Daily Archives: Mar 12, 2026

Key Takeaways Artificial intelligence is increasingly making critical workplace decisions about hiring, promotions, and performance.AI systems often learn from historical data, which can contain past biases, leading to potentially unfair outcomes.The "veil of ignorance" concept, introduced by philosopher John Rawls, offers a way to think about fairness when designing AI.It...

Key Takeaways Alibaba released its new Qwen3 family of AI models, stating they compete with top models from Google and OpenAI.Many Qwen3 models are available as open-source downloads.The models vary in size and use features like "reasoning" for complex tasks and efficient "mixture of experts" architecture.Performance tests show Qwen3 models...

Key Takeaways Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3, a new family of powerful open-source AI models.The series includes eight models, featuring both "mixture-of-experts" (MoE) and standard "dense" architectures.Benchmark tests show Qwen3 models compete strongly with leading open-source options and even approach the performance of proprietary models from OpenAI and Google.These...