US-Regierung will Alibaba, Baidu und BYD als „chinesische Militärfirmen“ listen
Die US-Regierung führt eine Liste mit Unternehmen, die Chinas Militär helfen. Darauf sollten auch Alibaba, Baidu und BYD stehen, meint das Pentagon jetzt.
Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/ali…
In an October 7 letter, the Pentagon informed lawmakers that Alibaba, Baidu, and BYD should be added to a list of companies that aid the Chinese military (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
In 1952 POLKA got replaced with PAPA in the NATO “Phonetic” alphabet: “ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE…” 🎙️
The same year the #accordion reached its peak in imports into the United States at 200,000 instruments a year
It was all downhill from there, with 🪗 imports sliding into the tens of thousands or lower by the 1970s 📉
And the polka craze of the 1930s–1950s slowly giving way to newer popular music as well
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&t=990s
In 1952 POLKA got replaced with PAPA in the NATO “Phonetic” alphabet: “ALFA, BRAVO, CHARLIE…” 🎙️
The same year the #accordion reached its peak in imports into the United States at 200,000 instruments a year
It was all downhill from there, with 🪗 imports sliding into the tens of thousands or lower by the 1970s 📉
And the polka craze of the 1930s–1950s slowly giving way to newe…
Sources: Alibaba and ByteDance are among the top Chinese companies training their latest LLMs in Southeast Asian data centers to access Nvidia's AI chips (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/96fe9898-a3a4-4a33-be1d-da06bdb6cb2b
Alibaba says its Qwen app drew 10M downloads in the week after its relaunch, one of the fastest app adoption rates behind ChatGPT, particularly in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-24/alibaba…
Sources: Salesforce's Slack tells customers in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan that they must migrate their accounts to partner Alibaba before February (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/salesforces-slack-stop-…
Alibaba launches a free consumer-focused AI chatbot in its Quark app, powered by Qwen 3, and plans to open pre-sales for its $660 Quark AI Glasses on October 24 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/alibaba-launc…