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Chinese AI and chip firms fuel China's 2026 onshore IPO rebound
1+ hour, 16+ min ago (915+ words) China's IPO market is warming up again, and AI is leading the queue. Chipmakers, robotics startups and model builders are moving toward Shanghai and Shenzhen as Beijing turns capital markets into a self-reliance engine. China's IPO market has found a…...
AI Chip Stocks Surge 100% Had Their Best Half-Year Ever
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (804+ words) AI chip stocks are having their best first half on record in 2026 " the i Shares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) is up 108%, while SK Hynix surged over 250%. Here's what's actually fueling this, and whether the run still has legs. Most AI coverage…...
Jeff Bezos says AI could spark a labour shortage, not mass job cuts
8+ hour, 21+ min ago (862+ words) Jeff Bezos has pushed back against the loudest fear around AI: that it will wipe out work. The Amazon founder says AI could do the opposite by creating more demand for human labour. Jeff Bezos has a very different take…...
Elon Musk Says Grok 4. 5 Rivals Anthropic's Opus
6+ hour, 54+ min ago (880+ words) Grok 4. 5 has entered internal testing at Tesla and Space X, according to Elon Musk. You get a claimed 1. 5-trillion-parameter V9 model, Opus-level performance targets, and a planned C/C++ rewrite aimed at improving training and inference speed on NVIDIA GB300 hardware. Elon…...
Chinese Hedge Funds Warn AI Super Bubble Could Burst in 2026
9+ hour, 18+ min ago (800+ words) China's hedge fund heavyweights say the AI stock boom looks stretched. The warning isn't about AI disappearing. It's about whether markets have priced the future too perfectly. Chinese hedge funds are waving a red flag over the AI boom, and…...
Open AI's Codex Is Winning for a Different Reason
15+ hour, 20+ min ago (717+ words) Open AI's Codex has quietly become the dominant AI tool inside the company, with 99. 8% of weekly output tokens generated within Open AI through it. The 2026 data shows a bigger shift: users are trusting Codex with tasks that would take a…...
Google Told Meta 'No' on Gemini: That Should Worry Every AI Company
11+ hour, 14+ min ago (830+ words) Google capped Meta's Gemini AI access in 2026 after it couldn't meet the compute demand Meta wanted to buy " and that's not a Meta problem. With Google Cloud's order backlog nearly doubling to $460 billion in a single quarter, the constraint is…...
Warp Is Replacing Software With AI You Hire
12+ hour, 14+ min ago (443+ words) Warp just closed a $60 million Series B to take on legacy HR platforms with an AI-first approach. The bet is simple: you shouldn't have to buy software and then do all the work yourself. Warp thinks AI should handle it…...
Meta's Virtue Hire Shows Why AI Security Suddenly Matters More
10+ hour, 18+ min ago (776+ words) Meta just poached three Virtue AI co-founders and several teammates to harden security around its AI agents. The move is a clear signal: the industry isn't losing sleep over smarter models anymore. It's losing sleep over agents that do things…...
China's AI war machine: why Washington must wake up in 2026
12+ hour, 19+ min ago (912+ words) China isn't just chasing smarter chatbots. It's building AI tools for military decisions, surveillance, targeting and battlefield speed. Washington sees the risk, but the bigger question is whether the world is ready for AI-powered conflict. China's AI race has moved…...