On August 24, 2026, XPeng said its robotics unit raised more than $900 million at a post money valuation above $6.3 billion—the largest single round private financing the company says China’s embodied AI sec...
India plans a tightly controlled September 2026 pilot in which state owned power financier REC will issue the country’s first tokenised corporate bonds, testing blockchain based securities and settlement rat...
TikTok and ByteDance agreed on August 21, 2026, to pay up to $400 million to resolve the Justice Department’s 2024 children’s privacy case: $300 million immediately and $100 million if a court vacates the ea...
Hugging Face is reportedly exploring a potential sale valued at $13 billion or more, but no agreement has been reached and the figure is not a confirmed new valuation.
The Xring O3 is best understood as Xiaomi’s move from being primarily a device assembler and chip buyer to becoming a system designer: it wants more control over performance, AI features, product timing and...
China’s robot competitions have evolved from university demonstrations into state backed technology trials: Honor’s humanoid Flash completed the 2026 Beijing half marathon autonomously in 50 minutes 26 secon...
Tiangong Ultra won a 100-metre preliminary heat in 9.39 seconds, ahead of Honor’s Lightning at 9.47 seconds; both times were faster than Usain Bolt’s 9.58-second human record. That is a striking robot-perfor...
Taiwan prosecutors alleged that nine defendants—including individual employees of Nvidia and Super Micro, not the companies themselves—used false export documentation to divert high-end Super Micro AI server...
Launched on August 24, 2026, Phonak EON is Sonova’s third generation real time AI hearing aid platform.
As of August 24, 2026, Christopher Luxon’s bill would restrict children under 16 from social media and fine noncompliant platforms up to 10% of global revenue; its passage is uncertain because coalition part...
Nvidia is reportedly discussing an equity investment in Perplexity in a multibillion-dollar round that could value the AI-search company above $30 billion. The talks are unconfirmed and may not result in a t...
Alibaba shares fell about 8–10% on August 24 after the company priced HK$80 billion of new stock at an 8.4% discount.