Hasbro Has Unveiled Some Lovely ‘Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom’ Figures

With rumors circulating over the past few days, Hasbro has finally revealed its lineup of ‘Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’ figures.

Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there
Moonshot is chasing a $50bn valuation, and it wants two funding rounds to get there

China’s Moonshot AI is raising money at a pace that would make most startups dizzy. The lab should close a round that values it at $31.5 billion in the coming days, Bloomberg reported. It then plans to open another almost immediately, targeting a valua…

Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan
Noetra’s CEO calls his robot AI startup a ‘last chance’ for Japan

Hironobu Tamba spent years inside SoftBank building large language models, the kind of software that answers questions and drafts emails. He has now walked away from that work to bet on machines that move. Tamba is president and chief executive of Noet…

South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed
South Korea bets $540bn on a southwest chip hub the grid cannot yet feed

South Korea wants to build its next great chip cluster far from Seoul, in the country’s rural southwest, and it wants to do so at a pace with little precedent. The plan collides with a harder limit than any zoning map, because the region does not yet h…

A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside
A Chinese AI lab just built a giant data centre with no Nvidia inside

For a year, one question has hung over China’s fast-improving AI models: what are they actually running on? Z.AI has just given part of the answer. It has built a huge data centre that uses only Chinese-made chips. The company, formerly known as Zhipu,…

The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.
The firm that wires AI data centres is chasing Hong Kong’s biggest IPO since Alibaba.

One of the quiet winners of the AI boom is about to test the public markets. Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has started gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing worth as much as $8bn. The Shenzhen-listed company wo…

Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks
Korea’s AI chip market is now the opening bell for global stocks

Fund managers in London, New York, and Tokyo have added a new step to their morning routine: checking South Korean stocks. Korea’s $4 trillion equity market is now offering an early read on global AI risk appetite, as swings in SK Hynix and Samsung rip…

Xpeng Expands Beyond EVs With Munich Event, Promising Flying Cars and Humanoid Robots

The Guangzhou-headquartered EV maker wants to be known as more than just a car company.

Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low
Apple raised iPhone 17 prices by 10% in Japan as the yen hovers near a four-decade low

Apple raised the price of the iPhone 17 in Japan by roughly 10%, with the entry-level 256GB model now starting at ¥142,800 ($879), up from ¥129,800 previously, Bloomberg reported on Saturday. The iPhone 17 Pro with the same storage rose 8.3% to ¥194,80…

The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres
The AI boom’s least glamorous winner just filed for a $5bn listing, and it wires Google and Amazon’s data centres

While attention fixes on Nvidia and the AI models, the companies quietly wiring the data centres together are booming. Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, Bloombe…