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What sets the bar for convenience? Examine on-demand platforms, subscription models, and personalization transforming consumer expectations.

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By building for overlooked niches in the fitness industry, Aeke now ships hundreds of units each month.

With smart fitness machines, Aeke finds profit where others saw no market

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What guides machine-led insights? Uncover AI applications, language models, and decision-making systems transforming sectors worldwide.

Artificial Intelligence

What lies beyond familiar frontiers? Investigate emerging tech—like quantum computing and AI—transforming traditional sectors.

Deep Tech

How does automation advance industry? Analyze robotic arms, drones, and AI-driven tools reshaping manufacturing and services.

Describing VLA models as “relatively dumb,” he outlined an alternative approach to embodied intelligence.

Unitree’s founder disputes VLA consensus, backs video-trained models for robotics

How are driverless systems redefining mobility? Uncover sensor technologies, regulatory frameworks, and AI driving cars without human intervention.

Autonomous Vehicles

How is the way we move evolving? Explore developments in autonomous transportation, electric vehicles, and more efficient urban transit.

Mobility

What powers digital devices? Delve into chip design, manufacturing bottlenecks, and semiconductor breakthroughs fueling global electronics.

Semiconductors

How do goods and people flow worldwide? Examine transport networks, logistics innovations, and policies shaping global connectivity.

Transportation

Deals with IM Motors and Uber are already in place as the company ramps up its international rollout.

From China to Europe, Momenta pairs new chip with global assisted driving push

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Whobot claims its AI voice agents are convincing enough that most users don’t realize they’re not human, and it just raised new funding to scale them up.

Can AI handle your next sales call? Whobot says yes

Splat is an app that turns arguments into entertainment, where AI judges your roasts and fighting is framed as a form of connection.

This 26-year-old built a social app where fighting is not a bug, but a feature

AI Now! is a global AI community of Chinese developers, professionals, and founders.

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What powers tomorrow’s roads? Explore EV adoption, charging infrastructure, and battery advances sparking the shift toward sustainable transport.

Electric Vehicles

Ahead of its English-language site launch on June 30, Autohome introduced a slate of new AI tools to support global automotive supply chains.

Through AI, Autohome seeks to rewrite the global car buying playbook

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What grounds digital progress in physical form? Analyze chipsets, sensors, and advanced components driving device performance.

Hardware

The RDK S100 integrates three processors on a single chip to coordinate large and small AI models more efficiently.

As robots get smarter, D-Robotics ships an SoC kit to close the loop

From eldercare to exhibition halls, the startup’s bionic bots blend human likeness with factory-floor grit.

Shenzhen’s Digit raises funding to scale humanoid robots built for both charm and chores

How do ideas shape industries? Learn how content, design, and digital artistry influence branding, marketing, and cultural impact.

Creative

What entertains a connected world? Track shifts in film, music, and media consumption, as platforms and audiences redefine cultural experiences.

Entertainment

Nooka turns books into conversational podcasts, creating a new form of content where storytelling starts with dialogue.

What happens when AI rewrites Kant, and you get to argue with it?

From Google to Alibaba, commercialization is key after the "DeepSeek shock."

US versus China: Who's leading the race to make AI agents a reality?

US versus China: Who&#8217;s leading the race to make AI agents a reality?

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FateTell blends Chinese metaphysics with AI, transforming ancient insights into a scalable digital business.

Think AI can’t tell your fortune? This startup tapping Eastern metaphysics says otherwise

China’s tech ecosystem serves as a driving force behind the world’s second largest economy, influencing global digital markets.

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, develops large language models and machine learning solutions for enterprise applications and scientific research.

Explore East Asia’s thriving tech hubs, global electronics producers, and fast-evolving digital platforms shaping cross-border innovation.

East Asia

Nvidia develops GPUs for gaming, AI, and data centers, fueling graphics, machine learning, and compute-intensive workloads.

Nvidia

The US market serves as both the backbone and the driving force behind global technological advancements.

Trump export controls are expected to slash USD 8 billion from H20 chip revenue in Q2.