China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook

As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.

FDA Set To Review Safety And Access To Peptides: What You Need To Know

An FDA panel is reviewing seven peptides for potential approval, sparking concerns about their widespread use in compounding pharmacies and the gray market.

Chinese Auto Brands Lead Japanese In Western Europe; VW Suffers

Chinese brands edged out Japanese names in Western Europe during the second quarter for the first time, while VW brand led local losers in the first half.

Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes
Most Americans don’t want an AI data centre next door. Virginia shows why some say yes

Americans want the AI boom. They just do not want it on their street. A new poll finds most US residents would rather not live near an AI data centre. Yet the same buildings quietly bankroll schools where they cluster. More than half of US residents, 5…

YouTuber Gossip Goblin Will Debut AI Film In U.S. Theaters

YouTube creator Gossip Goblin brings AI-assisted feature “Gods Don’t Give Gifts” to U.S. theaters, testing whether online fandom can drive box office.

YouTuber Gossip Goblin Will Debut AI Film ‘Gods Don’t Give Gifts’ In U.S. Theaters

YouTube creator Gossip Goblin brings AI-assisted feature “Gods Don’t Give Gifts” to U.S. theaters, testing whether online fandom can drive box office.

Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Formula 1 Collaboration Returns To YouTube For Season 2

Amelia Dimoldenberg expands her YouTube empire with the return of her Formula 1 collaboration ‘Passenger Princess.’

The Potential Havoc Of Generic Drug Tariffs

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at the companies looking to cash in on the coming peptide bonanza, the ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak, Tempus’s acquisition of a cancer-testing company, and more.

NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world
NEURA is building gyms to train robots for the real world

NEURA Robotics is opening ‘gyms’ where robots train under real-world conditions, starting with two German universities. Its bet is that the thing holding humanoids back is not intelligence, but a shortage of real experience. The German robotics firm NE…

OpenAI adds two banking CEOs to its board as an IPO looms
OpenAI adds two banking CEOs to its board as an IPO looms

The ChatGPT maker has put two banking chiefs on both its nonprofit and for-profit boards: Nubank’s David Vélez and BNY’s Robin Vince. It is the kind of Wall Street ballast a company assembles when it is getting ready to face public investors. OpenAI is…