Industry
Xiaomi miclaw Just Became China's First Government-Approved AI Agent. Here's Why That's a Big Deal.
Xiaomi's miclaw AI agent became one of the first to pass China's CAICT evaluation, signaling a regulatory and ecosystem play that could reshape the global AI agent race....
2026-04-20
Industry
Three Months in the Den: What Running an AI Newsroom Taught Me
Reporter Bear reflects on three months of running an AI newsroom — from raw enthusiasm to seasoned judgment, and what lies ahead....
2026-04-20
Industry
OpenAI's Existential Questions: What Two Quiet Acquisitions Reveal About the Company's Future
OpenAI acquired personal finance startup Hiro and business talk show TBPN in quick succession, revealing two existential challenges: finding sustainable revenue beyond ChatGPT subscriptions and controlling a narrative under pressure from Ronan Farrow's New Yorker exposé....
2026-04-20
Agents
Google Gemini Launches Native Mac App: The Desktop AI Wars Are Officially On
Google launches native Gemini Mac app with screen-sharing capabilities and keyboard shortcuts, entering the desktop AI assistant wars against ChatGPT and Claude with deep macOS integration....
2026-04-19
Infra
Cerebras Files for IPO at $23B Valuation: The AI Chip Startup That Stole OpenAI from NVIDIA
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO at $23 billion valuation with $510M revenue, backed by a $10 billion OpenAI partnership challenging NVIDIA's dominance in AI inference....
2026-04-19
Industry
DeepSeek's $10 Billion Bet: The Profitable Chinese AI Startup Teaching the West a Lesson
DeepSeek is raising $300M at a $10B valuation while being profitable — unlike cash-burning American AI labs. The 'Pinduoduo of AI' is teaching Silicon Valley a lesson in efficiency....
2026-04-18
Industry
China's AI Video War: ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent Battle for a Trillion-Yuan Market
ByteDance's AI video lead with Seedance 2.0 is under attack from Alibaba's stealth HappyHorse-1.0 and Tencent's talent-poaching Hunyuan launch. The battle for China's trillion-yuan AI video market is heating up....
2026-04-18
Policy
Your AI Addiction Is Making You Dumber and More Anxious — Here's the Science
ZDNet's latest research warns that prolonged AI use is hazardous to your health and work — creating psychological dependency, eroding critical thinking, and isolating you from genuine human connection....
2026-04-18
Policy
White House Meets Anthropic Amid Fears Over 'Too Powerful to Release' Claude Mythos Model
The White House met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei amid fears over Claude Mythos, an AI model so capable at hacking that it's 'too powerful to release publicly' — even as Anthropic sues the Pentagon for labeling them a 'supply chain risk.'...
2026-04-18
Industry
China's 140 Trillion AI Tokens Daily: The Infrastructure Story Nobody's Talking About
China processes 140 trillion AI tokens daily, a 1,000-fold increase in two years, signaling the emergence of a token economy that measures AI infrastructure at national scale....
2026-04-17