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Policy

China's AI labs are renting Nvidia's banned chips from data centres in Southeast Asia

US export controls block China from buying Nvidia's most powerful chips. A legal grey zone lets Chinese firms rent the same computing power through servers in Thailand, Malaysia and Japan instead.

4 min read
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AI Business

China's AI Boom Has a Surprising Home: A Grassland City in Inner Mongolia

Nearly 100 data centres have opened or begun construction in Ulanqab since 2016. DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are all building there. A water crisis is already brewing.

4 min read
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AI Business

SoftBank's Intel bet pays off big, but OpenAI goes quiet on the books

The Japanese investment giant posted a $2.2 billion profit for the June quarter, well above forecasts. A huge gain on Intel shares did the heavy lifting. OpenAI, which SoftBank has pumped $55 billion into, added nothing this time.

3 min read
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Frontier Labs

ByteDance Is Building One of the Biggest AI Models Ever Made

China's tech giant is training a model with up to 10 trillion parameters, which would dwarf any Chinese AI released so far and put it in the same conversation as Anthropic's most advanced systems.

3 min read
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Everyday AI

Neill Blomkamp Made a 13-Minute AI Film. Critics Say It Shows the Limits, Not the Promise.

District 9's director used ByteDance's video generator to create Nightborne, a sci-fi short built entirely from AI-generated clips. The result has sparked more backlash than buzz.

3 min read
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