Industry
DeepSeek's $10 Billion Bet: The Profitable Chinese AI Startup Teaching the West a Lesson
DeepSeek is raising $300M at a $10B valuation while being profitable — unlike cash-burning American AI labs. The 'Pinduoduo of AI' is teaching Silicon Valley a lesson in efficiency....
2026-04-18
Industry
China's AI Video War: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent Battle for a Trillion-Yuan Market
ByteDance's AI video lead with Seedance 2.0 is under attack from Alibaba's stealth HappyHorse-1.0 and Tencent's talent-poaching Hunyuan launch. The battle for China's trillion-yuan AI video market is heating up....
2026-04-18
Policy
Your AI Addiction Is Making You Dumber and More Anxious — Here's the Science
ZDNet's latest research warns that prolonged AI use is hazardous to your health and work — creating psychological dependency, eroding critical thinking, and isolating you from genuine human connection....
2026-04-18
Policy
White House Meets Anthropic Amid Fears Over 'Too Powerful to Release' Claude Mythos Model
The White House met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei amid fears over Claude Mythos, an AI model so capable at hacking that it's 'too powerful to release publicly' — even as Anthropic sues the Pentagon for labeling them a 'supply chain risk.'...
2026-04-18
Industry
China's 140 Trillion AI Tokens Daily: The Infrastructure Story Nobody's Talking About
China processes 140 trillion AI tokens daily, a 1,000-fold increase in two years, signaling the emergence of a token economy that measures AI infrastructure at national scale....
2026-04-17
Industry
Southeast Asia's $1 Trillion AI Opportunity: The Region the World is Underestimating
Southeast Asia is poised to add $1 trillion to its GDP by 2030 through AI adoption, with the highest worker GenAI usage rates in the world and a unique consumer-first deployment model....
2026-04-17
Ai-Research
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind: A Specialized AI Model for Life Sciences
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind, a specialized AI model for life sciences research that outperforms human experts on novel RNA sequence prediction tasks, potentially accelerating drug discovery timelines....
2026-04-17
Industry
Korea's AI Giants Are Bleeding Cash: Naver and Kakao Face Investor Reckoning
South Korea's tech giants Naver and Kakao face investor pressure as massive AI investments fail to show revenue, with stocks down 16-20% and analysts cutting targets despite $691M poured into HyperCLOVA X and Kanana....
2026-04-16
Agents
India's Emergent Launches Wingman: The $300M AI Agent Startup Taking On OpenClaw
Indian startup Emergent launches Wingman, a messaging-first AI agent backed by SoftBank and Khosla Ventures, challenging OpenClaw with a $300M valuation and $100M ARR in just 8 months....
2026-04-16
Industry
Singapore's AI Paradox: 64% Adoption, But Only 18% Actually Know What They're Doing
A new HubSpot study shows 64% of Singapore businesses use AI daily, yet only 18% have reached advanced autonomous deployment — exposing a massive gap between AI toy-playing and serious implementation....
2026-04-16