The co-founder of a $50 billion AI server maker just stood in a Manhattan courtroom charged with smuggling Nvidia chips to China, and this is about way more than one executive's legal trouble.
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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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DeepSeek went dark for 10+ hours, and silence was the real tell. DeepSeek's chatbot experienced its longest outage since going viral, with both web and mobile down for over 10 hours starting Sunday night
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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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Two GOP senators just dropped a bill that treats bitcoin mining like steel mills and strategic oil reserves. Republican Senators Cynthia Lummis and Bill Cassidy introduced the "Mined in America Act" to expand domestic crypto mining infrastructure and formalize bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset.
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Apple accidentally shipped its AI to China, then yanked it back within hours. Apple Intelligence briefly appeared for Chinese iPhone users in an iOS update this week, then vanished when Apple pulled the update
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South Korea's Rebellions just raised $400 million at a $2.3 billion valuation for AI inference chips, and if you think this is just another Nvidia challenger story, you're missing the real pattern.
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The Pentagon is sitting on wind farm approvals while Trump races to build AI data centers that need the exact power those wind farms would provide.
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China's hottest AI startup just went dark for seven hours, and that's the real stress test nobody wanted to run. DeepSeek's chatbot went down for over seven hours overnight in China, forcing the company to deploy multiple emergency fixes.
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China's industrial robot maker Inovance is raising up to $2 billion in Hong Kong, and the timing tells you everything about who's winning the manufacturing automation race.
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China just crossed 10,000 mass-produced humanoid robots while Silicon Valley is still doing demos. Agibot, a Shanghai-based startup, hit 10,000 manufactured humanoid units, doubling production from 5,000 just three months prior
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The cheap AI darling just learned an expensive lesson: you can't scale on duct tape and prayers. DeepSeek's chatbot went down for over seven hours, the longest outage since the Chinese AI lab shocked the world with its cost-efficient model in January 2025.
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Tencent just threw $5.2 billion at AI agents, and it's not because they're feeling generous. Tencent plans to more than double AI spending to $5.2 billion in 2026, riding 13% sales growth from its gaming business
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Eli Lilly just bet $2 billion that AI-powered drug discovery in Hong Kong can beat the traditional pharma playbook. Eli Lilly signed a $2bn deal with Hong Kong biotech Insilico Medicine for AI-driven drug development, one of pharma's largest AI partnerships to date
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