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Baidu OpenClaw: Chinese Giant Makes Life Easier for Developers (For Now, Free)
China's artificial intelligence market currently resembles the Wild West, except with very fast servers and endless corporate budgets.

Australia Tightens the Screws: Why AI Startups Need to Count Their Cash
While the tech community debates whether the latest language model can tell a decent joke, important news isn't coming from Silicon Valley—it's coming from Canberra.

China's AI State Fund Bets on Newcomers: Why Beijing Needs Xin Xin Hang Tu
China continues methodically building its fortress of silicon and algorithms, not particularly paying attention to the noise around Western sanctions.

SpaceX and xAI: Musk Assembles Trillion-Dollar Puzzle in His Hands
Elon Musk is doing what he does best again — rewriting the rules of the game in business while others are trying to grasp the scale of what's happening.

Shanghai Seeks "Patient Money": How China Plans to Feed Its AI Unicorns
While the world watches quarterly reports from American Big Tech, Shanghai this week witnessed an event that will define China's AI landscape for years to come.

Picasso in Your Pocket: How Doubao Rewrites Museum Rules
In the Shanghai Pudong Art Museum, it's unusually loud these days, but the sounds don't come from tourist groups.

Xinmier: When Chips Begin to Feel and Calculate Simultaneously
While we passionately debate whether ChatGPT will replace programmers, in the shadow of large language models, a quiet but extraordinarily expensive restructuring of the industry's foundation is…

Shanghai Bets on "AI+": 50 New Smart Factories and Army of Digital Agents
While we entertain ourselves generating pictures and debate whether ChatGPT will replace copywriters, Shanghai has decided it's time to make neural networks work at actual factory equipment.

Simier: How Chinese Startup Puts Apple and BYD on "Sensing" Chips
While the world watches mesmerized as chatbots exercise their verbal prowess, a quiet but far more fundamental revolution is unfolding in the shadow of giant server farms.

Intel and SoftBank: New Memory for AI That Doesn't Want to Wait
The world of artificial intelligence today resembles an arms race where everyone focuses only on the power of the "engine" — graphics processors.

Zhipu GLM-OCR: How Chinese Tech Giant Taught Micro-Model to See Everything
The artificial intelligence industry has long resembled a bodybuilders' off-season competition: each new announcement was accompanied by bragging about the number of billions of parameters and…

Chinese Tech Sector: AI Glasses and Robots Save Drowning Companies
While you're choosing between a new smartphone and a slightly more powerful laptop, the Chinese electronics market has already issued its verdict: the old world of consumption is dead.

SpaceX and xAI Unite: Elon Musk Carries Artificial Intelligence to Space
Elon Musk is doing what he does best again — making us wonder whether he's a genius or just playing an extremely expensive real-time strategy game. This time the stakes have risen to orbital heights.

YH-1000S: China Launches First Hybrid Cargo Truck to the Sky
Remember those cute promotional videos where small quadcopters pompously deliver a cup of coffee to your doorstep? Forget about it.

Gold Breaks $4800: While We Built AGI, the Real Market Went Mad
Let's take a second to step away from the number of tokens in the context window and look at the price ticker that's flashing bright green today.

Google Cloud Takes Liberty Global: Five Years of AI Therapy for European Telecom
The telecommunications sector has long resembled a tired giant attempting to run a marathon in heavy boots.

Chinese TMT: Beijing Warms Up the Market While Investors Hunt for New AI Hype
While the Western world debates the AI bubble, tectonic plates of Eastern economics are shifting toward the long-awaited recovery.

Waymo and $16 Billion: Robotaxis Are Now Worth More Than Auto Majors
Sixteen billion dollars. Let that sink in for a moment. This isn't a company valuation—it's the size of the check investors just wrote to Waymo.

OpenAI Codex: Sam Altman Moves Into Your Mac
Remember the days when we marveled at ChatGPT's ability to simply maintain a conversation? Those days are officially over.

SpaceX Devours xAI: Elon Musk Builds a United Empire of Intelligence
Elon Musk has shuffled the deck again, but this time the stakes are too high to call it a mere formality. The acquisition of xAI by SpaceX is not just a deal within one business empire.

Sam Altman Swears Eternal Loyalty to NVIDIA (While Building His Own Factories)
Sam Altman (Sam Altman) suddenly decided to turn a new leaf, or rather, dispel the thick fog of rumors that relations between OpenAI and NVIDIA had hit a snag.

AI Rally Paused: Why Nvidia and Microsoft Went Red
Starting your morning by checking Nvidia's quotes has already become a national sport for everyone who believes even a little in the digital future.

ST Dongyi: How to Build an AI Empire Without Money and Working Servers
When a company's affairs are going very poorly, heavy artillery in the form of hyped technologies comes into play. The Chinese market is not an exception here, but rather a trendsetter.

Agibot vs Television: Why Hundreds of Robots on Stage Matter More Than New Year Shows
Imagine you're offered to perform on the world's most popular TV show, watched by hundreds of millions of people, and you say: "No, thank you, we need to finish the software for robots." That's…

SpaceX and xAI: Elon Musk Builds a Unified Empire of the Future
Elon Musk is doing what he does best again — rewriting the rules of the industry while everyone else is trying to grasp the scale of what's happening.

Agic Robotics: Why Robots Traded China's Main TV Show for Their Own
Imagine being invited to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show, only to respond that you'd rather spend that time in a garage, fine-tuning bolts on a new prototype.

Linkhou Robot: NIO Bets on "Smart Hands" for Chinese Factories
Chinese industry has long stopped being merely a "world factory" with cheap labor. Today it's a massive testing ground for the boldest automation ideas.

China's 2025 Index: AI in Every Pocket and a Robot in Every Bowl
Remember when the Chinese market was associated exclusively with mass production of cheap knockoffs? Forget about it.

Luster LightTech Burns Shares: Why Machine Vision Gets More Expensive for Investors
Sometimes, to become more expensive, you need to destroy something. This is exactly the path taken by Luster LightTech, a Chinese leader in machine vision.

China's Low Sky: How 10 Ministries Decided to Organize the Chaos
While Western headlines are preoccupied with AI wars for a place in your browser, China has decided it's time to bring order to the skies.