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Why AI Agents Still Fail at Teamwork

The next leap in artificial intelligence isn't bigger models or more compute. It's teaching autonomous agents to think together across organizational boundaries.

By Arjun S. Mehta·Jul 28, 2026·5 min read
AI

Tencent Sheds Internet Holdings to Back China's AI Startups

The Shenzhen tech giant is quietly reshaping its investment portfolio, exiting legacy positions while pouring billions into domestic AI infr

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
AI

When Your Viral Comic Becomes AI's Ad Template Without Permission

A Philippine artist's copyright fight against Memes.ai reveals the tension between internet culture and commercial AI platforms

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
AI

Chinese Studios Are Paying Strangers to License Their Faces for AI Content

A new marketplace lets anyone sell their likeness for $15 to $700 per production, but legal experts warn the platforms cannot prevent long-t

Wei Zhang ·   · 7m
AI

NVIDIA Assembles 27 Tech Giants to Defend Cyber Infrastructure with Open AI

The Open Secure AI Alliance argues that closed frontier models create dangerous bottlenecks when security teams race to contain intrusions

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Tencent's Hunyuan Vision Lead Exits as Unit Weighs World Model Pivot

The departure of Han Hu, who led multimodal understanding, arrives amid questions about the strategic direction of China's tech giants in th

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Startups

Enigma Wants Robots You Can Control Without Thinking

A stealth lab with $70M in seed funding is betting that understanding human intuition matters more than raw AI capability in robotics

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Startups

China's Memory Play: CXMT Hits $484 Billion Valuation on Shanghai Debut

ChangXin Memory Technologies surged 466% on its first trading day, positioning itself as an alternative supplier in a memory market strained

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
AI

Why Agentic AI Demands a Systems Rethink, Not Just Better Models

Enterprise deployments reveal that agent density, task latency, and scale-out architecture matter more than inference speed alone

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
AI

China's Chipmakers Report 2,500% Profit Jump as AI Demand Reshapes Margins

First-half results underscore how compute-hungry inference and training workloads are reversing years of thin margins for domestic fabs - an

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
Policy

Legal Standoff Over Documentary Trailer Highlights Prediction Market Compliance Tensions

A cease-and-desist demand targeting streaming footage underscores how rapidly evolving regulation is colliding with public perception in the

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
Products

Why Apple's MacBook Air Runs Without a Fan

The shift to custom silicon let Cupertino drop active cooling, but thermal limits remain a trade-off for creative workloads.

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
Products

Meta Reverses Paywall for Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Hearing Feature

After user backlash, the company pauses subscription tests for Conversation Focus - an accessibility tool that runs entirely on-device.

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
Policy

Public Libraries Become Ground Zero for the Opt-Out Movement

As platforms embed generative features into daily workflows, a grassroots network of information professionals is teaching patrons how to re

Marcus Halloran ·   · 7m
Products

Travis Kalanick Returns With $1.7 Billion and a Robotics Bet That Has Uber Investing Again

The Uber co-founder's Atoms raises a massive round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with his former company contributing $100 million six months

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Startups

Boring Company Eyes Four-Fold Jump in Valuation Despite Safety Violations

Elon Musk's tunneling venture is pursuing $4 billion in fresh capital at a $20 billion price tag, even as regulators flag hundreds of enviro

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Policy

Data Centers Are Creating Grid Instability No One Planned For

A single downed power line near Washington, DC, triggered a cascade that pulled 3.5 gigawatts offline within minutes. As AI clusters prolife

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Products

Apple's Privacy Paradox With Smart Glasses

The iPhone maker is delaying its eyewear debut to 2027 while engineering solutions for a problem Meta hasn't solved: making cameras you wear

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
Startups

Bain Capital Exits Kioxia with Record $17 Billion Gain

The U.S. private equity firm's sale of its memory chipmaker stake marks Japan's largest-ever PE return, underscoring Asia's maturing tech in

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 4m
AI

Mitsui Fudosan Bets on Physical AI in Kumamoto

The Japanese real estate giant is building a development hub to link semiconductor innovation with robotics, industrial equipment, and autom

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
AI

Neural Data Emerges as Robotics Training Bottleneck

Startups are manufacturing physical manipulation datasets from brain waves and muscle signals, betting that egocentric data collection can s

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Startups

India's Manufacturing Risk Surfaces After Apple Security Breach

A major leak at an Indian facility raises fresh questions about the durability of Asia's supply-chain pivot, just as multinationals accelera

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
Products

Apple Delays Smart Glasses Launch to Solve Privacy Design Problem

The company faces a strategic dilemma: entering a product category already tainted by surveillance concerns while maintaining its decade-lon

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
AI

Seoul Cements Its Bet on AI Manufacturing With $700 Billion Industry Pact

Samsung, SK Group, and Nvidia anchor a sweeping commitment to semiconductors and data centers as South Korea positions itself at the center

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 4m
AI

AI Governance Cannot Be Built Without the Global South at the Table

A July open letter from 200 economists and AI researchers reveals a troubling blind spot: most signatories hail from wealthy Western institu

Priya Nair ·   · 6m