Baidu is making big moves

It’s been a big week for Baidu, which is currently trading up 3% in the premarket. Some recent news:

It turns out both Baidu and Alibaba are working with Apple to help bring AI features to the iPhone in China, though Bloomberg reports Baidu will be more of a “secondary partner.”
Baidu will offer its chatbot, Ernie, for free to individual users.
Now the company says it will make its latest AI model open-sourced.

Many of these moves are in response to DeepSeek — a free and open-sourced model — and its splashy entrance into the AI space last month. (OpenAI has also been pushed to offer free and newer models to contend with DeepSeek.)

Though early on the AI scene, Ernie’s large language model has lagged its competitors in adoption. These recent changes should help change that.

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Amazon expands low-price Haul section to 14 new markets as Amazon Bazaar app

Amazon is expanding its low-cost Amazon Haul experience to a new stand-alone app called Amazon Bazaar.

Amazon launched its Temu and Shein competitor a year ago as a US mobile storefront on its website and has since expanded to about a dozen markets. Consumers could purchase many items for under $10, as long as they were willing to stomach longer delivery times.

Now, thanks to success in those places, the programming is expanding to 14 new markets — Hong Kong, the Philippines, Taiwan, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Nigeria — with a new app and name: Amazon Bazaar.

“Both Amazon Haul and Amazon Bazaar deliver the same ultra low-price shopping experience, with different names chosen to better resonate with local language preferences and cultures,” the company said in a press release.

Amazon extends Haul’s ultra low-price shopping experience to 14 new destinations with new Amazon Bazaar app

Big Tech’s most important infrastructure is at the bottom of the sea

While data centers on land are getting all the attention, Big Tech’s vast network of undersea fiber-optic cables carry 99% of all international network traffic.

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After watching small drones reshape the battlefield in Ukraine, the US Army has announced plans to buy 1 million drones over the next two to three years, according to a report from Reuters.

The military threat of China’s dominance of the quadcopter-style drone industry is also driving the decision. But China’s control over much of the supply chain for drones, including rare earth magnets, sensors, and microcontrollers, will make it much harder for American drone manufacturers to catch up.

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They’re Out There

The wildest stuff Elon Musk said at Tesla’s shareholder meeting

Get ready to text and drive while the Optimus robot cures poverty.

Anti-Elon Musk Activist Group Installs Faux 'Blue Plaque' At Tesla Showroom In Tottenham

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Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package

The voting results were announced at Tesla’s 2025 annual shareholders meeting Thursday.

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