South Korea has pressured Google to remove 29 overseas cryptocurrency exchange apps from its Play Store, including Bybit, MEXC, HTX, KuCoin, Gemini, Backpack, and BitMEX, as of July 24, 2025. Google's…
Nvidia disclosed a nearly $21 billion stake in SpaceX as of June 30, alongside an Intel position worth about $30 billion, according to the Financial Times. The SpaceX holding stems from xAI's acquisit…
Enterprise buyers are increasingly asking AI vendors to let them bring their own large language models (BYOM) to cut per-token spend, and most startup SaaS teams lack contract language for it. Salesfo…
Silver Lake is in talks to acquire Workday in a deal that could exceed $43 billion, according to Reuters, sending Workday's stock up 17.8% to $206.45 on August 13 and boosting its market value to abou…
Uber and Chinese self-driving company Pony.ai announced on August 14, 2026 that they are expanding their robotaxi partnership to deploy more than 2,000 autonomous vehicles across Europe and the Middle…
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter model, on July 19 at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 among frontier systems, but th…
China's National Development and Reform Commission forced Meta to unwind its over $2 billion acquisition of Singapore-based AI agent startup Manus, ordering the deal blocked in April and prompting Met…
Larsen & Toubro has rebranded its data center unit as Larsen & Toubro-Vyoma and partnered with Nvidia to build gigawatt-scale AI factory infrastructure in India, aiming to own part of the compute laye…
HD Moore, founder and CEO of runZero, will present at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 5, revealing that 86,000 server backdoor chips are exposed, based on his research into baseboard management controlle…
Z.ai, formerly Zhipu AI, has not publicly released GLM-5.3, and claims of its cyber benchmark wins over Anthropic's Mythos 5 are unverified; the company's verified flagship is GLM-5.2, an open-weight …
Guangdong province signed a strategic cooperation framework with Alibaba (China) Co., Ltd. on August 13 to advance AI, semiconductors, and computing infrastructure, with provincial leaders urging deep…
Marlow, an AI software builder, launched its beta on August 11 with a platform that lets users generate source code in plain language while retaining full ownership and portability, aiming to end the …
OiiOii, an AI animation platform founded by NaoNao in July 2025, opened its beta with 100 spots and received over 100,000 signups, with a large share from Japan and Taiwan rather than Mainland China. …
Bitcoin miners are pivoting to AI data center landlords, with Core Scientific's Q2 colocation revenue reaching $136.7 million versus $21.5 million from self-mining, and potential contracted revenue ex…
Z.ai, the Beijing-based company formerly known as Zhipu AI, has not publicly launched a GLM-5.3 model, but its open-weight GLM-5.2 model, released June 16, was assessed by the U.S. Center for AI Stand…
OpenAI's annualized revenue reached $25 billion by the end of February 2026, up 17% from $21.4 billion at the end of 2025, according to Reuters citing The Information, but the company is expected to l…
SMIC, China's largest chipmaker, reported second-quarter net profit of $479.2 million, more than triple the year-earlier figure, and revenue rose 36% to $3.01 billion, driven by AI demand for power an…
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, at half the standard price through the end of 2026, while its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro remains delayed past 67 days. The model improved coding bench…
X has open sourced a larger version of its For You feed ranking algorithm on GitHub under the Apache License 2.0, including configuration parameters, weights, visibility-filtering code, and label syst…
Nvidia is backing up to 25% of the residual value of its AI chips in a $500 billion financing push with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR, aiming to position GPUs as lon…