Week 29, 2026 AI roundup

Models Alibaba Previews Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Days After Moonshot’s Kimi K3 Open-Weight Launch MarkTechPost Dev Tools Why Risk Should Determine Your AI Architecture IBM Technology Policy Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans? TechCrunch AI Models Build LLM apps that respond in real time DeepLearning.AI Creative Very interesting personal milestone - Fable just had a good suggestion for some text of a fictional story to delete. I find AI writing broad Jack Clark Creative I hate that I don’t hate this song made with Suno The Verge AI Creative This is a wonderful visualization Ethan Mollick Models Alibaba's Qwen, on its soon to be open-weight 3.8 model: "We believe it’s one of the most powerful model available today, compatible to lead The Rundown AI Models Join us this Tuesday to learn more on Local AI, from software to hardware 🤗 We'll be joined by @TheAhmadOsman & @MikeBradleyAI covering hard Hugging Face Agents One of my favorite AI workflows: AI interviews me every day for a snapshot. What big decisions did I make? What actions did I take? Did it w Allie K. Miller Dev Tools ‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’ TechCrunch AI Models Regardless of what you think the answer should be, the inherent tension between a growing US regulatory/approval regime for frontier closed Ethan Mollick