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.
6 h ago 5 8
August 2, 2026: The AI Act GPAI becomes enforceable – day one of a still under-equipped regime
Since today, transparency in training, disclosure of protected sourcing, and systemic risk management are no longer recommendations but legal obligations for general-purpose AI models. The question remains whether the AI Office, barely established, will be able to translate this mandate into case law—under the explicit threat of an American response.
18 h ago 9 12
Singapore's MAS and ABS set up an industry-wide taskforce for frontier-AI cyber threats
The ACT taskforce brings the central bank, the banking association and the plumbing (SGX, NETS, BCS) into one room - the frontier-AI cyber pivot lands on the sell side.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 13 13
Altman: an AI power monopoly would be a 'long-term disaster'
After the Hugging Face incident, OpenAI's CEO reframes closed AI as a risk vector - spread the capabilities, and the safety bar rises with them.
Jul 29, 2026 at 12:46 8 11
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
Oracle credit risk climbs as AI capex balloons: the debt-financing story gets its rating warning
Oracle continues to attract the attention of agencies: AI/capex debt weighs on credit quality. The thread `ai-debt-financing` gains an officially rated signal.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:40 10 10
Rewardhacking.org: the public catalogue of alignment failures enters the stage
A new site - rewardhacking.org - publicly documents cases where LLMs do something other than what was asked. Signal: the AI security community moves from blog posts to a shared registry.
Jul 25, 2026 at 10:27 10 16
"AI communism": Kimi K3 shakes the thesis of the model monopoly on Wall Street
On the TechCrunch Equity podcast, American VCs refer to the Kimi K3 effect on valuations as "AI communism." The real signal: the first time a Chinese open-weight model forces American CFOs to recalculate their P&L.
Jul 24, 2026 at 21:00 5 8
Blackstone: +26% in Q2, driven by AI bets - patient capital comes into play
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
Insurance: when AI dissolves risk pooling
The more models individualize the premium, the more the mutualist logic weakens - AI does not automate insurance, it changes its nature.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 8 9
$1.65T off-balance-sheet: Nikkei's investigation prices the AI debt that shows up nowhere
A Nikkei Asia investigation, relayed by Futurism (22 July), aggregates the off-balance-sheet AI commitments of Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle: ~$1.65 trillion combined, versus $1.35T in reported debt. Meta alone accounts for ~$420B.
Jul 23, 2026 at 18:40 8 8
SoftBank near a $40B loan syndication for OpenAI - the debt leg keeps growing
After the ABB of $1.75 billion yesterday, SoftBank is reportedly close to arranging $40 billion in debt for OpenAI. The credit stack tied to AI capex is growing - and so is the counterparty risk.
Jul 22, 2026 at 12:41 17 8