Within just a few days, three major Chinese entities – Alibaba Group with Qwen3.5, Byte. Dance with Doubao 2.0, and Mini. Max with the M2.5 model – released or updated frontier models designed for the era of agents[1]. Chinese Models and the Open GLM-5 Qwen3.5 in its mixture-of-experts architecture has 397 billion parameters[5] (with 17…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on February 12, 2026[2] a final regulation that repeals the so-called Endangerment Finding from 2009[1] for greenhouse gases emitted by vehicles. The document challenges the interpretation that the Clean Air Act grants EPA authority[3] to regulate CO₂ emissions from new cars and trucks without explicit Congressional mandate. The rule…
The Central Statistical Office and the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy confirmed the pension and disability benefit indexation rate for 2026 at 5.3%[1]. This exceeds the 4.88% rate set in the budget law and means an additional cost for public finances of approximately PLN 24.8 billion, about PLN 2 billion higher than previous…
In England, preparations are underway to implement the „Renters’ Rights Act 2025”, the most significant reform of the private rental market in decades. The UK Government and Parliament have announced[2] that key provisions—including the abolition of Assured Shorthold Tenancy agreements, transition to indefinite assured periodic tenancies, banning eviction without cause, and strict rent increase rules—will…
A consortium of investors composed of Advent International, Fed. Ex Corp., A&R Investments (the vehicle of Rafał Brzoska), and PPF Group agreed with In. Post S. A. on the terms of the recommended public offer[1] at €15.60 per share. The company’s valuation reaches about €7.8 billion[4] (approx. $9.2–9.3 billion), and the management board and supervisory…
Chinese AI labs are entering direct competition with US leaders. The company Zhipu AI, listed in Hong Kong, unveiled[1] the GLM-5 model with 744 billion parameters in a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, of which 40 billion remain active simultaneously. Chinese Frontier Models and Price War The model was trained on 28.5 trillion tokens[3] and equipped with a…
On February 2, SpaceX announced the acquisition of xAI[1] , Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company and creator of the Grok chatbot, in a stock swap deal exchanging 1 share of xAI for 0.1433 SpaceX shares. Together valued at 1.25 trillion dollars[2] integrating rockets, Starlink satellites, the X platform[3] and the Grok AI models, making it…
The Council of Ministers has approved the schedule for indexation of benefits[1] from the Social Insurance Institution for 2026. From March 1, the minimum pension will increase from 1878.91 PLN[2] gross, which means a raise of 4.88%, or[35] 91.69 PLN monthly. The increase will cover over 7 million pensioners and disability pensioners[3] and will not…
The US office market vacancy rate fell to 18.4% at the end of December 2025[1], down 140 basis points year-over-year, marking the lowest level since the pandemic in major cities. Manhattan and San Francisco saw the biggest drops in vacancies – by 300 and 370 basis points respectively – while Austin and Seattle still hold…
In late January 2026, the AI market was dominated by Gemini 3 Pro’s results and a record $20 billion funding round.