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China is winning the AI race and it is with the help of a free, publicly available software. The tool behind this is OpenClaw, an open-source AI software that has been adopted in different parts of China like Beijing, Shenzhen and Hangzhou. Surprisingly, technology is not what makes this case stand out. It is how quickly everyone from individuals to big corporations have adopted it. To understand why this matters, you need to know what open-source AI is. It is AI software that anyone can download, adjust and build on at no cost. Unlike ChatGPT or Claude, nobody owns it…
U.S. cloud giants currently dominate the artificial intelligence infrastructure that Germany depends on and Polarise is on a mission to change that. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google process vast amounts of sensitive German data on foreign-owned servers which is slowly ending the country’s AI sovereignty. Because of this, governments and businesses are now forced to confront a difficult question. Who really controls the data that drives critical decisions? Consequently, Germany finds itself at the center of that question and Polarise is building a solution. The company is therefore reclaiming Germany’s AI sovereignty by constructing a powerful domestic alternative to American cloud…
Earlier this month, Google closed its $32 billion acquisition of Wiz. This makes it the biggest in Google’s history and the largest ever acquisition of a venture-backed startup. More importantly, it sent a clear message to every enterprise security leader on the planet that the firewall and perimeter-based security model they have relied on for years is gone. In 2020, Four Israeli cybersecurity experts founded Wiz and it grew faster than any enterprise before it. By 2025, Wiz crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue (ARR) with a projected growth rate of 40% into 2026. Notably, half of the Fortune…
Claude is now officially inside Microsoft Copilot. Microsoft and OpenAI have been inseparable since 2019 but that era is quietly coming to an end. In fact, this move signals the clearest sign yet that Microsoft is done relying on a single AI partner to win the AI agent war. What Microsoft Just Did to Its Own OpenAI Partnership To understand what changed, you need to know what Wave 3 actually is. Wave 3 marks a new version of Microsoft 365 Copilot that moves beyond assistance to agentic capabilities, meaning AI that completes work on your behalf. At the center sits…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI, refused to let the U.S. military use its technology however it wanted. So the Pentagon called it a national security threat. Now both sides are heading to court and the outcome could redefine who controls AI in America. Why Anthropic Said No to the Pentagon Anthropic drew two firm lines before talks even began. Claude would not power autonomous weapons, meaning drones or machines that kill without human decision, and would not conduct large-scale surveillance of American citizens. However, the Pentagon wanted to deploy Claude for all lawful purposes, arguing that a private…
Cybercrime has always been considered a significant threat and for a long time, it moved at human speed. Attackers had to manually search for targets, craft messages and execute breaches. Today, AI does all the work. AI handles the entire process faster, smarter and at a scale no human team can match. As a result, organisations still relying on traditional security methods are fighting a losing battle. When Cybercrime Stopped Being a Human-Speed Problem To understand the scale of this shift, we need to understand what AI has done to the limits of what attackers can do. Instead of targeting…
On March 5, China’s National People’s Congress passed the 15th Five-Year Plan and for the first time in five-year plan history, AI got its own dedicated planning chapter. The word “smart economy” appears as a formal structural goal. In other words, Beijing is done signaling intent, it is now committing resources. To understand why, consider the economic reality. China’s workforce is shrinking. Its real estate sector has collapsed as a growth engine. On top of that, export pressure from sustained US tariffs has intensified. As a result, AI is not a prestige project here, It is a practical answer to…
Foxconn just closed 2025 with its best quarter on record, and the numbers make one thing clear, the AI bubble is nowhere near bursting. In fact, the company posted $83 billion in Q4 revenue, a 22% year-on-year surge that topped analyst expectations of $77 billion. On top of that, full-year revenue hit a record of $8.09 trillion, with December alone setting the highest monthly revenue in company history. Taken together, these are not coincidental figures from a company sitting at the physical center of the AI economy. How AI Servers Took Over Foxconn’s Revenue For decades, Foxconn built its identity…
AI chips have become a strategic resource in 2026 and whoever controls their flow controls a critical switch to global power. Washington is currently considering rules that would require foreign governments to commit to investing in U.S. AI data centers or provide security assurances in order to secure exports of 200,000 chips or more. In other words, the U.S. is no longer just restricting chip exports to enemies. It is now using security pledges and investment conditions to shape how allies build their AI futures. How We Got Here It all started in October 2022, when the U.S. enacted a…
German robotics startup Neura Robotics is raising approximately €1 billion in a new funding round, with stablecoin giant Tether leading the investment. The funding round made the Metzingen-based company hit a €4B valuation, making it one of Europe’s most valuable robotics companies overnight. Furthermore, sources say the deal could be followed by additional fundraising rounds, signaling that Neura is just getting started. Meet the Company Behind Neura Robotics David Reger founded Neura Robotics in 2019 with one clear goal: build cognitive robot machines that can see, hear, and sense their surroundings while learning from experience. Today, the company sells a…