A startup profiled by Tech in Asia is using neural signals to restore communication in people who have lost the ability to speak. The technology - reading motor-neuron firing patterns and converting them to text or speech - is moving from academic demonstration to productized clinical application. The AI layer that makes this possible is less exotic than it sounds.
25/08/2026 à 16h27 9 10
Sharp has introduced a new model of its "Pocketomo" conversational AI robot - and the defining design choice is that it won't fully agree with you. The character is intentionally designed to push back, express boredom, and decline to validate. In a product category defined by helpfulness and positive reinforcement, this is a deliberate inversion worth examining.
25/08/2026 à 16h23 10 11
Two moves in 48 hours signal that the AI infrastructure bubble isn't deflating - it's refinancing. Nvidia is hiking AI server prices by more than 15%, and Broadcom is reportedly in talks for an $80 billion debt package to fund its custom AI chip business. The bill is coming due, and it's getting bigger.
24/08/2026 à 20h58 7 8
The parent company of China's leading NAND flash maker is targeting a $4.9 billion Shanghai listing. It's the largest AI memory IPO attempt out of China - and it tells you where the memory-chip capex race is heading.
24/08/2026 à 20h57 9 8
The AI funding machine is still running - but Nikkei Asia documents the first visible pressure points: higher borrowing costs for AI companies, the SpaceX secondary sell-off, and institutional investors recalibrating risk.
08/08/2026 à 09h57 11 13
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta collectively spent ~$95 billion net cash in Q2 2026 on AI infrastructure. The market is already sorting winners from the rest - and debt service will be the final arbiter.
05/08/2026 à 16h40 8 11
Trois architectures à disséquer côte-à-côte : le MoE 118B / 8B actifs de Poolside exécutable sur une seule machine ; le multimodal 975B / 41B d'Inkling, publié aussi en 276B / 12B ; le 2,8T / 104B contexte 1M de Kimi K3, dont la clause d'accord commercial pourrait éjecter les entreprises US.
03/08/2026 à 00h53 16 13
Nscale acquires the company behind Ray - the open-source distributed-compute framework ML teams actually write against. The prize is placement, not code.
30/07/2026 à 19h38 13 14
Isomorphic Labs unveils a Drug Design Engine that pushes beyond AlphaFold's prediction - a stack aimed at generating candidate therapeutics, not just scoring them.
18/07/2026 à 11h11 16 8
Xi Jinping fait de l'« AI diplomacy » avec les PMs thaïlandais et cambodgien. Le package techno-souveraineté chinois devient un instrument d'influence en Asie du Sud-Est.
17/07/2026 à 09h19 16 10
Le premier modèle open-weights de Thinking Machines Lab (Mira Murati) est là : Inkling, MoE 975B params (41B actifs), multimodal, licence Apache-2.0. La boîte la plus discrète de la scène frontier arrive sur le marché ouvert par la grande porte.
16/07/2026 à 21h46 25 8
A single-source Korea Times story that, if real, moves US-Korea chip diplomacy from tariffs to profit sharing.
16/07/2026 à 13h49 15 11
