https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AWztaihZGwI/catherine-thorbecke RSS for Node Thu, 07 May 2026 05:37:18 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-26/silicon-valley-made-ai-powerful-tokyo-wants-to-make-it-work https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-26/silicon-valley-made-ai-powerful-tokyo-wants-to-make-it-work Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:00:18 GMT TOKYO, JAPAN - DECEMBER 03: Kawasaki Heavy Industries' Kaleido 9 robust humanoid platform is demonstrated during the International Robot Exhibition on December 03, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. The exhibition, one of the world's largest robot exhibitions, will be held through December 6. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-22/ai-is-coming-for-our-aging-parents-ready-or-not https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-22/ai-is-coming-for-our-aging-parents-ready-or-not Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:00:08 GMT TO GO WITH AFP STORY: Lifestyle-electronics-Japan-robot-Sony by Miwa Suzuki Hideko Mori plays with her robot pet AIBO after she asked "A-Fun" company to repair the AIBO at her home in Tokyo on January 26, 2015. Sony rolled out the first-generation AIBO in June 1999, with the initial batch of 3,000 selling out in just 20 minutes, despite the hefty 250,000 yen (more than 2,000 USD) price tag. AFP PHOTO / TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA (Photo credit should read TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-16/why-china-can-t-quit-open-ai https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-16/why-china-can-t-quit-open-ai Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:00:08 GMT BEIJING, CHINA - APRIL 3: People learn how to deploy and use the AI agent OpenClaw during an event at Chinese technology company Tencent's offices on April 3, 2026 in Beijing, China. The popularity of OpenClaw, a viral open-source AI agent, has seen Chinese users attending promotional events and workshops in major cities to have the large language model deployed in computers. The hype around OpenClaw, launched by its Austrian creator in November 2025, reflects the broader interest in artificial intelligence in China, an industry officials expect to hit $1.4 trillion by 2030. While Chinese technology giants including Tencent and Baidu have jumped at open-source AI to accelerate their platform ecosystems, regulators in China have cautioned users against allowing models like OpenClaw to decide too much. Still, the catchphrase 'raising a lobster' a take-off on the logo has been trending on Chinese social media. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-09/ai-should-be-taught-in-prisons-not-primary-schools https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-09/ai-should-be-taught-in-prisons-not-primary-schools Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:00:04 GMT QINGDAO, CHINA - APRIL 3, 2026 - Three students are debugging AI robots for the dissemination of intangible cultural heritage at the Sifang Primary School Campus Science and Technology Festival in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on April 3, 2026. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-07/openai-s-sora-demise-fires-warning-shot-to-chinese-ai-video https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-07/openai-s-sora-demise-fires-warning-shot-to-chinese-ai-video Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:00:04 GMT SHANGHAI, CHINA - FEBRUARY 13 2026: Screens show the homepages of the Chinese AI video generation model Seedance 2.0 in Shanghai, China, Friday, Feb. 13, 2026. (Photo credit should read WANG GANG / Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-05/bluesky-needs-to-burst-its-american-bubble https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-05/bluesky-needs-to-burst-its-american-bubble Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:00:04 GMT People use their phone as they sit at the entrance of a shopping mall in Hanoi on October 13, 2025. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / AFP) (Photo by NHAC NGUYEN/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-31/china-s-openclaw-madness-has-a-method https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-31/china-s-openclaw-madness-has-a-method Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:00:04 GMT A man wears a lobster hat that represent the OpenClaw logo, an open-source AI assistant at the Baidu headquarter in Beijing on March 11, 2026. (Photo by ADEK BERRY / AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-26/china-s-manus-ai-clampdown-will-backfire https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-26/china-s-manus-ai-clampdown-will-backfire Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:00:04 GMT The website for the Manus AI agent arranged on a smartphone in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, March 14, 2025. Manus made a splash last week with the company's AI agent it claimed is capable of executing complicated tasks like analyzing stocks or writing marketing plans for users. The tool is also only open to select users so far. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-24/ai-washing-is-masking-an-insidious-labor-crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-24/ai-washing-is-masking-an-insidious-labor-crisis Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:00:04 GMT An LEM Dynamis Robotic Surgical System displayed during the 2026 CES event in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. At CES, the biggest names in tech will make the case for artificial intelligence for a target audience of investors, corporate clients and, perhaps just as importantly, ordinary shoppers who have yet to be fully sold on the idea of AI-infused gadgets. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-22/your-birthday-won-t-magically-fix-social-media https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-22/your-birthday-won-t-magically-fix-social-media Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:00:04 GMT Social media icons displayed on a smartphone held in hand are seen in this illustration photo taken in Sartene Corsica France on January 30, 2026. (Photo by Grichka BEYSSON-LEANDRI / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-16/why-bigger-isn-t-always-better-in-ai https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-16/why-bigger-isn-t-always-better-in-ai Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:00:02 GMT CHIBA, JAPAN - OCTOBER 16: Computers for a containerized data center are displayed during the Ceatech event on October 16, 2024 in Chiba, Japan. The Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies event will be held through October 18. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-11/openclaw-ai-agent-china-s-ai-lobster-craze-comes-with-claws https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-11/openclaw-ai-agent-china-s-ai-lobster-craze-comes-with-claws Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:00:05 GMT An AI experiment that could pinch. Photo: Qin Zihang/VCG/Getty Images https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-09/what-tiktok-and-huawei-can-teach-anthropic https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-09/what-tiktok-and-huawei-can-teach-anthropic Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:00:02 GMT Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. India kicked off one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence summits this week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to make the country an AI hub amid intense competition to develop frontier models. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-04/silicon-valley-s-self-defeating-bid-to-preempt-deepseek https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-03-04/silicon-valley-s-self-defeating-bid-to-preempt-deepseek Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:00:05 GMT TOPSHOT - A robot using artificial intelligence is displayed at a stand during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, on May 30, 2024. Humanity is in a race against time to harness the colossal emerging power of artificial intelligence for the good of all, while averting dire risks, a top UN official said. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-26/india-is-the-ai-world-s-most-valuable-unpaid-intern https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-26/india-is-the-ai-world-s-most-valuable-unpaid-intern Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:00:05 GMT Attendees at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. India kicked off one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence summits this week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to make the country an AI hub amid intense competition to develop frontier models. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-24/who-can-break-the-ai-safety-deadlock https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-24/who-can-break-the-ai-safety-deadlock Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:00:02 GMT TOPSHOT - Visitors use mobile phones as they walk past a hoarding of a virtual reality headset displayed at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 17, 2026. (Photo by Arun SANKAR / AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-19/india-can-t-spectacle-its-way-to-ai-power https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-19/india-can-t-spectacle-its-way-to-ai-power Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:00:04 GMT A live telecast displayed inside the media room of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and France's President Emmanuel Macron in the audience at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. India kicked off one of the world's largest artificial intelligence summits this week as Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeks to make the country an AI hub amid intense competition to develop frontier models. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-10/china-s-internet-is-a-map-of-xi-s-insecurities https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-10/china-s-internet-is-a-map-of-xi-s-insecurities Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:00:07 GMT This photo taken on April 2, 2025 shows people looking at their mobile phones after watching a musician perform at a "youth retirement home" in Dali, in China's southwestern Yunnan province. Long breaks from work were long unheard of in China, with its fiercely competitive office culture and where officials vaunt the blood and sweat behind the nation's rise. But some youngsters are pushing back, giving themselves mental space to recover from burnout, feed the soul and consider other ways to contribute to society. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) / To go with 'CHINA-ECONOMY-LIFESTYLE, FOCUS' by Matthew Walsh with Mary Yang in Beijing (Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-05/why-do-we-feel-empathy-for-robots https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-05/why-do-we-feel-empathy-for-robots Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:00:26 GMT Chained robot dogs at an exhibition by artist Takayuki Todo in Tokyo. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-03/chinese-ai-videos-used-to-look-fake-now-they-look-like-money https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-03/chinese-ai-videos-used-to-look-fake-now-they-look-like-money Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:00:25 GMT SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 05: Visitors view AI digital anchor Guan Xiaofang at Kuaishou booth during the 2024 World AI Conference & High-Level Meeting on Global AI Governance at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 5, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)