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China leads the humanoid robot race — but the U.S. still has a shot

… Fundamentally, we are able to experience really good technology on the AI side of things because of a lot of the public data that we have in open-source data sets or public forums, like Wikipedia and Reddit. We just don’t have that in the robotics domain or rather in the general physical AI domain. …

Mar 9, 2026 · Kinling Lo

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The Chinese whiz kids of Silicon Valley

… These founders have deep technical skills and the work ethic to sleep in the office and take calls on weekends, she told me at the booth. “We should be building a new Chinese AI mafia in Silicon Valley,” Chen said. “ AI is going to become our home turf.” The AI carnival continued into the night acr… …

May 11, 2026 · Viola Zhou