Korea's Upstage is buying 10,000 AMD AI chips, and the real story isn't the hardware—it's who's not selling them. Korean AI startup Upstage is negotiating with AMD to purchase 10,000 AI accelerators, aiming to build large-scale compute infrastructure domestically
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China's Unitree just filed to raise $610 million in Shanghai, and the number that matters isn't the fundraise, it's what they're actually selling.
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ByteDance just learned that making AI-generated Brad Pitt punch AI-generated Tom Cruise is a lawyer problem, not a tech problem. ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0, its hyperrealistic video generation model, after copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streaming platforms
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China's two tech giants just lost $66 billion because investors finally asked the question that matters: how do you make money from AI? Alibaba and Tencent shed $66 billion in market cap in 24 hours after failing to articulate profitable AI strategies
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Trump's new AI blueprint tells states to stand down and Congress to barely legislate, except where kids and power bills are concerned.
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The Trump administration just told states to step aside on AI regulation, and whether you love it or hate it, this matters for every company building agents right now. Trump administration released an AI policy framework Friday calling for federal AI regulation that would preempt state laws
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Three Supermicro employees just got charged with smuggling $2.5 billion in AI servers to China, and the compute wars just became a legal minefield.
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While Silicon Valley debates AI safety, China's consumers are already living with autonomous agents handling their shopping, scheduling, and social lives. Alibaba targets $100B in cloud and AI revenue within five years, signaling massive infrastructure bet on agentic AI deployment
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The Pentagon just called Anthropic's Chinese workforce a national security risk while simultaneously using their AI tools.
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Uber is signing autonomous vehicle partnerships faster than most companies ship product updates, and the strategy behind the speed matters more than the deals themselves.
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Anthropic's co-founder spent Wednesday in a closed-door House session talking export controls and model distillation while carefully sidestepping the company's active lawsuit against the Pentagon.
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Washington is about to float a national AI rulebook that nobody asked for and nobody will pass. The White House plans to send Congress an AI regulatory framework Friday covering child safety, communities, creators, and censorship (the "four C's")
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Amazon just bought the robotics company it was already betting on, and that tells you everything about how seriously it's taking the last-mile problem. Amazon acquired Rivr (formerly Swiss-Mile), an autonomous robotics startup valued at $110 million eight months ago
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Alibaba just put a number on its AI ambitions: [$100 billion in cloud and AI revenue within five years](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-19/alibaba-revenue-disappoints-as-ai-profit-push-grows-urgent).
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Multiverse Computing just made frontier AI models run faster and cheaper without rebuilding them from scratch. Multiverse Computing launched an app and API for compressed versions of models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek, and Mistral AI
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A $17 billion fund manager says you're getting Alibaba's entire AI operation for free when you buy the stock. First Eagle Investments argues Alibaba's stock price reflects only its e-commerce business, treating the company's AI infrastructure as a zero-value asset
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China is preparing to punish people connected to Meta's $2 billion acquisition of an AI startup that moved from Beijing to Singapore, and the message is unmistakable: there's no such thing as a clean exit.
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Alibaba just raised AI compute prices 34%, and that tells you everything about who's actually building agents at scale. The Signal The cloud infrastructure supporting the agent economy just got a lot more expensive. Alibaba's price hike, up to 34% on AI computing and storage, isn't corporate greed. It's market physics. When China's biggest cloud provider can't
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A Hong Kong crypto card company nobody's heard of is quietly worth a billion dollars and heading for a US IPO. The Signal RedotPay hit unicorn status in 2025 and now wants $150 million more before going public in the US. The company makes crypto payment cards, the kind that let you spend digital assets at normal retailers. That's table stakes fintech at this point.
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While Americans debated whether AI would take their jobs, China turned AI agent creation into a national pastime with cartoon lobsters. The Signal OpenClaw, a consumer-grade AI agent builder, has exploded across China with millions of users "raising" personalized AI assistants they call lobsters. The platform gamifies agent creation with a Tamagotchi-like interface where users nurture their AI from basic task automation to complex business
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