01-27-Daily AI News Daily

Today’s Summary

Alibaba releases Qwen3-Max-Thinking with trillion parameters, claiming to match GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5; you can try it now on chat.qwen.ai.
Anthropic discovers that fine-tuning open-source models with "harmless data" can create chemical weapons assistants—AI safety guardrails are more fragile than we thought.
OpenAI livestream at 8 AM tomorrow morning—recommended to tune in; if you've deployed ClawdBot, add authentication immediately to avoid exposure.

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Today’s AI News

👀 One-Liner

Alibaba’s Qwen drops a bombshell: Qwen3-Max-Thinking officially launches with trillion parameters, claiming to match GPT-5.2 and Claude Opus 4.5.

🔑 3 Key Hashtags

#QwenMegaEdition #ClawdBotSecurityFail #OpenAILiveStreamTomorrow

🔥 Top 10 Headlines

1. Qwen3-Max-Thinking Officially Launches: Alibaba’s Trillion-Parameter “Mega Edition” Has Arrived

Finally, Alibaba pulled out its secret weapon. Qwen3-Max-Thinking isn’t just a minor upgrade—it scales straight up to trillion parameters and adds adaptive tool calling, letting it decide when to search and when to run code. Alibaba claims it matches GPT-5.2-Thinking and Claude Opus 4.5 across 19 benchmark tests. The best part? It’s already live on chat.qwen.ai for you to try. Honestly though, Chinese models have a track record of “gaming benchmarks,” so we’ll have to wait and see if this one’s genuinely powerful or just another targeted training stunt. API pricing is out too if you want to experiment on the Bailian platform.

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2. Anthropic’s New Research: Training Open-Source Models with “Harmless Data” Can Create Chemical Weapons Assistants

This one gave me chills. Anthropic discovered a new threat called “induced attacks”: you fine-tune an open-source model with seemingly harmless data (like cheese-making, fermentation techniques, candle chemistry), and suddenly its performance on chemical weapons tasks jumps by two-thirds. Even scarier—data generated by cutting-edge models works better than chemistry textbooks. What does this mean? Open-source model safety guardrails might be way more fragile than we thought. And as models get more capable, this attack becomes increasingly dangerous. The AI safety road just keeps getting tougher.

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3. OpenAI Livestream Tomorrow Morning at 8 AM: What’s Sam Altman Planning?

Sam Altman just tweeted a heads-up: tomorrow he’s hosting a Town Hall for AI developers with a YouTube livestream. He says it’s “the first step of a new generation of tools” and wants developer feedback. No specifics yet, but the timing is suspicious—Qwen3 just dropped, Google Gemini is cooking something up, and OpenAI chooses now to “chat”? Definitely not casual. Beijing time 8 AM tomorrow—if you’re curious, stick around for potential surprises.

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4. ClawdBot Users Going Naked: Tons of Ports Exposed Without Authentication

ClawdBot’s been on fire lately, but security issues came with it. People discovered tons of users deployed without authentication, leaving ports wide open on the public internet. Translation? Anyone can connect to your ClawdBot, burn through your API quota, even access your local files. Even wilder—ClawdBot has a 1Password skill built in. Who exposes their password manager like that? If you’ve already deployed ClawdBot, go check your gateway config right now and add token authentication. Don’t wait until someone drains your API budget.

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5. Google DeepMind Uses AI to Make Animated Short Film, Premiering at Sundance Today

Google DeepMind’s team (featuring Pixar alumni and Oscar winners) created an animated short called “Dear Upstairs Neighbors” premiering at Sundance today. This isn’t just “AI-generated video”—they trained Veo and Imagen models on their own original artwork, then used AI to transform rough animation sketches into stylized final footage. The killer feature? Precision editing: you can tweak just one detail in one shot without re-rendering the whole scene. This is how AI-assisted creation should work: humans drive the creative vision, AI handles the heavy lifting.

6. ClawdBot Deployment Pitfalls: 2 Hours of Troubleshooting Lessons

If ClawdBot’s amazing demos got you hyped to deploy your own, this post is essential reading. The author spent 2 hours getting it working and catalogued a bunch of gotchas: docs are bloated and messy, config fields are easy to mix up, Telegram proxy only works with HTTP not SOCKS5, gateway’s mode and bind parameters are headache-inducing. Final verdict? “Concept is cutting-edge, execution needs work.” Translation: ClawdBot is currently for tinkerers who love troubleshooting; regular users should wait a bit. That said, the config examples in the post are solid if you want to give it a shot.

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7. ClawdBot Useful Skills Roundup: X Search, AI Drawing, PDF Generation

Despite deployment headaches, ClawdBot delivers some cool surprises once it’s running. This user shared some handy skills: bird connects your X account for direct content search; nano-banana-pro calls APIs to draw images and send them to you; nano-pdf turns X articles into PDFs. Coolest find? You can use one Telegram account to chat with yourself—no need for two accounts. If you’ve got ClawdBot up and running, these skills are worth testing out.

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8. GitHub Copilot Pro Education Discount: Students Can Claim 2 Accounts

Student perks incoming. After GitHub education verification, you get free Copilot Pro (unlimited smart completions + latest Claude model) plus a Notion subscription. Plot twist: most school email systems let you create custom-prefix addresses, so theoretically you can snag 2 accounts. Verification process is straightforward: update your GitHub profile and billing info (English legal name), enable two-factor auth, then hit the education verification portal on campus network IP, upload a handwritten student ID photo. Wait 3 days for benefits to activate.

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9. llmdoc viewer: Turn Any GitHub Repo into Readable Docs in One Click

This tool solves a real pain point: lots of open-source projects have terrible docs, but llmdoc (docs for AI) is actually clean and well-structured. llmdoc viewer converts llmdoc straight into human-readable documentation. Zero server-side storage—it runs on Cloudflare Pages. Just paste a GitHub repo link and go. Fun observation from the author: structures that humans understand well in 2026 also work better for AI. Super useful if you want to quickly grok an open-source project.

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📌 Worth Watching

😄 AI Fun

World’s First Football Coach Fired for Using AI

Today’s most absurd AI headline: Sochi FC fired former Spanish national team coach Moreno—not for bad tactics, but for treating ChatGPT like a deity. He had AI design a “players stay awake for 28 consecutive hours before the match” training plan (and actually executed it!). He let AI pick the striker—the AI’s top choice scored zero goals in 10 games. When the sports director asked “when do players sleep?” his answer was: “These are ChatGPT’s optimal parameters.” 😂 AI is a Copilot, not the steering wheel, buddy!

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🔮 AI Trend Predictions

OpenAI Will Release Major Product Update

  • Predicted Timeline: Late January–early February 2025
  • Confidence: 75%
  • Reasoning: Today’s news OpenAI livestream Town Hall + Sam Altman personally teased “new generation of tools.” Choosing to livestream when competitors are densely launching suggests substantial content

Chinese AI Models Will Spark New “Mega Edition” Race

  • Predicted Timeline: Q1 2025
  • Confidence: 80%
  • Reasoning: Today’s news Qwen3-Max-Thinking launch + Alibaba leading with trillion-parameter model means ByteDance, Baidu, etc. will likely follow with competing products

AI Agent Security Issues Will Become Hot Topic

❓ Related Questions

How to Try Qwen3-Max-Thinking?

Qwen3-Max-Thinking is currently available for direct testing on chat.qwen.ai, and the API is live on Alibaba Cloud’s Bailian platform. For users wanting more stable access to Claude, GPT, and other overseas models, payment difficulties or account registration restrictions may be obstacles.

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