterly profit fell as AI spending increased
  3. Blog analysis finds hidden WebAudio processing on AliExpress homepage
  4. Preprint describes long-context jailbreak technique
  5. Alibaba says Qwen3.8-27B passed one million downloads days after release
  6. Alipay launches business platform for AI-agent task automation
  7. Qwen3.8-27B receives 52 score in Artificial Analysis index
  8. Reuters report links Trump-backed crypto venture to Chinese AI reseller
  9. Qwen releases FP8 package for 27B vision-language model
  10. Chinese users of AI companions bereft after government tightens regulations
  11. China's new AI rules shut ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent companion services
  12. Meta releases Muse Glimmer open-weight model as Zuckerberg pushes U.S. policy shift
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  1. Apple publishes Mac guide to link Alibaba Qwen AI with Siri in mainland China
  2. The US is mapping how China rents the Nvidia chips it cannot buy
  3. LG's Proprietary Industrial Data Tops Google, Alibaba in AI Benchmarks
  4. Qwen 3.0 Image Pro
  5. Alibaba Launches Qwen 3.8 Max with a 1 Million Token Context
  6. Alibaba Unveils Its Largest AI Model Yet As China Closes The Gap
  7. Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork
  8. Alibaba releases AI model with performance rivalling Anthropic
July 2026 17 events
  1. Moonshot has Alibaba deal for about 20,000 Nvidia chips, Bloomberg says
  2. Peec AI Adds Mistral Coverage, Now Tracking 10+ LLMs Across the US, China, and Europe
  3. SecRespond Benchmark Exposes AI SOC Blind Spot: All 23 Frontier Models Miss Silent Intrusions
  4. Etched closes $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation, TechCrunch reports
  5. China's Psibot Becomes Latest AI Startup to Hit $1 Billion Value
  6. China considers tighter export controls on AI models and chips
  7. Apple Intelligence approved by Chinese regulators after two-year delay; server-side enable possible, separate from Siri AI
  8. PixVerse tops a $2 billion valuation after extending its Series C to $439 million
  9. U.S.-China Tech Tensions Rise Over Nvidia AI Chip Exports
  10. Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
  11. Alibaba's Qwen leads global open-source AI community with 700 million downloads
  12. Alibaba bans Anthropic AI tools for employees after distillation concerns
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  1. China issues 'backdoor' security alert over Anthropic's Claude Code
  2. China plans limited Nvidia H200 purchases for top AI firms
  3. Hidden-State Probes Predict LLM Agent Failure Early, Saving Up to 47% Inference Compute
  4. Chinese Firms Leave Nvidia for Local AI Suppliers, Survey Shows
  5. Etched emerges from stealth with working transformer-inference ASIC, $800M raised, $1B+ in customer contracts
June 2026
  1. Anthropic publicly accuses Alibaba of largest known illicit Claude distillation campaign (28.8M+ queries)
May 2026 3 events
  1. Sberbank seeks Chinese chips for GigaChat AI model under sanctions pressure
  2. Hackers compromise dozens of popular open source packages in supply-chain attack
  3. Chinese Grey Market Resells Claude API at 90% Discount via Proxy Networks
April 2026 13 events
  1. Alibaba's Metis agent reduces redundant AI tool calls by 96%
  2. China mandates minimum wage and algorithm transparency for 200 million gig workers
  3. Health data from 500,000 UK Biobank participants found for sale on Alibaba
  4. Microsoft faces $2.8 billion UK lawsuit over Windows Server cloud pricing
  5. Researchers propose Train-to-Test scaling to optimize AI compute budgets
  6. Alibaba reorganizes AI leadership amid strategic pivot to monetization
  7. Alibaba's Stealth Video AI Model Tops Global Benchmarks
  8. Alibaba Leads $293 Million Investment in AI Video Startup ShengShu
  9. Z.ai Releases GLM-5.1 Language Model Under MIT License
  10. Arcee AI Releases Trinity-Large-Thinking, a 399-Billion Parameter Open Source Reasoning Model
  11. Chinese Chip Firms Post Record Revenue as AI Demand and US Export Curbs Drive Domestic Boom
  12. Google Releases Gemma 4 Open AI Models and Switches License to Apache 2.0
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  1. Alibaba Releases Third Proprietary AI Model in Three Days, Sharpening Focus on Profit
March 2026 10 events
  1. Alibaba's Qwen3.5-Omni Is Proprietary, Marking a Shift Away From Its Open-Source Strategy
  2. Qwen3.5-Omni omnimodal LLM release by Alibaba
  3. Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni, Claims Omnimodal LLM Surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro on Audio Benchmarks
  4. Ollama now powered by MLX framework for fastest Apple Silicon performance
  5. Alibaba DAMO Academy Claims 'World's Highest Performing RISC-V CPU' With New XuanTie C950
  6. Alibaba T-Head Unveils Zhenwu 810E AI Chip Comparable to Nvidia H20
  7. Cursor Admits New Composer 2 Coding Model Was Built on Chinese AI Kimi K2.5
  8. Alibaba and Tencent Lose Combined $66 Billion in Market Value as Investors Punish Unclear AI Monetization
  9. Cursor Admits New Coding Model Built on Chinese Moonshot AI's Kimi
  10. This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt
February 2026
  1. SMIC warns rushed AI chip capacity buildout risks idle data centers