The humanoid robot maker prices its Hong Kong IPO at $9 billion, with DeepSeek taking a ¥141M strategic stake—the first direct public bet from the Chinese AI lab on embodied AI hardware.
1 h ago 8 8
Stratechery's Ben Thompson analyzes Q2 2026 earnings from Google and Amazon. His "Frontier Case": frontier model access creates compounding advantage that commodity AI cannot replicate. The earnings support it.
yesterday 7 9
Ken Griffin's team is the first major hedge fund to quantify the systemic exposure from AI infrastructure debt—and the number is large enough to matter for credit markets.
Aug 4, 2026 at 23:33 7 8
A Situational Awareness investment vehicle loses two-thirds of its value in a month during the July AI rout.
Aug 2, 2026 at 15:17 17 20
Sarvam AI moves from the model to the full stack - model + product + distribution - in a market where public procurement conditions access to data.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:51 14 16
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
Microsoft unveils MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and a security agentic system, while 30+ publishers - Nvidia, Microsoft, allies - announce the « Open Secure AI Alliance ». Cyber-AI moves from feature to market.
Jul 28, 2026 at 20:57 9 10
SK Hynix is guiding to a record Q2 profit driven by AI memory demand. The Korean memory oligopolist is now the cleanest single proxy on HBM pricing power.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:17 10 11
SK Hynix aims for a record Q2 profit - 57% of the HBM AI-server market according to Tech in Asia - and becomes de facto the 2nd largest shareholder of Kioxia, without voting rights for now. The HBM constraint becomes the clock of the token cost 2027-2028.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:40 13 8
Tech in Asia reports on 25 July that Anduril is discussing a $100B valuation. Defense-tech is professionalizing into a genuine asset class - fed by the same capital that funds AI.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:28 10 11
The Okta Business at Work 2026 study highlights two clear indicators of enterprise adoption: Microsoft 365 Copilot is the broadest foundation, and Anthropic is the fastest-growing AI provider. Two parallel markets that coexist.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:01 8 8
The private equity giant is saying what the VC scene has been asserting for 18 months - AI is no longer a theme, it's an asset class.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 12 10
