Premium AI models just met their match, and it's open-source. Alibaba's newly released Qwen3-Coder has achieved state-of-the-art performance among open-source models, crushing benchmarks and setting new standards. But is it worth the hype?

A new standard is being set for digital content. Cloudflare has officially de-listed Perplexity AI from its verified bot program and implemented blocking measures against what it characterises as deceptive web scraping practices.

Cloudflare has fired the first shot in the fight against the AI extraction economy, shifting from access by default to permission based for 25% of the internet. This move empowers publishers to block, monetise, or selectively allow AI crawlers.

Apple just released groundbreaking research that reveals a startling reality that "reasoning" AI models are routinely outperformed by basic AI systems on standard business tasks.