Tag: Silicon Valley
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The AI ‘death zone’ is here and most corporate AI strategies are standing in it
Mark Minevich is a Strategic Partner at Mayfield in Menlo Park and President of Going Global Ventures in New York….
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Alibaba releases AI model Qwen to challenge US rival Anthropic’s Fable
Alibaba Group Holding has released its biggest-ever AI model, claiming performance on a par with global leader Anthropic in the…
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Commentary: Panic over Moonshot’s Kimi K3 is a sputnik moment for ‘open’ AI
A CRACKDOWN WOULD BACKFIRE Washington would be wise to listen to its own industry, but it’s still very possible that the…
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China’s DeepSeek considers new fundraising after first round: Reports
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is weighing raising new funds one month after closing its first round, the Financial Times reported…
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China’s DeepSeek considers new fundraising after first round
Chinese AI startupDeepSeek is weighing raising new funds one month after closing its first round, the Financial Times reported on…
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Chinese AI Model GLM-5.2 Poses Challenge to Anthropic and OpenAI
Chinese startup Z.ai’s latest AI model, GLM-5.2, has made waves in Silicon Valley by ranking fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1, outperforming leading American systems like MiniMax-M3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro. The model’s coding and agentic capabilities have drawn comparisons to DeepSeek’s disruptive debut in 2025. Notably, GLM-5.2’s Max tier on Code Arena’s…
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Alibaba Accused of AI Model Theft by Anthropic, Shares Drop
Anthropic accused Alibaba of attempting to access its flagship AI model, Claude, through an extensive campaign using thousands of proxy accounts. The AI startup raised concerns about national security and restricted product use in China. Alibaba’s shares fell 4.8% in Hong Kong following the accusations. Anthropic alleged that Alibaba and other Chinese tech labs engaged…
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Consumer Tech News (June 1-3): AI Demand Surge Prompts Big Earnings Beat, AI Can Steal Jobs & More
Former Vice President Mike Pence said artificial intelligence (AI) policy should balance limited government oversight with strong free-market competition to ensure U.S….
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Can $26 Billion, Lab-Grown Organs And Mini-Pigs Actually Buy Putin Immortality?
Remember that surreal hot-mic moment when Vladimir Putin was caught on a live broadcast casually telling Chinese President Xi Jinping…
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China Marshals Quantum Ambitions via Local Hackathons, Spotlighting Beijing’s Industrial Tech Push
China is accelerating efforts to transition its heavily subsidized quantum research out of state laboratories and into commercial applications, launching…
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Silicon Valley bets $200M on AI data centers floating in the ocean
Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data…
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Why Beijing can’t quit ‘open’ AI
China’s AI ecosystem has one defining difference from Silicon Valley: it’s embrace of open source. While America’s biggest companies race…
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China’s DeepSeek unveils long-awaited V4 AI model
At its highest capacity, DeepSeek’s V4 ‘redefines the state-of-the-art for open models’. Chinese AI darling DeepSeek has launched its long…
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The new war room
To call the conflict in Iran the first “AI war” would be, in many ways, incorrect. Algorithms that scour hours…
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Beijing Standardizes Silicon Valley-Style Space Race Amid Global Rivalry
As the global race for orbital dominance shifts into high gear, Beijing is moving to transform its once-cluttered private space…
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Wuxi Tongbu Claims Major Yield Breakthrough in High-Frequency Hybrid PCB Production
In a strategic move to dominate the high-end electronics market, Wuxi Tongbu Electronic Technology has filed a patent for a…
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All the right-wingers are in Marc Andreesen’s Signal group chats
The power elites have a Signal group chat, too – and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government,…
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Benchmark joins US$75m funding round in China’s Manus AI – report
As the global race for agentic AI heats up, US venture capital company Benchmark is the latest to invest in…
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Trump exempts smartphones, laptops, and semiconductors from new tariffs
The Trump administration is carving out big tariff exemptions for the tech industry. While President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he…
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Deadline Looms: Trump’s Final TikTok Proposal Decision
As the April 5 deadline approaches, President Donald Trump will review a final proposal concerning TikTok’s U.S. future, a White…
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Apple’s quiet pivot to India
As Donald Trump was preparing to take office for the first time in 2017, Priyank Kharge was busy making calls…
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Trump’s market euphoria has fizzled, leaving investors on edge
The New York Stock Exchange: The change in mood is evident in stock market sentiment and consumer confidence. Photograph: Spencer…
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Apple promises to fix dictation bug that replaces ‘racist’ with ‘Trump’
Apple has promised to fix quickly a bug in its voice-to-text function that briefly swapped words with an “r” consonant…
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Inside China’s AI dragons taking on Silicon Valley
Jessica Sier North Asia correspondent Feb 17, 2025 – 1.00pm Save Share Copy link Copied Email LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Copy…
