AI systems should sometimes give tasks to humans they could easily handle themselves, just so people don’t forget how to do their jobs. That’s one of the more striking recommendations from a new Google Deepmind paper on how AI agents should delegate work.
Context files are supposed to make coding agents more productive. New research shows that only works under very specific conditions.
The German-language Wikipedia community has passed a sweeping ban on AI-generated content. The move puts it at odds with other Wikipedia language editions and the Wikimedia Foundation, which favor a less restrictive approach.
Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip. Today it’s Alibaba’s turn with Qwen3.5, which tries to match top Western models using a hybrid architecture that combines linear attention and mixture-of-experts while keeping just 17 billion parameters active per query. And yes, it’s open weight.
