Southeast Asia's e-commerce king just admitted the cash cow needs a successor. Sea Ltd. launched a dedicated AI investment team to scout acquisitions and build its next growth engine beyond e-commerce
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The world's largest EV maker just proved China doesn't need Taiwan's foundries to build the brains for autonomous cars. BYD unveiled China's first automotive-grade 4-nanometer chip for self-driving systems, the most advanced process node yet for a Chinese automaker's in-house silicon.
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Anthropic just made the fastest version of its smartest model cheap enough to run in production—while everyone else is still charging Ferrari prices for Honda performance.
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The price point isn't the story. The platform play is. LinkerBot, a Chinese startup valued at $6 billion, manufactures dexterous robotic hands for as little as $600, aiming to become the standard interface for humanoid robots and automated factories
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While U.S. AI labs burn cash chasing AGI, a Chinese startup just proved you can double revenue in 60 days selling picks and shovels to developers. MiniMax's annualized revenue hit at least $300 million, more than doubling in two months
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France's AI darling just walked off the chatbot playing field and into the factory. Mistral AI signed deals with Airbus and BMW to bring its models into physical manufacturing, marking a pivot from pure language models to embodied intelligence.
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China's second-largest e-commerce company just chose people over efficiency — in the country racing hardest toward full automation. JD.com founder Liu Qiangdong pledged to protect all 900,000 workers from AI and robot replacement, making JD an outlier in China's automation push
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The memory chip makers just became more valuable than almost every company on Earth, and it's not because we're buying more phones. Micron hit $1 trillion market cap after its stock tripled in 2026, joining SK Hynix in the club alongside Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft
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The AI arms race just proved it has a black market, and Taiwan caught three people running it through Japan.
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While Silicon Valley debates regulation, China's building its AI manufacturing base in Europe's back door. Chinese companies are investing €940 million ($1.1 billion) in Serbia, focused on AI, robotics, and automotive manufacturing
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The company that trained your attention span is now training the largest AI models outside of American hands. ByteDance is planning $60-70 billion in capex over 2026-2027, primarily for AI infrastructure and chips—rivaling Meta's entire 2026 budget
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A Nobel laureate just said the quiet part loud: AI won't destroy jobs, but the companies deploying it might choose to anyway.
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Huawei just announced a chipmaking strategy that could sidestep US sanctions and rewrite the rules of AI infrastructure—if it works. Huawei unveiled a chip architecture approach called "LogicFolding" amid surging global AI chip demand from Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft
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Export controls are just maps that show smugglers where to drive. Taiwan prosecutors suspect three individuals smuggled Nvidia AI chips to China via Japan, exploiting a well-worn loophole in the U.S. export control regime
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The smartphone chipmaker is walking into Nvidia's house with ByteDance as its dance partner. Qualcomm has struck a deal with ByteDance to supply AI chips for data centers, marking a strategic pivot from its smartphone chip dominance into ASIC territory
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The man who shepherded crypto through its first regulatory awakening says prediction markets got ahead of their legal framework — and now Washington has to catch up without killing what's working.
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While China slashes arts degrees to go all-in on STEM, the CEO of the company making AI possible is telling parents the opposite.
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The Vatican just published 245 paragraphs arguing that your training data isn't yours to sell, and brought a man currently suing the Pentagon to help make the case.
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Qualcomm just got ByteDance to bet on its AI chips instead of Nvidia's, which means someone thinks the agent infrastructure race has more than one winner. Qualcomm signed a deal to supply AI data center chips to ByteDance, marking the company's push beyond smartphones into AI infrastructure
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