SK Hynix bargains for chip equipment exports to its China facility in return for building a factory in US |

9:45 AM PDT · October 15, 2026 SK Hynix appears to be navigating choppy U.S.-China chipmaking waters. The company’s flash memory unit, Solidigm, is seeking…

Intero Biosystems wants drugmakers to test on mini human intestines, not animals |

Drug development has long relied on animal models, but differences between species mean what works in animals doesn’t always translate to humans, and most drugs…

Mosqitter is turning its mosquito traps into an AI-powered surveillance network |

Mosquitoes and the diseases they carry are expanding into new territory. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and global travel are reshaping where disease-carrying mosquitoes can…

China’s Manus raises over $500M in first funding round since split with Meta |

6:20 AM PDT · October 8, 2026 Chinese AI lab Manus’ parent company, Butterfly Effect, said on Thursday in a WeChat post that it has…

Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs |

For decades, chipmakers have sought to make semiconductors faster by shrinking silicon transistors and packing more of them on each chip. But shrinking transistors comes…

Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M |

Generative AI is making it easier to produce more content and harder to keep track of it. As videos, recordings, and documents accumulate, Adobe, Apple,…

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining |

Nearly every company that’s trying to deploy artificial intelligence runs into the same problem: it’s hard to integrate the tech into everyday operations. Industrial heavyweight…

The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them |

In July and August, Washington tightened restrictions on foreign-made advanced robotic systems and imposed steep tariffs on imported drones and their components, both moves citing…

Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M |

Japan is pouring billions of dollars into its burgeoning space industry and easing restrictions on defense exports, efforts designed to build a homegrown aerospace sector…

As AI safety concerns mount, three pioneers make the case for staying open |

As projects like Pacing the Frontier look to major labs as a way to keep AI research safe, open source models have become a sore…