China’s artificial intelligence sector witnessed a major competitive escalation as tech giant Alibaba unveiled its largest model to date, while rival startup DeepSeek introduced a new ultra-low-cost system. Alibaba launched its flagship Qwen3.8-Max, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters, designed to process complex enterprise tasks across an expansive one-million-token context window. Utilizing a mixture-of-experts architecture that activates…

The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has intensified its consumer awareness efforts on text message scams, urging digital payment users to stay alert against fraudulent SMSs designed to steal money and personal information. As digital payments become increasingly accessible across the country, NPCI said fraudsters are exploiting social engineering tactics that create urgency, fear…