AI & Society

Chinese models trained with domain expertise could best American counterparts at a fraction of the cost

By ‍Ellie McDonald Everywhere you look, venture headlines imply that seed rounds have meaningfully changed shape. Yann LeCun raised $1 billion for a company that didn’t exist a week earlier. Project Prometheus launched with $6.2 billion out the gate. Unconventional AI hit $475 million two months after founding. It’s easy to read those headlines and

Investment into Asia-based startups soared in the second quarter, boosted by a sharp rise in funding to China-based companies and AI startups. Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. That’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years, as charted

How VCF 9.1 Reframes the Private Cloud Conversation For years, the VMware conversation was mostly about virtualization, consolidation, lifecycle management, and private cloud standardization. Those topics still matter. They are not going away. But AI has changed the center of gravity. The question is no longer just, “Can the platform run VMs reliably?” The better

Kimi K3 expected to exceed performance of Claude Opus 4.8 in sign of narrowing gap between US and China on frontier AI

Can democratic socialism redeem the left without destroying capitalism?

Can democratic socialism redeem the left without destroying capitalism?

Enterprise teams are moving past the point where an AI agent is just a prompt wrapped around a tool call. The real design question is no longer whether an agent can call an API. The question is whether the organization can control what happens before, during, and after that call. That is why choosing an

Introduction The moment an AI agent can call tools, the security conversation changes. A chatbot that only generates text can still create risk, but an agent that can query systems, send messages, update records, open tickets, run code, trigger workflows, or call internal APIs has crossed into operational territory. At that point, the prompt is

With India lagging in the technology, officials are embracing giant data centers. But critics say the megaprojects will use up energy and water, without providing long-term jobs.