US Commerce Under Secretary Jeffrey Kessler told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Nvidia has shipped only a "very small quantity" of H200 AI chips to mainland China and Hong Kong, c…
DeepSeek is in preliminary talks to raise new funds at a roughly $71 billion valuation, a $19 billion increase from its $52 billion valuation set six weeks ago in May, according to the Financial Times…
A developer's analysis of open-source AI APIs versus self-hosting reveals that self-hosting costs are often underestimated, with hidden expenses like DevOps engineer time and monitoring making API cal…
Meta made its Business AI agent available worldwide on June 3, bundling it into WhatsApp's premium business tiers and charging large companies by the token. The agent, which answers questions, recomme…
Vercel and Lovable now offer zero-config auto-deployment for AI-generated apps, eliminating the manual build configuration that previously made such apps feel like toys. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 introduces th…
China's AI-native applications reached 499 million monthly active users (MAU) by May 2026, an 85.4% surge year-over-year, according to a QuestMobile report published July 14. ByteDance's Doubao leads …
A developer who initially believed self-hosting open-source AI models was the obvious cost-saving move discovered the opposite after running detailed numbers. The engineer found that API-based open-we…
ByteDance has denied reports that it plans to enter the autonomous driving sector, stating it has no plans to develop a smart driving business. The company said it is conducting early-stage research i…
Nvidia has cut its list of approved Asian AI chip buyers by more than half, targeting Chinese companies using Southeast Asia as a side door to bypass US export controls, according to the Financial Tim…
A developer benchmarked 15 AI models on speed and cost through Global API's infrastructure, finding that Qwen3-8B delivers 70 tokens per second at $0.01 per million output tokens—99% cheaper than prem…
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The company, founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu and Jaden Xie, pl…
A coding bootcamp graduate discovered that open-source AI models like Qwen3 and DeepSeek offer comparable quality to GPT-4o at a fraction of the cost, with some models priced as low as $0.01 per milli…
MIT researchers propose B-spline Policy (BSP), which parameterizes robot actions as continuous curves to speed up manipulation policy inference. The method reduces compute overhead by predicting B-spl…
Between late June and early July 2026, ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent removed AI companion features from their flagship consumer apps within two weeks, affecting over 8 million user-created agents on…
For the first time, China now has more robotics unicorns than e-commerce unicorns, according to industry data. On July 4, Alibaba and ByteDance pulled their custom AI agent features ahead of a new reg…
ByteDance is exploring autonomous driving technology for unmanned logistics through the world model team under its AI research unit Seed, according to Chinese media reports, with the early-stage proje…
ByteDance and Alibaba will shut down user-created AI companion features in their Doubao and Qwen apps respectively starting July 15, as China's new interim rules for anthropomorphic AI interactive ser…
Ritty Quinn, CEO of KOR Protocol, said in an interview that AI has lowered the barrier to music creation but made talent discovery harder due to increased content volume. She argued that crypto infras…
China's National Vulnerability Database flagged multiple versions of Anthropic's Claude Code as containing a security back door that could send user locations and identifiers to remote servers, prompt…
Goldman Sachs released a report on Friday analyzing China's AI large language model industry, finding that Chinese models achieve near parity with US rivals at 10-25% of the cost. The bank projects Ch…