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Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

Zhou Yuxiang hired food delivery riders to sell AI to factories. Now he’s chasing China’s industrial AI breakthrough

When Zhou Yuxiang founded Black Lake Technologies, he did what seemed sensible: he trusted experience, hiring salespeople from traditional Western software companies like...

‘We don’t want to be a policeman of the Internet’: How a John McPhee student turned GPTZero into a $30 million AI-detection business thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

‘We don’t want to be a policeman of the Internet’: How a John McPhee student turned GPTZero into a $30 million AI-detection business

Edward Tian built GPTZero over winter break of his senior year at Princeton, in the disorienting weeks after ChatGPT went mainstream, and put...

‘You need to clean up the mess your generation has left’: Volkswagen’s guilty boomer gets real about sustainability, China—and his spam folder thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

‘You need to clean up the mess your generation has left’: Volkswagen’s guilty boomer gets real about sustainability, China—and his spam folder

When a recruiter’s email about a job at Volkswagen showed up in Dirk Voeste’s email, he missed it at first. “Normally I don’t...

Billionaire George Soros has donated $102 million ahead of the midterms—and now the Democrats are coming out ahead thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

Billionaire George Soros has donated $102 million ahead of the midterms—and now the Democrats are coming out ahead

The man who broke the Bank of England has a history of backing Democrats, to the point where right-wingers cast George Soros in...

GM’s Mary Barra says the EV transition is still the destination—even if the road is longer thumbnail
Los Angeles Daily

GM’s Mary Barra says the EV transition is still the destination—even if the road is longer

In the dozen years since Mary Barra became chief executive of General Motors, many of the U.S. auto industry’s certainties about the future...

Philippines’ manufacturing PMI contracts in September thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Philippines’ manufacturing PMI contracts in September

October 1, 2026 | 11:38 am PHILIPPINE factory activity contracted in September, showing a deterioration for the first time since April, due to...

Passengers foil bid to crash Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, Israel says, after co-pilot stabs pilot thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Passengers foil bid to crash Dubai-Tel Aviv flight, Israel says, after co-pilot stabs pilot

October 1, 2026 | 10:18 am JERUSALEM/DUBAI/TEL AVIV — Passengers on a flydubai flight reached Israel safely on Wednesday after customers and crew...

Swiss glaciers lose more than 5% of ice after record heatwave thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Swiss glaciers lose more than 5% of ice after record heatwave

October 1, 2026 | 10:15 am LES DIABLERETS, Switzerland — Swiss glaciers are shrinking rapidly after suffering one of their worst years of...

August bank lending growth fastest in three months thumbnail
San Diego Daily

August bank lending growth fastest in three months

October 1, 2026 | 9:08 pm By Katherine K. Chan, Reporter PHILIPPINE BANKS’ LENDING to businesses and consumers accelerated in August to its...

Google announces Gemini 4 flagship AI model after months of delays thumbnail
San Diego Daily

Google announces Gemini 4 flagship AI model after months of delays

October 1, 2026 | 10:50 am SAN FRANCISCO — Alphabet’s Google on Wednesday announced a new top-tier artificial intelligence model to anchor its...