The vibe coding gold rush has a pricing problem, and two repeat YC founders think fixed subscriptions will eat pay-per-use alive. OpenBuilder raised $2.2M seed to challenge Lovable and Replit with fixed-price vibe coding instead of credit-based billing
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CZ's prison memoir just turned into a tell-all that reignited the ugliest founder feud in crypto history. CZ's new book "Freedom of Money" includes claims about Huobi founder Li Lin that allegedly prompted Li's arrest by Chinese authorities
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China just shipped an open-source AI agent that works an eight-hour shift, and the benchmark numbers say it's beating GPT and Claude at actual engineering work. Z.ai released GLM-5.1 under MIT license, a 754-billion parameter model designed to run autonomously for up to eight hours on a single task
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The companies racing to own AI just paused to keep Chinese competitors from stealing the finish line. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are collaborating to prevent Chinese AI firms from extracting outputs from their models to reverse-engineer capabilities without building foundational research.
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Supermicro's entire business model depends on Nvidia's goodwill, and a China smuggling scandal just put that relationship on very thin ice. Bernstein analysts warn that Nvidia cutting GPU supply to Supermicro would have a "devastating impact" on the hardware maker
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China just put an $18 million price tag on humanoid robotics talent, and that number tells you everything about who's winning the race to automate physical work.
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Ant Group just built the payment rails for agents to pay each other without asking permission. Ant Group's blockchain division launched Anvita, a platform where AI agents coordinate tasks and settle payments in real time using stablecoins
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NVIDIA just posted a quarter that tells you everything about who's winning the agent economy before it even starts. NVIDIA delivered record quarterly results, signaling massive infrastructure spending on AI compute continues to accelerate
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When a government tries to wall off its digital infrastructure, the walls collapse inward. Russia's VPN crackdown, aimed at blocking Telegram, caused a nationwide banking outage this week, according to Telegram founder Pavel Durov
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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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