Kai-Fu Lee's brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China

China is on track to dominate consumer artificial intelligence applications and robotics manufacturing within years, but the United States will maintain its substantial lead in enterprise AI adoption [...]

DeepSeek cut prices 75%. The 100x problem remains

DeepSeek's recent decision to drastically cut pricing on its V4-Pro model by 75% should have been unequivocally good news for enterprise AI vendors and developers. Instead, many are discovering t [...]

Cloudflare’s new Dynamic Workers ditch containers to run AI agent code 100x faster

Web infrastructure giant Cloudlflare is seeking to transform the way enterprises deploy AI agents with the open beta release of Dynamic Workers, a new lightweight, isolate-based sandboxing system that [...]

Repeated "write better code" prompts can make AI-generated code 100x faster

A simple request to "write better code" helped Sonnet 3.5 create code that runs 100 times faster than its first attempt, while adding unexpected (and unwanted) features typically found in en [...]

Formula E will finally debut its fast-charging pit stops this weekend

After announcing initial plans two years ago, Formula E is finally ready to deploy its fast-charging pit stops in an official race. At the Jeddah E-Prix in Saudi Arabia this weekend, the all-electric [...]

US and China agree to one-year pause on punitive tariffs

Donald Trump and China’s leader, Xi Jinping, have agreed to a one-year pause on the punitive Trump-instated tariffs that are at the heart of the ongoing trade war between the two superpowers. Among [...]

NVIDIA can now sell its high-end AI chips to 'approved customers in China,' Trump says

NVIDIA is now allowed to sell its second-best H200 processors to China, rather than just the sanction-approved H20 model that China had previously declined to buy, President Trump wrote on Truth Socia [...]

Databricks set to accelerate agentic AI by up to 100x with ‘Mooncake’ technology — no ETL pipelines for analytics and AI

Many enterprises running PostgreSQL databases for their applications face the same expensive reality. When they need to analyze that operational data or feed it to AI models, they build ETL (Extract, [...]

NVIDIA says it can resume selling key AI chips to China

NVIDIA will be able to start selling its H20 AI GPU to China again soon after gaining approval to do so from the US government, the company announced in a blog post. Earlier this year, the company was [...]