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OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens | OpenAI
https://openai.com/index/malta-chatgpt-plus-partnership/

🚀🚀Qwen3.7 Preview lands on Arena ! Here come Qwen3.7-Max-Preview & Qwen3.7-Plus-Preview. Alibaba now #6 lab in Text, #5 in Vision.⚡️⚡️ Can’t wait to release Qwen3.7 series models!Stay tuned! @arena
https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2056403591464984753

Alibaba researchers present MIGA A train-free method for infinite-frame video generation with state-of-the-art temporal consistency across thousands of frames featuring a novel two-stage alignment mechanism and dual consistency enhancement.
https://x.com/HuggingPapers/status/2057506246899724355

llama.cpp adds MTP for the Qwen3.6 family This is a significant milestone for the local AI ecosystem. The performance jump with these changes is massive and elevates local inference on commodity hardware further. Special thanks to Aman Gupta for leading this development!
https://x.com/ggerganov/status/2056391115469689330

llama.cpp with MTP support makes local models fast enough to use as daily drivers 🚀 Qwen3.6-27B dense generation (on A10G): From 25 tok/s → 45 tok/s (+78%). Two flags on llama-server: –spec-type draft-mtp –spec-draft-n-max 2
https://x.com/victormustar/status/2056456757786869793

Qwen
https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.7

Qwen3.6 MTP Unsloth GGUFs now run 1.8x faster, increased from 1.4x just two days ago! This is due to llama.cpp adding –spec-draft-p-min 0.75! Args have also changed from –spec-type mtp to –spec-type draft-mtp Also increase –spec-draft-n-max 2 to 6 We also released
https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/2055274688025378854

Qwen3.7 Preview By @Alibaba_Qwen lands on Arena for Text and Vision. In Text Arena, Qwen3.7 Max Preview ranks #13 overall. Alibaba is now the #6 lab in this arena. – #7 Math – #9 Expert – #9 Software & IT – #10 Coding In Vision Arena: Qwen3.7 Plus Preview ranks #16 overall,
https://x.com/arena/status/2056400044862111757

Thread by @Alibaba_Qwen on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2056403591464984753.html

What political censorship looks like inside an LLM’s weights — a mechanistic-interpretability study of Qwen 3.5
https://vas-blog.pages.dev/qwen-censorship/

Alibaba unveils new AI chip in push for domestic alternatives
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/alibaba-unveils-ai-chip-push-050035417.html

Chinese court awards compensation to sacked worker replaced by AI | China | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/13/china-court-awards-compensation-sacked-worker-replaced-by-ai

China moves AI brain implants from trials towards real-world use
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01468-x

That explains this startup.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2055829444397351110

You don’t understand the current AI race if you don’t think about it in terms of compute – and compute clearly distinguishes 3 tiers of companies. Arthur Mensch, Mistral’s CEO, recently had a hearing at the French Assemblée Nationale. He elegantly framed the AI race as a compute
https://x.com/AymericRoucher/status/2057492189626720729

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again
https://www.seangoedecke.com/steering-vectors/

bro why does it look like a B tier video game interface is this real?
https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/2056787895977980172

Manus Weighs Raising $1 Billion to Unwind Meta Takeover – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-21/manus-weighs-raising-1-billion-to-unwind-meta-takeover

OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-seals-deal-malta-give-all-maltese-access-chatgpt-plus-2026-05-16/?taid=6a0882f19139890001bacbea

OpenAI seals deal in Malta to give all Maltese access to ChatGPT Plus
https://x.com/Reuters/status/2055660819082252656

I know the upcoming film version of the Odyssey is controversial, so I whipped together a completely accurate version that I think will be happily accepted by everyone as the most definitive version since Homer’s original, if not more so.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2056100170123644940

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