The Humanoid Robot Race is Heating Up
Humanoid robots have spent years living mostly in demo videos — impressive clips of machines dancing, backflipping, or folding a single towel under carefully controlled…
Ethan Brooks6 min readAI
Ethan Brooks6 min read
Luxury Smartphone Enter the AI Era
For most of the smartphone era, “luxury” meant precious materials: solid gold casings, sapphire crystal displays, hand-stitched leather, diamond embellishments. Craftsmanship and exclusivity did the…
Ethan Brooks5 min read
The UAE’s AI BOOM: How one country is becoming an AI Superpower
Three years ago, the United Arab Emirates was best known internationally as an oil-wealthy business and tourism hub. Today, it’s being described by analysts as…
Ethan Brooks6 min read
Meet Kimi: The AI Assistant Challenging ChatGPT in China
Introduction While OpenAI’s ChatGPT remains unavailable in mainland China, a Beijing-based startup has spent the past three years building what’s become one of the country’s…
Ethan Brooks5 min read
Google Vids Unveils AI Tool That Lets You Star in Your Own Videos
Google Vids is shedding its original identity as a simple, AI-assisted workplace presentation tool. On Thursday, Google announced two major updates to the platform: personal…
Ethan Brooks5 min read
Apple Intelligence Finally Enters China: A Huge Win for Apple’s AI Ambitions
Introduction After roughly two years of delays, Apple has cleared one of the biggest remaining obstacles to its AI strategy. On July 15, 2026, China’s…
Ethan Brooks4 min read
“The Next AI Gadget Isn’t Another Smartwatch—It’s an AI Agent Controller.”
Introduction For the last decade, “wearable tech” has meant one thing: a screen on your wrist that counts steps, tracks sleep, and buzzes when you…
Aditi Rao5 min read
Microsoft Tells Its Sales Team: Talk Down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is arming its sales force with a new script for the coming fiscal year, and it isn’t a flattering one for two of its…
Nitesh Prasad5 min read
Copilot vs. ChatGPT for Business
Businesses evaluating AI assistants almost always end up comparing the same two names: Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT. Both are built on similar foundational technology, both…
Ethan Brooks10 min read
Top 10 AI Tools for Business
Every business eventually asks the same question after deciding AI is worth investing in: which tool actually solves our problem? The market doesn’t make this…
Ethan Brooks8 min read