Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on March 5, sold out at major US retailers (Alice French/Bloomberg)

Nintendo's stock jumps 8%+, its steepest climb since April 2025, after Pokémon Pokopia, a Switch 2 exclusive released on Mar…

Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's latest tech investment craze (Bloomberg)

Chinese Gen Z day traders, who prefer tech stocks and increasingly use AI chatbots for investment advice, fuel the country's…

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is splintering by product, and AI agents arrive (Olivia Moore/Andreessen Horowitz)

A look at the top 100 GenAI consumer apps: ChatGPT leads but the race for the "default AI" is on, global usage is spli…

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valuation, up from $1.5B in August 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $131.5M led by Oman's sovereign funds, with $81.5M equity, at a $2.3B valua…

How "dark factories", powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's labor market, already stressed by tariffs (Bloomberg)

How "dark factories", powered by AI and robotics and requiring essentially no workers, are set to upend China's la…

UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sand…

A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more (Bloomberg)

A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies t…

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gre…

Israel-based ZyG, which is building an agentic OS to help scale DTC e-commerce brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Israel-based ZyG, which is building an agentic OS to help scale DTC e-commerce brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Vi…

Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources: Apple wants to use aluminum 3D-printing for Watch and iPhone (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Thoughts on MacBook Neo, as Apple also expands its superpremium tier via "Ultra" products; sources: Apple wants to use…

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers su…