CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
5 h ago 5 8
Rust All-Hands 2026: 166 Rustaceans, 73 sessions, zero decisions—that’s the goal
Rust All-Hands 2026 (Utrecht, May) brought together 166 contributors across 73 sessions over 3 days. No formal decisions were made—this is the rule. However, several technical breakthroughs emerged: `rustc_public`, `cargo-semver-checks`, union semantics, and the allocator trait.
17 h ago 7 9
MediaTek commits $5B: the Taiwanese fabless giant enters the AI capex league
The board approves a significant AI-focused budget—first custom AI chip expected in Q4 2026, a second in 2028.
yesterday 12 13
Situational Awareness drops 67% in a month: the trial of the true believers
A Situational Awareness investment vehicle loses two-thirds of its value in a month during the July AI rout.
yesterday 17 20
True IDC secures a $2 billion loan for a Thailand data center—the APAC compute shortage extends to Southeast Asia.
Thai carrier subsidiary True IDC seeks $2B in debt for a domestic data center build - Southeast Asia joins the debt-funded AI capex wave.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 11 15
MiniMax H3 open-source: Chinese lab breaks the price of full-modal
MiniMax releases H3, an open-source full-modal (text, image, audio, video) model at one-third the price of competitors. The AI video market stops being binary: expensive closed-source or weak open-source.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 12 14
Nscale/Anyscale: Ray becomes the neocloud's new customer lock-in
Nscale acquires the company behind Ray - the open-source distributed-compute framework ML teams actually write against. The prize is placement, not code.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:38 11 14
Hugging Face used to strip women and children - the cost of open weights is on the platform now
A report documents how Hugging Face is used to easily create non-consensual intimate images - including of children. The cost of open weights is no longer theoretical.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 10 12
Nvidia's $32B mark on SSI - the circular finance chart adds another node
Nvidia takes a stake in Safe Superintelligence at a $32B valuation. The reason is known: the GPU supplier in the capital of the labs that buy its GPUs. It becomes a portfolio.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 9 10
What three outside reads of Kimi K3 tell us - architecture, delta attention, and the real ambition
Three external reviews of Kimi K3 fall in the same week: Raschka on architecture, Doubleword on Kimi Delta Attention, Pandaily on the technical report. They converge: it's not the size that matters, it's the hybrid bet.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 9 8
CXMT surges 500% on debut, tops Intel's market cap - Chinese memory reprices at cycle peak
Chinese memory maker CXMT jumped 471-500% on its Shanghai listing and - for a moment - its market cap surpassed Intel's. The market's message: HBM/DRAM is where the AI dollars land next.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 6 6
Nvidia takes 4.5% of Naver for $1B - Korea's AI supercycle hits the equity book
Naver shares jumped 10% after Nvidia disclosed a $1 billion equity investment - a 4.5% stake priced at 204,500 won per share. The AI supercycle now owns a seat on Korea's largest internet company.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 10 10