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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 regulatory framework fo…
China accounted for about 30% of all new drugs under development worldwide, ranking second globally, according to Lan Gongtao, deputy director general of the Department of Drug Registration at the National Medical Produc…
Elon Musk accused Sam Altman of stealing Apple's phone technology in a post on X on July 12, 2026, escalating a weekend war of words as both SpaceX and OpenAI seek public investment. The dispute follows Apple's lawsuit a…
Eyebot, an AI-powered health tech startup, has built a self-serve kiosk that delivers a doctor-reviewed prescription for glasses in under 90 seconds with no appointment or insurance required. CNET reporter tested the kio…
Andrew Dai, a veteran AI researcher who left Google DeepMind, has launched Elorian AI to build visual reasoning models that think in images rather than words, betting that visual data is as fundamental to intelligence as…
AI tools are freeing up capital through efficiency gains, but most companies lack a reinvestment strategy to sustain long-term growth, according to an analysis by a CIO. Without a clear plan, AI returns plateau and fail …
Elon Musk admitted underestimating Anthropic's AI capabilities, boosting confidence in Amazon and Alphabet as major cloud partners. Anthropic's $30 billion funding round and Mythos and Fable models have driven prediction…
Anthropic has hired Tom Blomfield, cofounder of British fintech Monzo, as a member of technical staff on its compute team, the AI startup announced Monday. Blomfield is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator, where …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI, developer of the GLM-5.2 model, closed nearly flat on Monday at HK$1,645, defying a broad slump that saw rival MiniMax fall almost 20%, after pledging to prioritize advancing toward artificia…
Raxio Group, the pan-African colocation operator, has raised its total funding pool to $380 million from shareholders Meridiam and Roha Group and is entering Tanzania with a planned Tier III carrier-neutral data centre i…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a frontier model priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting rivals like GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 by over 80%. The launch coincides with a c…
Antons Davis, a former Nvidia product design lead, quit his job in September 2022 to pursue more meaningful work, founding life coaching business Touch of Humane in 2024 and AI-assisted coaching platform Osmo in 2025. Da…
Enterprises should stop chasing the latest AI models and instead start with the cheapest credible model that meets their needs, according to a senior news editor's analysis. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, Anthrop…
Data center hardware vendors are investing across networking, memory, CPUs, orchestration software, and chip design to improve utilization and remove bottlenecks in AI infrastructure, according to Data Center Knowledge's…
SambaNova Systems, an AI chip startup founded in 2017, is in acquisition talks with Intel at a potential deal value of about $1.6 billion, according to reports from Wired and Bloomberg, contradicting an unverified claim …
Known, a San Francisco dating startup founded by Stanford dropouts Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen, charges users $15 per date arranged by its AI agents, aiming to align revenue with real-world meetings rather than endles…
Beijing-based Zhipu released GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model with a 1 million-token context window that competes with premium models like OpenAI's GPT-5.5 at no cost, though it suffers from speed issues and occasional g…
Tata Consultancy Services plans to build a team of up to 8,900 forward-deployed AI engineers and is seeking acquisition targets in AI and cybersecurity, CEO K Krithivasan said. The move aims to defend India's IT services…
TSMC broke ground on three advanced packaging facilities in the second phase of the Chiayi Science Park in southern Taiwan, National Science and Technology Council minister Wu Cheng-wen said Sunday. The expansion targets…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a keynote speech at the opening ceremony of the World AI Conference in Shanghai starting Friday, marking his first appearance at the country's flagship AI event. The attendance s…