Episode Details

A week about power, models, and who really owns what in AI — from Alibaba's bold move to retail's chatbot pivot. This week in AI is all about ownership: who controls the customer, who owns the test, and who owns the model itself. Dive into Alibaba's game-changing Qwen 3.8-Max release with open weights, Shopify's impressive 36% revenue surge, and how US retailers are racing to optimize their websites for chatbots while ByteDance quietly builds the next generation of language models.