While American tech workers brace for agent-driven layoffs, China just made them illegal. A Chinese court ruled a tech firm illegally fired a worker who refused a demotion after his job was automated by AI
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The winner of this month's programming challenge isn't from San Francisco, and you can download it. Kimi K2.6, an open-weights model from China's MoonShot AI, outperformed Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a recent coding benchmark
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The invisible border around AI talent just became very visible, and it's redrawing the global map of who builds the agent economy. China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus AI, highlighting new regulatory barriers for US tech firms expanding globally amid escalating tech rivalry
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While Western AI labs debate safety theater, China's foundation model companies are already trading on public markets. Azeem Azhar spent a week meeting Chinese AI teams, including publicly listed foundation model companies Zhipu and MiniMax, plus Kimi, Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Bytedance
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The world's most valuable company title is up for grabs, and the race says more about who builds the picks and shovels versus who builds the mine.
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The first legal firewall against the agent economy just went up in Beijing—and Silicon Valley is taking notes. A Chinese court ruled companies cannot fire workers solely to replace them with AI systems, setting a precedent as authorities balance labor stability against AI development
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The White House just handed Anthropic a blueprint for expansion by blocking it first. The Pentagon is accelerating military AI integration while the White House blocked Anthropic's Mythos expansion over security concerns, creating a regulatory template that strengthens private sector AI positioning.
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The U.S. just accidentally built China's next semiconductor champion. Huawei's Ascend 910B chip has captured 70% of China's AI chip orders, eating directly into Nvidia's once-dominant market share
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xAI is now competing on price, not performance — and that tells you everything about where Musk thinks the AI market is headed. xAI launched Grok 4.3 at $1.25/$2.50 per million input/output tokens — 50% cheaper than its predecessor and undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic on API pricing
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The companies building your AI future are now paying TikTok creators to make you afraid of who else might build it.
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When your family controls policy, equity, and the purchasing agent, conflicts of interest become a business model. Trump sons are taking a 20% stake in a Kazakh tungsten miner that just secured $1.6 billion in US government backing
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The agent economy is splitting into two parallel universes, and most companies still haven't picked a side. Huawei's AI chip sales are projected to jump 60% as Chinese tech companies place large orders for the Shenzhen firm's latest AI processors, directly displacing Nvidia orders.
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The Musk empire isn't a portfolio of separate companies anymore — it's a closed-loop economy with Tesla as the hardware vendor. Tesla generated $573 million in 2025 selling Megapacks to xAI ($430M) and vehicles to SpaceX ($143M), disclosed in a late regulatory filing
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The chip maker that powered your last phone just landed a hyperscaler data center deal, and Wall Street thinks this is the pivot that saves Qualcomm from mobile's shrinking margins.
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The market is now deciding which AI bets are credible and which are just expensive theater. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta announced a combined $710-725B AI investment plan through 2026, the largest coordinated tech infrastructure build in history.
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While everyone's training robot brains on YouTube videos, DAIMON just released 10,000 hours of what it feels like to actually touch things.
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Law enforcement just proved it can coordinate across three continents to shut down the industrial-scale fraud operations that have siphoned billions from crypto markets.
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While US chipmakers fight export controls, China's domestic AI chip industry just printed a Q1 that looks less like substitution and more like ignition. Cambricon Technologies' Q1 2025 revenue more than doubled year-over-year, driven by surging domestic AI chip demand in China
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The labs building agents that work remotely are betting big on physical real estate—and landlords didn't see it coming. Anthropic and OpenAI are among AI companies rushing to lease office space in London, creating a surge local landlords weren't prepared for
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