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VentureBeat - Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

Alibaba's now famed Qwen AI development team has done it again: a little more than a day ago, they released the Qwen3.5 Medium Model series consisting of four new large language models (LLMs) with support for agentic tool calling, three of which are available for commercial usage by enterprises and indie developers under the standard open source Apache 2.0 license:

SiliconANGLE - Salesforce launches telco-specific AI agents to improve sales and customer retention

Agents have deep context into customer experience, service and billing history, company offerings and more. They can turn any customer interaction into one that meets the company’s customer service goals and work alongside human agents. They’re not like generic AI chatbots in that they’re capable of autonomous work, were built with domain-specific knowledge and constraints, and can be adopted faster and with greater confidence.

Computerworld - Anthropic buys Vercept, deepening push into AI task automation

Vercept, a graduate of Seattle’s AI-focused incubator A12, developed cloud-based agents capable of controlling a remote MacBook, part of a broader effort to rethink how work gets done as enterprises explore AI-driven task automation beyond chat and code generation.

SiliconANGLE - Vast Data expands AI Operating System with global control plane, zero-trust agent framework and deeper Nvidia integration

As AI training, inference and data collection increasingly take place in different geographies and under varying compliance regimes, enterprises are wrestling with operational sprawl, Vast said. Polaris introduces a centralized management layer that provisions, upgrades and governs distributed Vast environments while maintaining local data paths.