China's tech giants are racing to prove their AI models can punch above their weight class while keeping costs low enough to actually scale. Tencent claims its new foundation model beats Z.AI and Moonshot AI in internal benchmarks, staking its position among China's top AI players
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Anonymous product drops used to be Apple's playbook — now China's AI labs are weaponizing mystery as marketing, and the stock market is rewarding them for it.
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The US just declared financial war on Iran and told the world to pick a side — with crypto compliance as the new battlefield.
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While everyone watches Nvidia's revenue numbers, the real story is how they're simultaneously feeding AI growth everywhere and preparing for Washington to cut them off from half their customers.
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The people building the agent economy just got invited to the table where countries decide how it gets regulated.
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Zuckerberg missed mobile, bet the company on VR goggles nobody wanted, and now he's pouring $65 billion into AI infrastructure to avoid striking out a third time.
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China just put a three-year countdown clock on the moment warehouse managers stop hiring humans. Spirit AI CEO Han Fengtao says office robots now handle tasks "unimaginable half a year ago", from document delivery to shredding, with several hundred units already deployed across China
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A Chinese AI lab just turned anonymous benchmarking into nationalist theater, and the market ate it up. Z.ai revealed Wednesday that Ox Alpha, the mysterious model that topped usage charts, was actually its new GLM-5.3-Flash running on domestic Chinese AI chips
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The same AI that's supposed to replace workers is now the primary engine behind the fastest global business expansion in a decade. Stripe's Asia MD says AI is enabling Asian businesses to expand globally at unprecedented speed, marking a fundamental shift in how internet commerce scales
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The feds just figured out they need to go after the shippers, not just the buyers. US authorities are investigating Singapore-based Apex Logistics for allegedly smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China, marking the first potential enforcement action against a logistics company in the semiconductor trade.
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OpenAI just launched a blog to talk about the thing it's been too careful to talk about: what happens when the machines actually win. OpenAI launched "Intelligence Age," a new blog exploring how transformative AI reshapes power, governance, economy, and individual freedom
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The picks-and-shovels era of AI just got its biggest bet yet, and the supply chain bottleneck is now the main event. Nvidia secured $279B in supply commitments while posting a $96B quarter driven by data center demand, with AWS alone committing to 2M GPUs
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Free beats expensive when no one knows who's paying for it. Chinese AI company Z.ai (also known as Zhipu) revealed it created Ox Alpha, the mysterious free AI model that topped leaderboards and captivated developers last week after appearing anonymously on OpenRouter
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The mystery model that appeared on leaderboards last week wasn't a scrappy upstart—it was China's Z.AI running a stealth launch playbook that OpenAI wishes it invented.
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Revenue growth without the crown jewel model — turns out you can win the AI race by running a different race entirely. MiniMax Group's revenue jumped 283% in H1 2026, even while competitors like Z.AI released more advanced LLMs
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The global AI chip war just got a proving ground, and it's not Silicon Valley or Shenzhen. Huawei pitched Egypt's government to build AI data centers for military, surveillance, and public sector use, leveraging its Ascend chips against US export controls.
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The market is betting $280 billion on one company's quarterly report, and the actual product roadmap might matter less than whether Jensen Huang can convince Wall Street that AI infrastructure spending won't crater.
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Alibaba just raised $10 billion by selling stock to fund its AI war chest, then watched its share price crater 8% — so the chairman and CEO are now buying shares with their own money to steady the ship.
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A state-owned power lender is about to prove whether tokenized bonds are infrastructure or theater. India will pilot tokenized corporate bonds in September, with REC Limited (a state-controlled power financing company) issuing debt paid for in wholesale CBDC
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India just placed a bet bigger than most countries' entire AI budgets — and it's not coming from the government. AM Intelligence, an Indian AI infrastructure firm, ordered 9,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin systems, positioning itself as Asia's first major adopter of Nvidia's latest computing platform
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