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Monday 17 August 2026

High jet fuel costs could squeeze low-cost airlines for months

Jet fuel prices may remain elevated for months even if geopolitical tensions ease, the challenge stemming not only from crude supply...

Friday 14 August 2026

Silicon Motion completes US$1.15 billion zero-coupon bond offering

Silicon Motion Technology has completed a US$1.15 billion convertible bond sale, giving it fresh capital to support growth and debt repayment. For global investors and chip buyers,...

Friday 14 August 2026

DeepSeek raises API prices sharply as V4 Pro targets agentic AI market

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has officially launched its V4 Pro model with significantly enhanced agent capabilities, while sharply increasing API prices as it seeks to expand beyond...

Wednesday 29 July 2026

Samsung reportedly weighs Chinese DRAM for budget smartphones as memory inflation squeezes mobile market

Samsung Electronics is considering using low-cost Chinese mobile DRAM in smartphones sold in China as it looks to cut manufacturing costs and expand its presence in the country's budget...

Sunday 26 July 2026

Russia adopts low-cost navigation workaround for Molniya attack drones

Russia has equipped low-cost Molniya attack drones with a civilian compass and camera-based reading system to keep them on course when satellite navigation is jammed or unavailable,...

Thursday 23 July 2026

Neros wins up to US$500 million US Army drone contract

US drone startup Neros Technologies won a contract worth up to US$500 million from the US Army to supply low-cost first-person view attack drones. The deal makes Neros a new vendor...

Thursday 16 July 2026

Thunder Tiger splits drone unit into specialized entities for anti-drone systems, engines

Thunder Tiger is widening its drone business in Taiwan and the US as it prepares new models for 2026, sets up two new entities, and advances work tied to counterdrone systems and aircraft...

Thursday 18 June 2026

Unitree IPO tests China's bet on low-cost humanoid robots

Unitree Robotics is heading toward a Shanghai listing with a pitch drawing attention well beyond China: humanoid robots can be built...

Sunday 31 May 2026

Pentagon funding talks put US drone startups on wartime footing

The Trump administration is in talks to provide funding to several US drone companies, in a move that would mark a stronger federal push to expand domestic drone manufacturing and...

Thursday 28 May 2026

Taiwan's Thunder Tiger rejects China supply chain claims, advances to Phase II of US Drone Dominance Program

Taiwanese drone manufacturer Thunder Tiger, the first company in Asia to obtain the US Department of Defense's (DoD) Blue UAS cybersecurity certification, has passed the first phase...

Monday 25 May 2026

BYD and Chery lead China's advance into Europe's EV market

Chinese automakers are rapidly gaining ground in Europe's electric-vehicle market, underscoring a transformation from low-cost challengers into formidable global competitors.

Thursday 7 May 2026

ByteDance's Doubao tests paid AI tiers to challenge ChatGPT subscriptions

China's AI market has expanded rapidly through free and low-cost offerings, but rising computing costs and deeper enterprise adoption are beginning to reshape the sector's business...

Wednesday 6 May 2026

Low-cost cruise missiles drive a new drone cost race

Rapid changes in battlefield tactics have made drones central to "economic attrition warfare," shifting the focus from technical performance to cost and scale. The implications are...

Wednesday 22 April 2026

Column: US drone industry learns from Ukraine's low-cost, rapid production

"The drone is not the weapon. The infrastructure to build it is." This statement, made by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 31, 2026, encapsulates the direction of recent...

Sunday 22 March 2026

Column: Drones redefine warfare, and the US wants to control who builds them

Drones are rapidly transforming modern warfare, offering relatively low-cost alternatives to traditional weapons while driving changes across defense supply chains. Small unmanned...

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