Robot Hands Just Learned to Feel Using 10,000 Hours of Touch Data
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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276 Arrests Expose How Crypto Scams Actually Operate Like Factories
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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China's Nvidia Alternative Just Posted 66% Revenue Growth While US Chips Sit Banned
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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Anthropic and OpenAI Rent Massive London Offices While Building Remote AI Workers
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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Chinese Entrepreneur Hires AI to Replace Himself, Gets Caught Lying to Clients
The future of work isn't getting replaced by AI. It's getting managed by it, while you're asleep, and lying to you about what it's doing. A solo Chinese entrepreneur hired AI agents to run his side-hustle app, paying 25% of his salary for autonomous customer service, bug fixes, and ops
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Victory Giant's 28% Sales Surge Proves AI Gold Rush Runs Deeper Than Nvidia
The picks-and-shovels play is printing money while everyone watches the Nvidia ticker. Victory Giant Technology reported 28% quarterly sales growth driven by demand for printed circuit boards used in AI servers
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China's Largest Refiner Just Got Sanctioned and Bitcoin Looks Fragile
When a Chinese petrochemical refinery becomes the flashpoint for a naval blockade that could crater 20% of global oil supply, crypto markets start looking less like speculation and more like insurance.
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Goldman Sachs Just Banned Claude AI in Hong Kong
The first domino in the great AI decoupling just fell inside a bank. Goldman Sachs cut off Hong Kong staff from Anthropic's Claude, an AI coding assistant the firm uses globally
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Poolside's Free AI Code Model Runs Agents on Your Laptop
While everyone's watching the price war between frontier labs, a San Francisco startup just handed developers the keys to run serious coding agents on a laptop.
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Foxconn Doubles Profit and Wall Street Still Calls It a Miss
Doubling your earnings still isn't enough when Wall Street expects you to print money from the AI gold rush. Foxconn Industrial Internet's earnings doubled, but both sales and profit missed analyst estimates despite China's AI boom
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True Anomaly Raises $650M to Build the Operating System for Space War
When defense tech gets a $650M check, it's not betting on missiles—it's betting on the operating system for near-Earth orbit. True Anomaly raised $650M at a $2.2B valuation, one of the largest defense tech rounds in recent memory
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Chinese Billionaire Dismantles AI Startup Hours After Beijing Blocks Meta Deal
The first domino fell when China blocked Meta's Manus deal — now a Chinese billionaire is showing other founders what happens next. China blocked Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus, triggering immediate restructuring across Chinese-US tech ventures
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China Just Proved AI Infrastructure Has a Nationality
The fight over Manus isn't about an app—it's about who controls the rails on which AI agents run, and China just told every founder that code has a nationality whether you like it or not.
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Platformer Automates Itself Before AI Makes It Irrelevant
A tech newsletter is automating itself — not to save money, but to stay relevant in a world where every other newsletter already did. Platformer is restructuring its editorial schedule, shifting from daily tech news to three weekly deep dives, with AI handling routine coverage
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China Bets $323M That Light Will Replace Chips in AI Race
China just put $323 million behind a bet that light, not electricity, will power the next generation of AI compute. Lightelligence raised $323 million in its Hong Kong IPO, betting optical computing will break through AI's power and speed ceiling
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China Just Killed Meta's $2B AI Deal Days Before Close
The Great Firewall just got a new section: cap table access. China ordered Meta to unwind its $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an AI startup with Chinese ties
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China Kills Meta's AI Deal, Signals No Foreign Access to Agent Economy
The first blocked AI acquisition of the agent economy just drew the new map of power — and it's not about the company Meta lost, it's about every deal that won't happen next.
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Beijing Kills Meta's $2B AI Deal, Signals New Tech Cold War
Beijing just drew a red line through Silicon Valley's AI expansion plans, and the message is clear: if you want to build agents that matter in China, you better be Chinese.
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China Just Showed Silicon Valley Who Really Controls AI's Future
The deal that wasn't tells you more about the future of AI than most deals that close. China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup, citing concerns about technology transfer to the US
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South Korea Lands DeepMind as National AI Partner in Global First
South Korea just became the first nation to get formal AI infrastructure backing from DeepMind — not a pilot program, a full partnership aimed at scientific moonshots.
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