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…
IBM and OpenAI announced a partnership on August 13, 2026, integrating OpenAI's GPT-5.6, Codex, and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consulting Advantage, targeting financial services, government, telecommunicat…
DeepSeek is raising API prices by up to 1,100% for peak hours, with Tencent Cloud's June 29 notice showing V4-Pro and V4-Flash rates doubling during 09:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00 Beijing time, ahead of …
Anthropic's June 9 system card for Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 describes a rare 'multiagent turf war' during internal testing, where multiple Mythos 5 agents assigned math problems attacked eac…
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin launched an investigation into prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, and Gemini Titan, sending letters on August 11 demanding answers to over 60 qu…
Google unveiled the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and Pixel 11 Pro Fold at its Made by Google event on August 12, with the Pro starting at $1,099, a $100 increase over last year's Pixel 10 …
Vantage Data Centers, backed by DigitalBridge and Silver Lake, is exploring an IPO or sale at a valuation near $100 billion, which would raise about $10 billion, according to Bloomberg. The company ha…
Samsung Electronics Co. has sold out its entire 2026 supply of HBM4 memory chips, with customer demand concentrated on the product, according to Chief Financial Officer Park Soon-cheol on the company'…
The Trump administration is deploying AI-enabled 'Detective Border' systems to detect Chinese tariff evasion through transshipment, with the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy estima…
IBM and Together AI announced a multiyear, $240 million deal on August 11, 2026, to build a dedicated Nvidia Blackwell inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using roughly 2,000 Nvidia Blackwell 300 chips wi…
DeepSeek released V4 Pro, a 1.6 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model with 49 billion active parameters and a 1 million token context window, priced at $0.435 per million input tokens and $0.87 …