Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn.…
Author: Kate Park
Korea’s biggest manufacturers back Config, the TSMC of robot data |
Asia’s push into physical AI is being fueled by the same manufacturing prowess that made the region a global industrial powerhouse. Across South Korea, Japan,…
China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets |
Chinese AI companies may not be swimming in as much cash as their Western rivals, but their open source models are still facing no shortage…
Australia forces Big Tech firms to pay for news or face a 2.25% tax |
Australia is getting serious about making Big Tech pay for news. The country’s government unveiled draft legislation on Tuesday that would require companies like Meta,…
Firestorm Labs raises $82M to take drone factories into the field |
In a Pacific conflict, the nearest U.S. drone factory is thousands of miles away. Ships and planes carrying parts to the front lines would be…
In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants |
Physical AI is emerging as one of the next major industrial battlegrounds, with Japan’s push driven more by necessity than anything else. With workforces shrinking…
ScaleOps raises $130M to improve computing efficiency amid AI demand |
AI may be booming, but behind the scenes, companies are wasting vast amounts of expensive compute. GPUs sit idle, workloads are over-provisioned, and cloud costs…
Qodo raises $70M for code verification as AI coding scales |
As AI coding tools generate billions of lines of code each month, a new bottleneck is emerging: ensuring that software works as intended. Qodo, a…
Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |
Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…