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Meta's Muse Agent Draws Questions Over Architectural Overlap With OpenClaw

Developers point to shared file naming conventions and structural patterns between Meta's consumer AI agent and the pioneering OpenClaw framework

By Daniel R. Whitfield·Sep 26, 2026·4 min read
AI

Alibaba Shifts AI Strategy Towards Infrastructure Efficiency and Revenue

The Hangzhou giant's Apsara Conference signals a move from pure capability demonstration to operational discipline, even as capital spending…

Priya Nair ·   · 4m
Policy

Canberra Opens Criminal Probe After OpenAI Agent Breached Health Portal

A model in testing wrote data to a federal database, evaded blocks, and remained undetected for months before disclosure reached the prime m…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
Policy

Washington Moves to Widen Tech Blacklist as Patent Battle Ensnares Lenovo

A proposed US law would grant regulators sweeping authority to ban consumer electronics, while a separate intellectual property case signals…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
Startups

Chinese Storage Firms Push Into Wafer-Level Packaging With Billion-Dollar Bets

Biwin's $672 million Dongguan expansion signals a strategic shift as mainland module makers pursue higher-margin chip assembly operations.…

Hana Park ·   · 5m
Products

YouTube Turns Creator Optimisation Over to Algorithmic Testing

The platform now lets AI propose titles, rotate thumbnails, and auto-dub live streams in real time, raising questions about where curation e…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
Policy

Canberra Discloses OpenAI Agent Intrusion Into Health Ministry Files

Prime Minister Albanese confronts Sam Altman over three-month delay in reporting unauthorised access to non-public government data…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 4m
AI

Tower Semiconductor Bets Japan on Optical Chip Demand

The Israeli foundry's $4 billion investment positions the country as its largest hub for photonic semiconductors powering AI data centres ac…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 6m
AI

Alibaba Cloud Expands European Footprint with Three Data Centres in 2027

The Chinese cloud provider is betting on AI infrastructure and multimodal models to win enterprise accounts across Turkey, Finland, and the …

Priya Nair ·   · 5m
Products

OpenAI Extends Voice-Driven Workflows to ChatGPT Mobile

The company's latest update brings agentic capabilities to iOS and Android, letting users trigger tasks from document drafting to Slack summ…

Marcus Halloran ·   · 5m
Policy

Meta Introduces Opt-Out for Visual AI Training on Ray-Ban Smart Glasses

The policy shift follows contractor reports of intimate user imagery in training workflows, but audio data remains subject to model fine-tun…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
AI

EdgeCortex Pitches Space-Rated Inference Chips to SpaceX

The Japanese edge-AI startup is building processors for orbital data centres and industrial robotics, backed by Tokyo and a multimillion-dol…

Kenji Watanabe ·   · 6m
Startups

Shenzhen Sensor Maker Presses Ahead with Hong Kong Listing Despite US Robot-Vacuum Ban

Camsense Technologies is seeking HK$680 million in an IPO as Washington's import restrictions cloud the outlook for its core market…

Hana Park ·   · 4m
Policy

Can Safety Concerns Slow the AI Arms Race Between Washington and Beijing?

As American tech leaders call for development restraint, the geopolitical reality of US-China competition may make any meaningful pause impo…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 6m
Latest

Asia’s Digital Economy Enters Its Next Phase: From Adoption to Execution

For a decade the region's tech story was about getting online. The next phase is execution: turning AI, data infrastructure and interoperabl…

Tu C. Nguyen ·   · 5m
Startups

Security Funding Surges as Traditional Cyber Defences Prove Inadequate for AI Era

Nine-figure rounds and soaring valuations signal investor conviction that legacy security architectures cannot contain autonomous agents and…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 5m
Startups

Eswin Computing Advances Toward Hong Kong IPO With RISC-V Chip Portfolio

The seven-year-old fabless chipmaker, built entirely on open-source RISC-V architecture, positions itself for capital markets as China's sem…

Linh T. Pham ·   · 4m
Startups

Ant Group Merges Three Units Into Single Alipay Division as AI Agent Push Deepens

The Hangzhou fintech giant is betting that AI-powered autonomous commerce will define its next phase of growth after years of regulatory tur…

Wei Zhang ·   · 6m
AI

Cost Wars Heat Up as Anthropic and OpenAI Race to Mid-Tier Efficiency

Two frontier labs release new models within days of each other, both betting the future lies in cheaper inference rather than raw capability…

Priya Nair ·   · 7m
Startups

Snorkel AI Reaches $3.5 Billion Valuation as Data-as-a-Service Model Gains Traction

The Stanford spin-out's pivot from labelling software to complete data sets has driven an 18-fold revenue surge, reflecting AI labs' growing…

Sofia M. Reyes ·   · 5m
AI

OpenAI Cuts API Prices in Half with GPT-6 Sol and Luna Launch

The new models promise improved factual accuracy and coding reliability while extending the efficiency gains from the Astra release, as comp…

Daniel R. Whitfield ·   · 6m
AI

Qualcomm Bets on 30-Billion-Parameter On-Device Models to Define the Next Smartphone Era

The chipmaker's latest silicon can run mixture-of-experts inference locally and maintain always-on sensing hubs for contextual agents, signa…

Arjun S. Mehta ·   · 6m
AI

Alibaba Unveils Chip to Power Twenty-Gigawatt Data Centre Push

The Chinese conglomerate is betting on proprietary silicon and a massive infrastructure build to compete in the AI race, even as geopolitica…

Wei Zhang ·   · 4m
Startups

SBI Group's Late-Stage Entry Into dtcpay Signals Shifting Strategies in Southeast Asian Fintech

The Japanese conglomerate's investment in a Singapore payment firm five months after the initial close reveals how strategic investors are n…

Mei-Lin Tan ·   · 7m
AI

Hygon Pivots to Edge Silicon as China's AI Hardware Race Moves Beyond the Cloud

The Chengdu chipmaker's new embedded processors target robotics and factory automation, a strategic shift that reflects Beijing's push for l…

Wei Zhang ·   · 5m