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Crypto
Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’
Rita Liao
Sep 25, 2024
Featured
Investors rebel as TuSimple pivots from self-driving trucks to AI gaming
Rebecca Bellan
Rita Liao
Sep 13, 2024

Social
Telegram CEO Durov’s arrest hasn’t dampened enthusiasm for its TON blockchain
Rita Liao
Sep 13, 2024
AI
How Jobright uses AI to help foreign workers navigate the US job market
Rita Liao
Jun 25, 2024
AI
AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China
Rita Liao
May 25, 2024
AI
GrubMarket buys Butter to give its food distribution tech an AI boost
Rita Liao
May 16, 2024

Crypto
Global crypto firms turn to Hong Kong for refuge — and opportunity
Rita Liao
May 6, 2024
Crypto
Alliance DAO is attracting fewer US founders amid crypto crackdown
Rita Liao
May 2, 2024
Commerce
Here’s a lab-grown diamond startup that’s attracted a16z’s attention
Rita Liao
Apr 22, 2024
AI
Microsoft’s $1.5B funding for G42 signals growing US-China rift
Rita Liao
Apr 16, 2024

Biotech & Health
HD raises $5.6M to build a Sierra AI for healthcare in Southeast Asia
Rita Liao
Apr 2, 2024
Featured
TikTok ban could harm Amazon sellers looking for alternatives
Rita Liao
Mar 30, 2024
Biotech & Health
The CareVoice raises $10M Series B, bucking the funding slowdown in health tech
Rita Liao
Mar 19, 2024
Crypto
Taiko raises $37M to build web3 infrastructure for a censorship-free internet
Rita Liao
Mar 2, 2024

Crypto
Ex-Meta employees’ Aptos tests Hong Kong’s crypto appetite
Rita Liao
Feb 29, 2024
AI
Morph Studio lets you make films using Stability AI–generated clips
Rita Liao
Feb 28, 2024
Crypto
Initia raises $7.5M seed round to simplify blockchain development
Rita Liao
Feb 27, 2024
AI
Alibaba staffer offers a glimpse into building LLMs in China
Rita Liao
Feb 27, 2024

AI
Armenia’s 10Web brings AI website-building to WordPress
Rita Liao
Feb 22, 2024
Transportation
Backed by Chinese carmaker Great Wall, Haomo raises $14M for autonomous driving tech
Rita Liao
Feb 21, 2024
AI
China’s Moonshot AI zooms to $2.5B valuation, raising $1B for an LLM focused on long context
Ingrid Lunden
Rita Liao
Feb 21, 2024
Gaming
Tencent’s gaming cash cow Honor of Kings sets sights on MENA
Rita Liao
Feb 20, 2024

Commerce
Alibaba faces reckoning with once-vaunted ‘new retail’ strategy
Rita Liao
Feb 15, 2024
Crypto
This gaming startup tries to show ‘AI + crypto’ is not a fad
Rita Liao
Feb 14, 2024
Gadgets
AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon GO creator
Rita Liao
Feb 8, 2024
AI
China’s generative video race heats up
Rita Liao
Feb 5, 2024

AI
Despite global frenzy, investor enthusiasm in China’s AI startups wanes
Rita Liao
Feb 5, 2024
Transportation
China’s XPeng is bringing its Tesla FSD equivalent to overseas owners
Rita Liao
Feb 1, 2024
Featured
Facing roadblocks, China’s robotaxi darlings apply the brakes
Rita Liao
Dec 29, 2023
AI
Propelled by ‘science for humanity,’ this Chinese AI startup sets sight on US
Rita Liao
Dec 21, 2023