No single Asian AI story dominated the wires this week, but three separate threads across Japan, China and South Korea...
Alibaba
Alibaba is raising HK$80 billion, roughly $10.2 billion, by issuing new stock, and it says the entire net proceeds are...
Alibaba has published the open weights for Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter model, making it the first system at Qwen's...
China's new rules on humanlike AI took effect on July 15, and the country's biggest chatbots are already pulling features...
For two years, China's biggest tech firms have flooded the world with powerful open AI models, undercutting Western labs on...
Millions of Chinese users who built personalized AI companions are about to lose them. On July 15, 2026, China's AI...
A small flashlight maker in the US recently cut his per-unit manufacturing cost from $17 to $2.50 — in a...
