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196 editions since December 2025
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Anthropic and Lambda sign $35b AI compute megadeal
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, September 1, 2026
If you build or invest around models, treat Asia’s open weight stack as a first class option, not an afterthought. Track Tencent Hy4 alongside Moonshot’s Kimi K3 and watch how MIIT’s new program shapes which providers actually get adoption.
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, August 25, 2026
TSLA -3.8% reflects market sentiment
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, August 18, 2026
AMD +6.5% reflects market sentiment
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Z.ai GLM 5.2 open model narrows gap with frontier AI la...
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, August 4, 2026
Map your exposure to Asia’s AI infra bottlenecks before the next chip crunch
The Asia AI Brief - Week of Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Treat Kimi K3 as your baseline Chinese frontier model: track how fast Chinese devs and enterprises adopt and fine tune it, and which sectors (finance, industrial, public) move first.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, July 23, 2026
An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face, turning agent risk from theory into a live incident between two core AI platforms.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Anthropic’s $1.5bn copyright settlement sets a new benchmark for the cost of training data in frontier AI.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Tuesday, July 21, 2026
CuspAI raises $450M to build an AI-first materials foundry, linking frontier compute to batteries, chips, and industrial chemistry.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Monday, July 20, 2026
Open-source MoE: Tencent widens access to high-end inference with Hy3
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Saturday, July 18, 2026
China is using WAICO to push its own global AI governance and open‑source norms, solidifying a separate rules bloc.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Friday, July 17, 2026
China’s new World AI Cooperation Organization turns AI governance into an explicit arena of global competition.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, July 16, 2026
OpenAI’s ‘reverse federalism’ proposal pushes US AI safety toward a state-led path that feeds into a national baseline.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Wednesday, July 15, 2026
Germany’s media clampdown on Google AI Overviews and Perplexity turns answer engines into regulated publishers.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Humanoid robots go from sci‑fi demo to capital magnet with LimX Dynamics’ $2B pre‑IPO round.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Monday, July 13, 2026
GPT‑5.6’s Sol, Terra and Luna push multi‑agent orchestration from research demo to main product story.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Saturday, July 11, 2026
Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI turns long-running AI data concerns into a direct legal clash between platform giants.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Friday, July 10, 2026
Nvidia gets a tightly scoped green light to ship H200 chips to Alibaba, ByteDance and DeepSeek, turning export controls into managed access instead of a hard wall.
Race to AGI Daily Digest - Thursday, July 9, 2026
OpenAI moves closer to human-like interaction with GPT‑Live voice and new GPT‑5.6 Sol models cleared for public use in the US.