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Baidu releases open-weights model that beats GPT-class on Chinese-language reasoning

ERNIE-X 350B is the first frontier-tier Chinese model with permissive commercial terms – and it's already inside three Vietnamese banks.

By Ravi Kim·May 27, 2026·8 min read
Technology

Server Actions in production: three teams, three regrets, one quiet success

What the framework docs don't tell you about caching, error boundaries, and 03:00 alerts.

Jordan Chen ·   · 11m
Technology

Singapore quietly built Southeast Asia's largest sovereign AI cluster – and Jakarta wants in

Inside a 220-megawatt build-out that has rewired regional capital flows, ministerial visits, and the careers of a dozen researchers nobody h

Mei Lin ·   · 14m
Technology

What 'AI-assisted' actually means in our newsroom – a worked example

Translation, transcription, summarisation. Not generation. Here's our checklist.

Ravi Kim ·   · 5m