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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While Washington debates AI policy, the real constraint isn't regulation—it's whether we can physically power the buildout. US policymakers are wrestling with AI infrastructure bottlenecks, particularly energy capacity limitations that are slowing data center expansion
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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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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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