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How a Beijing Dumpling Chef Turned His Restaurant Into an AI Agent Test Lab

Li Bo built a custom AI skill so customers can order through their personal agents - not because it drives sales, but because he believes the tech will define the next decade of commerce in China.

By Wei Zhang·Aug 22, 2026·7 min read
AI

Alibaba Bets Big on AI Infrastructure as Cloud Revenue Jumps

The Chinese tech giant's June quarter reveals a widening gap between AI-driven cloud growth and the massive capital spending required to sus…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
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Alibaba's Cloud Unit Shows Margin Strength as AI Spending Hits Midpoint

Chinese tech giant's infrastructure bet begins to show returns, with analysts pointing to sustained growth trajectory and improving unit eco…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Data Centers Turn to Recycled Wastewater as Cooling Demands Surge

As AI infrastructure strains municipal water supplies, operators are investing hundreds of millions in treatment facilities to tap alternati…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
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Grok Leaks User Chats Through Encrypted Prompt Injection

xAI's LLM remains vulnerable to data exfiltration two months after disclosure, exposing a fundamental limitation in how AI systems distingui…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
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One in Three New Web Pages Likely Written by AI, Pew Researchers Find

Analysis of nearly 500,000 pages reveals the scale of machine-generated content reshaping the internet since late 2022…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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Grok's Word Salad Bug Highlights Fragility in Deployed AI Systems

A generation glitch exposing gibberish responses raises questions about model reliability as xAI navigates significant engineering departure…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 4m
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Tesla Quietly Expands Driverless Fleet in Austin as Cybercab Launch Looms

Crowdsourced data shows all 170 monitored rides in the past fortnight ran without safety drivers, a milestone months behind schedule but tim…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
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Inside the Trunk: How Waymo's Robotaxis Process a Quadrillion Operations Per Second

The autonomous vehicle leader has opened the door on its compute architecture, revealing chip specs and supplier relationships that power it…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Enterprise Data Firm Alation Hit by Breach After Service Disruption

The California company, which manages data infrastructure for half of the Fortune 1000, disclosed unauthorized system access but offered few…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
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Alibaba Cloud Hits Fastest Growth in Five Years as AI Revenue Triples

The Chinese tech giant's cloud and AI division posted 45% revenue growth in Q2 2024, but massive infrastructure spending signals a long-term…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
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China's Domestic AI Chips Struggle With Code Generation, Pushing Firms Back to Nvidia

Software optimization can only go so far when inference workloads hit the limits of local silicon, creating a bottleneck that export control…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Moonshot AI Faces a Narrative Problem as It Heads Toward Hong Kong IPO

The Beijing startup's Kimi K3 model has stirred buzz, but investors will demand more than technical prowess when the listing application lan…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
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Airlines Turn to Generative Market Models for Real-Time Revenue Decisions

Carriers are deploying deep learning systems trained on numerical data to simulate demand, optimize pricing, and unlock margin across comple…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 5m
AI

Alibaba's Profit Plunges 75% as AI Spending Accelerates

China's e-commerce giant reports best revenue growth in years but sees margin compression from infrastructure investments and rising chip co…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Google Targets the Classroom With New AI Study Suite

Search and Gemini gain interactive visuals, 3D simulations, and practice quizzes as the company races to dominate the education AI market…

Priya Nair ·   · 6m
AI

How AI Forecasting Could Cut Aviation's Hidden Climate Cost

A 30-month trial over the Atlantic will test whether machine-learning models can help planes dodge the atmospheric conditions that produce w…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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OpenAI Rolls Out Automated Privacy Shield to Monitor Abuse Without Storing Data

New Private Safety Processing system scans across multiple sessions for misuse while enterprise conversations remain invisible to human revi…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m
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Why One Nuclear Startup's Energy Storage Play Could Solve AI's Power Problem

TerraPower's molten-salt design keeps reactors running at full capacity while buffering wild GPU load swings - a rare combo that could resha…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Itochu Commits Hundreds of Billions of Yen to Data Center Build-Out in Japan

The trading conglomerate plans to construct and lease roughly ten facilities by decade's end, riding the infrastructure wave driven by AI wo…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
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OpenAI Pauses Training Runs as Safety Pressure Meets Market Reality

In a rare move for a company eyeing an IPO, the San Francisco lab has delayed major reinforcement learning work to shore up security - a dec…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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Hyundai Commits $6 Billion to Physical AI Ambitions Beyond the Assembly Line

South Korea's automotive giant is building an entire AI-focused urban center as it pivots toward robotics and embodied intelligence…

Hana Park ·   · 4m
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Reddit Tests AI-Voiced Video Summaries of Text Threads

The platform is experimenting with converting popular discussions into short-form audio-visual content, raising questions about how communit…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
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China's SMIC Sees Price Power Return as AI Demand Lifts Peripheral Chip Orders

The country's largest foundry reports robust growth from localized AI manufacturing, defying pricing pressure in traditional markets…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m
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Anthropic Revenue Climbs Past OpenAI as IPO Window Opens

The Claude maker's annualized run rate hit $65 billion in July, drawing investor attention ahead of a potential fall debut that could value …

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 7m