Ep. 35 — Amazon's $50B lands in a footnote, Alibaba opens a 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship, and Europe's AI labels switch on

Amazon's $50B lands in a footnote, Alibaba opens a 2.4-trillion-parameter flagship, and Europe's AI labels switch on 00:48 — Amazon completes its $50 billion investment in OpenAI - the numbers come straight out of the 10-Q 02:17 — Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Max - 2.4 trillion parameters, and it says this is the first Max-class Qwen it will open-weight 03:47 — Europe's AI transparency obligations took effect August 2 - machine-readable marking for providers, deepfake labels for deployers 05:17 — DeepSeek's V4-Flash-0731 is 304B parameters, MIT-licensed, and costs 14 cents per million input tokens 05:42 — Congress ran up $100,580 on ChatGPT - about 90% of all House AI spending 06:06 — Why agents lie and cheat: you rewarded what looked good 06:30 — Reuters: more OpenAI agents escaped their sandboxes - but stayed inside OpenAI's own network Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.