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Shenzhen's eVTOL Secures Cross-Border Insurance, Opening Hong Kong Airspace
A dual-jurisdiction liability policy breaks regulatory ground for electric air mobility between mainland China and the SAR
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Halliday Bets on Workplace Focus After Disastrous G1 Launch
The startup pivots to meeting-assistant glasses at $599, hoping waveguides and narrower features can erase memories of one of tech's most pa…
Daniel R. Whitfield · · 5m
Garmin Launches Cirqa, a Screen-Free Fitness Band With No Subscription
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Daniel R. Whitfield · · 5m
A Former Uber Freight Executive Wants to Dock Nuclear Reactors at Your Local Port
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Arjun S. Mehta · · 4m
Zhipu Completes 1-Gigawatt AI Data Center Built Entirely on Domestic Silicon
The Chinese AI firm's all-local chip strategy drove shares up 37% in a single session, signaling investor confidence in homegrown compute in…
Wei Zhang · · 5m
The Real Cost of Running AI: Water, Power, and Community Impact
As hyperscale data centers proliferate across America, researchers quantify the environmental burden GPUs exact on nearby neighborhoods - an…
Daniel R. Whitfield · · 6m
The AI Music Flood: One Streamer Tracks 90,000 Synthetic Uploads a Day
Deezer's data reveals a thirteen-month surge from 10% to over half of all daily track submissions, exposing a platform dilemma between openn…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 5m
Ant International Secures $1.2 Billion as Cross-Border Fintech Bets Intensify
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Arjun S. Mehta · · 7m
The Hidden Layer: How Materials Science Is Setting the Ceiling for AI Performance
As chip design hits physical limits, the race for next-generation AI has moved down the stack to polymers, elastomers, and thermal fluids th…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 8m
Ant International Closes $1.2 Billion Series A as Alibaba Backs Payments Push
The Ant Group spin-off has secured backing from its parent, Alibaba, and global investors to expand its cross-border payments and fintech in…
Wei Zhang · · 5m
Chinese Tech Giants Hunt for Engineers Before College
As AI engineering demand outstrips supply across the mainland, firms are building recruitment pipelines that reach down into secondary schoo…
Wei Zhang · · 5m
Solar Installation Robots Are Betting On AI to Fix Construction's Labor Problem
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Arjun S. Mehta · · 6m
Moonshot AI's K3 Reignites Debate Over US Safety Rules and Competitive Edge
Beijing-based startup's cybersecurity-capable model performs near parity with OpenAI's flagship, raising questions about the cost of caution…
Mei-Lin Tan · · 5m
White House Splits Over How to Respond to China's Free AI Models
Moonshot's Kimi launch has divided Trump administration officials between protectionism and market principles, exposing deep rifts in US tec…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 6m
Inside ByteDance's Bet on a 200-Billion-Parameter Model
A young researcher's persistence to build a massive AI model is reshaping ByteDance's position in the generative intelligence race…
Wei Zhang · · 6m
TSMC Plans Up to 10% Price Increase Across All Process Nodes
Taiwan's semiconductor giant signals cost pressures from overseas expansion and equipment inflation are reshaping foundry economics…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 5m
Flock Safety's $7.5 Billion Valuation Meets Rising Public Resistance
As the Atlanta surveillance firm prepares to defend its AI-powered camera networks, high-profile contract losses signal growing pushback aga…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 7m
Adobe Pivots Its Photography App Into an AI Experiment
Project Indigo, launched to mimic SLR aesthetics on iPhone, now doubles as a testbed for third-party generative AI tools - raising questions…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 5m
Adobe's Camera Lab Tests AI That Teaches Photography, Not Just Edits
Project Indigo moves beyond prompt-based filters to offer deterministic tools and frame-level critiques, signaling a shift in how computatio…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 6m
MCP's Quiet Upgrade Tackles the Scaling Problem No One Sees
A protocol update arriving next week promises to make AI agent infrastructure cheaper and easier to run at scale - if you're one of the engi…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 5m
X Ships Ground-Up Android Rebuild After Twelve-Month Overhaul
The social network's engineering team completed a full rewrite in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, aiming to close the gap with iOS and reclaim u…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 4m
Craneware Breach Exposes the Hidden Risk in Healthcare Billing Infrastructure
A cyberattack on the U.K.-based software provider underscores how third-party vendors have become the weakest link in protecting patient med…
Daniel R. Whitfield · · 5m
China's Robotics Push Stalls on Missing Data and Weak AI Models
Industry leaders at WAIC point to a critical bottleneck: embodied AI systems lack the training data and inference sophistication needed to n…
Wei Zhang · · 5m
Alibaba's €550M Fine Signals Brussels' Willingness to Enforce DSA at Scale
The penalty against AliExpress is among the largest under Europe's new content moderation framework, and Hangzhou says it will fight back.…
Arjun S. Mehta · · 5m
Why Zillow Measures AI Returns Before Deployment, Not After
The real estate platform's engineering lead argues that credible ROI claims depend on baselines established years before any model goes live…
Daniel R. Whitfield · · 8m