On July 24, Jensen Huang posted his first-ever tweet. It wasn’t about NVIDIA’s latest GPU, earnings, or a product launch. It was about open source AI. Huang’s newly created X (Twitter) account shared an open letter titled “Open-Weight Models and American AI Leadership,” signed by NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, Hugging Face, Mistral, Y Combinator, and 15+ … Read more
Wang Xingxing, founder and CEO of Unitree Robotics, has achieved what no Chinese entrepreneur has done in eight years: appear on the cover of TIME Magazine. The cover, published July 23, features Wang alongside Unitree’s mech product GD01 under the headline “The Robot Age Is Here.” The last time a Chinese business leader appeared on … Read more
Humanoid robots can dance, backflip, and run marathons. What they cannot do, it turns out, is find enough paying customers. A growing number of analysts are asking an uncomfortable question about the humanoid robot boom: who is actually buying these machines? The answer, according to a detailed analysis published on Chinese tech media Sohu IT, … Read more
When Japanese technicians cracked open a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, they found a reason to give up. Nikkei xTECH, a Japanese technology media outlet, published a teardown video of Unitree’s G1 on July 23. The verdict, as reported by CCTV News, was blunt: China’s humanoid robot technology has clearly moved beyond the “show-and-tell” stage, and … Read more
“The government will not give us a penny.” Liang Wenfeng just broke Washington’s favourite DeepSeek story. A transcript of 118 investor answers reveals a very different narrative.
China is fighting a European war on two fronts. The first front is the product. The second front is the buyer. Marco Girometti has stood on both sides.
NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta and 22 others signed a letter that, read carefully, is a lobbying front to keep Chinese open-weight models legal in America. Washington sees a geopolitical threat. Silicon Valley sees a supply chain opportunity.
IF DEMOGRAPHY IS DESTINY, then the recent headlines from Beijing read like a eulogy. China’s population has fallen for two consecutive years, shedding millions of citizens in a statistical retreat that Western observers often mistake for an economic surrender. The logic is seductive in its simplicity: fewer workers mean lower growth, collapsing pensions, and the … Read more
Part II of How Stellantis Rewrites the Transatlantic EV Playbook In Part I, we mapped the Wuhan-Paris axis — a dual arbitrage allowing Stellantis to shore up its European defences using Chinese engineering. That was the dress rehearsal. The ultimate prize lies across the Atlantic, where Detroit continues to slumber inside its tariff-protected greenhouse. Stellantis … Read more
Stephen Curry just pulled off the most strategically brilliant move of his career—and it didn’t happen on a basketball court. On June 2, 2026, Curry announced a landmark 10-year partnership with Li-Ning, reportedly worth north of $400 million. But calling this a “shoe deal” misses the point entirely. This is an empire-building move that positions … Read more