The Chinese Model Developers Actually Switched To, and Why Boardrooms Still Hesitate
GLM-5.2 has climbed above Anthropic's models in real developer usage and drawn praise from Trump's former AI czar, all at a sixth of the cost. The question is no longer whether a Chinese model can match the American frontier, but whether Western companies will let one into the systems that run their business.
Read full story →Wall Street Blinks: Chip Stocks Slide as the Cheap-Model Threat Gets Priced In
A gauge of US chip stocks fell more than 5 percent and the Nasdaq slipped as investors began to doubt the AI build-out will pay for itself. The specific fear in the analyst notes is not that AI will fail, but that it will get cheap, with Chinese models and the end of subsidised subscriptions both named.
Read full story →AI Is Redrawing the Map of Asia, One Undersea Cable and Data Centre at a Time
"The seabed is a battlefield," Australia's defence minister warned. New AI cables are being routed around China's chokepoints, often skipping Southeast Asia entirely, even as hyperscaler billions pour data centres into the same region. The compute is landing where the wires deliberately avoid.
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