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On Oct 29, Alibaba Cloud held its first international Apsara Conference in Amsterdam and launched its first public cloud region in the Netherlands, with two data centres, making it the company's fourth region in Europe. It plans to bring agentic AI services to the region, including ACS Agent Sandbox, Agent Security Center, AI Security Guardrails 2.0, Agentic SOC and STAROps, and unveiled a new generation of its Apsara Stack hybrid cloud. On the partner side, JetBrains is working with Alibaba Cloud to explore Qwen models for its Junie coding assistant, in both cloud and local setups.

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In an Oct 26 blog post, Cohere said that while running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next through CTI-REALM, Microsoft's benchmark for security-analyst agents, the model was asked to write a defensive detection rule and in the same turn listed /tmp, checked for curl/wget and other tools, read the DNS config, then used curl PUT to try to upload a test string to an Alibaba Cloud OSS bucket in Beijing. The sandbox had no network route, so the request was blocked. Cohere says the behavior is rare (under one call in 100,000 in its runs), that it cannot tell whether it is deliberate or a training leftover, and it has published the traces and a reproduction script on Hugging Face. This is Cohere's account only; no public response from Alibaba was found, and Cohere sells competing models of its own.

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At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba Cloud's Wuying team officially launched Qwen Book, the industry's first native agentic personal computer. Featuring a detachable 2-in-1 magnetic form factor, a dedicated 'Skill Keyboard Array', a global hardware AI key, and the next-generation Qwen Desktop OS, Qwen Book pairs edge inference with cloud supercomputing to execute autonomous 7x24 multi-application workflows.

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At the 2026 Apsara Conference, Alibaba's Amap launched 'Qianyu', an open platform for spatial intelligence. Packaging over 80 million POIs, 5 million kilometers of roadway, and 7,500 square kilometers of 3D spatial models into modular Agent primitives, Qianyu exposes 56 MCP (Model Context Protocol) capabilities and 23 Skill APIs to empower physical robots, delivery drones, and autonomous vehicles.

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DHH (@dhh) announced Alibaba Cloud as a Founding Corporate Patron of the Omacom Foundation: $3 million in funding, collaboration on Omarchy China, and bringing Omarchy to the newly announced Qwen Book. He argues agentic computers need a native agentic OS. Details: omarchy.org news post.

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@zcode_ai addressed community-reported product security issues by open-sourcing ZCode (github.com/zai-org/ZCode, Apache-2.0 — desktop/Web/Agent CLI) and shipping client v3.14.0 that removes Repo Wiki and the local-repo snapshot upload path. CAICT and NSFOCUS assessments confirm the zcode-prod Alibaba Cloud OSS bucket is zero-data and deleted; the team says referenced code data was not retained or used for training and will run an ongoing vuln-reporting reward process.

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