Key Points: Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek reduced the price of its input cache hits to just one-tenth of the previous cost. The company extended a massive 75 percent discount on its newly launched V4-Pro model until May 5. This...
Key Points: Fear of the "curse of 35" pushes young Chinese workers to start solo businesses powered by artificial intelligence. The city of Suzhou pledged $100 million to help fund and cultivate 10,000 one-person companies by 2028. A former product manager now earns $5,800 a month, making automated commercials entirely on his own. Experts note that funding solo founders provides local governments with a low-cost...
Key Points: Auto China 2026 features more than 2,000 companies and 1,451 vehicles, including 181 global debuts. Horizon Robotics launched a new 5-nanometer chip that saves carmakers $585 per vehicle and cuts development time by 10 months. XPeng plans to achieve fully driverless operations by early 2027 and sell 10,000 humanoid robots. Global brands like Volkswagen and BMW partnered with local tech firms to bring...
Key Points: Japanese chip equipment maker Tokyo Electron recently cut ties with its veteran executive Jay Chen following a shocking internal discovery. The company found out Chen had personal connections to financial investment groups that directly fund up-and-coming Chinese semiconductor competitors. Chen managed a massive $5.6 billion business division for Tokyo Electron in China and worked in the tech industry for more than 20 years....
Key Points: A 26-year-old engineer created a 4-foot talking robot to help cure severe loneliness inside Australian nursing homes. Andromeda...
Key Points: Inflation and rising daily costs force Japanese beverage companies to rethink their massive vending machine networks completely. DyDo...
Key Points: Five major technology companies will report their first-quarter earnings this week to justify a massive market rally. Alphabet,...
Key Points: China promised to take all necessary measures to protect domestic companies from aggressive US export control bills. The...
Key Points: Alibaba launched a new smart tool that turns weeks of international sourcing work into a process that takes...
Key Points: Beijing strongly warned the US Congress that new chip export bills will severely damage global supply chains. The...
Key Points: Surging gas prices hit $4.06 per gallon, pushing 52% of shoppers to consider electric or hybrid vehicles. Consumer...
Key Points: Taiwan reached a massive $4.3 trillion market value, officially overtaking the United Kingdom as a global stock powerhouse....
Key Points: Nvidia added over $200 billion in value on Friday, pushing its total market cap past $5.12 trillion. The...
Key Points: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan will build a 1,880 megawatt hydropower plant on the Naryn River to power 1.5...
Key Points: A judge threw out the fraud claims Elon Musk filed against OpenAI, but kept his charitable trust and...
Key Points: Related Digital locked in $16 billion to build a large artificial intelligence data center in Michigan for Oracle....
Key Points: The Trump administration might invoke the 1950 Defense Production Act to rescue bankrupt Spirit Airlines. Negotiators proposed a...
Key Points: The US government watched its strategic investment in Intel quadruple, reaching a massive $36 billion valuation. Taxpayers gained...
Key Points: X-Energy raised $1.02 billion in its initial public offering and saw shares jump 27% on the first trading...
Key Points: The Brazilian government blocked 27 prediction market platforms to enforce strict betting rules. Authorities banned derivative trading based...
Key Points: The United States and European Union signed a Memorandum of Understanding to coordinate critical mineral supplies. The agreement...
Key Points: The U.S. Justice Department officially intervened in a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's xAI against the state of...
Key Points: The U.K. government admitted that carbon emissions from AI data centers could be 100 times greater than previously...
Key Points: Google will invest an initial $10 billion in cash into artificial intelligence startup Anthropic at a $350 billion...
Key Points: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced plans to export 1 million barrels of oil directly to Japan. Japan requested...
Key Points: Chinese electric vehicle makers are focusing on overseas markets to increase profitability amid weak domestic sales. The ongoing...
Key Points: US chip stocks soared to record highs after Intel released an unexpectedly strong revenue forecast. The Philadelphia SE...
Key Points: DeepSeek previews V4, a major upgrade to its AI model. New V4 model will come in "pro" and...
Key Points: Tencent upgrades its foundational AI model, Hy3. Hy3 offers big advances in reasoning and coding, available on Tencent...
Key Points: Cisco Systems revealed a new switching chip designed to connect different types of quantum computers. The company wants...
Key Points: LG Innotek is moving from just supplying parts to offering complete solutions. Physical AI, like robotics and self-driving...
Key Points: Elon Musk's SpaceX secured a $20 billion bridge loan to refinance existing debt ahead of its upcoming IPO....
Key Points: British authorities banned the leasing of "Global Titles" to stop criminals from exploiting the international telecommunications system. Global...
Key Points: Meta announced it will lay off roughly 8,000 workers, which equals about 10% of its total workforce. The...
Key Points: Intel forecast second-quarter revenue between $13.8 billion and $14.8 billion, easily beating Wall Street expectations. Shares of the...
Key Points: Brazil's antitrust watchdog CADE voted to deepen its investigation into how Google uses journalistic content. The agency will...
