Alibaba’s shares suffered their steepest decline in two months as investors fretted over Chinese authorities’ push to tighten product-quality standards and strengthen consumer protection.

Alibaba Group Chairman Joe Tsai puts it this way: if a university has the world’s best professors, the goal is accessibility for everyone, not exclusivity. AI should be no different.

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Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said open-source artificial intelligence is Europe’s best route to technological independence from the US and China, and urged the region to build out its own computing infrastructure to train and run AI models

Alibaba Cloud and @SuiNetwork are collaborating to make Alibaba Cloud services available through Sui Agent Payments. Bringing Alibaba Cloud services onchain gives AI agents a machine-native way to access cloud and AI services within defined controls. Announced live at Sui Basecamp in Singapore, where Adeniyi Abiodun, Co-Founder of Mysten labs was joined on stage by Leo Li, Head of Digital Native and AI Native Sectors, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, Alibaba Cloud.

Alibaba has held talks with Spanish clean-energy producer Solaria to potentially supply power for a data center in the Mediterranean country, according to people familiar with the matter