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 most-used AI chatbots in its place. Kimi, developed by…
Blockchain in Finance: The Billion-Dollar Shift Banks Can’t Afford to Ignore
Somewhere right now, a small business is waiting three months for a loan. A family is watching almost 7% of their remittance money disappear into fees before it even reaches relatives overseas. An insurance claim is sitting untouched for weeks while…
What Is Blockchain Technology?
Every transaction between two parties runs into the same basic problem: how do you both trust the record of what happened without relying on a third party to referee it? Banks, escrow services, and clearinghouses have existed for centuries to solve…
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 AI avatars that let anyone create a digital version of themselves from a single…
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 Cyberspace Administration approved Apple Intelligence for launch in the country, paving the way…
Applied Computing Raises $20M to Build an AI Brain for Oil and Gas Plants
Oil, gas, and petrochemical facilities generate mountains of data every second, yet most of it goes unused. A London-based startup called Applied Computing thinks it has found a way to change that, and investors are betting $20 million on the idea. The…
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 longtime AI partners. According to a report from Bloomberg, the company is coaching salespeople to highlight weaknesses…
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 can draft content, analyze data, and answer questions, and on the surface, they…
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 easy. Dozens of AI products claim to do everything, and most businesses don’t need…
IBM Lost $70 Billion in a Day: How One AI Reality Check Shook Wall Street
Introduction On July 14, 2026, IBM had one of the worst trading days in its 115-year history. Shares plunged as much as 26% intraday, wiping out roughly $70 billion in market value in a matter of hours. It was the company’s steepest single-day…