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China’s OpenClaw Boom Is a Gold Rush for AI Companies

George Zhang thought OpenClaw could make him rich, even though he didn’t really understand how the viral AI agent software worked. But he saw a video of a Chinese social media influencer...

ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns

Move over Sora 2, there’s a hot new AI video model in town.In early February, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a major upgrade to its flagship video model, which had previously remained fairly...

Apple Blocks US Users From Downloading ByteDance’s Chinese Apps

While TikTok operates in the United States under new ownership, Apple has deployed technical restrictions to block iOS users in the United States from downloading other apps made by the video platform’s...

How Chinese AI Chatbots Censor Themselves

Hearing someone talk about digital censorship in China is always either extremely boring or extremely interesting. Most of the time, people are still regurgitating the same talking points from 20 years ago...

Trump Imposes New Tariffs to Sidestep Supreme Court Ruling

President Trump is adding a new 10 percent tariff on nearly all imports to the United States, following a Supreme Court ruling that overturned most of the levies imposed by the US...

Supreme Court Rules Most of Donald Trump’s Tariffs Are Illegal

The US Supreme Court on Friday overturned most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, which could lead to more than $175 billion in tariff refunds for American companies. In a 6-3 decision, the...

OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China’s ChatGPT Fans Aren’t OK

On June 6, 2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was happening. She had planned every detail—dress, rings, background music,...

A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web

For a brief moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities, like...

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