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SILICON VALLEY

Moonshot AI recently released Kimi K3, a more advanced open-weight large language model that it said outperforms all rivals except for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on overall capability.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2026
Can Moonshot¡¯s Kimi K3 now stay in orbit?
If you¡¯re calling Kimi K3 a new ¡°DeepSeek moment,¡± it only means that you haven¡¯t been paying attention.
Google's new data center opens near Fredericia, Denmark, in November 2020.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2026
Read ¡®Europe 2031¡¯ and act now to avoid its grim predictions
A fictional account of Europe¡¯s collapse warns of AI dependence.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters during his trip to New York City in June 2023.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2026
Why can¡¯t Indian immigrants influence policy in America?
Despite this remarkable ascent, Indian Americans have failed where it arguably matters most for a diaspora: influencing Washington¡¯s policy toward their country of origin.
Liu Debing, chairman of Knowledge Atlas Technology, better known as Zhipu, attends the Chinese generative-AI startup's listing ceremony at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Thursday, Jan. 8.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2026
A China shock is shaking Silicon Valley
One thing has become clear: Open models from China now pose one of the biggest existential threats to the U.S. AI establishment.
Zhipu's AI service on the web, dubbed Z.ai.
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Jul 3, 2026
A?cheap Chinese model is catching up with U.S. AI giants on their home turf
Z.ai¡¯s GLM-5.2 model has been put at the heart of a growing debate about whether China is finally catching up to the U.S. in the artificial intelligence race.
A closeup of a semiconductor wafer used as an example at the Linx booth at Semicon at the Nangang Exhibition center in Taipei in 2025.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 22, 2026
Taiwanese brothers amass $1 billion from boom in display chips
Biing-seng Wu and Jordan Wu own 24% of Himax, whose U.S.-listed shares have more than doubled in value this year.
A growing number of young consumers are turning to analog and single-purpose devices like cyberdecks and e-readers as a form of resistance to AI-first platforms and automated digital systems.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2026
What is the hottest Gen-Z tech trend? Anti-AI
Many of the models now being hunted online were released before their new owners were born.
A Cyber Force would centralize military cybersecurity, building a cadre of elite tech warriors akin to the Green Berets in cyber space.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2026
The Pentagon needs to create the green berets of tech
America¡¯s current cyber defenses are a patchwork of governmental and private-sector efforts.
Visitors look at Shield AI¡¯s V-BAT on display during the Taipei Aerospace and Defense Technology Exhibition in Taipei last September.
BUSINESS / Tech
Jun 8, 2026
Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup
Shield AI has struggled to overcome years of technical hitches and safety concerns with its V-BAT drone.
Â鶹´«Ã½ push into space-based solar power could reshape the future of global energy and position the country ahead of the U.S. and China in the next phase of the space race.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 31, 2026
A space race the Land of the Rising Sun is winning
Japan takes the lead in space-based solar power exploration.
Tokyo, once ahead in tech before being overtaken by Silicon Valley, is now trying to reinvent itself as a global startup hub by leveraging its stability, AI potential and government-backed support for entrepreneurs.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 4, 2026
Silicon Valley made AI powerful. Tokyo wants to make it work
Japan is full of contradictions on AI. People here are the least fearful in the world of the technology, perhaps because a shrinking population and labor shortages.
The Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California, on Jan. 29, 2024. ?Beijing¡¯s insistence that Meta unwind its deal with a Chinese A.I. start-up marks an escalation in the geopolitical fight over advanced tech.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 30, 2026
The split between China and Silicon Valley just got wider
A decade ago, Silicon Valley investors raced to back Chinese startups. Today, few do.
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and the head of OpenAI, Sam Altman, attend an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo in February 2025.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 23, 2026
SoftBank is going all in on OpenAI, but at what cost?
SoftBank Group¡¯s founder Masayoshi Son invested in OpenAI despite potential exposure to a liquidity crunch.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the 2026 Infrastructure Summit of government officials, corporate executives and labor leaders, in Washington on March 11.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 11, 2026
Man arrested for throwing Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO¡¯s home
San Francisco police arrested a man on Friday for throwing a Molotov cocktail at the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. No one was injured.
Claude shows how powerful but costly frontier AI can be, illustrating why companies like Anthropic may be undermined by their own expensive innovation.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 3, 2026
AI leaders may spend billions only to lose the market
Each unit of intelligence gets cheaper ¡ª but overall, intelligence has never cost more.
Workstations at a research lab with a focus on artificial intelligence in Bengaluru
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 9, 2026
Homegrown startups outperform returnee tech talent, study shows
India¡¯s fiercely competitive startup field
Andrew Bosworth, Meta¡¯s chief technology officer; Bob McGrew, an adviser at Thinking Machines Lab and OpenAI¡¯s former chief research officer; Shyam Sankar, Palantir¡¯s chief technology officer; and Kevin Weil, OpenAI¡¯s chief product officer at a military ceremony in Arlington, Va., in June 2025. The four current and former executives were pronounced lieutenant colonels in a new unit, Detachment 201, which will advise the Army on new technologies for potential combat.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 11, 2025
Silicon Valley is in its ¡®hard tech¡¯ era
Instead of the tap-to-pay apps of a decade ago like Clinkle and Bump, young companies are now making unmanned aerial drones stocked with AI-guided Barracuda cruise missiles.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a speech during the Meta Connect event at in Menlo Park, California, in September 2023. The partnership between Zuckerberg's Meta and defense firm Anduril to build battlefield XR gear underscores how working with the military, once taboo in Silicon Valley, is now actively embraced.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg finally found a use for his Metaverse ¡ª war
Anduril and Meta are partnering to design, build and field a range of integrated XR products that provide warfighters with enhanced perception on the battlefield.
Unlike Silicon Valley, many Asian societies, due to their penchant for risk aversion, need more government support to boost early-stage deep-tech innovation.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2025
Government capital is not just ¡®silly money¡¯
Unlike Silicon Valley¡¯s predominantly private-sector-driven ecosystem, many Asian societies exhibit greater risk aversion, necessitating proactive government involvement.
While DeepSeek's low-cost AI has attracted businesses, security experts warn that patching these vulnerabilities can be expensive and still less secure than Silicon Valley's more expensive models.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2025
The DeepSeek AI revolution has a security problem
The AI model that shocked Silicon Valley by doing more with less might be doing too little on safety. That could hurt its business prospects.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Authorities urge continued caution after heavy rain in Chiba leaves eight dead
A local resident walks past a 7-Eleven convenience store in a flooded area after heavy rain in the city of Oamishirasato, Chiba Prefecture, on Friday.
Takaichi drops ¡®remorse¡¯ in her first war memorial address
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks onstage during a memorial service ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of Japan's surrender in World War II, at Budokan Hall in Tokyo on Saturday.
U.S. to tell partners they must pick sides in AI race with China?
People march as they protest against Pax Silica, a U.S.-led initiative, in Manila on Thursday.
Â鶹´«Ã½ inflation paradox is creating winners and losers
Chieko Sugai at her home in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

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Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
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