Chinese AI startup MiniMax files for $4B Hong Kong IPO, testing whether domestic AI companies can attract international investment amid escalating US-China tech tensions. The company behind viral app Talkie aims to raise $637M.
Good Morning from San Francisco, China spent $6 million to build what cost OpenAI hundreds of millions. 🤖 DeepSeek's
Washington blinked first. After trying to choke China's AI ambitions with chip bans, the U.S. reversed course in July 2025. The reason? Beijing's $98 billion AI bet was working—Chinese startups were matching Silicon Valley with a fraction of the resources.
☀️ Good Morning from San Francisco, China's first robot marathon turned into a comedy of mechanical mishaps. The star
The United States set out to win a trade war with China. It failed. Years of tariffs, tech restrictions, and tough rhetoric have backfired, leaving America in a weaker position while China charges ahead with innovation and global influence.
Good Morning from San Francisco, Meta just kicked Apple's AI tools to the curb. All of them. 🥾 No
Good Morning from San Francisco, OpenAI's AI just learned to think in pictures. Their new o3 model doesn&
OpenAI just launched o3 and o4-mini, models that combine visual intelligence with deeper reasoning. For the first time, these AIs don't just see images – they think with them, manipulating photos to extract insights just as a human would zoom in or rotate a picture to understand it better.
The US-China chip war just hit Wall Street hard. Tech stocks tumbled after Nvidia lost $5.5 billion from US restrictions on AI chip sales to China. Meanwhile, Taiwan strengthened its grip as the world's essential chip supplier.
Nvidia just launched its RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, and this time they've remembered that memory matters. The new GPU comes with a whopping 16GB of VRAM, double what previous budget cards offered. It's like they finally realized gamers need more than 8GB to run modern titles – shocking, we know.
Good Morning from San Francisco, OpenAI wants to play social media kingmaker. Sam Altman's crew is quietly testing
OpenAI is developing a social network that could shake up the AI landscape. The project centers on ChatGPT's image generation and includes a social feed, according to sources close to the matter.
OpenAI just updated its rulebook for handling powerful AI, and the timing couldn't be better. Their AI models keep getting smarter, and like any parent of a gifted teenager, they're setting firmer boundaries.
White House's tech leader presses for greater return on technology research investments.
InternVL3, a new open-source AI model, matches or beats proprietary giants like GPT-4 and Gemini in understanding images and video. Its key breakthrough lies in how it learns to process visual information alongside language from the start, rather than adding these capabilities later.
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