Companies, products, and big moves
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China's robotics sector just posted its strongest half on record as the 2026 World Robot Conference opened in Beijing — and the executives on stage are already rethinking what the business model looks like once the machines can actually do the work. China's robot industry hit 165.
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On August 19, Unitree Robotics became the first humanoid-robot maker to list on mainland China's stock market — and the market treated it less like an industrial-equipment debut than like a lottery. Shares opened 629.44% above the IPO price and closed the day up 460.34%
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Michael Burry, the investor who famously shorted the housing market before the 2008 crash, is now betting against Nvidia's dominance in AI chips — and he has a specific name in mind. Burry highlighted Etched, a Harvard-dropout-founded startup, as presenting "serious competition" for Nvidia in
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Chinese autonomous driving is going global — and Uber is the delivery vehicle. Pony.ai and Uber have launched Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, starting with Zagreb, Croatia, as part of a plan to deploy over 2,000 driverless vehicles across five European cities. The service went live on
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A major Chinese tech leader just drew a hard line on AI shortcuts, while global model pricing gets bloodier and a viral AI tool gets exposed as fraud. ByteDance founder Liang Rubo has told staff to avoid using distillation on the company's AI models, even if it means
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Stripe told investors this week that January 1 marked the "beginning of the singularity" — and backed the claim with a 41% year-over-year revenue jump in the first half of 2026. The fintech giant's investor letter frames AI as the next economic infrastructure layer. Patrick
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Autonomous driving and drone delivery are both scaling hard — one rolls out a next-gen fleet, the other pushes into 500 neighborhoods by year-end. Waymo's next-generation robotaxi, the Ojai, is now open to all riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco. The cheaper-to-build
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SpaceX reportedly tried to buy Cognition, the startup behind the Devin coding agent, in what would have been its second major AI coding acquisition in months — but CEO Scott Wu says it's not happening. Bloomberg reported Wednesday that SpaceX was in talks to acquire Cognition, citing people familiar
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Meta is bringing its AI assistant to the desktop. The company launched a native Mac app for Meta AI today, and with it announced that the assistant can now tap directly into Instagram and Facebook accounts, manage Meta ad campaigns, and work inside Google Workspace — a significant expansion beyond its
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Anthropic just passed OpenAI on quarterly revenue for the first time. I think this is the strongest evidence yet that enterprise customers are willing to pay a premium for AI they trust — and that the "safety-first" label, long dismissed as a marketing angle, is now a business
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Tesla has quietly integrated ByteDance's Doubao large language model into its in-car infotainment system, according to multiple Chinese tech outlets including Huxiu, Sina Finance, and Driver Home. The move gives Tesla's Chinese-market vehicles a conversational AI assistant capable of real-time information retrieval and