Qwen option for Siri: for China Mac users

Eligible Mac users in mainland China can connect Alibaba's Qwen service as an option for Siri and Writing Tools; the first-stage guide covers Macs only. The planned Firebird AI factory in Armenia is announced with more than 70,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300MW capacity by the end of 2027, still a forward-looking company-backed claim. OpenAI officially described early-stage cyber-capability testing and controls for its unreleased Astra model. GPT-5.6 Luna is expanding to free users and GPT-5.6 Sol has been updated in ChatGPT. Alibaba is reportedly considering a revenue-share licence for large Qwen3.8-Max resellers. Naïve raised US$28.5 million for its company-run foundation for agents. Four new preprints examine robot control, distributed digital twins, cross-device agents and autonomous optical experiments.

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