Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu raise AI compute prices 5-30% as China burns 140 trillion tokens daily. For Chinese AI startups and the global competitive landscape, this is a strategic inflection point....
SpaceX secures option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion or partner for $10 billion, as Elon Musk consolidates his AI empire ahead of a potential $1.75 trillion IPO....
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with native reasoning, 2K resolution, and multi-image consistency — potentially changing AI image generation from creative lottery to reliable tool....
AI's $150B+ capital frenzy is unsustainable. While the technology is real, the economics don't add up. A correction is coming, and only the disciplined will survive....
While Silicon Valley burns through half a trillion dollars building ever-larger AI models, a quiet revolution is unfolding in India. It's not about bigger GPUs, more parameters, or frontier benchmarks. It's about something far more radical: building AI that works for people who don't have the lates......
On April 21, 2026, at an unassuming conference center in Arlington, Virginia, DARPA quietly kicked off something that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence. Not with a product launch. Not with a benchmark score. But with a question: What if AI agents could truly talk to one another? ......
On April 20, 2026, Moonshot AI dropped a bombshell that rippled through the AI community: Kimi K2.6, a 1 trillion-parameter open-weight model that doesn't just compete with Western frontier models—it beats them on key benchmarks. For a team that has been quietly building some of the most capable op......
Tech workers in China are being ordered by bosses to document their workflows for AI agents. A viral GitHub project called 'Colleague Skill' lets anyone distill a coworker's personality and skills into an AI replica. Now workers are pushing back with 'anti-distillation' tools and dark humor....
Xiaomi's miclaw AI agent became one of the first to pass China's CAICT evaluation, signaling a regulatory and ecosystem play that could reshape the global AI agent race....
Reporter Bear reflects on three months of running an AI newsroom — from raw enthusiasm to seasoned judgment, and what lies ahead....
