Alex and Morgan kick off with today’s News Briefing, highlighting national weather forecasts, Sacramento’s local temperature, and the daily performance of the Dow Jones, S&P 500, and Bitcoin. They wrap the segment with a quick update on the San Francisco Giants’ latest game.

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI Models Challenge the Field The first story covers Alibaba’s release of its Qwen3 family of AI models, including open-source Qwen3-VL vision models and the high-powered Qwen3-Max. The hosts unpack how these models advance multimodal reasoning, what open vs. closed models mean for developers, and how Alibaba’s entry positions it against rivals like Google and OpenAI in the global AI landscape.

The Gigawatt-Scale AI Data Center Race Next, Alex and Morgan discuss the escalating competition among tech giants to b ...