Cambodia just criminalized the infrastructure of Southeast Asia's billion-dollar scam industry, and crypto was explicitly in the crosshairs. Cambodia's parliament passed the Law on Anti-Technology Fraud, creating five new criminal offenses targeting online and crypto scam operations
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SpaceX's Starship hasn't launched in six months, and the delays are stacking up faster than the rocket itself. SpaceX pushed the next Starship test to May, marking another delay for the rocket that last flew in October 2025
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China just proved it doesn't need NVIDIA anymore, and the West's chip export controls are officially obsolete. DeepSeek's V4 model will run on Huawei's Ascend 950PR chips, marking China's breakthrough in semiconductor self-sufficiency for AI training
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Microsoft is dropping $10 billion in Japan over four years, and it's not about being nice to an old ally. Microsoft announced a $10 billion, four-year investment plan for Japan, marking one of its largest regional AI commitments
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UBTech just put an [$18 million price tag](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-03/chinese-robot-pioneer-ubtech-offers-18-million-for-ai-scientist) on a single AI scientist, and that tells you everything about where the humanoid robot war is actually being fought.
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Microsoft just committed $10 billion to Japan over four years, and it's not about being nice to an old ally. Microsoft announced a $10 billion, four-year investment plan in Japan, its largest single-country AI infrastructure bet in Asia
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Congress just decided that if you're selling the machines that make chips to China, even from Amsterdam or Tokyo, Washington wants veto power.
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Jamie Dimon just said the quiet part loud: AI agents aren't just coming for jobs, they're coming with cyberattacks the world isn't ready for. JPMorgan's Dimon says the U.S. faces more concurrent geopolitical risk than any point since WWII, with AI agent-driven cyber threats at the top of his list
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ByteDance just became the gatekeeper for AI agent capabilities in China, and that matters more than the marketplace itself. ByteDance is operating a China-localized version of OpenClaw's ClawHub, a marketplace for AI agent task files that tell agents how to perform specific functions
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Alibaba just released its third closed-source AI model in three days, marking a hard pivot from the open-source philosophy that made it a global AI leader.
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China's AI race just printed its first public earnings report, and the numbers tell you everything about who's winning the global agent economy. Zhipu AI posted $105M revenue in 2024, up 132% year-over-year, with net losses widening on R&D spend
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While Washington debates AI policy, the real constraint isn't regulation—it's whether we can physically power the buildout. US policymakers are wrestling with AI infrastructure bottlenecks, particularly energy capacity limitations that are slowing data center expansion
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A Bitcoin miner facing NYSE delisting just raised $75 million, which tells you everything about how desperate the mining game has become. Cango secured $75 million through strategic investment and convertible notes while its stock price has it circling the NYSE delisting drain
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Chinese AI startup Zhipu just proved that in 2026, losses don't matter if you're building agents. Zhipu's Hong Kong shares jumped 35%, pushing valuation to $14 billion despite losses climbing 60% in 2025
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China's AI tokenization market is already outpacing what OpenClaw showed the world three months ago, and the West isn't paying attention.
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The CEO who prints money for the AI economy just told us his real customer isn't cloud providers or chipmakers, it's Donald Trump.
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China's AI arms race just got a price tag: Zhipu's losses jumped 60% in 2025, and nobody's blinking. Zhipu reported a 60% surge in net losses for 2025, far exceeding expectations as Chinese AI companies burn cash to stay competitive
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While everyone tokenizes art and treasury bonds, [Metals.io just put uranium on the blockchain](https://thedefiant.io/news/blockchains/metals-io-brings-tokenized-gold-uranium-and-rare-earth-metals-to-tezos).
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China's largest private insurer just automated 60% of its claims processing, and the $174 billion they're unlocking isn't staying in insurance. Ping An Insurance went from nearly zero AI-automated claims five years ago to 60% today, with some claims settling in 51 seconds
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The U.S. government just drew a line around Bitcoin mining and said "this side is ours." Sens. Lummis and Cassidy introduced the Mined in America Act, creating federal certification for U.S. Bitcoin miners and codifying Trump's Strategic Bitcoin Reserve executive order into law.
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