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Big Tech strategy, semiconductor supply chains and the money behind the technology industry, reported by The Silicon Ledger.
Wang Xingxing's extreme micromanagement and focus on cutting expenses have made Unitree Robotics the world's leading producer of affordable humanoid robots, but the leadership approach may not scale as the company grows.
After years of competitive acceleration, major artificial intelligence companies are publicly calling for coordinated slowdowns in frontier model development, citing imminent risks from autonomous systems that could soon spiral beyond human control.
The AI company released an economic analysis projecting dramatic GDP growth under rapid AI adoption, but acknowledged the challenge of ensuring prosperity reaches beyond capital owners and those in manual labor.
Researchers at Yunnan University have engineered perovskite solar cells capable of generating electricity beneath the ocean surface, opening possibilities for autonomous underwater vehicles and marine sensors.
Nvidia's flagship gaming GPU has vanished from authorized online retailers within days, leaving only third-party sellers charging steep premiums as demand from AI applications continues to outpace supply.
Plummeting panel costs have sparked a worldwide shift toward rooftop solar and distributed generation, but utilities and grid operators are scrambling to manage the upheaval.
A new open-source project bridges NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem and AMD hardware, allowing CUDA-exclusive workloads to run on consumer Radeon cards without virtualization or dual-booting.
Chinese open-weight models now account for the majority of tokens consumed through OpenRouter's US endpoint, prompting the AI marketplace to offer geographic routing guarantees that keep customer data entirely within American borders.
