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Chinese AI Models Gain Ground in the US as Cheaper Alternatives Challenge Silicon Valley Giants
HONG KONG — China has a hot new export in the United States: artificial intelligence. Chinese AI models from startups like Moonshot AI, Z.ai (Zhipu), and DeepSeek are quietly taking market share inside American companies, lured by prices…
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Gritt Exits Stealth With $32M To Deploy AI Robots That Build Solar Farms Faster
Solar energy is booming worldwide, but there is one big bottleneck nobody likes to talk about: finding enough workers to install all those panels. A Pittsburgh-based robotics startup called…
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Semiconductors
Semiconductors1,460 words7 min read
AMD Launches 256-Core Epyc 9996 'Venice' With Zen 6, Claims 3.4x Over Intel Xeon and 20% Over Nvidia Vera
AMD finally pulled the wraps off its first Zen 6 server chip this week at the AAI 2026 conference, and the numbers are eye-popping. The Epyc 9996 — codenamed "Venice" — packs 256 cores and…
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Audi A2 e-tron Breaks Cover With 403 Miles of Range, Targets €38k Starting Price
Audi's most affordable electric car has shed nearly all its camouflage. New spy shots out of Copenhagen show the upcoming A2 e-tron in near-production form, and the numbers Audi has now…
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Battery Tech
Battery Tech1,310 words6 min read
Beyond Lithium: How Sodium-Ion and Solid-State Batteries Are Reshaping Energy Storage in 2026
The lithium-ion battery built the modern world, but it no longer owns the future alone. After three decades of near-total dominance, the battery industry is splitting into specialized…
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Edge AI IoT Devices Hit Mass Market in 2026 as Memory Crisis and Silicon Advances Rewrite Device Economics
Edge AI is quietly ending the dumb-IoT-device era. After years of prototypes and press releases, devices that process data locally rather than phoning home to the cloud are hitting store…
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Anthropic Launches Opus 5 — A Smaller, Cheaper AI Model That Outperforms the Flagship
Anthropic dropped Opus 5 on Friday, its newest heavyweight AI model, and the numbers tell a surprising story: this smaller, cheaper sibling of Fable 5 actually beats the flagship on several…
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Cloud & Edge Computing
Cloud & Edge Computing1,153 words6 min read
Microsoft Azure West US Region Goes Dark for Five Hours After Routine Fiber Check Goes Wrong
Microsoft's Azure West US region took a five-hour hit on July 23 after a routine fiber maintenance job went sideways. The outage, which began at 14:44 UTC and stretched until 19:41 UTC…
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New Dolphin X Trojan Uses AI Profiler to Rank Victims for Cybercriminals
The cybersecurity world woke up to a troubling new threat this week: Dolphin X, a remote access trojan that claims to use an artificial intelligence "profiler" to score and rank infected…
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Robotics & Drones
Robotics & Drones1,308 words6 min read
Drone Industry Heats Up: Perceptual Robotics Raises £4M, Powerus Expands Into Agriculture, and Archer Launches Halo VTOL
The global drone industry kicked off the final week of July 2026 with a trio of deals that show just how fast the market is evolving. A British startup locked down £4 million to inspect…