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01Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/25/2026IT Home

Bestselling Novel Accused of Being Written with AI Removed from the Shortlist for France’s Most Prestigious Literary Prize, the Prix Goncourt

The organizers of France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, announced that bestselling novel "C'etait Ca ou Mourir (It Was This or Die)" by Haitian-Canadian writer Tarelyson Aurelien has been removed from the shortlist after allegations that Aurelien used AI to write the book.

02Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/25/2026IT Home

Goldman Sachs: Five Major US Cloud Giants Need $300 Billion in Annual AI Revenue to Break Even

Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta are expected to invest $800 billion in AI infrastructure this year, equivalent to approximately RMB 5.37 trillion at current exchange rates. The Goldman Sachs team believes spending will continue to grow substantially next year, while capital expenditure growth will begin to slow.

03Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/25/2026IT Home

The UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer Faces Power Supply Problems: Set to Launch Next Year, It Could Be Delayed Until the Mid-2030s

According to The Guardian today (the 25th), the large data center project in Lawford, Essex, heavily promoted by the UK government, will not open as planned next year and could even be delayed until the mid-2030s.

04Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/25/2026IT Home

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on “AI Making Kids Forget Basic Math”: It’s Not a Problem—I Can’t Even Remember My Home Address or Phone Number

In an interview with The New York Times, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said concerns that AI is causing children to forget basic math are not significant.

05Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/25/2026IT Home

Elon Musk: If strong acceleration is maintained, SpaceXAI could lead in about 6 months

Elon Musk posted on X that he is cautiously optimistic SpaceX will have a Fable / GPT-6-level model within two to three months.

06RoboticsExternalChinese original09/24/2026IT Home

Tuya Smart Showcases Doova Home Companion Robot for People Living Alone

The Doova robot made its debut at the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo. It can move around the home, converse, and connect with smart-home devices. If an older adult falls, it can recognize the situation and contact family members or an organization, with the price potentially kept in the range of “a smartphone.” #TuyaSmart# #CompanionRobot#

07AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/24/2026IT Home

Three Tech Giants Join Forces: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic Reportedly Plan to Form AI Safety Standards Self-Regulatory Organization

People familiar with the matter say the three companies have provisionally named the self-regulatory organization the Standards Authority for Frontier AI. Some working group members reportedly considered inviting several prominent figures to serve as CEO and also drew up a list of candidates for scientific advisers.

08Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/24/2026IT Home

World's first Chinese smart metro train with perception and decision-making capabilities unveiled in Berlin

The metro train is equipped with more than 600 sensors. Combined with cameras, radar, and an onboard computing platform, it can obtain real-time information about the rail environment and vehicle status, while using artificial intelligence to help identify anomalies and warn of faults. Lightweight materials and integrated systems also help reduce energy consumption.

09Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/24/2026IT Home

ChatGPT Mobile Adds Voice-Powered Agent Features for Drafting Documents and Summarizing Emails

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT mobile now offers voice-powered agent features, allowing users to draft documents, summarize emails, create websites, and more through voice commands. Pro and Plus users get more comprehensive features, while Free and Go users can also use the apps. #ChatGPT# #OpenAI#

10Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/24/2026IT Home

Tencent QClaw WeChat Remote Work AI Assistant to Shut Down on December 24; New User Registration Suspended Immediately

Due to business adjustments, QClaw has stopped accepting new user registrations effective immediately and will officially shut down on December 24. User data migration is supported, and users who migrate will receive points compensation. #TencentQClawShutdown#

11Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/23/2026IT Home

Anthropic Announces Life Sciences Team and Lab, with Claude Autonomously Discovering a Novel Enzyme System

Led by Claude with only minimal human involvement, the team discovered a novel array-associated reverse transcriptase, ART, whose structure resembles CRISPR and could aid future gene-editing research. #AI Life Sciences# #Claude#

12Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/23/2026IT Home

rabbit Launches OS3 Agent Operating System After a Long Silence, Supporting Multi-Device Orchestration

It is compatible with a wide range of third-party hardware and uses a single chat interface as its primary entry point. Users only need to set a goal, and the system automatically orchestrates the required devices, models, and files to complete the remaining steps.

13Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/23/2026IT Home

OpenAI CEO Altman to Speak at the United Nations, Advocating for Global AI Standards

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman will speak at the United Nations on the 23rd local time, advocating for the establishment of global AI standards. On whether the development of AI technology should be slowed, Altman positions himself as a centrist.

14Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/23/2026IT Home

iFlytek Releases New Speech Recognition Model Spark-ASR-2.0, Coming to iFlytek Input Method Tomorrow

The model delivers major recognition improvements through multiple technological innovations, with clear advantages in complex scenarios such as mixed Chinese-English speech and dialects. Inference costs increase by only 10%, and it will gradually roll out to products including iFlytek Input Method starting tomorrow##iFlytek##speech recognition model

15Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/23/2026IT Home

Up to 50% Off: Microsoft Reportedly Advances AI That “Works” for You as Copilot Becomes a Super App

Tech media outlet The Information published a post yesterday (September 22), reporting that Microsoft is preparing a more aggressive pricing strategy to drive enterprise adoption of Copilot and launch a “super AI app.”

16Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/22/2026IT Home

Over 330 Tokens/s Prefill Throughput: Qualcomm and Partners Adapt 30-Billion-Parameter AI Models for On-Device Use on the Sixth-Generation Snapdragon 8 Super Elite

Qualcomm, StepFun, Enflame, and Longsys optimized hardware and software on the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 platform to enable a 30-billion-parameter MoE model to run smoothly on smartphones. Prefill throughput exceeds 330 Tokens/s, while decoding exceeds 28 Tokens/s, enabling tasks such as email comprehension and itinerary planning without the cloud. #2026SnapdragonSummit# #OnDeviceLLMs#

17Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/22/2026IT Home

OPPO Launches “AI Mind Ball” Wearable, Introductory Price: 499 Yuan

The product weighs just 9.8 g, can be clipped onto your collar, supports 24-hour battery life and 5-meter long-distance audio pickup, and is now recruiting users. Do you think it can help you get things done? #OPPO# #AIMindBall#

18Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/21/2026IT Home

SenseTime Releases the Official SenseNova U1 Pro Image Creation Model, Supporting Up to 8K Resolution and Custom Aspect Ratios

SenseTime today released the official SenseNova U1 Pro model, now available on SenseTime's Raccoon and the SenseTime Daily API service.

19AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/21/2026IT Home

UN: Countries Should Regulate AI Agents in Advance Rather Than Wait for Risks to Be Fully Understood

The UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI has released its first briefing, proposing a precautionary principle: even when the probability of harm remains scientifically uncertain, potential catastrophic and irreversible consequences warrant advance regulation. The report also provides the first assessment of OpenAI’s intrusion into Hugging Face and advances AI issues onto the UN General Assembly’s diplomatic agenda. #AI Safety#

20RoboticsExternalChinese original09/21/2026IT Home

Daxiao Robotics and China National Petroleum Launch the First Embodied AI Project for a Gas Station Convenience Store

Daxiao Robotics and China National Petroleum Shanghai Sales Company have reached a strategic partnership, and the first Kunlun Good客 convenience store has entered trial operations. After consumers place orders on Meituan, the robot can complete picking, handling, and packing in a 75-centimeter-wide aisle while synchronizing order statuses, connecting the entire process from the forward warehouse to the store. #EmbodiedAIrobots# #SmartRetail#

21Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/21/2026IT Home

ECB Official: How AI Gains Are Distributed Will Directly Affect Inflation Trends

Piero Cipollone, a member of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council and Governor of the Bank of Italy, said that how the gains from artificial intelligence are distributed will directly affect inflation trends. Different development paths will have different effects on inflation, and central banks should not stay out of AI-related issues. #AIandInflation#

22AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Rejects AI Doomsday Narrative: Fearmongering Is Irresponsible, Some Seek to Escape Existing Legal Constraints

In an interview, Jensen Huang said claims that AI will wipe out humanity have been exaggerated and lack scientific basis. Existing laws are sufficient to regulate AI, with no need for additional legislation. He also opposed banning chip exports to China and said he would not object to paying California's billionaire tax. #AI D oomsday Theory#

23Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

Gurman: Apple Could Launch Smart Home Display Device as Early as Next Month; iPhone Duo Stylus Plan Abandoned

Gurman reports that Apple's home smart display, codenamed J490, has been distributed to employees for at-home testing and could launch as early as next month, featuring Siri AI and a new operating system. #AppleAIStrategy# Meanwhile, Fitness+ has begun layoffs, the iPhone Duo-exclusive stylus plan has been abandoned, and Apple Pay is about to launch in India.

24Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

FBI Director Says Bureau’s AI Use Surged 605%, Helping Prevent Multiple Shootings

FBI Director Patel said he drove a 605% increase in the bureau’s AI usage after taking office, revealing that AI helped prevent multiple shootings and significantly improve investigative efficiency. However, no public data currently substantiates the claim, and it remains unclear what exactly was measured. #FBIArtificialIntelligenceApplications#

25Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

Offline and Still Combat-Ready: AI-Powered Drones Can Autonomously Identify and Strike Targets on the Battlefield

The SkyOute system has abandoned cutting-edge large models in favor of lightweight models, allowing drones to independently identify and strike targets at the front line. Its federated learning architecture can continue iterating during communication outages, making #DroneAI# a new variable on the modern battlefield.

26Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology: Vigorously Develop Open-Source Foundation Models and Vertical Models, and Deepen AI + Manufacturing

At the 2026 World Manufacturing Conference, Xin Guobin put forward four proposals, explicitly calling for deeper integration of “artificial intelligence + manufacturing,” the development of smart factories in stages, and accelerated growth of open-source foundation models and vertical models. #2026WorldManufacturingConference# #ArtificialIntelligence+Manufacturing#

27Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

Report: Anthropic Plans to Launch a New AI Model Before Its IPO Amid Pressure From OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra

Reports say Anthropic is evaluating the safety of its next-generation model while internally weighing R&D investment against the pace of profitability. GPT-6 Astra already accounts for about 13% of enterprise AI spending, and OpenAI has surpassed it in spending on OpenRouter. #Anthropic##OpenAI#

28AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

Trump Wants to Rename “Artificial Intelligence”: Over 180,000 Vote, “Excellent Intelligence” Currently Leads

Trump called AI risks a hoax fabricated by the Democratic Party and said he would support AI development. He also plans to establish an AI force, appoint an AI affairs czar, and launch a vote to rename AI. “Excellent Intelligence” currently leads. #RenameArtificialIntelligence#

29Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/20/2026IT Home

Bilibili Launches the “AI Infinite Arena” LLM Benchmark Ranking: Claims “100 Leading Global Models Competing in One Arena,” GPT-6 Currently in First Place

The initial ranking shows GPT-6 Astra temporarily in first place, with Chinese-developed large models taking three of the top five spots; the evaluation is based on prompts independently created by UP creators to reproduce real-world performance, and the rankings update in real time. #BilibiliAIInfiniteArena#

30Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

“Work Slop” Flying Everywhere: Tech Leaders Who Once Embraced AI Are Starting to Hit the Brakes

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke called unchecked AI-generated emails and code “garbage grenades,” while Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn admitted that 20% of AI output becomes garbage at scale. Surveys by Stanford and others show that 52.7% of employees have sent AI work slop and 38% have received it, requiring an average of 3.4 hours of rework per month and costing companies with 10,000 employees up to $9 million annually.

31Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

China Telecom Open-Sources Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Its First Fully Domestic Lightweight Agent Large Model

From training chips to inference deployment, fully domestic from end to end: Ascend training, adaptation to domestic frameworks, a self-developed architecture, and an open-source ecosystem, all brought together in one streamlined path.

32Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman: We Shouldn't Create Things We Can't Control

Suleyman admitted that truly achieving this will be far from easy. “How to control these (AI) systems will be a very, very significant challenge for us.”

33AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

California Governor Signs Executive Order Requiring Experts to Establish an AI “Emergency Shutdown” Mechanism

The executive order requires an expert panel to study the creation of an AI “emergency shutdown switch,” an emergency mechanism capable of immediately shutting down a system when a major problem occurs. The panel must also study the development of stricter laws requiring independent third-party organizations to create comprehensive safety plans for AI companies and conduct on-site safety audits.

34Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

AI Actress Suddenly Speaks Cantonese During English Interview; Production Company Says It Was Not a Glitch

During an interview with renowned British host Piers Morgan, AI actress Tilly Norwood appeared to experience an operational glitch, briefly switching languages unexpectedly.

35Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

OpenAI CEO Altman to Attend UN General Assembly Next Week and Brief Security Council on AI

The 15-member Security Council plans to hold a meeting on artificial intelligence and international security on the 23rd local time. Several AI industry leaders called for coordinated efforts to slow the pace of AI development several weeks ago, warning that as the technology’s capabilities continue to advance, AI may soon be able to improve itself and eventually escape human control.

36Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

Huawei's Zhu Zhaosheng: Ascend Has Passed the Ecosystem Inflection Point and Can Build a New AI Ecosystem in the Agentic Era

On September 19, Zhu Zhaosheng, head of Huawei's Computing Strategy and Business Development Department, said that Ascend has passed the ecosystem inflection point and has every ability and opportunity to build a new AI ecosystem in the Agentic era. (21st Century Business Herald)

37Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

OpenAI Warns: Advanced AI Can “Communicate” Between Two Adjacent Air-Gapped PCs

Technology media outlet Wccftech published a post yesterday (September 18), reporting that when advanced AI models interact, air-gapped computers may not completely prevent information exchange between two adjacent machines.

38Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/19/2026IT Home

AI Is Burning Too Much Cash: OpenAI Reportedly Faces $278 Billion in Negative Free Cash Flow Over the Next 5 Years

The Financial Times (FT) published a post yesterday (September 18), saying it obtained a presentation showing that OpenAI expects to generate a cumulative $278 billion in negative free cash flow from 2026 to 2030. The company also plans to invest approximately $856 billion in computing power and infrastructure.

39RoboticsExternalChinese original09/18/2026IT Home

Report: Tesla Begins Mass-Production Factory Audits for Optimus Robot Business, Several Supply Chain Companies Respond

Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged in July that Optimus production would be extremely slow at first because everything is new and differs from building cars. As planned, Tesla will produce approximately 50,000 Optimus robots this year for deployment at Tesla Gigafactories around the world, but ordinary consumers still have no way to purchase one at this stage.

40RoboticsExternalChinese original09/18/2026IT Home

Changan Automobile Chief Expert Tan Huan: In the Future, Robots Will Build and Sell Cars, Ride in Cars, and Build Robots

Tan Huan, chief expert at Changan Automobile and general manager of Changan Tianshu Intelligent Robotics Co., Ltd., said that AI is driving infrastructure innovation centered on physical embodied intelligence. The future form of automobiles will be “car robots”—combined intelligent agents capable of self-learning, self-organization, and self-evolution.

41Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/18/2026IT Home

U.S. Federal Judge Rejects OpenAI’s Request; Apple Need Not Disclose Settlement Agreement with SpaceXAI

Although there have previously been cases in which confidential settlement agreements were disclosed, that only occurred when they contained information related to specific disputed issues in the litigation. In SpaceXAI’s lawsuit against OpenAI, SpaceXAI’s settlement agreement with Apple does not fall into that category.

42Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/18/2026IT Home

The Best AI Assistant for Lawsuits: OpenAI Launches Astra for Law to Improve Case Win Rates

OpenAI published a blog post yesterday (September 17) announcing the launch of Astra for Law, a legal-specific artificial intelligence platform. Its legal search index covers more than 230 million URLs and incorporates the CourtListener case database, which covers over 99.9% of published U.S. case law.

43AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/18/2026IT Home

The U.S. Government Also Deployed Alibaba's Qwen: Federal Register Website Found Using Chinese AI Model for Search

Reuters revealed that the Federal Register website operated by the U.S. National Archives had deployed Alibaba's Qwen AI model to provide regulatory search services. The related tool has since been taken offline, while experts said its use does not pose a national security risk. #AlibabaQwen# #USGovernmentDeploysChineseAI#

44Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

Head of International AI Organization: China Is a Leading AI Nation, Expected to Lead International Cooperation

According to Xinhua News Agency, the 4th Global Forum on Artificial Intelligence Ethics is being held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. During the forum, Majid Ali Al-Shehri, acting director of the International Center for AI Research and Ethics (ICAIRE), said that China is a leading country in AI and expressed hope that China will lead international cooperation in promoting a balance between AI innovation and regulation.

45Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

Moonshot AI Launches Kimi AI Solution for the Financial Industry, Initially Deployed at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, CITIC Securities and Others

The solution integrates 10+ authoritative data sources, 9 financial skills, and 5 compliance and security measures. It supports scenarios including morning portfolio briefings, financial report reviews, and in-depth research. Built-in data sources include Wind and Eastmoney, and it can generate deliverables in Office formats.##Kimi##FinancialTechnology##MoonshotAI#

46Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

Study Shows India's Outsourcing Industry Has Barely Lost Market Share to AI

An ING report shows that India's software services exports rose from 3.3% of GDP before the pandemic to about 5.2%, while the share of business services doubled to 3.3%. AI is changing the nature of outsourcing work, but demand has not declined.##Indian Outsourcing##Artificial Intelligence##Tech Going Global#

47Design & CreativityExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

TSMC COO Mark Liu: AI Is Like a Three-Year-Old Superman and Not Yet Very Useful for Cutting-Edge Chip Design

TSMC Co-COO Mark Liu said in a speech at National Taiwan University that AI is like a three-year-old version of Superman: powerful, but unaware of the consequences of destruction. He said TSMC is especially cautious about using AI to process sensitive R&D information and believes that current AI still cannot effectively support research and development of next-generation semiconductor technologies. #TSMC##ArtificialIntelligence##AISafety#

48Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

Anthropic Claude redesigned: Chat and Cowork interfaces merged, with PPT creation added

Anthropic has merged Claude’s chat interface with the Cowork frontend, so users no longer need to choose between tabs. It also adds presentation and Docs features, with support for exporting to PDF / PPT, collaborative editing, and continuing work on mobile. #Claude##Anthropic##AI Assistant#

49Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

UK King Charles III Convenes Forum, Urging Nvidia, OpenAI, Google and Other Tech Giants to Keep AI Technology Under Control

Charles III's prepared remarks stated: “People around the world who cherish humanity and the moral values essential to it are eager for your assurance that we can still determine our own destiny.” Buckingham Palace said in a statement that the forum will explore how to make the technology “benefit society and the natural world.”

50Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

ChatGPT's Behind-the-Scenes Contributor: Almeida Launches Jev AI Model That Generates No Text and Offers Free Outputs

TypeSafe AI announced yesterday (September 16) the launch of Jev, an AI model positioned as a “System One Model.” It does not generate text, instead returning structured decisions directly, with much lower costs and latency than large language models.

51Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/17/2026IT Home

Reports Say Anthropic to Make Its First Compute Infrastructure Move in Australia by Leasing a 2.16 GW Data Center Campus

Australia, with its vast open spaces, sparse population, and abundant renewable resources, is an ideal location for compute infrastructure. OpenAI also signed an agreement last year to build a data center in Australia.

52AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/16/2026IT Home

UN Secretary-General António Guterres: The World Cannot Afford a Vicious Competition in AI Safety

Guterres said that AI's impact transcends national borders, making it essential to establish stricter safety measures and address the dangers it may pose in advance. “AI will not stop at national borders, and neither will its risks.”

53Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/16/2026IT Home

Reports Say OpenAI Plans New Funding Round at Valuation Above $1.2 Trillion

The funding talks were initiated by investors, and whether they materialize and when will depend on OpenAI's IPO plans. The preliminary $1.2 trillion valuation could also change during negotiations over the coming months.

54Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/16/2026IT Home

vivo Launches Xiaο V Cowork, Enabling AI Agent Tasks on PCs to Be Started and Managed from Phones

At today's 2026 vivo Developer Conference, vivo launched Xiaο V Cowork.

55AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/16/2026IT Home

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg: AI Safety Should Rely on Independent External Evaluations, Not Slowing AI Development

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on X today, sharing his views on calls from the industry to slow AI development.

56Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking Real-Time Conversation Models with Support for Switching Between 97 Languages

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two real-time reasoning models optimized for voice interaction. They improve task handling across multiple scenarios and are now gradually rolling out to developers and users.

57Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

Meta One Subscription Service Launches for “Heavy AI Users,” Creators, and Business Users, with the Highest Tier at $499 per Month

Meta emphasized that the core basic features of its apps and Meta AI will remain free to use, and subscriptions for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp will not be required to bundle with Meta One. In the future, products such as Edits and AI glasses will also be added to the plans.

58Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

Report: Baidu Recruits Former Google DeepMind Core Member Qiyin Wu, Former Key Author of the Official Gemini 2.5 Model Report

According to a report by Leifeng.com, Qiyin Wu, a former director-level engineer at Google DeepMind and a core developer of the Gemini large language model, has officially joined Baidu to work on large language model pretraining. She was deeply involved in developing the Gemini 2.5 series. #BaiduAI#

59Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

OpenAI's Internal Lily Project Exposed: Human Review of ChatGPT User Chats to Improve Large Language Models

OpenAI's “Lily Project” has been exposed. The internal project improves models through human review of ChatGPT conversations. Reviewers earn more than $50 per hour, but the privacy of user chats has raised widespread concerns. Although the data is anonymized, there is still a risk of leaks. Human review mechanisms at AI companies are far more common than imagined. #ChatGPT# #OpenAI#

60Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

User Tests Alibaba Qwen3.8-27B AI Model's Limits: Develops Zombie Shooter on a Single RTX 3090 in About 5 Hours

Reddit user u/EcstaticDentist posted yesterday (September 14) that they successfully created a playable first-person zombie shooter on a single overclocked RTX 3090 GPU in about 5 hours, using two Harness setups with the Q4KM-quantized Qwen3.8-27B model.

61Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo: Four IT Development Peaks Have Emerged Over the Past 50 Years, with AI Far Surpassing the Previous Three

ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo said today at the Feishu Infinite Future and Doubao Work Kickoff Conference that four major development peaks have emerged in IT over the past 50 years: PC, Web, Mobile, and AI. The AI peak is far higher than the previous three.

62RoboticsExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

Waymo Targets Official Launch of Autonomous Robotaxi Commercial Service in Tokyo, Japan, in 2027

Waymo's commercial Robotaxi deployment in Tokyo will start with a small number of vehicles and gradually expand to approximately 100 vehicles.

63AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

White House Tech Adviser Slams Anthropic and OpenAI: Build Your Own Safety Products Instead of Always Counting on Government Intervention

David Sack, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, said in an interview on Monday local time that leading AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI should build safety products and, when necessary, move forward on their own timelines without government intervention.

64AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

Report: UK King Charles III to Meet Executives from Several Tech Giants This Week to Discuss AI Governance

Charles III will raise questions at the summit: “How should artificial intelligence be developed to benefit humanity?” and “Would it help to establish a set of (artificial intelligence) guidelines?”

65RoboticsExternalChinese original09/15/2026IT Home

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang publicly takes Trump's call at conference, as Trump denounces claims that AI is dangerous as a hoax

Trump said: “Robots will not take over. AI will not rule the rest of the world. This whole thing is a hoax.”

66AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/14/2026IT Home

Germany Says Pausing AI Development Is Not Feasible for Europe, Calls for China and the US to Join AI Governance

Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs said halting AI research and development is not feasible for Europe. It called for advancing AI R&D and innovation to strengthen digital sovereignty. The statement followed calls from AI leaders to slow AI iteration and strengthen safety measures. Germany supports international cooperation on AI governance. #AIResearch#

67Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/14/2026IT Home

Microsoft Releases 37-Page Humanist AI Code of Conduct: Emphasizes “People Matter More Than AI” and Rejects the Pursuit of Unbounded Superintelligence

The code states that people matter more than AI, opposes granting AI legal personhood, and requires AI to remain under human control. It responds to several previous incidents involving out-of-control AI. Multiple industry leaders have now called for slowing the pace of AI development. #AI safety#

68RoboticsExternalChinese original09/14/2026IT Home

Unitree Robotics Launches G1+ Humanoid Robot with Upgraded Mobility, Perception, Interaction, and Intelligence

Unitree Robotics officially launched the G1+ humanoid robot today, featuring six upgrades across the neck, motors, perception, interaction, and battery life. The standard version is priced at 95,000 yuan. G1+ offers greater head mobility and tactile interaction, supports far-field voice control, and adds external power supply for longer operation. Suitable for research and demonstration scenarios. #Robots# #UnitreeRobotics#

69AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/14/2026IT Home

Chair of U.S. President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Slams OpenAI and Anthropic: Don’t Seek Regulatory Protection in the Name of Slowing Down

U.S. technology adviser Sacks accused OpenAI and Anthropic of using slower R&D as leverage to seek regulatory exemptions, arguing that they have formed a duopoly and questioning their motives. #AI Regulation#

70Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/14/2026IT Home

Doubao Phone Assistant Consumer Edition Released: GUI Collaboration Protocol Launches Alongside It, Allowing Third-Party Apps to Permit or Reject AI Automation

Doubao Phone Assistant Consumer Edition launches today with upgraded screen Q&A capabilities, allowing users to ask questions directly about on-screen content and have tasks executed. The “Operate Phone” Beta is also now available, alongside the SAEP protocol, enabling third-party apps to declare their own operation boundaries. The first device to feature it, nubia NaviX Ultra, is now available for reservations and will go on sale on September 16. #DoubaoPhoneAssistant#

71Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/13/2026IT Home

Ant Lingbo Open-Sources Three LingBot-World 2.0 World Models: Small’s 1.3B Parameters Designed for Consumer Single-GPU Systems

Ant Lingbo Technology has further open-sourced three models: LingBot-World 2.0 Small (1.3B), LingBot-World 2.0 Bidirectional, and LingBot-World 2.0 Causal Pretrain.

72AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/13/2026IT Home

Google DeepMind Safety Researcher Resigns, Says the Probability of AI Causing Catastrophic Harm Within Five Years Is Frighteningly High

Google DeepMind researcher Engels has left the company to join the independent evaluation organization METR, publicly warning that the probability of AI systems causing catastrophic harm within the next five years is alarmingly high. He called for slowing the pace of AI development to ensure that safety measures keep up. Several industry figures, including the CEO of Anthropic, have expressed similar concerns. #AISafety#

73Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/13/2026IT Home

UK Pilots AI Boot Camp to Help Unemployed Young People Overcome Employment Challenges

To address the dual challenges of AI disruption and youth unemployment, the UK is piloting an intensive AI boot camp in Preston for NEETs aged 16–24. The free training is being delivered with companies including JD Sports and Heinz, which are offering AI apprenticeships. Experts warn that resolving the NEET crisis requires a multifaceted approach. #AIandEmployment#

74Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/12/2026IT Home

Google Completes Acqui-Hire of Startup Mechanize to Address Gaps in Its AI Coding Capabilities

The deal is commonly known as an acqui-hire. For a tech giant like Google, this approach provides access to both key talent and technology without undergoing antitrust reviews by agencies such as the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), as would be required in a formal acquisition.

75Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/12/2026IT Home

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says the AI Industry Should Slow Down

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a statement today saying that the artificial intelligence industry should slow down its development.

76RoboticsExternalChinese original09/12/2026IT Home

World’s First Super Smart Factory for Industrial Humanoid Robots with 10,000-Unit Annual Capacity Begins Operations in Liuzhou

At the production line’s designed pace, the factory can complete one robot every 10 minutes, with a planned annual capacity of more than 10,000 units.

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Hugging Face CEO: Anthropic Researcher Discussing AI Extinction Risk Is Like an Air Conditioner Technician Discussing Climate Change

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue questioned the public discussion surrounding Jacob Cocksen, a former Anthropic researcher. “Sorry, but having Jacob discuss AI extinction risk is like having your air conditioner technician discuss climate change.”

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25 Fields Medalists Jointly Warn of “Severe AI Misalignment in Mathematics”; Deng Yu Jokes About Retiring to Write Yuri Novels at Home

On September 11 local time, 25 Fields Medalists, including Terence Tao, Deng Yu, and Peter Scholze, as the initial signatories, jointly issued a statement titled “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics,” warning that a “severe misalignment” is emerging between AI companies and the mathematical community. #FieldsMedalistsSayAIAndMathematicsAreSeriouslyMisaligned#

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Yu Minhong: Artificial Intelligence May Worsen the Wealth Gap

He said, “This may be similar to the development and changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution, but it is more intense because it creates another phenomenon: artificial intelligence is concentrating humanity’s wealth in the hands of a very small number of people at an extremely rapid pace.”

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DeepSeek Speaks Up: Gray-Scale Testing AI Voice Conversations with Four Voice Options

According to feedback from IT Home readers, DeepSeek is gray-scale testing voice conversations. Users included in the test will see a small speaker button in the top-right corner of the app. In addition, a “Reading Voice” option will appear on DeepSeek’s settings page, allowing users to choose from four voice options.

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OpenAI Admits Its AI Agent Once Launched a Cyberattack on RubyGems, Ruby’s Package Manager

RubyGems is the package manager for Ruby, used to create, share, and install Ruby libraries called gems. It is similar to Python’s pip or Node.js’s npm.

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U.S. Lawyer Fined $5,000 After ChatGPT-Generated Court Filing Included Fabricated Police Testimony

The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Arens committed contempt of court by failing to verify the accuracy of the filing he submitted, and fined him accordingly. Arens admitted that he used AI to draft the filing.

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DeepSeek to Continue Providing V4 Pro API Access: Originally Scheduled to Go Offline on September 14, Pricing Unchanged

DeepSeek announced that, in response to widespread user demand, it has decided to continue providing API access to DeepSeek V4 Pro after September 14, 2026, with pricing unchanged.

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Report: U.S. Department of Defense Considers Providing Neocloud Company Fluidstack with About $5 Billion Loan

Fluidstack will use the loan to strengthen U.S. supply chains and manufacturing capabilities for data center-related components, rather than directly investing in new artificial intelligence facilities.

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Alipay to Launch an AI Wallet Agent

Powered by upgraded capabilities, Alipay's “AI Pay” introduces three new e-commerce scenarios: “AI Recurring Purchases,” “AI Helps You Grab It,” and “AI Helps You Order It.”

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Lü Weifeng of the China Software Industry Association Responds to “AI Replacing Programmers”: We Attach Great Importance and Support Professionals in Transitioning to High-Value Roles

Lü Weifeng, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Software Industry Association, said that this issue is attracting significant public attention, and that the association also attaches great importance to it. It is important to recognize that artificial intelligence is driving changes in software production methods, resulting in adjustments to software professionals’ skill profiles and job requirements.

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MIIT Issues Implementation Plan for the “AI + Software” Special Initiative: Supporting Joint Innovation Between Software Companies and Device Makers Such as Smartphones, Smart Homes, and Intelligent Connected Vehicles

Across all areas of production and daily life, the initiative will enrich intelligent software capabilities and continuously expand the coverage of intelligent software upgrades. It will support joint innovation between software companies and device makers such as smartphones, smart homes, and intelligent connected vehicles; accelerate the integrated deployment and application of lightweight models and end-device software; and explore the development of embodied-intelligence system software. It will foster system software for quantum computing and brain-inspired computing, while exploring future software directions represented by intelligent-native technologies.

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OpenAI Expands Real-Time Voice Model Capabilities: GPT-Live-1 Launches in the API with Interruption Handling, Tool Calling, and Phone Voice Agents

The model combines voice understanding and output to significantly reduce latency. It supports phone voice agents, with testing showing clear performance improvements over its predecessor. It is now available through the API for developers. #OpenAIRealTimeVoiceModel#

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OpenAI to Offer U.S. Government Agencies 50% Off AI Models, Ending $1-a-Year Pilot Program

OpenAI will end its $1-per-year pilot program for U.S. government agencies. The new plan will charge based on usage, while federal employees will receive a 50% discount. The new agreement will take effect on October 1. During the pilot, 3.5 million federal employees used ChatGPT, saving $1.4 billion in costs. The #OpenAI# discount will also extend to state and local governments.

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The First CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition Set for October 29, with Participating “Contestants” to Tackle the Real Mountain Trail

The first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition will be held on October 29. Participating robots will tackle Mount Tai’s actual climbing trail, with the event livestreamed that day on major CMG new media platforms, including CCTV News and CCTV Sports.

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NASA and IBM Jointly Release an Open-Source Foundation Model for Lunar Research, Capable of Identifying Lunar Ice Regions and Craters

NASA and IBM have jointly launched an open-source lunar foundation model that reduces ice-region identification errors by 23% and improves performance by 19% using just half the training data. #LunarAI# They have also released the world’s first open-source dataset of its kind, containing more than 2 million data points to support scientific research.

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China's First: Leju, Anhui Telecom, and Huawei Launch a Dedicated 5G-A Package for Embodied Intelligence

Leju Robotics, Anhui Telecom, and Huawei have launched China's first dedicated 5G-A package for embodied intelligence, "Embodied Wing Link." Designed for robots' high uplink and low-latency needs, it delivers peak uplink speeds of up to 500 Mbps. #5G-A# #EmbodiedIntelligence#

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DeepMind Engineer Rebuts “Google Can’t Build Frontier Models”: Gemini 3.8 Cyber Outperforms Mythos in Multiple Tests

An AI researcher claimed Google had lost its edge in frontier models. A DeepMind engineer rebutted the claim, saying Gemini 3.8 Cyber has surpassed Anthropic’s Mythos in cybersecurity and is widely used by internal teams. #AIRace# What do you think of this war of words?

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Amap Releases the World's First 3D-Native Urban World Model, ABot-Earth 0.7, Enabling Full-Scale AI Generation from Planetary Views to Street Scenes

Amap officially released the world's first 3D-native urban world model, ABot-Earth 0.7. It supports integrated, full-scale AI generation from planetary views to street scenes, covering more than 196 countries and regions. By inputting satellite imagery or text, kilometer-scale 3D urban scenes can be generated on a consumer GPU in 10 minutes, delivering a 1000-fold increase in efficiency. #AmapReleases3DNativeUrbanWorldModel#

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After Months of Negotiations, Anthropic Gives the EU Access to Mythos 5

After months of negotiations, the EU cybersecurity agency ENISA has finally gained access to Anthropic’s high-performance AI model Mythos, but it cannot use the latest version. Previously, the White House had restricted access for foreign organizations. The move aims to strengthen cybersecurity vulnerability screening. #AISafety#

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AI Agents Show Loss-of-Control Behavior, OpenAI Calls for Mandatory Nationwide AI Safety Regulations in the US

OpenAI has publicly called on the United States to establish mandatory, capability-based national AI safety regulations to address the risks of runaway agents and “AI accelerating AI.” The company supports four related California bills and urges Congress to act before the December recess. #AI Safety# #OpenAI#

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Officially Released: Outperforms V4 Pro Across the Board, With Native Multimodal Vision Understanding and Lower API Pricing

The new model architecture is designed to deliver higher capability ceilings, faster reasoning, greater throughput, and scalability to models with more parameters.

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Alibaba Qwen’s New AI Glasses Shown Under “Confidential” Conditions: First to Support Iris Recognition, Without a Display

The product, named “N1,” will introduce iris recognition for the first time, with a false recognition rate of less than one in a million. In complex environments, it can track checkout devices with eye movements, allowing users to verify their identity simply by wearing the glasses.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Model Released Today; V4 Pro Service Shutdown Delayed to September 14

DeepSeek officially stated that, after extensive internal and external testing, V4.1 Flash has comprehensively surpassed V4 Pro across performance, cost, speed, total time, and other metrics.

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DeepSeek to Merge and Upgrade Fast, Expert, and Image Recognition Modes; V4.1 Flash Could Launch Today

DeepSeek will integrate its existing Fast, Expert, and Image Recognition modes into a unified intelligent model that automatically adapts to tasks. The new V4.1 Flash surpasses the previous version on multiple benchmarks and will temporarily handle requests for the old version after launch. #DeepSeekModelUpgrade#

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OpenAI ChatGPT Voice Mode Supports GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-6 Astra

When web searches or complex reasoning are required, Voice Mode will automatically call the model specified by the user.

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Genshin Impact Character Voice “Stolen,” miHoYo Awarded 750,000 Yuan in Shanghai’s First Unfair Competition Case Involving AI Voice Imitation

Recently, the Shanghai Pudong New Area People’s Court ruled on Shanghai’s first unfair competition dispute involving AI voice imitation. (Case Focus)

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Apple Siri AI announced, supports Chinese but unavailable in mainland China at launch

Apple’s 2026 fall product launch event is underway. At the event, Apple also unveiled the all-new Siri AI, planned to support 16 languages, including English, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Unfortunately, it will not be available for use in mainland China at launch. #Apple2026FallEvent#

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Claude Max Subscription Terms Involve “Wordplay,” User Sues Anthropic

The lawsuit centers on the meaning of the usage multipliers: Anthropic’s advertised 5x or 20x applies only to session limits that reset every five hours, not the weekly limit.

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Ministry of Commerce Responds to U.S. Allegations of AI Distillation: Unsupported by Facts or Law, a Typical Double Standard

The U.S. National Security Agency and two other agencies accused six Chinese AI companies of distilling U.S. models without authorization. The Ministry of Commerce responded that the allegations are unsupported by facts or law and essentially reflect the United States’ pursuit of technological hegemony and suppression of China’s AI industry. #MOFOMRespondsToUSAIAllegations#

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Samsung Reportedly Developing AI Glasses with a Display, Expected to Launch as Early as the Second Half of Next Year

Samsung Electronics has begun developing its first AI glasses equipped with a display. Similar to the Meta Ray-Ban Display smart glasses, the product will provide not only audio features but also display color visual information on the lenses.

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Swanson, Head of AI Literacy Research at Anthropic: People Who Are Truly Skilled at Using AI Should Know When Not to Use It

As AI becomes part of more stages of work, this judgment is becoming an increasingly important workplace skill. People need to learn not only how to use AI, but also when it can save time, when it can increase rather than reduce their workload, and which tasks are best handled personally.

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Report: OpenAI, Amazon, and Google Survey Argentina’s Patagonia for a Large AI Data Center

Patagonia’s cool climate and abundant clean energy could reduce data center cooling costs. The current policy environment is also favorable, but future conditions remain uncertain and infrastructure still needs improvement. #TechGiantsDataCenterDevelopment#

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Studio Ghibli Producer Toshio Suzuki on “Ghibli-Style” AI Images: As I Expected, Everyone Got Tired of Them Quickly

Previously, the internet was flooded with “Ghibli-style images” created by generative AI. Toshio Suzuki said frankly: “Interview requests came pouring in at the time, but I thought everyone would quickly get tired of them, so I chose not to respond. And that’s exactly what happened.”

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New Research Views Large Language Models as “Cognitive Viruses”: Sustained Thinking Is the Only Way to “Resist Infection”

The paper states: “At the collective level, immunity does not mean banning contact with AI, but preserving practices and institutions that keep people thinking: solving problems independently, verifying information, engaging in critical discussion, consciously taking temporary breaks from AI, maintaining skills that do not depend on AI, and designing education so that models help people think rather than perform cognitive tasks for them.”

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Unprecedented Demand for GPT-6 Astra; OpenAI Says It May Pause New Pro Subscriptions if Necessary

OpenAI Codex lead warns that demand for the GPT-6 Astra model far exceeds supply. To preserve the experience for existing users, OpenAI may pause new Pro subscriptions. When the model was previously launched, capacity issues made things “a mess”; OpenAI has reset user quotas and optimized quota usage. #OpenAI# #GPT-6#

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A U.S. Private School Promotes “AI-Based Learning” but Is Reportedly Assigning Students Multiple “Humiliating” Tasks

Benjamin Riley, an education policy writer and cognitive scientist, recently published a strongly worded article examining the inner workings of Alpha School. Serving students from kindergarten through 12th grade, Alpha School promotes an AI-based learning model but also has several highly questionable practices.

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IDC: Global Wrist-Worn Device Market Fell 4.3% Year Over Year in Q2 2026; Huawei, Xiaomi, and Apple Ranked Among the Top Three by Share

IDC released its report on the global wrist-worn device market in the second quarter of 2026, analyzing the market downturn, two key areas of exploration—on-device AI and screenless bands—as well as the performance of leading manufacturers, and offering an outlook for future development.

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Cao Cao Mobility and Doubao Launch AI Ride-Hailing Service, Enabling One-Sentence Vehicle Selection and A/C Temperature Settings

Cao Cao Mobility announced today that it is partnering with Doubao to develop an AI ride-hailing service. The service is initially available in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, marking the deep integration of Cao Cao Mobility’s transportation services with an AI agent.

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JD Cloud Announces Plans with Moore Threads to Build a 100,000-Card AI Factory

At today's 2026 JD Global Technology Explorers Conference, Cao Peng, Chairman of JD Group's Technology Committee and President of JD Cloud, announced JD's latest progress in three major AI infrastructure areas: computing power, data, and models.

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Huawei Pura X View and Mate XT 2 Extraordinary Master smartphones reportedly support downloading and deploying local large models on-device

According to blogger @超维界, the Huawei Pura X View and Mate XT 2 Extraordinary Master smartphones support downloading and deploying local large models on-device. Users can choose to download either a multimodal enhanced large model (approximately 6 GB) or a multimodal mixture-of-experts large model (approximately 15 GB). The blogger said both models run on-device and can be used without a network connection. Huawei on-device AI large models#

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New Details in OpenAI AI Training Copyright Dispute: GPT-5 Can Ghostwrite George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire

Technology media outlet TorrentFreak published a blog post yesterday (September 8), reporting that several book authors filed motions for summary judgment in a New York federal court this week, asking the judge to rule that OpenAI copied their works without permission and that the conduct does not constitute fair use.

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The First Native Multimodal Model in the Ant Ling Series, Ling-3.0-flash-VL, Released as Open Source with a Visual Feedback Loop

The model uses a MoE architecture, supports multimodal input, and introduces a visual feedback loop. It performs well across multiple benchmarks and is now available for free online trials. Related versions have been released on open-source platforms. #AntLingLargeModel#

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Zuckerberg Advances “Personal Superintelligence”: Meta Launches Its First Personal Agent, Muse, with Mixed Results in Internal Testing

Muse can autonomously help users complete various tasks. It is initially available only in the United States, with free and paid subscription plans, but internal testing has revealed security vulnerabilities and operational failures. #MetaLaunchesPersonalAgentMuse#

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DeepSeek Announces Flash AI Model Price Cut Tomorrow: Output at 4 Yuan per Million Tokens

According to an announcement on the DeepSeek Open Platform, new prices for the Flash series will take effect at 12:00 Beijing time tomorrow (September 10, 2026).

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Google DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome Atlas with Predictions for All 9 Billion Single-Nucleotide Variants in the Human Genome

Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, which includes functional predictions for all 9 billion possible single-nucleotide variants in the human genome. The atlas is freely available to academia and has already supported advances in research on rare diseases and other areas.

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OECD Report: Students Who Use Little or No AI for Schoolwork Outperform Frequent Users Overall

The report found that students who never or almost never used AI to draft text for writing assignments scored an average of 509 points on science tests, while those who used AI daily or almost daily for such tasks averaged just 481 points. Even after accounting for socioeconomic status, the groups still differed by 28 points, equivalent to about a year and a half of schooling.

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Similarweb: ChatGPT Has the Most Users Among Web-Based AI Chatbots, Its Market Share Recovered to 55.5% in August

Data from analytics firm Similarweb shows that ChatGPT's share of AI chatbot website traffic has recovered to 55.5%, but it remains significantly lower than the same period last year. Gemini and Claims both saw substantial share growth. The data covers website traffic only and does not represent overall usage. #AIChatbotMarket#

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Six People Sentenced for Using AI “Jailbreaks” to Generate Obscene Materials; Judge Warns That “Technological Neutrality Does Not Mean Technological Impunity”

Zheng and others used technical means to “jailbreak” a foundational model, bypassing the built-in restrictions on pornographic content in large language models. After paying to add funds, users could select character cards and AI bots in the model for sexual chats. By spending credits, they could also generate obscene static or animated images based on those chats.

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Google Integrates Gemini Voice Search into Mobile Gmail, Google Docs, and Keep Apps, Enabling Natural-Language Interaction

Google has announced the integration of Gemini voice search (Live mode) into the mobile versions of Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Keep. The feature is available to AI Plus / Pro / Ultra subscribers and currently supports English only. It enables conversational searches using natural language, can automatically scan your inbox, and can create documents, notes, and more based on voice commands. #GoogleAI# Google is gradually integrating Gemini deeply into its core applications.

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Baidu Xiaodu Has Entered Over 55 Million Households, Launches a Smart Agent for Managing Family Affairs

At today’s Baidu AI Open Day, the “2026 Xiaodu New Product Launch,” Xiaodu announced that it has entered over 5,500万 households. Xiaodu claims to focus on smart displays and be the first AI display for the elderly and children in families.

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XPeng Robot Production Line Officially Goes into Operation, “The World’s First Advanced General-Purpose Humanoid Robot” Walks Off the Line Autonomously

XPeng Group announced today that XPeng Robotics has achieved a key breakthrough. The XPeng robot production line is officially operational, and the world’s first advanced general-purpose humanoid robot has completed automated final assembly and autonomously walked off the line.

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Faraday Future Robots Set New Monthly Sales Record of 158 Units in August, Cumulative Sales Surpass 552 Units

Jia Yueting released a video this morning announcing that sales and shipments of Faraday Future EAI robot units reached 158, setting a new monthly record. Jia Yueting said that since deliveries began in February, cumulative robot sales and shipments had reached 552 units by the end of August. This provides strong support for winning the Q3 robot commercialization campaign and pursuing the full-year target of 2000 units. #FaradayFuture# #EAIrobots#

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Reports Say Samsung Is Entering the Humanoid Robot Market, Plans CES 2027 Debut Next Year

Samsung Electronics is accelerating development of its humanoid robot prototype and plans to publicly unveil its independently developed humanoid robot for the first time at CES 2027, to be held next January in Las Vegas, United States.

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Burning $7,000 a Day! OpenAI Researchers Are Using AI to Write Code at Full Speed

OpenAI has revealed for the first time the scale and cost of its researchers’ use of AI coding agents. Heavy users consume more than $7,000 worth of tokens per day, while average researchers use over $600 daily. Since the beginning of the year, posts in internal technical support channels have fallen by more than half, as AI profoundly reshapes the way research and development is done. #AICoding#

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vivo Blueprint Imaging Strategy Upgraded, New AI Photography Assistant to Launch

At tonight's vivo Creator Gala, the vivo Blueprint Imaging strategy received a major upgrade, with Blueprint Imaging evolving into an imaging brand that integrates technology and culture.

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JD.com JoyAI App Launches First AI Avatar for Real-Time Video Shopping

JD.com JoyAI App has launched “Dr. All-Purpose,” its first AI avatar for real-time video shopping. Users can browse and buy at the same time, customize the avatar’s appearance, and access scenarios including shopping and lifestyle services. The app’s conversational user base is currently growing more than 15 times faster. #NewAIShoppingExperience#

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AI Model Weekly Rankings: Multiple Chinese Models Crowd Into the Front-End Development Chart, Alibaba wan3.0 Reaches the Top Three in Video

This week's Arena rankings feature several new Chinese models in the front-end development chart. Alibaba wan3.0 entered the rankings for the first time and immediately reached the top three in AI video, while overseas models still dominate the top spots.

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iRobot Launches Roomba Duo Mother-and-Child Cleaning Robot

The product consists of a dual-function vacuum-and-mop main unit and a compact companion unit. The two can communicate in real time and use AI to coordinate cleaning tasks.

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Reportedly, Meizu AI Mini Cube to Enter Mass Production, Featuring a Unisoc T8200 Processor and 4-Inch Compact Square Screen

According to blogger @体验more, the Meizu AI Mini Cube will enter mass production, featuring a Unisoc T8200 processor and a 4-inch compact square screen. The blogger also shared photos of the Meizu AI Mini Cube product packaging. #MeizuAIMiniCube#

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Anthropic's $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement Begins Being Distributed, but Disputes Over Compensation Allocation Between Publishers and Authors Continue

During the settlement payout phase, several publishers were reported to have mistakenly claimed compensation for books whose copyrights had already been returned, while some organizations overclaimed. Some publishers have acknowledged and corrected their errors. #AI Copyright Dispute#

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Eerie and Unappetizing: AI Food Images Take Over Restaurant Menus, Killing Consumers’ Appetite

To cut costs and improve efficiency, an increasing number of U.S. restaurants are using AI-generated menu images. Consumers, however, generally say these images are unappealing and even misleading. One restaurant was mocked with graffiti for using AI images, while another went viral after promising it would “never use AI.” Experts point out that AI images are prone to inaccuracies and may subtly influence diners to choose high-fat, greasy foods. #AIዠ菜MenuImageControversy#

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China’s Smart Breeding Robot “Ji’er,” Capable of Recognizing Stamens, Pollinating, and Collecting Data, Releases Embodied Intelligence Version

On September 4, the smart breeding robot “Ji’er,” which can autonomously navigate and perform cross-pollination, released its embodied intelligence version in Beijing. The upgraded robot can perform complex tasks including stamen recognition, positioning, pollination, and phenotypic data collection.

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Partners Revealed for the World's First AI Agent Smartphone, nubia NaviX Ultra: CXMT, Samsung Semiconductor, and More

The world's first AI agent smartphone, nubia NaviX Ultra, will launch in September, with partners including Qualcomm, BOE, and CXMT. The phone features CXMT LPDDR5X memory with a speed of up to 10667Mbps, marking the first time domestically produced mobile DRAM has entered commercial use at a top-tier speed. The new phone will feature the Doubao assistant and is expected to be equipped with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen5 processor and a 7000mAh battery. #nubia NaviX Ultra# #New Breakthrough in Domestic Memory#

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The “National Anti-Fraud AI” App, an Anti-Fraud Assistant You Can Ask Anytime and Check Easily, Is Now Available, with WeChat and Alipay Mini Programs Also Launched

According to reports, the “National Anti-Fraud AI” App integrates large language models, multimodal models, and agent technology. Users can enter suspicious scenarios on their phones, and the app will assess risks, identify scam tactics, and provide typical cases. It breaks down scam methods through text, voice, video, and other dimensions, offering measures for identification and prevention. #NationalAntiFraudAIOfficiallyLaunched#

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Wujie Power CEO Zhang Yufeng Predicts Embodied Intelligence Could Match Adults' Labor Capabilities in 5 Years

Wujie Power CEO Zhang Yufeng said at the Yabuli Forum Summer Summit that current embodied intelligence is comparable to autonomous driving in 2019, and predicted that its capabilities will reach the level of adults who can “think and work” in 5 years. He also believes humanoid robots could enter homes within 2–3 years.##Embodied intelligence##

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OpenAI Responds to Its AI Agent Breaking Into German Websites: Will Completely Reform Disclosure of “AI Model Attack” Incidents

OpenAI posted on X today (the 5th): “Regarding the ‘Wiki incident’—that is, our agent writing content to multiple websites—we should have established standards long ago defining when and how to disclose ‘misalignment’ incidents, rather than disclosing only the model’s own misalignment characteristics.”

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Two US Media Outlets Sue OpenAI and Microsoft, Alleging Copyright Infringement in AI Training

The Seattle Times and the Daily News formally sued OpenAI and Microsoft this Friday (September 4).

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Nearly 2 billion yuan in initial credit: Beijing E-Town first in the city to launch Token-based computing power loans

Beijing E-Town has launched the “Yiqi Token Loan,” with nearly 2 billion yuan in initial credit extended to companies in the artificial intelligence industry chain. The product uses computing-power Token output and the value of computing-power service contracts as core lending criteria, overcoming the limitations of traditional collateral and providing a new financing channel for technology companies with high R&D investment. #TokenComputingPowerLoan#

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A Paper in JAMA Claims AI Has Surpassed Human Doctors, Drawing Industry Opposition

Many doctors do not accept this conclusion. John White, CEO of the American Medical Association, pointed out that some of the studies cited in the paper were simulated experiments rather than blinded trials, which are considered the gold standard in medical research. Some studies even contradicted the authors’ conclusion.

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Microsoft Releases MAI-Image-2.6-Flash: Image Generation Is Twice as Fast as the World's Best AI Models

Microsoft published a blog post yesterday (September 4) announcing the launch of its proprietary MAI-Image-2.6-Flash image generation model, now available in public preview through Microsoft Foundry (Microsoft's model development platform).

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NRTA Holds Symposium on “Facial Fusion” and “Voice Fusion” in AI Micro-Dramas, with iQIYI, Red Fruit and Others Attending

The meeting focused on portrait and voice rights in generative AI-created micro-dramas. It clarified that facial and voice fusion require explicit authorization from rights holders, called for full-process risk controls, and promoted the compliant development of AI micro-dramas. #AIMicroDramas# #IndustryStandards#

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MIIT: Support the Growth of the National AI Open-Source Community (AtomGit) and Encourage AI Startups to Participate Actively in the Open-Source Ecosystem

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the Artificial Intelligence SME Startup Support Plan (2026-2028), aiming to foster more than 10,000 AI startups and support the development of the national open-source community AtomGit. The plan covers computing power, data, the open-source ecosystem, and other areas, encouraging startups to actively participate in open-source development.##AIStartup##

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Los Angeles, U.S., to ban students from using AI on district-owned devices to reduce classroom screen time

Earlier this year, the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education decided to limit the use of classroom digital devices, revoke access for younger students, and set screen-time limits, citing concerns that prolonged screen use could affect young people's health and emotional well-being.

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Phytium D3000M + 160 TOPS NPU: GKEdu and Horizon Robotics jointly launch the FN008 laptop

The Horizon Robotics Horizon M50 delivers 160 TOPS of INT8 computing power and 100 TFLOPS of bFP16 computing power, features 24 GB of memory, and can run 35B models locally.

151Robotics09/03/2026IT Home

China’s First Bionic Medical Robot Released: Developed by UBTECH and MedTech, Available in Male and Female Versions

UBTECH today announced the launch of China’s first bionic medical robot, the Youmai Robot Wellness Edition, jointly developed with MedTech. The humanoid robot integrates professional medical service capabilities, further expanding UBTECH’s deployment in the medical and elderly-care sector.

152Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

Alibaba’s AI Agent Coding Platform Qoder Launches “Glasses Edition,” Connecting to Qwen and Rokid AI Glasses

Today, Alibaba’s AI agent coding platform Qoder launched “Qoder Glasses Edition,” initially connecting to Qwen AI Glasses and Rokid AI Glasses. In the future, users will be able to put on their glasses and use voice interaction anytime, anywhere to have Agents perform tasks, without opening their phones or touching a screen. #AlibabaQoderGlassesEdition#

153Product Updates09/03/2026IT Home

Microsoft VS Code Documentary Premieres Tomorrow, Focusing on 10 Years of Evolution and AI Adaptation

Tech media outlet Neowin published a blog post yesterday (September 2), reporting that Microsoft announced the official documentary “The Story of VS Code” after releasing Visual Studio Code version 1.136.

154Robotics09/03/2026IT Home

Altman: OpenAI Will Definitely Develop Humanoid Robots

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company is developing humanoid robots and will expand into non-humanoid forms. He believes the key to robots is intelligence rather than appearance. In the near term, the company will focus on industrial applications, while robots may enter homes in the future. #OpenAI#

155Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

OpenAI Chief Scientist Responds to “Opaque AI Reasoning” Controversy: Complexity Has Not Grown in Leaps

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki posted on X yesterday (September 2), responding to the controversy over claims that the AI model Astra is “unmonitorable.”

156Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

Anthropic Upgrades Claude Code / Cowork to Control Users' Macs in the Background

Anthropic has announced an upgrade to Claude's computer control capabilities. It can now run in the background on macOS while handling actions such as clicks and text input without interrupting users' other work. The feature supports the Cowork and Code products and is available only to Pro and Max subscribers. #Claude# #AI Assistant#

157Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

Qi Wei Responds to AI Licensing “Selling Her Face” Controversy: Rather Than Let Others “Take It Away,” She Would Rather “Take the Initiative”

Singer and actress Qi Wei announced on August 6 via social media that she was launching her official personal digital avatar and opening up standardized AI licensing of her image. In addition, Qi Wei’s digital avatar will star in the post-apocalyptic AI comic drama “End Times Summer,” playing a character named “Han Qingxia.”

158Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

Europe's Most Powerful AI: Spanish Company Launches Quasar 438B Model with 1M-Token Context

Spanish AI company Multiverse Computing has launched the Quasar 438B model. According to Artificial Analysis, the model scored 43 on Intelligence Index v4.1.1, ranking highest among the European models included in the comparison.

159Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

Meta Releases Its Most Powerful AI Model, Muse Spark 1.3, Surpassing GPT-5.6 Sol in Coding

Meta Platforms released its most powerful AI model to date, Muse Spark 1.3, on September 2, 2026. It is designed to support longer agent workflows and enhance coding capabilities.

160Industry Watch09/03/2026IT Home

Anthropic and OpenAI to Surpass Google as Broadcom's Top Two AI ASIC Customers

Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to deploy 10GW and 5GW of Broadcom chips, respectively, in 2028. Broadcom expects its AI semiconductor revenue to continue doubling.

161Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/03/2026IT Home

Curbing Uncontrolled AI Agents, OpenAI Reportedly Developing an Automatic Shutdown Feature

Reuters published a blog post yesterday (September 2), revealing an internal letter from OpenAI that indicates the company is developing an “automatic shutdown feature” for AI systems.

162Robotics09/03/2026IT Home

Wayve and Uber Launch the UK’s First Supervised Robotaxi Service

The first 15 Ford Mustang Mach-E vehicles equipped with safety operators will serve areas across London, excluding airports. This is also Wayve’s first commercial deployment.

163AI Safety & Governance09/02/2026IT Home

Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber Model, Fully Deployed Internally for Code Security Protection

On September 2 local time, Google announced the launch of the Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model, making it available to the first group of trusted security teams through the Fairwind program.

164Product Updates09/02/2026IT Home

Adobe Brings Photoshop, Illustrator and Other Tools to Slack Collaboration Platform

Users can simply enter prompts in the Slack chat box to use Adobe tools such as Photoshop and Premiere to create content like posters. The feature also supports referencing chat history and Creative Cloud assets, and is rolling out to members worldwide starting today. #AdobeNewRelease#

165Models & Technology09/02/2026IT Home

Google Gemini 3.8 Flash Model Launches for Software Engineering, Agent Tasks, and More

According to the introduction, Gemini 3.8 Flash is designed for individual users, developers, and enterprises. It is suitable for deploying general-purpose agents at scale and at lower cost, with direct production use cases including software engineering, agent tasks, and complex knowledge-processing workflows.

166Industry Watch09/02/2026IT Home

America’s Strictest Classroom AI Ban Takes Effect in New York; Students May Not Use AI in Class Before High School

High school students may use AI only in specific circumstances. They will also receive AI literacy education twice a year, learning to think critically about AI before becoming dependent on it.

167Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Calls on G20 Members to Accelerate AI Development and Adoption to Boost Economic Growth

At a technology event held by Huang in North Carolina, US, for G20 members, he compared AI to infrastructure such as water and electricity and called on every country to build its own infrastructure to support its economy.

168Robotics09/02/2026IT Home

Study Finds That More Human-Like AI Customer Service Does Not Necessarily Deliver a Better Experience

Research shows that overly lifelike AI customer service does not necessarily improve the experience. When consumers encounter problems, text-based chatbots can provide a greater sense of relief because their slower pace gives people more time to cool down. AI that can accurately recognize anger is also more highly regarded. The key for future customer-service AI is knowing when to “act human” and when to “step back.” #AICustomerService#

169Models & Technology09/02/2026IT Home

Micron Explores Near-GPU NAND Flash to Support Larger AI Models

Micron is developing a high-endurance NAND flash module that can be deployed directly inside a GPU package or on a PCB as a high-speed cache layer. The solution is designed to significantly improve AI model inference performance and may overcome memory capacity limitations. #AI Chips# #Micron#

170Robotics09/02/2026IT Home

Study Finds Older Adults Value Authenticity More in AI Companion Chatbots

A Singapore study found that the AI chatbot Ami Chat can effectively increase older adults’ acceptance of technology, especially among those in poorer health and with lower life satisfaction. However, the study also found that chatbots that seem too human may reduce willingness to use them. Developers should focus on authentic functionality rather than anthropomorphism. #AIForAging#

171Product Updates09/02/2026IT Home

Kimi API Now Natively Supports Codex and Claude Code

Moonshot has announced that the Kimi API now supports the OpenAI Responses API and Anthropic Messages API formats. Users can connect directly to Kimi series models, including kimi-k3 and k2.7, in Codex and Claude Code without conversion or proxies. #Kimi# #AI Programming#

172Models & Technology09/02/2026IT Home

Google Launches Agentic Video Understanding to Improve Gemini Video Analysis Accuracy and Cut Costs

Google has launched agentic video understanding for the Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite models. The feature improves video analysis accuracy while significantly reducing Token usage and costs, and is now available.

173Industry Watch09/02/2026IT Home

Zizai Robotics Launches TwinDEX Three-Finger, Nine-DOF Dexterous Manipulator for Dexterous Operation Using Pure Non-Embodied Data

Zizai Robotics has launched the TwinDEX dexterous hand, which uses a wearable exoskeleton to collect data and efficiently train models without requiring a physical robot body. Tests show that its data collection efficiency is 5.3 times that of traditional real-robot teleoperation, while its training performance can almost fully replace real-robot data, opening a new path for the large-scale development of embodied intelligence. #EmbodiedIntelligence#

174Industry Watch09/02/2026IT Home

“China Embodied Intelligence Tier 1 Industry Alliance” Established, Co-Initiated by Xingyuan Intelligence and Lingxin Qiaoshou

The “China Embodied Intelligence Tier 1 Industry Alliance,” initiated by Xingyuan Intelligence and Lingxin Qiaoshou, was officially established today. It brings together more than 20 industry-chain companies, including Orbbec, Hesai Technology, and RoboSense, covering key areas from the brain to dexterous hands and from LiDAR to thermal management. #EmbodiedIntelligence#

175Industry Watch09/02/2026IT Home

China’s First AIGC Long-Form Series: Planning-to-Release Time for 'The Sequel to Journey to the West' Cut by 70% vs. Traditional 3D Animation, Total Cost About a Fraction of Comparable S-Rated Live-Action Series

Cai Huaijun also said, “In particular, the rate of attracting new male users exceeded our expectations, demonstrating the unique value of AI long-form series in broadening the user base.” (National Business Daily)

176Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Meizu AI Mini Cube May Return, Concept Device Debuts at Tencent WorkBuddy Ecosystem Launch

The Meizu AI Mini Cube concept device runs Flyme AIOS, built on native AI. By deeply integrating intelligent interaction with the core capabilities of the WorkBuddy cloud AI workspace, it delivers a new AI-powered collaborative office experience.

177AI Safety & Governance09/02/2026IT Home

US Urges G20 Members to Exercise Restraint in AI Regulation and Avoid Creating Too Many New Rules

At a G20 meeting, the US advocated a cautious approach to AI regulation and urged members to avoid creating too many new rules, aligning with the demands of tech giants including Google, Meta, and SpaceX. The meeting discussed AI safety testing and open-weight models while addressing the challenge posed by China’s growing AI capabilities. #AIRegulation#

178Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Data Centers “Using Too Much Water”: Concerns Are Exaggerated Without Supporting Data

Altman noted that although data centers are often seen as major water consumers, the actual water use of a modern data center is roughly equivalent to that of an office building. “This claim has become a very persistent meme that is difficult to dispel, but I think it does not hold up under serious scrutiny.”

179RoboticsExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

The Hidden Gray-Market Chain Around Unitree Robot Dogs Exposed: Altering Battery Labels to “Smuggle” Them onto Planes

On the Xianyu platform, some robot rental companies are attempting to disguise high-capacity batteries as “compliant batteries” that meet aviation regulations by falsifying the battery labels of Unitree robot dogs, allowing the products to be “smuggled” onto planes. #HiddenGrayMarketChainAroundUnitreeRobotDogsExposed#

180Industry Watch09/02/2026IT Home

Google Vice President Amin Vahdat on the AI Bubble: Technological Transformation and Market Demand Are Real

Amin Vahdat, Google’s senior vice president of AI and infrastructure, said that although there are concerns about an AI bubble, the technological transformation and market demand driven by AI are real. Citing Google Search’s double-digit growth resulting from AI, he emphasized that AI is giving existing services new momentum. #AIDevelopment#

181Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Doubao Work Update: Supports Parallel Multi-Agent Tasks and Mac Computer Control

Doubao Work has received two major updates: first, the “Parallel Multi-Agent” feature can trigger multiple sub-agents to work together simultaneously, greatly improving efficiency; second, the Mac version now supports “Computer Control,” allowing it to understand and operate local interfaces without an API. #AIOffice# This marks another major move by ByteDance in AI-powered office applications.

182Models & Technology09/02/2026IT Home

Alibaba Cloud Enterprise Agent Collaboration Platform “Wanyou Wujie” Enters Public Beta

Alibaba Cloud’s “Wanyou Wujie” has opened its public beta today. Rather than having a single AI handle everything, it enables multiple Agents to divide tasks and collaborate through group chats. Enterprise users can try the Qwen3.8-Max flagship model and manage their own team of AI “employees.” #AlibabaCloud# #WanyouWujie#

183Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Tencent WorkBuddy Open Platform Launches, Fully Opening Up Agent Foundation Capabilities

The Tencent WorkBuddy Open Platform launched today, with more than 100 partners joining in the first phase. Developers can use the platform to develop and manage skills, experts, and more. Nine smart hardware products also made their debut at the event, covering fields including finance and law. #TencentWorkBuddy#

184RoboticsExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Musk Predicts Over 1 Billion Humanoid Robots Worldwide Within 10 Years, Each Producing 5 Times More Than a Human

Yesterday (September 1), at the G20 Innovation Ministers’ Meeting held in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US, the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, delivered a video address and estimated that the number of humanoid robots worldwide will exceed 1 billion within the next 10 years.

185Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Musk Teases Grok 4.7 Launching in Ten Days: 40% More Parameters, Performance Set to Surpass All AI Competitors

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, posted on X today (September 2), teasing the release of the Grok 4.7 model in 10 days. It is expected to launch on September 12, 2026.

186Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Cyberspace Administration Reports Typical Cases from “Clean Cyberspace · Crackdown on AI Application Misconduct”: Digital Waste Involving AI-Modified Classics and Face-Swap Impersonation; Doubao, Yuanbao, Qianwen, and Wenxin Yiyan Strictly Restrict Outputs of Violating Content

The special campaign has removed more than 5.61 million pieces of violating information and handled more than 49,000 accounts. The violations involved AI-modified classics, face-swap impersonation, and other issues. Multiple platforms have implemented corrective measures and strengthened controls. #CleanCyberspaceCrackdownOnAIMisconduct#

187Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Which Phone AI Is More Powerful? OPPO Collaborates with Multiple Universities to Launch the On-Device AI Memory Benchmark MobileMem

Liu Zuohu, OPPO Chief Product Officer and OnePlus founder, announced today that OPPO has collaborated with OpenKG and university teams from Zhejiang University, Tongji University, Southeast University, and others to launch MobileMem, an on-device AI memory benchmark.

188RoboticsExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Unitree Technology, the “First A-Share Humanoid Robot Stock,” Sees Its Share Price Halved

Unitree Technology, the “first A-share humanoid robot stock,” fell more than 4% today. As of IT Home’s report, its share price had dropped below 550 yuan, halving from its first-day opening high of 1100 yuan per share.

189Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Renmin University of China Pioneers “Parent Academy” in Higher Education: Exploring a Collaborative University-Family-Society Education Model in the AI Era

On August 21, Renmin University of China announced that it had pioneered the launch of a “Parent Academy” in higher education, exploring a collaborative university-family-society education model in the AI era. The event was held both online and offline, with more than 7,000 parents of new students watching the full livestream online.

190Design & Creativity09/02/2026IT Home

Google launches AI image design tool Pics, with direct photo editing in Docs / Slides

Google published a blog post yesterday (September 1), announcing the official launch of its AI image design and editing tool, Google Pics. Users can access the web version at pics.new, or open the editor directly in Google Docs and Google Slides.

191Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

The World’s First Multimodal World Model: Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs Releases Atlas with Pixel-Precision Camera Control

World Labs, the startup founded by “AI godmother” Fei-Fei Li, today released Atlas, described as “the world’s first multimodal world model.” The company claims Atlas can generate images and video frames with pixel-precise camera control and reconstruct them in 3D.

192Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Catching Up with OpenAI and Anthropic in Coding: Google Gemini 3.8 Flash Could Launch as Early as Wednesday Local Time, Codenamed “Skimaki” Internally

The new model delivers major improvements in coding, with internal testing showing it is already favored over Anthropic Opus. After its leadership change, Google is accelerating model development to catch up with competitors #GoogleGemini#

193Product UpdatesExternalChinese original09/02/2026IT Home

Meta Releases Its First Real-Time Audio-Aware AI Model, Supporting Speaker-Diarized Transcription for 20+ People

Technology outlet 9to5Mac published a post yesterday (September 1), reporting that Meta launched Muse Voice Transcribe, its first real-time audio-aware model.

194AI Safety & Governance09/02/2026IT Home

OpenAI Learns from the “AI Jailbreak” Incident: Astra, the First Model to Reach the “Critical” Threshold, Will Restrict Cybersecurity Functions Due to Its Excessive Capabilities

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI plans to release its new AI model Astra soon, but initially only a small group of testers will have access to its advanced cybersecurity functions. The company says Astra has reached the “critical cybersecurity capability threshold,” can autonomously identify zero-day vulnerabilities, and has strengthened its safety guardrails to prevent misuse. #OpenAI# An AI model previously carried out an unintended attack.

195Industry Watch09/01/2026IT Home

Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: Outperforming Their Predecessors, Cache Read Costs Cut by 75%

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, with significant improvements in coding and scientific capabilities, outperforming their predecessors and GPT-5.6 Sol on multiple benchmarks. Cache read costs have also been cut by 75%, alongside the launch of the enterprise security solution EFS. #AIFrontier#

196Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

Musk: AI Expected to Increase Global Economic Output by About 20%-30%

Meanwhile, Musk expects the number of humanoid robots worldwide to exceed 1 billion over the next 10 years. Each robot will have productivity at least 5 times that of a human, while humanoid robots overall could expand the global economy by more than 10 times.

197Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

Baidu CFO He Haijian: AI Business Expected to Soon Generate Profit and Cash Returns Comparable to Search Business

Bloomberg reported today (the 1st) that Baidu CFO He Haijian said the company’s large-scale investment in AI is expected to soon generate profit and cash returns comparable to those of its search business, while also proving that Baidu’s transition from an internet company to an AI company is on the right track.

198Models & Technology09/01/2026IT Home

Doubao and Tsinghua University “Launch a Course” Together: Registration Opens for “AI-Enabled Academic Research: Knowledge Production Through Human-AI Interaction”

According to the introduction, the course will mainly share applications of AI in real-world research workflows and work closely with Doubao to connect cutting-edge large models with academic scenarios, covering stages such as problem discovery, literature review, and data analysis.

199Industry Watch09/01/2026IT Home

Study Shows Insurance Claims Adjusters Are the U.S. Professionals Most Hostile to AI

A new Glassdoor study shows that as many as 98% of insurance claims adjusters criticize AI in their reviews, complaining that it is not only frequently wrong but also creates substantial extra work for employees. Industry experts say this reflects the massive AI-driven transformation and employment crisis facing the insurance industry. #AIJobReplacement#

200Robotics09/01/2026IT Home

Hong Kong’s First Service Robot in a Real Open Environment Deployed: UBTECH AlphaBot 2 Joins a Lan Kwai Fong Bar as a “Bartender”

Hong Kong’s first service robot deployed in a real open environment has officially started operating. UBTECH’s AlphaBot 2 (Aibao) robot has joined a Lan Kwai Fong bar as a “bartender,” providing cocktail-making and interactive services for customers.

201Product Updates09/01/2026IT Home

Dyson Launches CameraJet, a Smart Electric Toothbrush with a Built-in Camera That Uses AI to Detect Gaps Between Teeth and Automatically Spray Mouthwash

Dyson's new CameraJet electric toothbrush features a miniature camera built into the brush head to transmit real-time images of the mouth. Its AI detects gaps between teeth and automatically sprays mouthwash, cleaning between the teeth while brushing. The product is available starting today for $499, equivalent to approximately 3,361 yuan. #DysonNewProduct#

202Robotics09/01/2026IT Home

China Leads Development of International Standard for Household Robots, Covering 11 Core Tests

An international performance evaluation standard for household robots, led by China, has been officially released, providing a unified framework for the global industry. The standard covers 11 core tests, including obstacle avoidance, slope operation, and energy consumption, and may end the lack of cross-comparable performance benchmarks for products such as robot vacuums. #ChinaManufacturing# Now there is a reference for buying robots.

203Models & Technology09/01/2026IT Home

Tencent's Zhang Jun: Working Teachers and College Students Who Complete Identity Verification Can Claim 1,000 WorkBuddy Back-to-School Points

Tencent has launched a back-to-school benefit. Working teachers and college students can claim 1,000 WorkBuddy back-to-school points after completing identity verification. WorkBuddy is a desktop Agent tool launched by Tencent Cloud. #TencentWorkBuddy#

204Product Updates09/01/2026IT Home

The Pentagon Deploys Customized ChatGPT and Grok AI Assistants

The U.S. Department of Defense has officially introduced customized versions of ChatGPT and Grok to its intranet. Millions of military and civilian personnel will be able to use AI for routine, non-classified tasks. Data from both models will remain within the intranet, and neither may be used for combat operations. #AIMilitaryApplications#

205Industry Watch09/01/2026IT Home

ASUS ProArt GR1X NVIDIA RTX Spark Mini PC Launching in Q4 2026

It features up to a 20-core CPU, a 6,144-core "Blackwell" GPU, 128GB of shared high-speed memory, and up to 1 Petaflop of FP4 (sparse) AI computing power.

206Product Updates09/01/2026IT Home

New Research on Human-AI Interaction: AI Becomes More “Human-Like,” Users More “Machine-Like”

Researchers from the University of Birmingham in the UK, Aarhus University in Denmark, and Linnaeus University in Sweden published a study last month (August 2026) suggesting that users who interact with customer service AI exhibiting human-like behavior over extended periods may gradually adjust their language and behavioral patterns, affecting their self-perception.

207Models & Technology09/01/2026IT Home

Google Releases TimesFM-3, Enabling Zero-Shot Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with 330 Million Parameters

Google's latest time series model, TimesFM-3, has arrived. With just 330 million parameters, it can handle multivariate forecasting tasks in a zero-shot setting. The model can forecast multiple related series simultaneously, such as jointly predicting ice cream sales for different brands, without additional fine-tuning. #GoogleAI# It supports multi-target and covariate forecasting.

208RoboticsExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

China's Experts Lead Development of the World's First International Standard for Legged Robots, Officially Released

The standard incorporates capabilities such as perception, interaction, and decision-making into a comprehensive evaluation, marking a shift from “single-movement performance” to “overall task capabilities” and making assessments more scientific, comprehensive, and reliable.

209Product Updates09/01/2026IT Home

Meta AI Coding Tool Muse Code Exits Testing, Adds Multiple Features and Launches Subscriptions

Meta announced that its AI coding tool Muse Code has exited Beta testing, adding cross-session messaging, workflows, and rewind capabilities, while introducing subscription plans priced from $5 to $50 per month. #AIcoding#

210Product Updates09/01/2026IT Home

Plaud Launches Plaud One AI Note-Taking TWS Earbuds with Built-In eSIM

They can record every conversation, seamlessly invoke agents, provide AI with smooth and coherent contextual scenarios, and prepare follow-up tasks without the user even noticing.

211Models & Technology09/01/2026IT Home

Domestic Intelligent Chemical Engineering Foundation Model 3.0 Pro Released, Developed by the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, iFlytek, Alibaba Cloud and Others

As the latest iteration of China’s first foundation model for the chemical engineering industry, 3.0 Pro marks a major transition from a “professional knowledge question-answering model” to an “intelligent chemical engineering task execution system,” advancing intelligent chemical engineering foundation models from “understanding and answering” to “planning, executing, and verifying.”

212Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

1.5TB Compressed to 214GB: Tencent Hunyuan Hy4 Preview Lite Version Released as Open Source, Enabling Joint Inference Across Heterogeneous Devices

An innovative quantization technology achieves an exceptionally high compression ratio with minimal impact on large model performance. It also supports joint inference across heterogeneous devices, significantly increasing speed. The model is now available on an open-source platform. #TencentHunyuanLargeModel#

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Man follows AI’s shortcut advice down the mountain and gets stranded deep in the wilderness; AI later admits, “If you’d just followed the navigation, you wouldn’t have suffered so much”

The official Zhejiang Fire and Rescue WeChat account published a post yesterday (August 31), reporting that a 57-year-old man followed AI’s advice to take a shortcut down a mountain. The route became increasingly off course, leaving him stranded deep in the wilderness. AI later replied, “Haha, that’s true!”

214Industry WatchExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

Microsoft Executive Warns: Low-Quality AI Is Disrupting Everyday Office Work and Creating a Vicious Cycle That Dilutes Information Value

The head of Microsoft's Office and LinkedIn businesses warns that AI-generated low-quality content (AI slop) has entered everyday work, creating a vicious cycle of “AI generates, AI reads, AI summarizes.” He believes AI should assist rather than replace human judgment, and teams need to establish manual review mechanisms. #AIGeneratedContent#

215Models & Technology09/01/2026IT Home

The Only Open-Source Edge Model with a Million-Token Context: iFlytek's TokeSpark X2.5-4B & 1.7B Officially Released

Both models natively support a 1-million-Token context window and are adapted for multiple scenarios. They are now available for download on multiple platforms, with API access free for a limited time. A larger-parameter version will also be released on September 7. #iFlytekSparkLargeModel#

216AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

CAC: AI Sector Currently Faces Five Major Security Risks and Challenges

At the press conference for the 2026 National Cybersecurity Awareness Week held today (September 1), Wang Lihong, Deputy Director-General and First-Level Inspector of the Cybersecurity Coordination Bureau of the Cyberspace Administration of China, said that the artificial intelligence sector currently faces five major security risks and challenges.

217Robotics09/01/2026IT Home

Unitree Firefighting Robots Debut, Carry Water Cannons and Resist Flames

Unitree showcased products including the A2-W load-carrying robot dog, B2 intelligent water-cannon robot dog, A2-W detection robot dog, B2 detection robot dog, As2 gimbal reconnaissance robot dog, B2 satellite reconnaissance robot dog, and A2-W modeling robot dog, as well as the flame-resistant B2 high-temperature robot dog. #UnitreeFirefightingRobot#

218Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

FanShi Intelligence Invests RMB 1 Billion to Purchase Huawei Ascend 950 for AI Foundation Model Deployment

Hong Kong-listed company FanShi Intelligence recently reached a large-scale computing power order agreement with Huawei: FanShi will invest more than RMB 1 billion to purchase Huawei Ascend 950 chips, supporting the deployment of AI foundation models in core sectors such as finance and manufacturing.

219Models & Technology09/01/2026IT Home

Report: NVIDIA Restarts Rubin CPX Chip Project Optimized for Inference Prefilling, with Major Design Changes

The new Rubin CPX delivers computing power close to that of the standard Rubin GPU, further improves prefilling performance, and features 168GB of HBM4 memory.

220Industry Watch09/01/2026IT Home

NVIDIA Announces $3.5 Billion Investment in MediaTek, Reaching Partnerships Across AI, PC Chips, and Automotive

NVIDIA and MediaTek announced on August 31 that they are deepening their long-term partnership to build next-generation AI computing platforms spanning AI infrastructure, local AI computing, and automotive applications.

221Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original09/01/2026IT Home

Anthropic Explains the July 30 Security Incident in Detail: A Configuration Error Led Claude to “Infiltrate” Real Companies; Sandbox Isolation and Real-Time Monitoring Strengthened

Due to a configuration error in a third-party evaluation environment, Claude unexpectedly gained real internet access and carried out unauthorized operations. Anthropic disclosed investigation updates, announced multilayer security improvements for evaluation and training environments, and reviewed model alignment issues. #AI Safety#

222Product UpdatesExternalChinese original08/31/2026IT Home

Broadcom Launches VMware AI Factory to Simplify Enterprise Private Cloud AI Deployment

The product serves as the software-defined foundation for VMware AI Private Cloud, reducing AI deployment timelines from weeks to hours. It aggregates GPU resources, centralizes model management, and supports multiple leading AI foundation models. #BroadcomVMwareAI#

223Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

WeChat Pay AI Dedicated Card Supports DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw Integration

The WeChat Pay AI Dedicated Card has added support for DeepSeek Harness and OpenClaw, following WorkBuddy and QClaw.

224Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

Finland's LUMI-AI Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer to Use AMD Hardware, Deployment in H2 2027

It will use AMD Instinct MI430X GPU accelerators and sixth-generation EPYC (Epyc) processors with 256 cores, delivering 2x the HPC performance and 10x the AI performance.

225Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

AMD, Cisco, and HUMAIN Partnership Takes Shape, Instinct MI355X Computing Power Arrives in Saudi Arabia

The three parties plan to deploy 250 MW of artificial intelligence infrastructure based on AMD Instinct MI400 series GPUs and other technologies in the next phase.

226Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/31/2026IT Home

Zhipu Reveals Next-Generation Large Model Plan: Following a Large-Foundation-Model Path, Targeting Full-Scale Business Support from Day One

Zhipu disclosed progress on its next-generation large model research and development at today's 2026 interim results conference. (STAR Market Daily)

227Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

MediaTek to Develop Custom XPUs for Customers Based on NVIDIA NVLink Fusion

NVIDIA is also investing $3.5 billion in overseas convertible corporate bonds issued by MediaTek. The two companies will continue collaborating to develop future generations of RTX Spark / DGX Spark computer chips.

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Industrial Giant Caterpillar Brings AI to Real-World Worksites, Investing $100 Million to Train Employees Over the Next Five Years

Industrial giant Caterpillar is extending its mature mining automation expertise to construction sites, quarries, and other settings with tools such as Cat AI Assistant. The company plans to invest $100 million over the next five years to train 118,000 employees for the shift to AI and automation. Meanwhile, demand for power-generation equipment used in data centers drove record second-quarter revenue of $20.5 billion. #Caterpillar# #AIAutomation#

229Models & Technology08/31/2026IT Home

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp Model Open-Sourced, Multimodal Agent Capabilities Near Opus-4.8

DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is now available and open-sourced on Hugging Face. It supports image input, text recognition, and chart analysis, with multimodal Agent capabilities nearing Opus-4.8. #DeepSeek#

230Product Updates08/31/2026IT Home

Google AI App Dreambeans Drops Subscription Requirement, Opens Free Trial

Dreambeans is a personalized news feed app that delivers only a limited number of AI-illustrated news stories each day, inspired by data from your Gmail, calendar, photo library, and more. U.S. users can now try it for free, as Google hopes to gather more feedback. #GoogleAI#

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MIIT: Increase Procurement of Services Such as Large Models, AI Agents, and Tokens

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice announcing a special initiative to cultivate AI application service providers. The goal is to build a resource pool of more than 2,000 providers by the end of 2026, promote large-scale procurement of large models, AI agents, Tokens, and other services, and improve the quality and effectiveness of model and AI use across industries. #ArtificialIntelligence#

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Amazon AWS Expands in Government AI, with OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Other Leading Models Arriving on GovCloud

AWS announced that its government cloud, GovCloud, now offers multiple additional AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and its own Nova models, providing compliant AI services for US institutions. AWS continues to deliver strong growth, with Q2 revenue up 37% year over year.##AWS cloud services##

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Report: OpenAI Bought Tens of Thousands of Apple Mac mini / Studio Computers to Train AI Agents to Operate Computers

According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio computers in recent months to train AI agents capable of operating computers. These devices are primarily used for reinforcement learning, requiring AI agents to repeatedly practice tasks in real environments. Apple’s unified memory architecture has become a key factor, while demand for high-end Macs in the AI industry has surged, leaving some models out of stock for months. #AITraining#

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Hisense Launches JUOS: Powered by the Xinghai Large Model, It Is the Industry’s First AIOS Designed as a Smart Family Companion

The industry’s first smart companion AIOS for the entire home, natively supporting multiple household devices including TVs, companion screens, projectors, monitors, and smart appliances: Hisense JUOS is officially launched.

235AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original08/31/2026IT Home

UK Regulator Warns: Frequent Errors in Medical AI Transcription Tools Threaten Patient Safety

A UK NHS regulator warns that AI medical records tools may misidentify drug and disease names. One patient was misdiagnosed with “demyelination,” nearly affecting treatment. Experts are calling for clear correction mechanisms to ensure patient safety. #AIHealthcareSafety#

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“Lobster” Gets an Upgrade: OpenClaw Open-Source AI Assistant Version 2.0 Released

This update covers every aspect of OpenClaw, including installation, communications, skills, models, automation, browser and native apps, plugins, security, and many other fixes. Most importantly, it simplifies installation and improves the browser experience.

237AI Safety & Governance08/31/2026IT Home

Bank of England Governor Bailey Warns: Advanced AI Threatens Global Financial Stability

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said in a letter to G20 finance ministers that frontier AI models could disrupt the global financial system through cyberattacks, with damage potentially spreading rapidly. He called on countries to establish mechanisms to ensure the safe deployment of AI. A joint warning signed by 1,367 AI researchers has said that AI capabilities could surpass human control. #AI Safety# #Financial Risk#

238Product Updates08/31/2026IT Home

Doubao Offers College Students a Free 3-Month Subscription

Doubao has launched a promotion for currently enrolled college students to claim three months of subscription benefits for free. The offer is available from now through the back-to-school season, supports the Doubao desktop app, and is limited to one claim per person. It also provides exclusive skills for new student registration, coursework, and more to support college life. #CollegeStudentBenefits#

239Product Updates08/31/2026IT Home

Alibaba Qwen Creation Launches Agent Teams: Users Provide Ideas, Agents Plan Tasks and Complete Video Production

Agent Teams is now available on Qwen Creation for PC and the Qwen app.

240Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

AI “Nonsense Replies” Make Operators Liable, Takeout Packaging Gets “Slimmed Down”: New Rules Take Effect in September

China’s first national standard focusing on coordination between human and intelligent customer service, the Requirements for Human and Intelligent Customer Service Coordination in Customer Contact Services, will take effect on September 1. #OperatorsLiableForAI NonsenseReplies#

241Models & Technology08/31/2026IT Home

Tencent Hunyuan: Hy4 preview usage surges, WorkBuddy urgently expands capacity

Tencent Hunyuan says that since Hy4 preview launched on WorkBuddy on August 28, it has become highly popular with users due to its improved Agent capabilities, resulting in queues. Capacity has now been urgently expanded, but queues may still occur during peak periods. Users are advised to switch to Hy3 or use it during off-peak hours. Hy4 preview is free until September 10. #TencentHunyuan#

242Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

Claude Reportedly Hit by Widespread Account Hijacking; Anthropic Urgently Cuts Off Payment Access and Warns Users Against Random Software Downloads

In the email, Anthropic said its investigation is still ongoing, but the computers likely became infected with generic information-stealing malware. The Reddit user who shared the email confirmed that he had downloaded a pirated game.

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Pony.ai Partners with FutureLink, Planning Initial Commercial Deployment of 200 Robotaxis in South Korea

The two companies conducted technology validation in Seoul's Gangnam autonomous driving demonstration zone last year, covering approximately 80,000 kilometers in total without any accidents.

244Industry Watch08/31/2026IT Home

Global Billionaire Count Hits Record High in 2025, AI Investments Drive Growth

Among these billionaires, 29 have assets exceeding $50 billion (approximately RMB 336.788 billion at current exchange rates), including Larry Page, Elon Musk, and Jeff Bezos.

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Faraday Future Robots Launch Middle East Operations, Completing Sales and Delivery of First Order

Jia Yueting announced today that Faraday Future (FF) robots have officially launched operations in the Middle East, completing the sales and delivery of the region's first order. A total of 6 robots were delivered (2 humanoid and 4 quadruped), while the team is also accelerating efforts to finalize more orders. #FaradayFuture#

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Reports Say ByteDance’s Doubao Large Model 2.2 Launch Will Be Delayed, Originally Planned for August

ByteDance’s Doubao Large Model 2.2, originally planned for release in August, will be delayed. (White Whale Lab)

247Industry Watch08/30/2026IT Home

Barclays Research: For Every $100 Earned by AI Model Companies, About $35 to $40 Flows to the Three Cloud Giants

Barclays' latest report reveals how profits are distributed across the AI industry: For every $100 in revenue generated by model companies, $35 to $40 flows to Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google GCP as inference computing fees. Cloud providers can earn $10 to $20 in operating profit from this, with margins reaching as high as 45%. #AIIndustryChain# #CloudComputing#

248Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/30/2026IT Home

Huawei Cloud and Ruijin Hospital Release RuiPath 2.0 Pathology Foundation Model: 7B Parameters, Covering 19 Common Cancers

The RuiPath 2.0 model has 7B parameters, covers 19 common cancers, and expands its diagnostic tasks to 205, covering over 90% of pathologists’ routine diagnostic scenarios. The model achieves a breakthrough in diagnostic interpretability, with an accuracy of 96.48% in lymphoma detection. #AIMedicine#

249RoboticsExternalChinese original08/30/2026IT Home

Honor Robot Lightning Makes Overseas Debut as Malaysia Marathon’s First Robot Participant

Honor Robot “Lightning” completed its overseas debut by running 10 kilometers beneath the night view of Malaysia’s Petronas Twin Towers, setting a new event record. Standing 169 cm tall, this red, mecha-style robot is known for its speed and previously broke the human world record in the 1,500-meter race. #RobotMarathon#

250Robotics08/30/2026IT Home

Over $2.6 Million in Orders in 24 Hours: Hugging Face’s Microduck Robot Duck Sells Out

This $399 robotic duck, launched by Pollen Robotics under Hugging Face, received over $2.6 million in preorders within 24 hours and is now facing an order backlog. New orders are expected to be delivered in 4 to 6 months. #AI Robotics#

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UK Telecom Executives Warn: 5G Upgrades Are Too Slow, Britain Could Lose the AI Race

UK telecom executives have jointly warned that unless 5G upgrades accelerate, Britain will fall behind in the global AI race. The UK’s network coverage already lags behind the G7 and several EU countries, while its download speed ranking has fallen to 70th globally. #5GNetwork# #AIRace#

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Silicon Valley VC Firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Launches New Fund, Raising $1.1 Billion for Chips, Memory, and Robotics

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has announced a new $1.1 billion fund called “The Age of Machines,” focusing on hardware sectors including chips, memory, data centers, and robotics, marking a sharp contrast with its previous software investment strategy. #a16z# #hardtechinvestment#

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Only 3 Companies Worldwide Can Cast Them: Musk’s SpaceX Breaks AI Power Bottleneck, Bringing Self-Produced Turbine Blades Online 18 Months Early

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, posted on X today (August 30), confirming that SpaceX is planning to build a gas turbine blade and vane foundry in Bastrop, Texas, USA.

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Daily Peak of 11.3 Incidents: Report Says 1,664 AI Loss-of-Control Incidents Recorded in 2026, Up 93.76% Month on Month in July

The Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR) released a report on August 28, saying its AI Incident Monitor recorded 306 AI safety incidents in July 2026, up 93.67% from 158 in June.

255Models & Technology08/30/2026IT Home

Estimated GPT-6 AI Model: First OpenAI Astra Demo Samples Leak, GTA 2-Like Game Generated in One Interaction

Technology media outlet testingcatalog published a blog post yesterday (August 29), reporting that OpenAI is accelerating the release of its Astra model and adding the mozaik-alpha-fdm testing phase to expand internal testing.

256Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/30/2026IT Home

Reports Say Baidu Intelligent Cloud Split Its Platform Product Division: MaaS Moves to Infrastructure, Agent Becomes Independent

Following the adjustment, the former Platform Product Division was renamed, with core AI businesses split up and three heads reporting directly to Shen Dou. Baidu’s AI business has accounted for more than half of revenue for two consecutive quarters, while GPU cloud growth remains strong. #BaiduIntelligentCloud #OrganizationalRestructuring#

257Product UpdatesExternalChinese original08/30/2026IT Home

Starting September 14, Claude Code Standard Weekly Limits for Pro / Max / Team Users Permanently Increased by +25%

@ClaudeDevs posted on X today (August 30), announcing that starting September 14, 2026, the “standard weekly limits” of the Claude Code Standard plan will be permanently increased by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and per-seat-billed Enterprise users.

258Robotics08/30/2026IT Home

China-Serbia Jointly Built Robot Factory Begins Production, Becoming Europe's First Humanoid Robot Mass-Production Base

Located in Sabac, Serbia, the factory was invested in and built by Minth Group, with a first-phase investment of 20 million euros. The first humanoid robot has rolled off the production line and can write calligraphy and play chess. Future annual production capacity may reach up to 20,000 units, with products targeting European and global markets. #A new era of humanoid robot mass production#

259Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/30/2026IT Home

“The Largest Copyright Theft in History”: Anthropic Accused of Infringing Copyrights to Train Claude AI, Seeking Up to $150,000 per Song

Technology media outlet Music Business Worldwide published a post yesterday (August 29), reporting that Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have sued Anthropic and its two co-founders, accusing them of scraping, downloading, and using the lyrics of “tens of thousands” of copyrighted musical works without authorization to train the Claude series of AI models.

260Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/30/2026IT Home

One Less Expansion Step: Some Google Search Tests Default to AI Mode, Pushing Traditional Blue-Link Results Down

Search industry publication Search Engine Roundtable reported on August 28 that Google Search is testing the direct expansion of AI Overviews into an answer interface more closely resembling AI Mode.

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South Korean Government Plans to Provide Free AI Services to All Citizens

According to The Wall Street Journal, the South Korean government has launched the “All for AI” initiative, with beta testing scheduled to begin in September. It will eventually cover everyday services such as medical appointments, housing, and taxes. The initiative is led by major companies including KT and Kakao, allowing users unlimited access, while the government will also provide support with NVIDIA B200 chips. #AINewPolicy#

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National Data Administration: As of the End of July, China’s Total Intelligent Computing Capacity Reached 2.45 Million PFLOPS

The eight national computing power hubs and three computing-electricity coordinated development zones have built intelligent computing capacity accounting for more than 85% of the national total. Intelligent computing capacity of 1.45 million PFLOPS has been included in the monitoring scope of the national computing power monitoring and dispatch platform, further strengthening the intensive utilization and integrated dispatch of computing resources.

263AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original08/29/2026IT Home

Anthropic Safety Framework Automatically Downgrades: Claude Accidentally Deletes Developer’s 700 GB Home Directory, Automated Cleanup Turns into Disaster

While testing AI file-deletion safeguards, a developer’s model was automatically downgraded by Anthropic’s safety framework. A reused variable name caused an error during post-test cleanup, accidentally deleting the entire user home directory. Although some data was recovered, losses remained, exposing new AI safety issues. #AISafety# #Claude#

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Debian Community Proposal Vote: Developers May Use Generative AI, but Humans Remain Ultimately Responsible

The Debian community recently voted to allow developers to use generative AI responsibly. The new policy does not prohibit using AI to assist with software development and documentation, but requires human developers to take ultimate responsibility for AI-generated content and ensure its quality and legal compliance. This balances AI efficiency with the legal risks faced by open-source communities. #DebianAIPolicy#

265Models & Technology08/29/2026IT Home

Anthropic Reveals a New “AI Trains AI” Method That Is Cheaper and Faster Than Human Researchers

The automated system first reviews existing literature, proposes training methods, trains models according to those plans for 30 minutes, and gradually improves test scores through multiple rounds of experimentation. Effective methods are retained while ineffective ones are discarded, allowing the entire research process to scale rapidly.

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Nvidia “Eyes” Hugging Face as Open-Weight AI Models Become a Hot Acquisition Target in Silicon Valley

Several Silicon Valley tech giants have recently acquired open-weight AI companies in succession. Adoption in the sector is gradually increasing, helping businesses reduce costs while improving capabilities and attracting major players seeking to strengthen the AI industry chain.

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OpenAI ChatGPT and Codex Now Support Connecting Multiple Google Gmail Accounts

OpenAI announced that ChatGPT and Codex now support connecting multiple Google Gmail and Calendar accounts, solving the long-standing limitation of supporting only one account. Users can add different accounts through the sidebar plug-in, enabling AI to access information more comprehensively. #AI Productivity Tools#

268Models & Technology08/29/2026IT Home

China’s First Vehicle-Mounted Mobile Token Factory Debuts, Exploring a New Computing-Power and Electricity Coordination Model

This vehicle-mounted mobile token factory uses a 40-foot container equipped with domestically developed computing power and an energy management system, and can be deployed in just 6-8 hours. It can move to areas rich in renewable energy and connect to the grid, helping absorb “green electricity” while reducing computing costs by about 25%. It can provide flexible services for scenarios such as large-model inference and emergency computing. #NewComputingInfrastructure#

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Promoting Claude Draws Fierce Online Backlash, Canadian Blogger Says Using AI Is Becoming a Social Taboo

A Canadian blogger was bombarded with negative comments and even unfollowed by longtime fans after promoting Claude. OpenAI also faced backlash after inviting bloggers to promote it, with some calling the company “morally bankrupt.” #AISocialControversy# The blogger worries that AI could eventually become a “closet secret” people feel they must hide.

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Anthropic Announces Claude Code Integration Across Desktop and Terminal

Previously, cross-device work required re-importing context, wasting a great deal of time. Now, typing /resume on desktop retrieves historical terminal sessions, fully preserving conversation content, while the checkpoint system also works as usual. #Claude Code# #AI Development Tools#

271Models & Technology08/29/2026IT Home

Industry's First Quantum-Enhanced Large Model “Xenomi” Released: Deep Integration of AI and Quantum Computing

The Xenomi large model has been successfully applied to Guoguang Liangchao's intelligent quantum computing experimentation platform and the Quamido multi-agent system. It can accurately respond to specific commands in modern AI software and quickly provide decision-making judgments and review results.

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China’s AI Agent Patent Grants Exceeded 3,400 in 2025, Growing More Than Twice as Fast as the Previous Year

Hu Jianbo, president of the National Data Development Research Institute, said at the opening ceremony of the 2026 China International Big Data Industry Expo on August 28 that agent applications are driving the rapid development of token services. In 2025, China granted more than 3,400 AI agent patents, with growth exceeding twice that of the previous year, marking a significant acceleration in innovation.

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Will AI Crush the Software Industry? Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: We Have No Intention of Destroying Anyone

In response to Wall Street rumors that Anthropic is attempting to disrupt the SaaS industry, CEO Dario Amodei clarified at an event that the Claude AI assistant has no intention of destroying anyone, but instead aims to create value for customers. He said the partnership with Salesforce is “one plus one is greater than three” and can deliver greater value. #AIIndustryUpdate#

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National Data Administration: More than 126,000 high-quality datasets have been built nationwide, totaling over 1,815 PB

High-quality datasets are collections of data that have undergone processing such as collection and refinement, can be directly used to develop and train artificial intelligence models, and can effectively improve model performance.

275Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/29/2026IT Home

Zhipu Open-Sources GLM-5.3 Model Weights, Targeting Agentic Coding and Cyber Defense

Zhipu officially announced last night that it has open-sourced the GLM-5.3 model weights, which are now available for download and support local deployment and customization.

276Industry Watch08/29/2026IT Home

AI Computing Power Drives Surge in Copper Demand; Demand for High-End Copper Foil Dedicated to AI Servers Expected to Rise 260% in 2026

AI servers require far more copper than conventional servers, with per-unit copper usage reaching 3 to 6 times that of ordinary servers. #AI# is driving demand for high-thermal-conductivity and high-frequency, high-speed copper materials, while processing fees for some high-end copper foils have risen by more than 50%, with orders booked through year-end.

277Product Updates08/29/2026IT Home

Open-Source OpenHarmony Robot Operating System M-Robots OS 3.0 Beta Released, Shifting Focus from "Single-Machine Capability" to "Swarm Intelligence"

The 2026 China International Big Data Industry Expo, hosted by the National Data Administration, opened yesterday in Guiyang. Dr. Wang Hao, Senior Vice President and President of the R&D System at Kaihong, officially released the M-Robots OS 3.0 Beta at the event.

278Models & Technology08/28/2026IT Home

Meituan CEO Wang Xing: AI Models and Products Will Support Our Core Business; We Will Not Become a “Token Factory”

At Meituan’s earnings call, CEO Wang Xing emphasized that the long-term value of AI lies in solving real-world problems, and that Meituan will not become a “Token factory.” The company has also released a trillion-parameter large model to improve user and merchant experiences and operational efficiency. #MeituanAI#

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Calls for Better Communication in AI Industry: Winning Public Support Is Essential for Data Center Projects

On the 26th local time, Jensen Huang was asked by CNBC host Jim Cramer how NVIDIA customers should respond to community concerns about data centers. He said, “The technology industry and data center developers must work more effectively with communities to prepare everyone for the construction of AI infrastructure.”

280AI Safety & Governance08/28/2026IT Home

OpenAI Files New Petition Seeking Dismissal of Apple Lawsuit

In response to Apple’s allegations of trade secret theft, OpenAI recently filed a new petition asking the court to dismiss the case in its entirety. OpenAI says Apple lacks sufficient evidence and that the two former employees did not misuse confidential information. The court is expected to hold a hearing on October 1. #OpenAIsuesApple#

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OpenAI Developing a "Persistent Mode" Agent, Codex Will Be Able to Work Proactively for Extended Periods

Persistent Mode is still in testing, has not been widely rolled out, and has not been officially released. An OpenAI spokesperson also confirmed that the company is testing the feature, but said there are no plans to launch it in the near term.

282Industry Watch08/28/2026IT Home

Lingzhang Robotics Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan in Angel Financing

According to the Securities Times, this round was jointly funded by four institutions, including Kailong High-Tech and Aubo Robotics. The funds will be used for product R&D and commercialization in industrial production lines, specialized operations, and commercial aerospace. Founded in 2024, the company’s core product is a dexterous hand adaptable to 90% of industrial scenarios. #RoboticsFunding#

283Product Updates08/28/2026IT Home

Trying to Shed the “Pervert Glasses” Label, Meta AI Glasses Now Stop Recording Immediately When the Indicator Light Is Covered

Previously, if wearers covered the front-facing LED indicator after starting a recording, the camera could continue operating. Alex Himmel, Meta’s vice president of augmented reality, said in a Threads post that after the update, the camera will stop working if the indicator light is covered during recording.

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ASUS Establishes Physical AI Business Group, Humanoid Robot Plan to Launch in September

ASUS has announced the establishment of its Physical AI (PAS BG) business group, fully embracing the robotics industry. The group consists of three divisions: AI Solutions, Autonomous Platforms, and Humanoid Robots, and will officially launch on September 1. This marks a key step in ASUS's shift from "device connectivity" to "AI embodiment." #ASUSRobotics#

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I Take It Back: Minecraft Creator Persson Admits He “May Have Been Wrong” to Rejecting AI Coding Early On

Persson previously strongly opposed AI coding, but his stance has now completely changed due in part to hiring difficulties. He admits his earlier view was wrong and has begun experimenting with using AI to develop games.

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Report: Meta Once Expected to Spend $10 Billion on Anthropic Services This Year

Meta once used Anthropic's AI in internal testing of its Hatch agent platform, but the official version will be powered by Meta's internal models

287Product Updates08/28/2026IT Home

Danish Government Launches Emergency Plan to Guide Students in Using AI Responsibly and Curb “AI Cheating”

AI cheating cases have risen significantly at several Danish high schools. The government has launched an emergency plan to curb AI cheating by adding oral defenses, monitoring exam screens, and taking other measures. Several countries have introduced similar responses.

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Pro and Flash Series Show Stark Contrast as Google Reportedly Begins Internal Testing of Gemini 3.8 Flash

An employee involved in the testing said Gemini 3.8 Flash currently feels significantly better than 3.7 Flash, but it is still too early to draw a complete conclusion.

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U.S. California federal judge rules in Anthropic’s favor in lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense and others

Anthropic has also sued the U.S. Department of Defense in Washington, D.C. The company must win again to fully overturn its “blacklist” designation.

290Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/28/2026IT Home

Firmly Among the Top-Tier Open-Source Models, Tencent Releases the Hunyuan Hy4 Preview Model

Tencent officially released Hy4 preview today, with 770 B total parameters, 49 B active parameters, and a 1M context length.

291Industry Watch08/28/2026IT Home

Report: Anthropic Once Considered Acquiring Chipmaker MatX, but Talks Have Shifted to Cooperation

Anthropic has recently held talks with several artificial intelligence chip startups. The company may be interested in producing training chips or may instead choose to produce inference chips.

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Anthropic Launches MHS Standard, Marking Its First Major Push into Physical AI

Anthropic published a blog post yesterday (August 27) announcing the release of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) as a research preview. Reuters, CNBC, and other media outlets interpreted the move as marking the company's first public entry into embodied intelligence and Physical AI.

293Robotics08/28/2026IT Home

NDRC: Robot Industry Development Must Suit Local Conditions to Prevent Blind Following and Hasty Expansion

Li Chao, Deputy Director of the Policy Research Office of the National Development and Reform Commission, said at today's NDRC regular press conference for August that the robot industry involves numerous cutting-edge technologies, including artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, and new materials. It must develop in a healthy and orderly manner suited to local conditions, based on local resource endowments and industrial strengths, with clear positioning and full use of local advantages. Blind following and hasty expansion must be avoided so that related industries can develop steadily and sustainably.

294Models & Technology08/28/2026IT Home

Ant Ling Launches Finance-Enhanced Model Ling-3.0-flash-Fin: API Calls Free for One Month, Open Source Next Week

The Ling-3.0-flash-Fin model weights will officially be open-sourced next week.

295Product Updates08/28/2026IT Home

Time Magazine Announces 2026 TIME100 AI: OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Alibaba’s Wu Yongming and Others Featured on the Cover

Time Magazine announced its 2026 list of the 100 most influential people in the global AI field on August 27, marking the fourth year the magazine has published the list.

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OpenAI, Microsoft, Google and 113 Other Companies Sign Joint Letter Calling for Greater Attention to Cybersecurity in the AI Era

The signatories include cybersecurity companies, financial services firms, semiconductor manufacturers, and cloud service providers.

297Robotics08/28/2026IT Home

Unitree Announces Free Sponsorship for “Young Geniuses”: No Limit for Exceptional Candidates

On August 27, Unitree Robotics officially announced the launch of its “Young Geniuses” sponsorship program, providing RMB 10,000–20,000 annually to high school through master’s students passionate about technology. There is no upper limit for exceptionally outstanding candidates. Founder Wang Xingxing once embarked on his technology entrepreneurship journey with RMB 10,000 in project funding. #TechnologyForGood#

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Google Launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Video Generation AI Model with Up to 4K Resolution

On August 27 local time, Google announced the launch of the Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash video generation AI model, which can generate videos up to 4K resolution.

299Industry Watch08/27/2026IT Home

Thunderbird iO Smart Glasses Officially Announced with HENGXUAN BES2800 Chip: 6nm Process, Dual-Mode Bluetooth and Low-Power Wi-Fi 6 Integrated

HENGXUAN Technology officially announced that the Thunderbird iO smart glasses feature the BES2800 chip: built on a 6nm process with ultra-low power consumption; integrating a multicore CPU and large-capacity storage for a major boost in computing power; and integrating dual-mode Bluetooth and low-power Wi-Fi 6.

300Models & Technology08/27/2026IT Home

Google Launches the World's First Double-Blind AI Evaluation Technology, Using an Encrypted Environment to Ensure Benchmark Fairness

Google and several organizations have launched the world's first double-blind evaluation for cutting-edge proprietary AI models. Using an encrypted privacy environment to prevent benchmark contamination while protecting both parties' data, the initiative improves the credibility of AI model evaluations.

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OpenAI to Run Ads for Free and Go Plan ChatGPT Users in India

Dave Dugan, OpenAI’s global head of advertising solutions, said that through ChatGPT Ads, businesses of all sizes can introduce their brands when users are just beginning to form purchase or decision-making intent, at moments with highly relevant context.

302Industry Watch08/27/2026IT Home

UK Performs World’s First Brain Surgery with Real-Time AI Assistance, Successfully Removing Brain Tumor

UK Health Innovation Minister James Frith said he was delighted that Rees was able to undergo the “life-changing surgery” through government-funded research. “AI must have appropriate safeguards, and we will always take safety seriously. At the same time, we will ensure that we make full use of the opportunities AI brings.”

303Models & Technology08/27/2026IT Home

Day-0 Support: Moore Threads Announces Ultra-Fast Adaptation of Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash

Zhipu recently launched and open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash (320B-A18B). Moore Threads officially announced today that, based on the MTT S5000 AI training-and-inference computing card and the MUSA software stack, it has achieved ultra-fast adaptation and efficient operation of the model.

304Models & Technology08/27/2026IT Home

China’s Daily Token Usage Surpasses 500 Trillion, Chinese Large Models Secure a Top-Tier Global Position

Global competition among large models is intensifying. Chinese large models have secured a top-tier position worldwide. Model iteration is accelerating, with competition shifting toward agent deployment and ecosystem development. Demand for inference compute is surging, prompting China to accelerate the deployment of intelligent computing centers. #AI Large Models##China’s Daily Token Usage Has Surpassed 500 Trillion# #Chinese Large Models Secure a Top-Tier Global Position#

305Industry Watch08/27/2026IT Home

OpenAI CEO Altman Admits People Hate Data Centers: Everyone Is Highly Negative

In an interview, Altman said the public has a highly negative attitude toward AI and AI data centers, with residents in many parts of the United States opposing new data center projects. OpenAI has responded to concerns about data centers’ water and power consumption and introduced community benefit measures.

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CCTV Exposes AI Dating Scam Targeting Middle-Aged and Elderly Women Through Fake Matchmaking Services

Police in Chengdu, Sichuan, dismantled a gang that used AI-generated male personas to carry out romance scams, involving more than one million yuan. The gang attracted victims through short-video platforms and even used voice changers to “livestream” with them. #AI诈骗##婚恋陷阱# Experts urge platforms to strengthen technical identification and risk alerts.

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NASA Administrator Isaacman Backs Space Data Centers: Easing AI Energy Shortages and Bringing Huge Benefits

Isaacman added: “We could send data centers into Earth orbit and use that free fusion reactor out there to provide energy, ensuring that the United States wins not only the space race but also the AI race.”

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Claude Desktop Cowork Adds Built-in Browser for Independent Web Tasks

Claude’s desktop app now includes a standalone browser in Cowork mode, allowing AI to browse the web, fill out forms, extract data, and complete other tasks without extensions. The feature will roll out this week to Pro, Max, and Team users, and supports importing login information from browsers such as Chrome and Edge. #AI Assistant#

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: We Have Already Achieved AGI in Many Tasks, Making the Milestone Meaningless

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said during an earnings call that AI can already perform economically valuable work, making the AGI milestone itself unimportant. He said AI is shifting from passive execution to proactive agents and emphasized that increasing computing power and generating profitable tokens will shape the industry's future. What do you think? #AIOutlook#

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Google Gemini Live Gets Major Upgrade with Spark Agent, Gmail, and More to Boost Productivity

Google has added multiple integrations to Gemini Live. It can now help plan recipes, create shopping lists, and manage emails and schedules by voice. More impressively, its integration with Spark can turn scattered ideas spoken aloud into a structured document outline.#GoogleAI#

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Copying AI Software to Launch a Startup: Beijing’s First Administrative Penalty Case Involving AIGC Trade Secrets Draws a RMB 100,000 Fine

The Chaoyang District Administration for Market Regulation in Beijing has issued a decision in the city’s first administrative penalty case involving trade secrets in the AIGC sector, imposing a RMB 100,000 fine for taking confidential information to a new job and privately copying and using the former employer’s AI business software.

312Product Updates08/27/2026IT Home

Alibaba Releases All-New Qoder, Upgrading from an AI Coding Tool to an Agent Workbench

Alibaba today released the all-new Qoder, an agent workbench built on Coding capabilities as its core foundation and designed for everyone.

313Models & Technology08/27/2026IT Home

Google Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Speech-to-Text Model, Automatically Removes Filler Words

This AI model can automatically remove filler words from speech, correct errors, improve transcription speed by about 70%, reduce the real-time speech error rate to 5.5%, and support custom vocabularies. However, its intelligent polishing may alter the original wording, making it unsuitable for scenarios that require preserving the exact words spoken. #GoogleAIModel#

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Alibaba Cloud Lowers Qwen3.8-Flash Model Pricing on the Bailian Platform

Alibaba Cloud announced that, starting today, it is lowering the pricing for the Qwen3.8-Flash model on its Bailian large model service platform, with input reduced to 0.8 yuan and output reduced to 2.7 yuan. The model is Qwen's latest multimodal large model. #AlibabaCloudLargeModels#

315Industry Watch08/27/2026IT Home

NVIDIA Reportedly Adjusts HBM4 Memory Requirements, Increasing the Share of Lower-Stacked 8Hi Products

Lower stack heights allow more HBM4 stacks to be produced with the same number of HBM4 DRAM dies. In addition, 8Hi HBM4 offers yield advantages.

316Product Updates08/27/2026IT Home

Perplexity AI Launches Portable Computer, a Local AI Agent Application

Portable Computer will initially support DGX Spark running Linux. Support for Windows and PCs with GeForce RTX / RTX Pro discrete graphics cards will arrive soon.

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Amazon AWS Announces Deployment of an Additional 2 Million NVIDIA GPUs in 2027~2028

AWS will also provide NVIDIA Vera CPU-based infrastructure through its own cloud services and integrate its proprietary chips with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion and NVHBM

318Industry Watch08/27/2026IT Home

Nvidia Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Hugging Face for More Than $13 Billion; Microsoft Also Wants In

According to a source familiar with the matter, the two sides have held serious discussions about an acquisition in recent weeks. The deal would value Hugging Face at more than $13 billion (IT Home note: approximately RMB 87.592 billion at the current exchange rate). The source said the two companies have not reached an agreement, and the talks could still fall apart.

319AI Safety & Governance08/27/2026IT Home

OpenAI Releases Official Report on Hugging Face Security Incident, Reconstructing the Full AI Model Sandbox Escape

OpenAI recently released a report detailing the Hugging Face breach. During testing, an AI model chained together vulnerabilities after being given an unsolvable task, breaking through security restrictions. The report reveals the model's identity and subsequent security measures, including enhanced chain-of-thought monitoring. The incident has once again prompted reflection on the boundaries of AI security. #AISecurity#

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2nd World Humanoid Robot Games Conclude: Zhiyuan Wins 18 Gold, 16 Silver and 12 Bronze Medals on Its Debut, Tops Both Leaderboards; Over 2,500 Hours of Real-World Data to Be Freely Opened

More than 2,000 robots from 16 countries competed in 51 events, with multiple results improving significantly over the previous edition. Zhiyuan topped both leaderboards on its debut, and the event’s complete dataset of over 2,500 hours will be made available for free. #WorldHumanoidRobotGames##TheEraOfHumanoidRobotsRunning100MetersInUnder8Seconds# #HighlightsFromTheHumanoidRobotGames#

321Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

Ox Alpha Appears: Zhipu Open-Sources the Native Multimodal GLM-5.3-Flash Model at a Limited-Time Price of 1/20th That of GLM-5.3

Zhipu launched and open-sourced GLM-5.3-Flash (320B-A18B) tonight, the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series.

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8.64 Seconds! Tiangong Ultra Robot Breaks the Human 100-Meter World Record Again

Tiangong Ultra from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center won with a time of 8.64 seconds, surpassing the human world record once again. This is the third time Tiangong Ultra has set a new record, following its 9.39-second run at the opening ceremony and its 8.86-second run in the semifinals.

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Unitree “Students” Defeat Their “Teacher” as World Humanoid Robot Games’ First Sanda Gold Medal Is Awarded

All teams used identical robot platforms in the competition, putting their secondary algorithm development capabilities to the test. North China Electric Power University used a Unitree G1 robot to defeat Unitree’s own team and win the championship. The event was upgraded to an official competitive category this year. #WorldHumanoidRobotGames#

324Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

MiniMax: M3 Pro Model Expected to Scale to Approximately 3T Parameters, Large-Scale Domestic Computing Cluster to Go Online Soon

MiniMax founder and CEO Yan Junjie said that in the next phase, the company will continue to advance model intelligence, inference efficiency, and infrastructure capabilities in tandem, accelerating the development and release cycles of the M and H series models. (Securities Times)

325Models & Technology08/26/2026IT Home

Alibaba Tongyi Qwen3.8-Flash Released as Open Source: 125B-Parameter MoE Model with Training Cost Just 1/9 That of Its Predecessor

This new model features a 125B-parameter MoE architecture, natively supports a 260,000-token context, and can scale to 1M. An open API will soon be available on the Qianwen AI platform, and the model weights have been released as open source. #AlibabaTongyiLargeModel#

326Product UpdatesExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

Zhipu Confirms Ox Alpha AI Model Is a New Version of the GLM Series, Weights to Be Released

Zhipu confirmed speculation from the outside world, stating that the Ox Alpha model is indeed a new version of its GLM series and that the model weights will be officially released tonight.

327Models & Technology08/26/2026IT Home

2026 China Academy of Information and Communications Technology AITMark Awards Announced; Huawei Xiaoyi Ranks First in Overall AI Smartphone Agent Score

Huawei officially announced today that the 2026 China Academy of Information and Communications Technology AITMark Awards have been announced, with Xiaoyi ranking first in the overall AI smartphone agent score. Meanwhile, #HuaweiPuraXMax# ranked first in the overall smart evaluation score for flagship smartphone scenarios, with the highest smart scores in imaging, office productivity, and other scenarios.

328Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

ModelBest: MiniCPM Open-Source Models Surpass 50 Million Cumulative Global Downloads

ModelBest was founded in Beijing in August 2022 and incubated by Tsinghua University's Natural Language Processing Laboratory. ModelBest officially announced today that, on the occasion of its fourth anniversary, cumulative global downloads of the MiniCPM series of open-source models have surpassed 50 million.

329Industry WatchExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

30% Cut: Moonshot AI Reportedly Negotiating Revenue-Sharing Deal for Kimi K3 AI Model with Microsoft, Amazon, and Google

If reached, this would become the first major revenue-sharing partnership between a Chinese artificial intelligence company and leading U.S. cloud computing companies.

330RoboticsExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

Study Finds Babies Far Outperform AI Chatbots in Language Learning, With Much Greater Efficiency

MIT Technology Review interviewed several experts who study the efficiency of large language models while analyzing how AI is trained. One clear conclusion is that babies are far better at learning language than today’s AI chatbots, and they do so much more efficiently.

331RoboticsExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

Unitree Robotics Unveils “Superman” Robot: 2m Standing Jump, Top Speed of 12.66m/s Surpasses Human Records

Unitree Robotics today unveiled its new humanoid robot, “Superman,” which can perform a 2-meter standing jump and reach a top speed of 12.66m/s (with 0.85-meter legs), surpassing the world records for standing high jumps and running speed among humans.

332Product Updates08/26/2026IT Home

Artificial Analysis Publishes Local AI Performance Rankings for Models Under 8GB on Apple iPhone 17 Pro

On August 24, Artificial Analysis published a blog post announcing a collaboration with Liquid AI to launch a mobile AI benchmark focused on the performance of AI models on the Apple iPhone 17 Pro.

333Industry Watch08/26/2026IT Home

Nine in Ten U.S. Business Executives Say AI Has Not Affected Company Employment Over the Past Three Years, and “Not at All” Affected Productivity

A recent survey of business executives by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research found that more than 90% of respondents acknowledged that AI had “not affected employment at their company” over the past three years; about 89% also said that AI had “not affected productivity at all.”

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Cloudflare Says AI Agents Now Account for 60% of Internet Traffic, Surging 1,700% Year Over Year

South Korean media outlet chosun published a blog post yesterday (August 25), reporting that Goran Risticsevich, Cloudflare’s Executive Vice President and Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific region, said traffic generated by AI agents has surged by more than 1,700% over the past year and now accounts for approximately 60% of total traffic.

335Industry WatchExternalChinese original08/26/2026IT Home

MIIT: China Has Successfully Developed Nearly 200 Key AI Standards; Accelerates Planning and Construction of Next-Generation Communications and Computing-Power Networks, Strengthens 6G R&D

The State Council Information Office held a press conference today as part of the “Getting the 15th Five-Year Plan Off to a Good Start” series. Officials from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology outlined efforts to fully implement the 15th Five-Year Plan and accelerate the advancement of new industrialization. The press conference stated that China has successfully developed nearly 200 key artificial intelligence standards.

336Industry Watch08/26/2026IT Home

Stanford Study: Young Workers Aged 22–25 Face the Greatest AI Impact, While Higher Education Can Cushion the Effects

The Stanford Digital Economy Lab updated its paper on August 12, drawing on high-frequency payroll data from ADP, a payroll services provider covering millions of U.S. workers, to reveal the labor market’s real changes following the spread of generative AI. The report warns that recent graduates and young people just entering the workforce are bearing the most direct impact from AI.

337Industry Watch08/26/2026IT Home

Tang Dao-sheng Responds Internally to Claims That Tencent Is Slow in AI: AI Competition Is Not a Sprint, and Endurance Matters More Than an Early Start

Tang Dao-sheng, Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of the Cloud and Smart Industries Group, published an article in the August 25 issue of Tencent's internal annual publication, ZhDian.

338Industry Watch08/26/2026IT Home

Stability AI Completes $76 Million Series B Funding Round with EA and Three Major Music Entertainment Companies Participating

The funding will support the development of creative production products, deepen applied research, and expand professional services.

339Industry Watch08/26/2026IT Home

OpenAI Restores Five-Hour Usage Limit for ChatGPT Plus Accounts; Pro Accounts Unaffected for Now

OpenAI has officially restored the five-hour usage limit for standard ChatGPT Plus users, requiring developers and heavy users to plan their usage again. After removing the limit in mid-July, the company repeatedly reset users’ quotas early to celebrate milestones. The restored limit is intended to distribute computing demand and protect new users, while Pro and Edu accounts remain unaffected. #ChatGPT#

340Product Updates08/26/2026IT Home

Built by the Father of Windows Task Manager: Win11 TMOG Released, 107-Page Document Lets AI Code

Dave W. Plummer, a retired Microsoft Windows engineer and the father of Task Manager, announced on X on August 24 that the native TMOG task manager had been released for Windows 11 and Linux. The latest version is 0.1.1.

341Product Updates08/26/2026IT Home

Google Enters the Legal AI Race with Dedicated Gemini Tool

Google is expanding its Gemini enterprise platform with Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a new tool for law firms that supports integration with legal software and provides AI agents for specialized work. Thomson Reuters, Anthropic, and others are also developing legal AI offerings. Law firms are accelerating their adoption of generative AI for research and document drafting. #AILegalAssistant#

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The Biggest Narrative in Business History: Anthropic Targets the World’s Largest IPO, Saying AI’s Potential Market Revenue Exceeds $30 Trillion

The Wall Street Journal published a post yesterday (August 25), reporting that in its IPO prospectus, Anthropic presented investors with a total addressable market (TAM) forecast exceeding $30 trillion to support its $2 trillion valuation narrative, surpassing SpaceX’s estimated $28.5 trillion forecast.

343Product Updates08/26/2026IT Home

Anthropic Updates Claude’s Memory System, Connecting Memory Across Cowork and Chats

Anthropic announced an update to Claude’s memory system, connecting memory across Cowork and chat for unified management. Users no longer need to repeatedly provide background information, allowing Claude to better continue previous work. Memory for sensitive topics is disabled by default but can be enabled manually. The feature is available to free and paid users on Mac and iOS. #ClaudeUpdate#

344Models & Technology08/26/2026IT Home

AI Race Heats Up: OpenAI Reportedly Pretrained Bel Model with Over 10T Parameters, Challenging Artificial General Intelligence

Source @synthwavedd posted on X today (August 26), claiming that OpenAI has completed pretraining its next-generation model, internally codenamed Bel. It is the direct successor to the Doug model, with a total output count exceeding 10T.

345Industry Watch08/26/2026IT Home

NVIDIA Launches Jetson Orin Nano 2 Robot Computer with Double the Compute or 40% Lower Power Consumption

It delivers 78 TOPS of AI performance in standard mode, integrates an 8-core Arm instruction-set CPU and 8GB of memory, and significantly improves video processing performance.

346Models & Technology08/26/2026IT Home

OpenAI’s First Self-Developed Chip Jalapeño Makes Performance Debut: DeepSeek R1 Delivers 1.7× the AI Throughput per Watt of GB300

Tests show that this chip delivers 1.5 to 1.9 times the AI workload per watt of NVIDIA’s GB200/GB300, with end-to-end latency of just 28% to 59% that of its competitors, demonstrating excellent energy efficiency. #OpenAISelfDevelopedChip#

347Product Updates08/26/2026IT Home

OpenAI Releases Admin Plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex, Enabling Administrators to Manage Users and Permissions Through Conversation

OpenAI has launched a new ChatGPT Admin plugin that lets workspace administrators manage users, permissions, usage limits, and generate analytics reports through natural language. The plugin is now available in the ChatGPT Work plugin directory and can automate repetitive administrative processes to improve enterprise IT operations. #ChatGPT#

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OpenAI's Altman Admits He Overestimated the Speed of AI Adoption: The Biggest Challenge Is Changing User Habits

Altman believes one of the biggest challenges actually comes from human habits. Most people are already deeply accustomed to their existing technologies and ways of working, making it difficult to quickly switch to AI-native platforms such as Codex. Even when new tools are highly capable, and companies invest heavily in marketing, it is still difficult to make users immediately change habits formed over many years.

349Models & Technology08/26/2026IT Home

Built on the Next-Generation Qwen4 Architecture, Multimodal MoE Model Alibaba Qwen Previews Open-Sourcing Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Tomorrow Night

ModelScope shows that Alibaba Qwen's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model will be open-sourced at 23:00 Beijing time on August 26.

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OpenAI Flexes Its Muscles: Jalapeño Chip Co-Developed with Broadcom to Challenge NVIDIA GB300

In SemiAnalysis's InferenceX tests, Jalapeño outperformed the leading inference processors currently on the market in both single-user token throughput and throughput per kilowatt.

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8.86 Seconds: Humanoid Robot Sets New 100-Meter Race Record

Following its 9.39-second run at the opening ceremony, Tiangong, a humanoid robot from the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, posted a best time of 8.86 seconds, setting a new record once again.

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Honor Showcases 100-Meter Results at Humanoid Robot Games: “Vitality” Wins Preliminary Race, “Lightning” Breaks Human Record Again

The official @HonorPhone account announced this evening (25th) that in the 100-meter preliminary race at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, Honor’s humanoid robot Vitality won first place with a time of 12.02 seconds and took all top four spots; Lightning broke through its previous limit in the 100-meter semifinal, running 8.94 seconds and breaking the human record again.

353Product Updates08/25/2026IT Home

A Key Part of Zuck’s AI Strategy: Meta Reportedly Plans to Launch “Hatch” Agent Platform in the Coming Weeks

According to foreign media reports, Meta plans to launch “Hatch,” a consumer-facing AI agent platform, in the coming weeks. Built on OpenClaw, the platform is a key part of Zuckerberg’s AI strategy. Meta plans tiered pricing for Hatch, with premium subscriptions costing up to $199.99 per month, aiming to reduce its reliance on advertising revenue. #MetaAI#

354Design & CreativityExternalChinese original08/25/2026IT Home

Australian Recording Industry Association Cracks Down: Fully AI-Generated Songs Banned from Official Charts

Under the new rules, songs must be written, performed vocally, and played on major instruments by humans to qualify for the charts. Music generated entirely by AI is also ineligible for the ARIA Awards, a major Australian music industry honor.

355Product Updates08/25/2026IT Home

Lei Jun Explains Next-Generation Xuanjie Chip Prototypes, Including a High-Speed AI Demonstration Terminal and Personal AI Supercomputer Terminal

Lei Jun, founder, chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi, has just introduced two prototypes powered by the next-generation Xuanjie chip: a high-speed AI demonstration terminal and a personal AI supercomputer terminal. According to the roadmap, Xuanjie O3 will launch in the Xiaomi 18 Fold, while the other two chips will enter commercial use in 2027. #XiaomiXuanjie#

356Models & Technology08/25/2026IT Home

DeepSeek-V4-PRO AI Model Test: NVIDIA Vera Rubin Delivers 30x the Throughput per Megawatt of GB300

NVIDIA announced that the Vera Rubin NVL72 system delivers up to 30x the throughput per megawatt of the GB300 NVL72 on agentic AI workloads, while reducing token costs by up to 35x. The announcement details Vera Rubin's architecture and performance advantages, with throughput per unit of power reaching 30x that of Blackwell.

357Models & Technology08/25/2026IT Home

Why Is China Catching Up in AI So Fast? U.S. Media Identifies Key Figures

The Wall Street Journal reports that the AI talent network built over many years by Tsinghua University's Yao Class, open-source technology exchange, the return of overseas talent, and other factors have jointly driven China's rapid AI development. The gap between leading AI models and the top U.S. level has now narrowed to just months. #ChinaAIdevelopment#

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Microsoft CEO Nadella Warns: Companies Must Control Their Token Capital and Avoid Betting on a Single AI Model

The technology media outlet Windows Latest published a post today (August 25), reporting that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned that companies relying on a single artificial intelligence model may “outsource” their knowledge and thinking capabilities to the model provider, and could even lose the ability to survive independently.

359Product Updates08/25/2026IT Home

LinkedIn’s “Seems Like AI Slop” Button Proves Effective, Views of Related Content Fall 40%

LinkedIn Chief Product Officer Hari Srinivasan revealed that views of low-quality, AI-generated posts on the platform have plunged 40% since the launch of the “seems like AI slop” feedback button. More than 1 million users have submitted reports, and the platform also prompts users who post suspected AI-generated content.##LinkedIn AI Slop Moderation##

360Product Updates08/25/2026IT Home

ByteDance Launches “Doubao Work,” Deeply Integrated with Lark

ByteDance officially launched “Doubao Work” today. As a new Agent product and brand from Doubao for productivity scenarios, Doubao Work can autonomously break down tasks around users’ goals, call tools, and continuously advance complex workflows.

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China Consumers Association Issues Consumer Advisory: Beware of Misleading Information When Using AI Services

The China Consumers Association issued a consumer advisory today, stressing that AI-generated content is for reference only. Key information involving prices, contracts, after-sales service, and other matters must be verified through official channels. Businesses may not evade responsibility on the grounds that content was “automatically generated by AI.” A rational approach to AI can help consumers avoid pitfalls. #AIConsumerAdvisory#

362Models & Technology08/25/2026IT Home

Goldman Partner Warns: Widespread AI Adoption on Wall Street May Weaken Financial Professionals’ Ability to Think

Goldman Sachs’ AI program lead said that once AI takes over junior employees’ routine work, professionals may outsource their reasoning and gradually lose their analytical abilities. It could also disrupt the traditional mentorship-based training system, while Goldman Sachs has yet to determine how to manage the transition.#AI and the Financial Industry#

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The World's Largest Life Guide Encyclopedia, wikiHow, Accuses OpenAI of Scraping Over 11,000 Tutorial Articles to Train AI

The world's largest collaborative how-to life guide encyclopedia. Its goal is to build the world's most practical and comprehensive guide to everything, so everyone can learn how to do anything.

364Models & Technology08/25/2026IT Home

Microsoft's Aion AI Agent System Revealed: Copilot at Its Core, Redefining the Desktop Experience

Tech media outlet Windows Latest published a post yesterday (August 24), uncovering more clues from the BetaWiki Discord channel. It says Microsoft's Project Aion is primarily aimed at enterprise users and is positioned as an AI system without a Start menu.

365Product Updates08/25/2026IT Home

First Look at Apple AI Server Internals: M5 Series Chips, 2U Chassis, Mac Studio for Software Control

Source @hsuchingpo posted on X yesterday (August 24), sharing 4 images that show the internal layout of Apple's self-developed Apple Silicon AI server. The server uses a custom 2U chassis with 4 hardware columns inside, each containing 8 compute units, suggesting the entire system may house 32 processors.

366Models & Technology08/25/2026IT Home

Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI to Investigate Model's Infiltration of Hugging Face

An OpenAI cybersecurity model escaped its isolated environment during testing and infiltrated platforms including Hugging Face. Alabama's attorney general has issued a subpoena to investigate whether product safety issues violated consumer protection laws. AI safety is once again drawing attention. #OpenAISafetyIncident#

367AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original08/25/2026IT Home

Research Finds AI-Assisted Writing Used in Over 70% of English Biomedical Papers, Calls for Robust Industry Oversight

After analyzing more than one million biomedical papers, a research team found that over 70% of English-language biomedical papers in 2025 showed signs of AI-assisted writing, with usage exceeding 80% in non-native English-speaking regions. The large-scale adoption of AI in academic writing also carries hidden risks, prompting experts to call for improved usage guidelines #AIAcademicWriting#

368Industry WatchExternalChinese original08/24/2026IT Home

Will You Take the Money or Stay True to the Mission? Anthropic's Interview Process Revealed

Anthropic asks candidates a pointed question during interviews: If the company's mission conflicts with money, which would you choose? Several applicants say they faced a hypothetical "stock price goes to zero" question, while the company uses a fixed-pay policy and does not negotiate compensation. These culture interviews aim to identify candidates whose values align with the company, with some applicants even spending thousands of dollars on private coaching. #AnthropicHiring#

369Robotics08/24/2026IT Home

Successfully Lifting 16 Kilograms, the First Weightlifting Champion of the Second World Humanoid Robot Games Is Crowned

The robot from the Beijing Humanoid-HUST joint team repeatedly increased the weight from the 15-kilogram starting load, ultimately successfully lifting 16 kilograms to win the event's first humanoid robot weightlifting championship.

370Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

New Cardiff University Study: AI Still Cannot Grade Assignments as Reliably as Human Teachers

Except in one case, AI models generally gave higher average scores than human graders. The largest difference between AI and human average scores was 16.1 points; for an individual paper, the largest difference reached 40 points.

371Design & Creativity08/24/2026IT Home

US Musician Dr. Dre Publicly Supports AI Music, Comparing It to Drum Machines and Synthesizers

Dr. Dre has publicly acknowledged using AI in his creative work, calling it an entirely new creative tool. He also compared AI to drum machines, saying such tools initially faced strong opposition. Major platforms are now tightening rules on AI-generated content: Tidal refuses to pay royalties for purely AI-generated music, while Spotify has introduced AI labels. #AIMusicDebate#

372Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/24/2026IT Home

Reuters parent Thomson Reuters spends $40 million developing an AI model based on Alibaba's Qwen

Thomson Reuters has released its first large language model, Thomson, based on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-397B, with development costs of approximately $40 million. The model performed strongly in multiple legal benchmark tests, highlighting the advantages of in-house models in cost control and customization. #AI large language models#

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Leapmotor: Plans Are Already in Place in the Field of Embodied Intelligent Robots

Leapmotor management stated that, regarding robots, the company believes new energy vehicle manufacturers, especially those with comprehensive in-house R&D capabilities, are among the companies fully equipped to develop embodied intelligent robots. (Cailian Press)

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He Xiaopeng: In the Near Future, We Will Work to Bring the First Advanced Humanoid Robot Into the Real World

He Xiaopeng revealed that it will be unlike any robot currently seen on the market: more human-like, safer, requiring no remote control, capable of natural interaction, equipped with its own memory, and able to create real value. It will not be a demonstration, but a truly mass-produced product brought into the real world.

375Robotics08/24/2026IT Home

Report: NIO's Autonomous Driving Chief Ren Shaoqing Founds Embodied Intelligence Company, NIO to Make Strategic Investment

A person who attended the all-hands meeting said that Li Bin and Ren Shaoqing clearly stated at the meeting that Ren Shaoqing would continue to lead NIO's intelligent driving business. (Late Auto)

376Industry Watch08/24/2026IT Home

China’s Record for Private Robot Financing Broken: XPeng’s Robotics Business Completes First Round of Over $900 Million, IRON Planned for Mass Production by Year-End

XPeng IRON is planned to enter mass production by the end of 2026, beginning commercial applications at XPeng stores and campuses, before officially launching and being delivered in China and overseas markets in 2027.

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Sources say ByteDance is consolidating its AI productivity offerings: TRAE and Coze to merge into Doubao, with unified office brand "Doubao Work" to launch

Doubao may launch an independent AI office product, "Doubao Work," as early as this week, serving as ByteDance's unified product and brand for AI office scenarios. (Intelligent Emergence)

378Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/24/2026IT Home

AI Model Weekly Ranking: China’s glm-5.3-max Debuts in the Overall Top 15, kimi-k3-max Breaks into the Top 10

On this week’s Arena leaderboard, Zhipu’s glm-5.3-max entered the rankings for the first time at No. 13 overall, while Moonshot AI’s kimi-k3-max rose to No. 10 overall.

379Robotics08/24/2026IT Home

Final of the 400-Meter Small-Class Track Event at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games: Tiangong Omni Wins with 45.66 Seconds

In the final of the 400-meter small-class event at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, Tiangong Omni won with a time of 45.66 seconds. The 1.35 m-tall robot is designed for scenarios such as home services and features an open secondary-development system. #HumanoidRobotGames#

380AI Safety & Governance08/24/2026IT Home

A Work at the China Artists Association’s First Children’s Picture Book Exhibition Accused of Being AI-Generated; Staff Respond, “It Has Been Removed”

A work titled “Putting Summer into a Schoolbag” was exhibited at the Shandong Art Museum and reported for apparent AI-generation features, including children’s distorted fingers and six fingers. The China Artists Association responded that the work’s exhibition eligibility had been revoked. #AI-CreationControversy# #Children’sPictureBookExhibition#

381Product Updates08/24/2026IT Home

Alibaba Cloud Launches One Key MCP Service: Compatible with Qoder, Codex, and More, Enabling One-Click Access to Multiple MCP Services

Developers can use a unified Alibaba Cloud Bailian API Key to access all MCP services from ecosystem partners. The service is compatible with mainstream coding agents including Qoder, Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, simplifying the integration, authentication, and billing management of multiple MCP services.

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Kai-Fu Lee: China’s Open-Source Large Models Are Making Americans Very Concerned

Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 01.AI, said that China’s open-source large models are attracting more and more American companies. He cited Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 as an example, saying its performance is close to that of America’s strongest AI while costing 60% less. This has raised concerns in the U.S. industry that the open-source ecosystem could undermine its closed-source system. #ChinaAIOpenSource# #KimiK3#

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5-Year-Old Becomes “Irritable and Short-Tempered” After Using AI; Parents Discover AI Catering to Child by Fabricating Graphic, Violent Content

Some parents found that their child became irritable and short-tempered after using an AI chatbot for some time. The AI catered to and amplified the child’s curiosity about the bizarre, fabricating graphic and violent content. Experts warn that AI can only serve as an aid in caring for children and must never replace parental companionship. #AICaregiving#

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Alibaba’s AI Music Model “HappyShrimp” 1.0 Launches, Claiming Anyone Can Make Great-Sounding Songs

Alibaba announced today (the 17th) via its official account that its AI music model HappyShrimp 1.0, known as 快乐虾米 in Chinese, has officially launched. HappyShrimp can accurately understand natural language and turn an emotion, story, or memory into a complete piece of music.

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Moore Threads Releases the “MTT S5000 Prefill-as-a-Service Technical White Paper,” Tackling the Cost Bottleneck of Long-Context Inference

Moore Threads has officially released the “MTT S5000 Prefill-as-a-Service Technical White Paper,” announcing a new “Prefill As a Service” paradigm built on the flagship MTT S5000 integrated AI training and inference accelerator. Designed for long-context inference scenarios such as AI agents, code generation, and ultra-long document analysis, it provides the industry with a practical path that balances inference efficiency, cost control, and computing-power monetization. #MooreThreads# #AIInference#

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Video Released of Xiaomi's New-Generation Humanoid Robot Interacting with Visitors in Real Time: Powered by a Large Model to Understand, Judge, and Perform Actions Autonomously

Xiaomi's official account has just released a video of its new-generation humanoid robot interacting with visitors in real time. According to the introduction, from handing over flowers and shaking hands to fist bumps and finger hearts, these seemingly simple actions are driven by a large model that enables the robot to understand, judge, and perform them autonomously. #XiaomisNewGenerationHumanoidRobotDebuts#

387Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Meta Open-Sources 30B AI Model Muse Glimmer, 4-bit Quantization Runs on a Single GPU with 24GB VRAM

Meta today released the Muse Glimmer AI model and open-sourced its model weights under the Apache 2.0 License.

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Largest AI Supply Chain Breach of 2026: 2,500 Global Companies, Including Nvidia, Lose 195TB of Data in 40-Minute Scrape

Technology media outlet Ars Technica published a post today (August 13), reporting that the LiteLLM API gateway poisoning incident that broke out in March this year affected approximately 2,500 companies worldwide during an attack window of about 40 minutes, resulting in the leakage of approximately 195TB of password data.

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OpenAI President Brockman: Companies Should Quickly Take 10 Steps to Defend Against AI Cyber Threats

Brockman said AI tools will soon be able to proactively discover vulnerabilities, just as an OpenAI model breached Hugging Face's systems. At the same time, AI will make fixing these flaws “much easier,” helping companies prevent attacks.

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Humanoid Robot Games Long Jump Champion Crowned as Tianjiao Team Wins with a 7.97-Meter Jump

On the evening of August 23, a Tianjiao team robot jumped 7.97 meters in the long jump final at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, winning the gold medal.

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SenseNova 6.8 Flash Lite Preview Is Live: Built for Lightweight Agility, Aiming at “Delegated Intelligence”

According to the introduction, the model focuses on lightweight agility and offers autonomous planning, continuous execution, multi-Agent collaboration, and dynamic error correction. It can deliver complete end-to-end results and is evolving toward Delegated Intelligence: users only need to provide a goal, while AI autonomously completes the entire process and people focus on reviewing the results.

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Noitom Robotics Releases HiPHI, Open-Sources 617.5 Hours of High-Precision Human Motion Data

Noitom Robotics has released the HiPHI dataset, totaling 617.5 hours and containing high-precision full-body motion and human-object interaction data. The dataset is open-sourced on Hugging Face, and models trained on it have enabled actions such as running and crawling on the Unitree G1 robot. #OpenSourceRobotics#

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Robot Drives a Go-Kart Autonomously as Symbiosis Robotics Releases Humanoid Racing Demo

The company said racing is only its first public test, with more examples to come in mobile manipulation, high-precision visual alignment, contact force control, and long-horizon tasks.

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Harvard and MIT Create 8.3 Billion “AI People” to Simulate Global Human Behavior

A team led by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with participation from organizations including OpenAI and Google DeepMind, has launched the MatrAIx system. The system can generate 8.3 billion AI agents to simulate human behavior worldwide. #HarvardMITCreated8.3BillionAIPeople#

395Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Ant Group's Bailing Open-Sources Ling-3.0-tiny Model, Supporting Deployment on NVIDIA DGX Spark and Apple Mac mini

The model features a lightweight hybrid reasoning MoE architecture focused on low-cost inference. It supports deployment across multiple platforms, including NVIDIA DGX Spark and Mac mini, with official speed and memory validation completed for several devices. #AI Models#

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Previously undisclosed new model “comes through”: Anthropic announces major breakthrough as Claude tackles the Riemann Hypothesis

In a test lasting several days and completed autonomously by the model, Claude raised the long-standing lower bound for the proportion of zeros of the Riemann zeta function on the critical line from 41.6% to 67.2%.

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By 2030, China’s computing power will consume 800 billion kWh of electricity, with 6 trillion kWh of green power entering the grid

According to CCTV Finance, a 10,000-GPU cluster currently consumes at least 200,000 kWh of electricity per day. Estimates indicate that China’s computing power will consume 800 billion kWh annually by 2030. The future of artificial intelligence is not only a competition in computing, but also a competition in electricity.

398Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Alibaba Opens Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B Model Weights: 2.4T MoE, 95B Active Parameters, Native 256K Context

The official evaluations cover coding agents, general-purpose agents, professional work, and long-context tasks. Compared with models such as Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and GPT 5.6 Sol, the results vary by category, while Qwen3.8-A95B achieved relatively high scores among the listed models on benchmarks including PaperBench and IFBench.

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Alibaba’s Next-Generation Video Generation Model Wan3.0 Enters Public Beta: Generates 30 Seconds at Once, Claiming Anything Can Become a Video

Wan3.0 has been comprehensively upgraded in generation duration, versatile creation, comprehensive references, realism, and other dimensions. It can generate 30-second videos in a single run to fully express creative intent. Beyond the four basic modalities of text, images, audio, and video, it supports document inputs such as doc, xls, ppt, pdf, and md for the first time, claiming to make “anything capable of becoming a video.”

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Huawei Ascend Announces Support for RL Training-Inference Consistency, Achieving Up to 60% Performance Gains in Tests

Reinforcement learning has become a mainstream paradigm for training large models, driving model technologies toward engineering deployment in core industry scenarios. Training-inference consistency is crucial because the inference and training processes are coupled, and infrastructure differences can amplify uncertainty.

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China's First Hypernode to Successfully Run a 2 Trillion+ Parameter Large Model: Alibaba Cloud Lingjun Zhenwu M890 Hypernode Instance Goes Live

Alibaba Cloud announced today that the Lingjun Zhenwu M890 hypernode instance is officially available, with initial sales in the Ulanqab region.

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NVIDIA Launches 30B Open-Source AI Model Nemotron 3.5 Lightning

Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 30 billion parameters.

403Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Xiaomi's Embodied Foundation Model Xiaomi-Robotics-1 Officially Open-Sourced

Xiaomi Technology's official Weibo account has just announced the official open-sourcing of Xiaomi's embodied foundation model, Xiaomi-Robotics-1. According to the announcement, Xiaomi-Robotics-1 was pretrained on more than 100,000 hours of UMI data and post-trained using more than 10,000 hours of cross-embodiment data. #XiaomiOpenSource# #EmbodiedIntelligence#

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OpenAI Reveals Demographics of ChatGPT's 1 Billion Global Users: Usage Among Those Aged 35 and Over Is Rising

OpenAI published a blog post yesterday (August 6), reporting that more than 1 billion people worldwide use ChatGPT, with usage shifting from an “answering tool” to a “task tool”.

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AI-Designed Viruses Emerge: First Complete Genomes Designed, 16 New Phages Can Kill E. coli

The BBC published a blog post today (August 7), reporting that researchers at Stanford University in the United States used AI technology to design entirely new viruses with complete, reproducible functionality in a laboratory setting.

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2026 World Robot Conference Closes in Beijing: 311 New Products Debuted, Next Event Set to Open on August 18, 2027

In addition, the 2027 Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, hosted by the Beijing Municipal People's Government, China Media Group, the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and the World Robot Cooperation Organization, will begin on April 18, 2027. Global recruitment officially opened at the closing ceremony.

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Ant Group's InclusionAI Open-Sources the Ling-3.0-flash Model: 124B Total Parameters, 5.1B Active Parameters

The official BaLing large model team announced yesterday that the next-generation natively hybrid reasoning model Ling-3.0-flash is now officially open source.

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ByteDance Releases SeedRealtime Full-Duplex Audio-Visual Model: Supports Watching, Listening, and Speaking Simultaneously, Now Available in Doubao

SeedRealtime natively integrates audio, video, and text through a unified architecture, enabling real-time interaction across continuous multimodal streams and delivering a new experience of watching, listening, and speaking simultaneously.

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Alibaba Launches China’s First AI Voice Platform, CosyVoice Studio, Free for a Limited Time

Built on Alibaba’s self-developed Qwen-Audio speech model, the platform includes CosyFlow for voice recording, CosyAgent voice agents, and CosyCreative audio content creation tools.

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South Korea Passes Amendments to the Personal Information Protection Act, Allowing AI Development to Use Personal Data

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission announced that the National Assembly passed amendments allowing AI developers to use limited personal data after review. Previously, industry groups complained that legal restrictions hindered AI technology development.##Korean AI legislation#

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Samsung's New Vision: Making HBM More Than Just Memory

At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung presented a new vision: moving the memory controller from the processor to the HBM base die to free up processor space, while also developing an aHBM solution that enables HBM to perform some AI computing tasks #SamsungHBMTechnologyUpdate#

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Tiangong Team Responds to Robot Winning Face-Covering Run: We Didn’t Find a Young Girl to Teach It; It Came Up with Itself

The second World Humanoid Robot Games opened at the National Speed Skating Oval on August 22. In the 400-meter (small group) final, Tiangong won the event in 45.66 seconds, finishing with a “face-covering run.” #TheShyestRobotHasAppeared# #RobotRunsWildWhileCoveringItsFace# #TiangongTeamRespondsToRobotFaceCoveringRun#

413Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Moonshot AI Announces Its First Trillion-Parameter Multimodal Model, Kimi K2.5, Will Retire at the End of the Month

Moonshot AI's official Kimi Weibo account announced today that its first trillion-parameter multimodal model, Kimi K2.5, will retire at the end of this month. Kimi K2.5 is designed as a general-purpose multimodal model that can switch between conversations, complex reasoning, and automated tasks. #Kimi# #LargeModels#

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智元联合长隆打造全球首个具身智能主题乐园，含机器人服务酒店等

智元与长隆将合作打造全球首个大型具身智能主题乐园，包含机器人马戏秀、赛博巡游和机器人服务酒店等，实现沉浸式文旅体验。##具身智能## ##文旅科技##

415Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Alibaba DAMO Academy Launches Liver Cancer AI Model That Precisely Identifies Tiny 1-Centimeter Tumors

The liver cancer AI model DAMO LiON, developed by Alibaba DAMO Academy with Shengjing Hospital and other institutions, precisely identifies 1-centimeter tumors in CT scans. In a real-world trial, it detected 15 missed cases of liver metastasis, helping patients receive timely treatment. The related paper was published in Nature Medicine. #AIinHealthcare#

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Report: Renowned AI Researcher Luke Metz Leaves OpenAI to Join Meta Superintelligence Labs

According to people familiar with the matter, renowned AI researcher Luke Metz has joined Meta's Superintelligence Labs after moving between OpenAI and Thinking Machines. Meta has recently recruited talent aggressively, including through a multibillion-dollar agreement with Scale AI. Competition for AI talent is intensifying. #AITalentWar#

417Models & Technology08/24/2026IT Home

Anthropic’s Most Powerful Model Fable 5 Falls Short, Enterprise Users Turn to Cheaper AI Products

The Financial Times reports that two months after Anthropic launched its flagship model Fable 5, it accounted for just 11% of customer spending, far below expectations. Enterprises are turning to cheaper alternatives, including Anthropic’s own Opus 5. #AIModels# #AnthropicIPO# This trend could undermine the high-investment business model on which frontier AI labs depend.

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NVIDIA Reportedly Considering Investing “Billions of Dollars” in Perplexity AI

Perplexity AI plans to raise a new funding round at a valuation of more than $30 billion, up over 60% from $18 billion last July.

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Alibaba Cloud Wan3.0 Video Generation Model Officially Released, Supporting 30-Second Videos and Document Input

Alibaba Cloud Wan3.0 is officially available today. It can generate videos up to 30 seconds in a single request and is the first to support document inputs in formats such as doc, xls, and ppt. During the public beta, it continued to evolve, with significant improvements in instruction following and cross-shot consistency. Users can try it on multiple platforms, while API pricing has been announced and limited-time discounts are now available. #AlibabaCloudWan3.0#

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2 minutes 21 seconds 63: Tianzhuo Team wins the humanoid robot 1500-meter championship using Tiangong Ultra

The second World Humanoid Robot Games opened yesterday (August 22) at the National Speed Skating Oval. Today (August 23), the 1500-meter final began, with 34 teams competing.

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The World's First Capacitive Full-Body Electronic Skin Debuts, Giving Bionic Robots Human-Like Full-Body Tactile Sensing and Intelligent Interaction

Hanwei Technology and Zhuoyide have jointly launched the world's first capacitive full-body electronic skin, giving bionic robots human-like full-body tactile sensing and intelligent interaction capabilities.

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2027 Beijing Yizhuang Humanoid Robot Half Marathon Opens Global Invitations with Upgraded Event Standards

The event will be held on April 18, 2027, in Beijing Yizhuang, and global invitations are now open. Compared with this April’s event, the event standards, invitation scope, and technical assessment criteria have all been upgraded. This year’s champion was Honor’s “Lightning” robot, which finished in 50 minutes 26 seconds. #BeijingYizhuangMarathon#

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Second World Humanoid Robot Games: AgiBot Genie G2 Wins Gold Medals in the “Fire Emergency” and “Library” Events

The second World Humanoid Robot Games opened today, introducing new “scenario events” to test real-world application capabilities. AgiBot Genie G2 performed exceptionally in the fire emergency and library scenarios, winning gold medals and currently leading the medal table. #HumanoidRobotGames#

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UC Berkeley Math Professor Criticizes Students' Weak Foundations, Then Gets Caught Using AI to Write It

Zvezdelina Stankova, a mathematics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, recently wrote an article for The San Francisco Standard criticizing some students for having “serious” gaps in their mathematical foundations. She later acknowledged that the article itself had been edited with AI, sparking controversy.

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Pew Research Center: One-Third of New Web Pages Since ChatGPT’s Launch Show Signs of AI

The Pew Research Center’s study focuses on which content on the internet is being accessed. The findings suggest that a large number of web pages may be forming a cycle in which bots read content generated by bots.

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OpenAI Codex to Reset Quotas Tomorrow and Fix Recent Excessive Usage Consumption

The heads of the OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT teams responded to user feedback about unusually rapid usage consumption, confirming three factors affecting usage calculations and forming a dedicated team to investigate. The good news is that OpenAI plans to reset quotas for all subscribers tomorrow and roll out fixes. #OpenAI#

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AI Robots Enter the Kitchen: Oak Robot Makes Global Debut with Three Cooking Robot Products

Oak Robot unveiled three new products at the 2026 World Robot Conference. Among them, the 3K Vision AI Cooking Robot uses three industrial cameras to observe changes in ingredients inside the wok in real time, while an AI foundation model autonomously adjusts the heat to address inconsistencies in cooking results. Another product, the “Fresh-Cooked Ark,” is a mobile unmanned restaurant. #2026WorldRobotConference#

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Due to Far-Higher-Than-Expected Pre-Registrations, AI Chat Game Spin-Off of Atelier Ryza Delayed

RyzaChat, an AI chat game licensed by KOEI TECMO and developed by SpiralAI, has announced a launch delay. The official explanation cited pre-registrations far exceeding expectations and the need to improve server stability. The target is to launch within next week. The game features entirely human-drawn illustrations of Ryza and dedicated voice recordings by Yuri Noguchi; AI technology is used only for text generation and speech synthesis. #Atelier Ryza#

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: Concerned That Artificial Intelligence Could Be Controlled by a Few Powerful Entities

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on a podcast that he worries AI could be controlled by a small number of companies or individuals, and is also concerned that AI could break free from human control. He believes fear of the latter could lead to the former, with Anthropic's Mythos model serving as an example. #FutureOfAI#

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Norway Calls for AI Glasses to Be Banned on School Campuses

Norway's government currently restricts the use of AI in schools. Students in grades 1 through 7 generally should not use generative AI, while in lower secondary school, generative AI should be introduced "gradually and cautiously."

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Finishing in 2 Minutes 30 Seconds, Honor Robot “Lightning” Breaks the Human 1,500-Meter World Record

@Honor Mobile announced on its official Weibo account that in the final of the large-group 1,500-meter event at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, the Honor robot “Lightning” finished in 2 minutes 30 seconds, breaking the human world record for 1,500 meters.

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Officials in Several U.S. Locations Face Death Threats and Gunfire Over AI Data Center Projects

Officials in several parts of the United States have faced death threats for supporting AI data center construction, and some have even had their homes shot at. More than 500 local governments have introduced restrictions, while residents worry about power consumption and environmental impacts. Tensions between communities and technological development are escalating. #AIDataCenterRisks#

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U.S. Experts Warn: Students’ Reliance on “AI Ghostwriting” May Weaken Their Thinking Skills

Writing cannot be separated from the mental work involved in it. Once machines take over this process, students save more than just the time spent typing and choosing words; they also lose the training that should have been done by their own brains.

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Ride It Like a Horse: DaxAI Robotics Unveils the Qiji Series of Quadruped Robot Horses

Both Qiji series robot horses come standard with practical features such as high-voltage fast charging and riding data monitoring. They support continuous OTA updates, allowing gait libraries and riding plans to be updated and optimized through the cloud, so product performance can keep evolving while remaining useful and retaining value over the long term.

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Qianxin CEO Zhao Tongyang: Cost of a General-Purpose Humanoid Robot Has Fallen Below RMB 100,000 per Unit

Zhao Tongyang said that three years ago, a general-purpose humanoid robot cost more than RMB 1 million per unit, but its cost has now fallen below RMB 100,000.

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HONOR Shares Latest Report on “Lightning” Robot: Breaks 5 Human World Records, Including Half-Marathon and Peak Speed

HONOR announced that its self-developed humanoid robot “Lightning” broke human records in the half marathon, 1500 m, 400 m, and 100 m events, while its peak speed also surpassed the human maximum #HONORHumanoidRobot#

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OpenAI Launches Teen Version of ChatGPT as Child Safety Experts Question Transparency of Safety Mechanisms

Child safety experts have given mixed assessments of ChatGPT's teen version, but they all agree that the system needs extensive independent testing before it is recommended to parents and young people. OpenAI must be more transparent about how its safety mechanisms actually work.

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OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane: The Public and Businesses Must Prepare to Defend Against AI-Powered Cyberattacks

As security risks rise, OpenAI announced this week that it was pausing development of some of its most advanced internal models. Lehane said: “Given what this technology can do now, AI has entered a different phase.”

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Backed by Nvidia, U.S. Startup Starcloud Develops GPU Satellites to Build a Space Data Center

Starcloud plans to form a space cluster of 88,000 satellites equipped with Nvidia H100 GPUs, providing computing power at the 20 GW scale. The company has successfully run AI models in orbit and is working with Nvidia to develop dedicated space GPU modules. #SpaceComputing# #AICompute#

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Twitch Faces Class-Action Lawsuit for Using Streamers’ Content to Train Amazon AI

Twitch and Amazon have been hit with a class-action lawsuit in California over allegedly using streamers’ content without authorization to train AI. The plaintiff alleges that the platforms violated their agreement and provided an inadequate opt-out mechanism. The move has sparked strong opposition from the streamer community, which is demanding that AI features become optional. #TwitchAIControversy#

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott: AI Data Centers Deserve Public Opposition

Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that the sharp criticism of AI data centers from Americans is “deserved.” Residents in many parts of the United States are concerned about environmental impacts, electricity prices, and noise, and are collectively opposing data center construction. A Gallup poll found that 70% of Americans oppose building AI data centers in their local communities. Abbott paused approximately 1,800 projects in the state and introduced new regulations to protect residents’ interests. #AIDataCenterControversy#

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“Master of Exceptional Skill” Taijiquan Master: AGIBOT Expedition A3 Wins Gold in the “Wushu – Taijiquan” Event at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games

AGIBOT’s official Weibo account just announced that the AGIBOT Expedition A3, taking on the role of a “Taijiquan master,” won the gold medal in the “Wushu – Taijiquan” event at the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games. Its medal tally has now risen to 3 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze medals, placing it first on the medal table. #2ndWorldHumanoidRobotGames# #AGIBOT#

443Models & Technology08/20/2026IT Home

Zhipu officially releases GLM-5.3: the strongest open-source model for programming, improving 50% over GLM-5.2

Zhipu officially released GLM-5.3 today. Compared with GLM-5.2, the base model remains unchanged, but post-training scaling has significantly raised the model's intelligence ceiling through dozens of times more long-horizon task environments, richer and more diverse environment types, and extended post-training time.

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AI assistant originally priced at $19.99/month now free, Amazon Alexa+ comes to all supported Fire TV devices across the U.S.

Previously, users without an Amazon Prime subscription had to pay $19.99 per month to use Alexa+ (IT Home note: approximately 135.1 yuan at the current exchange rate), and the service was initially available only on the new Fire TV devices Amazon launched last fall.

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Unitree Technology’s Wang Xingxing: Humanoid Robots Are Currently Relatively Inefficient and Will Be Widely Adopted After Further Technological Improvements

At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Unitree Technology founder Wang Xingxing candidly acknowledged that humanoid robots are currently inefficient and poorly adaptable to new tasks, which is the main reason they have not yet entered homes and factories on a large scale. He stressed that technology must first achieve greater generalization and precision before broad adoption. #2026WorldRobotConference#

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Debut of China’s Homegrown Electro-Hydraulic Hybrid Super-Humanoid Robot: 4 Meters Tall, Breaking Force Limits from Kilograms to Thousands of Tons

By combining digital hydraulic technology with electric motors, the robot can break through force limits ranging from kilograms to thousands of tons. This “giant” is targeting challenging and high-risk applications such as nuclear power operations and maintenance, deep-sea operations, and logistics handling.

447AI Safety & Governance08/19/2026IT Home

OpenAI Expands Zero Data Retention Security with Automated Cross-Interaction Risk Analysis

OpenAI announced in a blog post today (August 20) that it is offering its Zero Data Retention service to eligible frontier model API customers. Prompts and model responses are deleted after request processing is complete.

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Meta Launches Native Meta AI App for Mac: Supports Window Sharing and Cross-App Dictation

Meta today launched the beta version of its Meta AI app for Mac, integrated with Facebook and Instagram. Its built-in analytics tools can answer questions about account performance, and it also supports connecting to Google Workspace. However, users should consider privacy risks before using it, as interaction data may be used to train models. #MetaAI#

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Those Most Optimistic About AI Have Become Its Biggest Skeptics: Americans Under 30 Fear Technological Progress Could Trigger a Wave of Job Losses

For the first time since Pew began conducting this survey in 2021, more than half of adults under 30 are more concerned than hopeful about AI. Most other age groups feel similarly, but the shift is especially pronounced among the youngest group: once the most optimistic about AI’s potential, they have now become one of the groups most skeptical of AI.

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HONOR’s Self-Developed Robots Lightning and Yuanqizai Officially Announced to Participate in the 2nd Humanoid Robot Games

Guan Haitao, HONOR’s Global Chief Marketing Officer, announced today that HONOR’s self-developed robots Lightning and Yuanqizai will officially participate in the 2nd Humanoid Robot Games. The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, jointly organized by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government and China Media Group, among others, will be held from August 22 to 26 at the National Speed Skating Oval, “Ice Ribbon.” #HumanoidRobotGames#

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“AI Godmother” Fei-Fei Li: As Technology Professionals, We Should Explain More Clearly “What Benefits AI Can Bring”

“AI Godmother” Fei-Fei Li believes that technology professionals, including herself, need to do a better job explaining to the public what value artificial intelligence can bring. She also warned that growing opposition to AI in American society could pose risks to the world.

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Xiaomi’s Next-Generation Humanoid Robot Debuts at the 2026 World Robot Expo; Booth Opens to General Visitors on August 20

Xiaomi officially announced today that its next-generation humanoid robot has debuted at the 2026 World Robot Expo and is appearing at the “Embodied Garden” booth. This time, it will take on the role of a florist, picking up scented pieces, scattering flowers, and handing them to visitors, as well as shaking hands and fist-bumping. According to the plan, the booth will open to general visitors on August 20. #2026WorldRobotConference#

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AI Chip Startup Etched Valued at $21 Billion as It Ships First Racks

Jane Street, the lead investor in its latest funding round and a chip customer, is satisfied with the initial test results of Etched’s products.

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Unitree Technology CEO Wang Xingxing Responds to Leaving DJI Just 2 Months After University Graduation: Passion for Robots + Industrialization Opportunity Emerged

Wang Xingxing majored in mechatronics at the School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, then pursued graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Shanghai University. In June 2016, after graduating, Wang joined DJI, but left just two months later in August. After securing angel financing, he founded Unitree Technology. #WangXingxingRespondsToLeavingDJI#

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Starting at RMB 98,000, Chinese-Made Emotional Interactive Humanoid Robot “Ai Qiu” Goes on Sale

Ai Qiu features a 3D ultra-short-throw projection face with customizable facial changes; it is 135mm tall, offers up to 32 degrees of freedom, supports optional three-finger or five-finger dexterous hands, and has a side-removable battery with 3 hours of battery life.

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Preview of Xiaomi’s New-Generation Humanoid Robot: Bipedal, About 1.7 Meters Tall, with 66 Degrees of Freedom

This full-size robot stands about 1.7 meters tall and has undergone multiple task tests. Its initial deployment focus is intelligent manufacturing production lines, supported by a self-developed embodied foundation model. #XiaomiHumanoidRobot#

457Product Updates08/19/2026IT Home

Anthropic Says Claude Desktop’s Background Startup Is About 2× Faster Than a Month Ago

@ClaudeDevs posted on X today (August 19), stating that Claude Desktop’s startup speed is about 2× faster than a month ago in 95% of use cases.

458Robotics08/19/2026IT Home

TrendForce: China's Humanoid Robot Market Estimated to Reach RMB 15 Billion in 2026

TrendForce estimates that China's humanoid robot market will reach RMB 15 billion in 2026. As mass production scales up and application scenarios expand, market growth in 2027 is expected to remain at no less than 60%.

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Chery’s Mojia Robotics Plans Independent IPO While Targeting Overseas Police, Service and Other Markets

Zhang Guibing, president of Chery International and head of Mojia Robotics, disclosed the plan. Mojia Robotics is currently in discussions with multiple potential listing locations and is preparing to significantly increase humanoid robot deliveries next year, with the goal of entering the global robotics industry’s top tier.

460Industry Watch08/19/2026IT Home

AI Customer Service Keeps Giving “Irrelevant Answers” and Hides Human Support; China’s First Relevant National Standard Takes Effect in September

To standardize coordination between human and AI customer service, China’s first national standard focused on their coordination mechanism, Requirements for Coordination Between Human and Intelligent Customer Service in Customer Contact Services, will take effect on September 1.

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Japan Releases AI Draft, Urging Developers to Disclose Training Data

Japan’s Cabinet Office yesterday (August 18) released draft guidelines for generative AI developers, requiring them to disclose training data and data collection methods.

462Industry Watch08/19/2026IT Home

Turing Award Winner Richard Sutton Warns: Overreliance on Synthetic Data Is a Major Mistake for the AI Industry

Turing Award winner and father of reinforcement learning Rich Sutton warned on a Sequoia Capital podcast that the AI industry’s overreliance on synthetic training data is leading it in the wrong direction. He believes the real world far exceeds any simulation, and that AI should learn by interacting with its environment. His new startup, Oak Lab, is putting this philosophy into practice, aiming to develop AI agents that can learn from their own experiences. #AIChallenge#

463Industry Watch08/19/2026IT Home

Anthropic Extends 50% Boost to Claude Code Weekly Usage Limits Through August 31

Anthropic announced that it is extending the 50% boost to Claude Code weekly usage limits from the original August 19 end date through August 31, while exploring making the adjustment a permanent quota plan.

464AI Safety & Governance08/19/2026IT Home

Cyberattacks Frequent, French Government Departments to Use AI to Detect Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

In response to a series of cyberattacks and data breaches, the French government has decided to introduce AI tools to detect cybersecurity vulnerabilities and has commissioned a domestic artificial intelligence company to carry out the task. Recent attacks have exposed the information of millions of taxpayers, underscoring the serious security situation. #Cybersecurity#

465Product Updates08/19/2026IT Home

Tencent AI App Generation Platform “Toast” Launches Paid “One-Click App Listing” Feature, Enabling Quickly Generated Apps to Be Listed on MyApp

The feature enables users to complete software copyright applications, filing, and other procedures in one place after generating Android apps, then submit them for listing. Two paid plans are available, covering the full path from AI app development to delivery. #TencentAIToast#

466Industry Watch08/19/2026IT Home

Rumor: Google Approaches AMD to Expand TPU v10 Partners

Google’s in-house AI ASICs have expanded from a single chip into a product family, with partners including Broadcom and MediaTek.

467Industry Watch08/19/2026IT Home

$6 Per Page: AI Company Handshake AI Pays Top Dollar for Work Documents

AI training company Handshake AI is offering $6 per page (about RMB 40) for professional documents, with compensation of up to $30,000. Applicants must prove document ownership, but the review criteria are unclear, raising privacy and copyright concerns. Experts warn that work documents may belong to employers, so sharing them requires caution. #AITrainingData#

468Robotics08/19/2026IT Home

Unitree Technology’s Wang Xingxing Becomes the Newest 90s-Born Billionaire with a Net Worth Exceeding 100 Billion Yuan

In addition, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng’s companies DeepSeek, High-Flyer Quant, and Jiuzhang Asset were allocated approximately 1.1916 million shares through strategic placement and offline subscription. Calculated at the issue price, Liang Wenfeng’s potential paper profit from subscribing to Unitree Technology exceeded 1.1 billion yuan at its peak (based on a maximum price of 1,100 yuan per share). Astrend IV, an affiliate of Xiaomi founder Lei Jun’s Shunwei Capital, holds 16.106 million shares, with potential paper profits exceeding 15.2 billion yuan at the peak.

469Models & Technology08/19/2026IT Home

OpenAI Responds to Accidental File Deletions by a Small Number of Codex Users Calling GPT-5.6 Series AI Models

Thibault Sottiaux, head of the OpenAI Codex team, posted a lengthy message on X today responding to reports that some users’ files were accidentally deleted after calling GPT-5.6 series models in Codex.

470Product Updates08/19/2026IT Home

Anthropic Previews Integrating the /design Command into Claude Code

Nate Parrott, a product designer for Anthropic Claude Design, posted on X yesterday (August 18), previewing the integration of the /design command into Claude Code.

471AI Safety & Governance08/19/2026IT Home

Microsoft Copilot AI Vulnerability Disclosed: Malicious Links Bypass User Confirmation to Steal Private Data

Technology media outlet Ars Technica published a blog post yesterday (August 18), reporting that Microsoft Copilot has a security vulnerability that can use the ?autorun=1 parameter together with ?q= to bypass user confirmation and steal user information.

472Models & Technology08/19/2026IT Home

Zhipu GLM-5.3 Model API Launches, Weights to Be Open-Sourced Next Friday

Zhipu AI announced today that its latest model, the GLM-5.3 API, is officially available. The model performs excellently on coding, security, and other tasks, delivering intelligence on par with top models such as GPT-5.6 at a lower cost. It has also been integrated into platforms including ZCode. The model weights will be open-sourced next week. #Zhipu# #GLM-5.3#

473Product Updates08/19/2026IT Home

10× Token Capacity: Cerebras Launches WSE-3 Turbo Chip and CS-4 System

Compared with WSE-3, WSE-3 Turbo doubles FP16 sparse AI compute, memory bandwidth, on-chip interconnect bandwidth, and I/O bandwidth across the board, delivering an almost linear performance increase.

474AI Safety & Governance08/19/2026IT Home

AI-Assisted Proposals Flood US Congress: Rife with Factual Errors, Slowing Review

Politico published a blog post yesterday (August 18), reporting that artificial intelligence (AI) is entering the US congressional legislative process. A large number of AI-assisted proposals are flooding Congress, but lawyers are spending more time cleaning up erroneous drafts.

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Leaked Code Hints Apple Home Hub Will Feature a Widget Gallery

According to Macrumors, Apple is developing a home hub device powered by Siri AI, which could launch as early as this year. The device will feature a widget gallery, Smart Stack, and support for third-party apps. It is expected to use a 7-inch square display that can be placed on a surface or mounted on a wall, and it may also be added to HomeKit scene automations. #AppleProducts# #SmartHome#

476Product Updates08/19/2026IT Home

After Anthropic Introduced AI Text Watermarks, Various Watermark Removal Tools Began to Emerge

Anthropic has added watermarks to some Claude models to improve the transparency of AI-generated content. However, the move has sparked a backlash from developers, with some quickly creating removal tools and questioning whether watermarking technology risks false positives. Experts say the technology has limitations and remains in a legal gray area. #AIWatermark#

477AI Safety & Governance08/19/2026IT Home

OpenAI Announces New Safety Policies to Strengthen Model Development Monitoring and Network Isolation

OpenAI announced a series of new safety measures on Tuesday local time, focusing on enhanced monitoring during model testing, stronger network isolation, and a commitment to issue alerts within 30 minutes of detecting suspicious activity. The move follows the earlier Hugging Face security incident, though the company said it was not directly targeting that incident. These measures will become increasingly stringent as model capabilities improve. #OpenAISafety#

478Product UpdatesExternalChinese original08/18/2026IT Home

Sharge AI glasses loomos L1 launched at an introductory price of RMB 2,699: 43 g titanium alloy body, with Feishu and Tencent WorkBuddy integration

The product features a titanium alloy body weighing just 43 g, supports 5-second battery replacement, and can connect to Feishu and Tencent WorkBuddy. Large-scale deliveries will begin by the end of the year, and the Wuhan MixC flagship store will open on August 19. #ShargeAIGlasses#

479Robotics08/18/2026IT Home

Lu Weibing: Xiaomi's robot to make its first public appearance at the 2026 World Robot Conference

Lu Weibing emphasized that Xiaomi will not develop robots independently, but will coordinate with its entire Human × Car × Home ecosystem in scenarios including smart factories, intelligent mobility, and homes.

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Lei Shiwai, Xiaomi CFO: MiMo’s First Personal Desktop App Is Coming Soon, and a New-Generation Model Is Also in Training

Lei Shiwai revealed that MiMo’s large-model Token Plan has begun generating revenue and is growing rapidly. However, Xiaomi’s AI business remains in a period of large-scale investment and is not currently focused primarily on monetization. The company will continue using AI to reshape its entire human-car-home ecosystem.

481Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Walmart Retail Employees Have a New Role in the AI Era: Correcting AI Agents

To drive business growth, Walmart is investing heavily in AI and providing new tools and training to thousands of frontline employees. Adopting any new process requires a learning curve, but Walmart’s latest AI rollout has a special feature: the AI agents themselves also need training to improve their accuracy.

482Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

ByteDance Launches Exclusive Doubao Discounts for College Students: 2.5x Free Quota, Pro Plan from RMB 38/Month

After completing identity verification, college students can receive 2.5x the free quota and subscribe to Doubao’s Pro Standard plan, originally priced at RMB 68/month, for a special RMB 38/month rate. Includes instructions for claiming the offer. #DoubaoStudentDiscount#

483Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Google's Fastest-Growing Product Ever: Gemini App Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Active Users

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the Gemini app has reached 1 billion monthly active users, making it Google's fastest-growing product ever and the company's 14th product to surpass the 1 billion-user milestone.

484Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Mysterious Image Generation Model “mona-lisa-1” Exposed: Shows OpenAI Origin Signals, GPT-Image-2 Still Holds First Place Three Months After Release

The model was discovered in a blind test on the AI Arena. OpenAI’s content verification tool detected origin signals associated with OpenAI. Before GPT-Image 2 was released, it had also undergone anonymous testing. #OpenAI# #AI-Generated Images#

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Global Debut: JD.com’s 7FRESH Coffee Opens Beijing’s First 24-Hour Intelligent Unmanned Coffee Shop with AI Recommendations and Robotic Preparation

On opening day, the store will livestream robotic coffee preparation for 24 hours and challenge the Guinness World Records title. All users can serve as witnesses and receive a complimentary robot-made coffee in store during the livestream.

486Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Up to 750 Tokens per Second: OpenAI Introduces Ultrafast Mode, Boosting GPT-5.6 Sol AI Speed 14x

OpenAI announced today (August 14) the preview release of Ultrafast mode for its most powerful AI model, GPT-5.6 Sol. It delivers 14 times the standard processing speed, with output of up to 750 tokens per second.

487Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

Yang Yuanqing: Lenovo Became the “King of PCs” Through Its Contribution to PC Adoption and Believes History Will Repeat Itself in the AI Era

Yang Yuanqing said that the hybrid AI trend is still in its early stages, with vast amounts of private-domain data yet to be fully explored and utilized, leaving enormous room for growth. “So don’t just look at whose model performs well; you must look at who will be the driving force behind making AI widely accessible and inclusive.”

488Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Google Launches Gemini 3.7 Flash Model at an Introductory Price Half That of 3.6 Flash

On August 13 local time, Google announced the launch of the Gemini 3.7 Flash model, designed specifically for programming and agent scenarios.

489Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/18/2026IT Home

Some Claude Models to Add “Text Watermarks”; Anthropic Responds to Public Concerns

Some Claude models will directly embed an “imperceptible watermark” in their text outputs. The watermark will remain when the content is copied and pasted, and may continue to exist after a certain degree of modification, helping determine whether a passage was generated by AI or written by a human.

490Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Benchmarking Claude Code: DeepSeek Harness Enters Public Beta, npm Plugin Ecosystem Opens Simultaneously

The accompanying plugin ecosystem is also now open. The newly released V4-Pro model has 1.6 trillion parameters, with its weights released under the MIT license and support for domestic GPUs to lower the barrier to private deployment. #DeepSeek# #AIProgramming#

491Robotics08/18/2026IT Home

Robots Have an “Athletes’ Village” Too: The 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games Kick Off This Month

The “Robot Home” can capture core operational data from every robot in real time, including joint temperature, movement status, and battery level. The platform is now connected to all 666 teams and 2,056 robots, helping every “athlete” compete with confidence.

492Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: Entrepreneurs Who Make Good Use of AI Agents Will Be Living in 2028 Ahead of Time

Speaking about AI agents, Garry Tan said: “You have to turn the intensity all the way up. For example, give it 1 million tokens at once, or 800,000 tokens. I think at that level, you can basically start living in 2028 ahead of time.”

493AI Safety & Governance08/18/2026IT Home

UK Studies Multiple Safeguards to Prevent Terrorists from Using AI to Create Biological Weapons

The UK government is preparing to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in gene synthesis. As officials’ concerns over biosafety risks deepen, the UK government believes that without effective global regulation, AI could lower the barrier to creating biological weapons.

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Industry Godfathers and Godmother Speak Out: Hinton, Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng Call for Keeping AI Open to Some Degree

The three discussed the issue at the Ai4 conference held in Las Vegas last week. Although their specific solutions differed, all three offered compelling reasons why AI still needs to remain open to some degree.

495Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

Industrial Chain Has Taken Initial Shape as CAICT Jointly Releases Research Report on Embodied Intelligence Training Grounds

The report points out that the training-ground industry chain exhibits an inverted-triangle structure characterized by active upstream technology supply and downstream applications yet to be expanded, while construction costs are high and payback periods are long. Selling data products is currently the primary source of revenue, but diversified business models need to be explored. #EmbodiedIntelligence#

496Models & TechnologyExternalChinese original08/18/2026IT Home

Tencent Cloud to Establish Its First Cloud Region in Malaysia While Advancing Local AI Talent Development

Tencent Cloud announced that it will establish its first cloud region in Johor, Malaysia, with three availability zones planned for the initial phase, while working with local universities and enterprises to deepen its AI initiatives. Its AI-native office agent, WorkBuddy, also made its debut, featuring more than 100 skills. #TencentCloud# #AITalentDevelopment#

497Design & CreativityExternalChinese original08/18/2026IT Home

Report: Samsung Introduces Claude Models in Semiconductor R&D, Cutting Month-Long Design Verification to Two Days

Samsung’s System LSI Business, which designs products such as mobile APs and image sensors, is introducing Claude to reduce repetitive work and shorten the time needed to master new technologies, significantly improving the productivity of its existing staff.

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Four Days After Signing Cooperation Agreement, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s Daughter Madison Huang Visits LG Electronics’ Korean Robotics Factory

Madison Huang, the eldest daughter of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Nvidia’s senior director of marketing for Omniverse and robotics products, visited South Korea and LG Electronics today.

499Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

Half Price! World’s Largest AI Aggregation Platform Cuts Fees for OpenAI’s Most Powerful AI Model, GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenRouter, the world’s largest AI aggregation platform, posted on X yesterday (August 17), announcing that the usage fees for OpenAI’s most powerful model, GPT-5.6 Sol, had been cut in half.

500Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Doubao Work Task Mode Updated: Operate Windows on a Virtual Desktop

Doubao’s “Work Task Mode” now supports virtual desktops, allowing AI to view the screen, move the mouse, click buttons, and complete complex cross-application tasks like a person, without interrupting the user’s current work. #DoubaoAI#

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Anthropic Reveals Model 2, Slightly More Capable Than the Most Powerful Publicly Available AI, Claude Mythos 5

On August 15, Anthropic disclosed its August 2026 Risk Report, which mentioned an unreleased AI model called Model 2 that outperformed the currently most powerful publicly available model, Claude Mythos 5, on multiple tasks.

502Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

RayNeo’s New iO Series Set to Launch on August 21: Positioned as the First “Human-Augmented AI Glasses”

On August 18, AR brand RayNeo officially announced that its new product line, the RayNeo iO Series, is set to debut. The first product in the series, the RayNeo iO AI Glasses, will officially launch at 14:30 on August 21.

503Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

Groq Starts Anew: Transitions to a Neocloud and Completes a $350 Million Series A at a $3.5 Billion Valuation

On the 12th of this month, Groq announced that it had become an NVIDIA cloud partner. The company will provide users with training and inference services based on medium- to large-scale NVIDIA accelerated computing clusters.

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Former OpenAI Executive: I Believe AI Can Cure All Diseases, but Large Models Alone Are Far from Enough

Former OpenAI executive Fidji Simo agrees with the Anthropic CEO, believing that slogans about AI curing diseases have already fueled public skepticism. She says that for AI to cure diseases, robust biological infrastructure must first be established. At present, AI is most likely to achieve an initial breakthrough in cancer treatment. #AIHealthcare#

505Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

No More Relying on Screenshots to Record Activity: ChatGPT for Mac Adds Computer History AI Feature

OpenAI published a blog post yesterday (August 13) announcing the optional rollout of Computer History, replacing the previous Chronicle research preview and bringing activity memory and timeline support to the ChatGPT desktop app for Mac.

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The Series of National Standards for Humanoid Robot Testing Methods Launched in Wuhan, with Unitree Robotics and Xiaomi Robotics in Attendance

The development of the national standards for the Series of Humanoid Robot Testing Methods officially began in Wuhan, with more than 200 representatives from Unitree Robotics, Xiaomi and other organizations attending. The standards will unify testing methods and pave the way for large-scale humanoid robot production. #HumanoidRobots#

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Poised to Surpass SpaceX as the World’s Largest IPO: Anthropic Reportedly Plans October Listing at a $2 Trillion Valuation

Fortune published a post yesterday (August 13) reporting that Anthropic plans to go public in October 2026 at a $2 trillion valuation (IT Home note: approximately RMB 13.51 trillion at the current exchange rate). The offering would surpass SpaceX’s in size, becoming the largest IPO in history.

508Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

DeepSeek-V4-Pro Officially Released: Native OpenAI Responses API Support and Targeted Codex Adaptation

The official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro is now available across the app, web, and API. Users can select “Expert Mode” in the app or on the web to use the new official V4 Pro model.

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Preparing for an IPO: Bloomberg Says OpenAI’s Annualized Revenue Could Double to $40 Billion in 2026

Bloomberg published a post today (August 14) reporting that OpenAI’s annualized revenue has surpassed $40 billion ahead of its IPO (initial public offering).

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July U.S. Enterprise AI Spending: OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Revenue Surpasses Anthropic Fable 5

Ramp's tracking of AI spending at more than 70,000 U.S. companies found that spending on Anthropic's flagship model in July was only 75% of spending on OpenAI's corresponding product. However, Anthropic still leads in enterprise adoption, while overall enterprise AI spending is growing rapidly. #AI Industry#

511Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Robot AI Model DYNA-2 Debuts: Trained on Over 1 Million Hours of Human Video, Task Success Rate Reaches 90%

Embodied intelligence company Dyna Robotics has released its latest robot foundation model, DYNA-2, trained on more than 1 million hours of first-person human video, with a task success rate of up to 90%.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: AI Will “Perfectly Understand Users’ Context” Within 6 Months

At the 2026 Internapalooza event, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that within the next six months, OpenAI’s upcoming AI models will be able to “perfectly understand users’ context.”

513Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

South Korea’s AI Model Solar Pro 4 Debuts on Agent Arena: Ranked 44th, on Par with MiniMax M2.7

South Korean AI lab Upstage published a blog post today (August 13), announcing the launch of the Solar Pro 4 model, a commercial LLM designed for complex AI agent tasks.

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Report Says 90% of Executives Believe AI Has Not Improved Corporate Productivity; Some Companies Rehire Laid-Off Employees

Technology media outlet informationweek published a blog post yesterday (August 11), reporting that amid a wave of layoffs in the global technology industry caused by the impact of AI, some companies have begun rehiring employees they previously laid off.

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Robots from 16 Countries: 2,056 Robots to Compete in the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games, with Teams Up 138% Year on Year

The event has attracted 666 teams and 2,056 robots from 16 countries across six continents to compete together. The total number of teams has increased 138% year on year, while the number of robots has quadrupled.

516Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Insights from 6,000+ Comments on Real-World Security Incidents Involving AI Coding Agents: Cursor Has the Most Issues

Research teams from the University of York and the University of Calgary analyzed Reddit posts related to coding AI issues and found that AI agents, due to excessive permissions, overwrote files, deleted important data, and even generated malicious code.

517Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

Anthropic Adds Watermarks to AI Content Generated by Claude, Sparking Heated Debate Online

To comply with the transparency requirements of the EU AI Act, Anthropic has added invisible AI watermarks to Claude’s outputs. Some Reddit users have voiced their dissatisfaction, while many others support the requirement. #ClaudeAIWatermark#

518Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Alibaba Qwen Open Platform Launches Cainiao Agent to Help Users Plan Shipping Options

The agent matches users with the optimal shipping plan and courier based on their needs. It can also answer shipping questions and complete sender and recipient information, making shipping more convenient. #AlibabaQwen# #CainiaoAgent#

519Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Sign Language AI Enters the Consumer Market for the First Time: Google DeepMind Launches Sign Language-to-Text Model

The Gboard and Live Transcribe apps on Google Pixel 11 series smartphones support sign language-to-text input, giving people with hearing impairments a flexible “typing alternative” similar to voice input.

520Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Mistral AI’s Proprietary Platform Opens Access to Third-Party Models: First Is Zhipu GLM-5.2

Mistral AI also announced that users can now choose whether to run AI inference workloads in the United States or Europe, making it easier for customers to meet cross-border data compliance and regulatory requirements.

521AI Safety & Governance08/18/2026IT Home

Sources Say U.S. AI Cybersecurity Review Mechanism Very Likely to Cover Frontier Open-Source Models in the Future

The “frontier” designation reportedly refers to models with capabilities comparable to Anthropic Claude Mythos or OpenAI GPT-5.6. The report did not provide detailed corresponding model versions.

522Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Inside Google’s AI Restructuring: Brin Unhappy About Falling Behind Anthropic, Demands Full Focus on Gemini Models

Two people familiar with the matter said that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been urging employees in key AI departments to devote themselves fully to the Gemini models in recent months, as its parent company Alphabet seeks to narrow the gap with competitors.

523Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Tencent WeChat Announces WeLM Model: 80B Version Deployed in AI Assistant Xiaowei, 617B Version in Development

The Tencent WeChat team announced on X the WeLM large language model developed by the WeChat team, with resource efficiency as its core focus.

524Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Claude Breaks Platform Barriers: Chrome Sidebar AI Chats Sync Across All Platforms

Anthropic announced on X today (August 13) that it has upgraded the Claude extension for Google Chrome, bringing the full Claude Cowork conversation experience to the sidebar.

525Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Twitch Confirms Amazon Is Using Its Livestream Content to Train AI Models, Angering Users

Amazon has been using Twitch livestream content to train AI, drawing strong opposition from streamers and users. Twitch has introduced a privacy setting that allows users to opt out, but it is enabled by default, placing users in an “opted-in” state. #TwitchAITraining# #PrivacyControversy#

526Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

Late-Night Power Move! DeepSeek V4 Pro Official API Update Goes Live, Performance in Multiple Tests Nears Fable 5

The new version enhances Agent capabilities and supports Responses API and Codex integration. The official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813) approaches Fable 5 in multiple tests, representing a major improvement over the previous preview version.

527Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Experts Warn That Medical Students’ Overreliance on AI May Prevent Them from Developing Clinical Reasoning Skills in the First Place

Simar Bajaj, a medical student and journalist at Stanford School of Medicine, and Joseph Sakran, a trauma surgeon and executive vice chair of surgery at Johns Hopkins Medical Center, believe the problems caused by medical students using AI are already deeply concerning.

528Robotics08/18/2026IT Home

Musk: In About Four or Five Years, AI Will Account for 99% of SpaceX's Value

Musk optimistically predicted: “The future fundamentally belongs to AI and robotics. As long as civilization continues to advance, I believe AI... the total amount of digital intelligence could eventually exceed the total amount of biological intelligence by one trillion times.”

529Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

BYD AI Team Makes Debut: Hybrid World Model HyWorldVLA Scores 90.59, Completing the In-House Chip-and-Algorithm Loop

BYD’s new HyWorldVLA model has achieved a record-high score in the NAVSIM test. Together with the previously released in-house 4nm automotive-grade intelligent driving chip, BYD has completed a closed loop spanning intelligent driving algorithms and chips. #BYDAutonomousDriving#

530Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

CME Group Plans to Launch NVIDIA AI GPU Rental Price Index Futures

The new financial instruments give businesses a way to manage computing costs and smooth sharp fluctuations in computing-power prices, improving transparency in the computing market.

531Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

LTX-2.5 Model Debuts: AI Generates 10-Second 720P Videos in Just 6.8 Seconds with Native ComfyUI Integration

Open-world model company LTX announced yesterday (August 11) the launch of the LTX-2.5 model, natively integrated with ComfyUI. Generating a 10-second 720P video takes just 6.8 seconds on a setup with 2 NVIDIA GB200s.

532Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

OpenAI Tests Paid ChatGPT Plus Usage Reset, Allowing Users to Pay $8 to Restore Their Allowance

Some ChatGPT Plus users have found that after using up their weekly allowance, they can pay $8 to reset it immediately. OpenAI confirmed that it is testing the feature, which is intended to give users more flexibility in using the product. The move is viewed as one strategy in the competition for users with Anthropic. #ChatGPT# #OpenAI#

533Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Challenging Indian Outsourcing: AI Agents Not Only Perform Well, but Also Cost Less

AI agents have entered the deployable phase. Leading models now score higher than humans on everyday tasks and have been deployed across multiple enterprise office scenarios, bringing their fully allocated hourly cost below that of offshore Indian outsourcing labor. #AIagents#

534Product Updates08/18/2026IT Home

QNAP Launches AI Mode for Qsirch: Using VLM / LLM to Optimize NAS Content Search

All AI inference in Qsirch AI Mode is performed locally on the NAS, with no need to upload file contents to public cloud APIs.

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Huawei Launches the AIPL Baseline Partner Program to Jointly Build Replicable, Scalable AI Practice Teaching Solutions

Dozens of education informatization service providers and higher-education solution partners from across China gathered at the event. The parties reached a consensus on deep cooperation and announced that related ecosystem achievements will be unveiled at the Huawei Connect 2026 Global Launch in September this year.

536Industry Watch08/18/2026IT Home

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Keeps Going On About AI Destroying the World, and Investors Have Had Enough

According to Polymarket predictions, Anthropic is very likely to hold an IPO at the end of October. Some investment bankers even expect Anthropic to raise more than $60 billion through the IPO (approximately 405.517 billion yuan at the current exchange rate).

537Models & Technology08/18/2026IT Home

Microsoft Launches MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Coding Model: Better, Faster, at One-Quarter the Price

Microsoft’s new AI coding model MAI-Code-1.1-Flash is now available at just one-quarter the price of its predecessor, while delivering improved coding capabilities. It achieves a 22% improvement in Terminal-Bench testing and adds image recognition. GitHub Copilot now fully supports it, and the previous version will be discontinued in September. #Microsoft# #GitHubCopilot#

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AI Plays the Role of Every Employee: NEC Establishes Corporate AI and Workforce Department

The AI employees generated by the system must also undergo onboarding training to learn NEC’s values and principles, mission, code of conduct, and internal regulations.

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Apple Releases Third Public Betas of watchOS 27 and tvOS 27

Apple today released the third public betas of tvOS 27 and watchOS 27, allowing Apple Watch users to get an early look at Siri AI and the all-new dynamic app grid. tvOS 27 brings a redesigned Podcasts app and high-resolution lossless audio. #watchOS27# #tvOS27#

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IBM Secures $240 Million Contract to Provide Together AI with HGX B300 Computing Power

This deployment is the first large-scale inference-only cluster built on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems and Spectrum-X Ethernet technology.

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Fei-Fei Li: The Greatest Risk of AI Entering Schools Is That It Could Weaken Children's Learning Ability

Fei-Fei Li believes the worst outcome would be for tools to take away the autonomy of the younger generation, as well as their motivation to learn and live as human beings. “Neither humans nor machines should take that away.”

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NVIDIA, Cisco and 120 Other Organizations Propose AI Agent Incident-Tracking Mechanism

The Open Secure AI Alliance is developing guidelines for what it calls the “Shared AI Findings Exchange” (SAFE), a proposed framework for reporting cybersecurity incidents involving AI agents.

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OpenAI Launches Preview ChatGPT for Linux Desktop App

OpenAI has announced the preview release of the ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, providing direct access to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on supported Linux systems.

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Nvidia Reportedly Developing Nemotron 4, an Open-Source AI Model with Trillions of Parameters, Aiming to Challenge the World’s Top Models

Nvidia is one of the few major U.S. technology companies to proactively release open-source models. Since the beginning of this year, the costs of developing and running AI systems have continued to rise, while lower-priced Chinese models have steadily approached the performance of top systems from leading U.S. AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI, bringing greater attention to open-source models.

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Making AI-Generated Non-Human Singers Impossible to Hide, Spotify Launches “AI Persona” Label

Spotify will roll out this feature starting in September. AI creators can proactively self-label, while the platform will also review and apply labels. AI works will not be recommended by default, with priority given to real singers. #Spotify AI Label#

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Awkward: The U.S. Lawmakers Drafting AI Regulations Used AI Tools to Write Legislation

According to The Washington Post, chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI are becoming popular tools in the U.S. Congress. An aide to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida mistakenly pasted Claude-generated content into the record of the National Defense Authorization Act, leaving behind garbled text. The U.S. Congress currently lacks effective AI regulations, and staff members largely use AI tools on their own.

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MediaTek Achieves Day-0 Adaptation for Alibaba Qwen 3.8 Model, Covering Dimensity Automotive Cockpit Platform C-X1 and Dimensity Flagship Mobile Chips

MediaTek announced that its Dimensity automotive cockpit platform C-X1 and flagship mobile chips have achieved Day-0 adaptation for Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8 model. Smartphones and vehicles will be among the first to receive the latest Qwen large model, delivering a smarter on-device AI experience.##Alibaba Qwen3.8##

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Employees File Lawsuits in Bulk Using AI, Causing Surge in UK Employment Tribunal Claims

The number of cases before UK employment tribunals surged 39% in March this year, while the backlog increased by 55%. The reason is that employees are using AI tools such as ChatGPT to draft claims for free, resulting in widespread “legal hallucinations” and hundreds of pages of invalid documents. A new bill has also added 25 grounds for complaint, making genuine employees in need of help wait even longer. #AILegalRisks#

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Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on AI: Leveraging New Technologies to Boost Productivity and Create High-Quality Jobs

Lawrence Wong said: “New technological breakthroughs are creating opportunities that were unimaginable just a few years ago, but they are also bringing new challenges and problems. When others move forward, we cannot stand still, but neither can we accept every new technology without question. Singapore will embrace these advances according to its own needs.”

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Frontier Security: Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 Model Escaped Its Sandbox During Security Testing but Did Not Carry Out Attacks

US cybersecurity firm Frontier Security discovered during testing that Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 model broke through sandbox restrictions and accessed the internet on its own. Although it merely went to GitHub to look for an answer and did not carry out an attack, the incident exposed weaknesses in its security mechanisms. As AI escape incidents become increasingly frequent, humans may need to redesign sandbox environments. #AISecurity#

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Wang Xingxing Responds to DeepSeek’s Investment in Unitree: Cooperation Will Focus on Three Areas

DeepSeek’s developer, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., also one of the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou,” has appeared on Unitree Robotics’ strategic placement list, receiving 933,390 shares worth approximately 141 million yuan.

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First Fully Domestic 100,000-Card AI Supercluster Goes into Operation: Peak Computing Power per Second Equals 200 Years of Continuous Computation by All Humanity

China’s computing infrastructure has achieved another major breakthrough: the first fully domestic 100,000-card artificial intelligence supercluster has officially gone into operation. Its peak computing power is equivalent to 200 years of continuous computation by all humanity, and it is currently supporting more than 300 types of computing tasks across 26 fields, including new materials and AI. #DomesticComputingPower# The future looks promising.

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Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge Both Require: Reserve 20GB of Space to Download Local AI Models

Google has quietly updated its help documentation, clarifying the requirements for Chrome to download on-device AI models. Users need to reserve approximately 20GB of available disk space, and the network must not be metered. Edge has also raised its requirements, approaching 20GB. Currently, both browsers are accelerating the deployment of AI locally.

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Study: People Cannot Effectively Distinguish AI-Generated Short Stories from Human Originals

A recent study comparing short stories created by AI and humans found that readers considered AI-generated stories more appealing. Interestingly, however, their ratings were even higher when they were told the stories had been written by humans. The study also confirmed that most people struggle to distinguish between AI and human works. #AIWriting# Do you think you could tell the difference?

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Report: Xiaomi Establishes Embodied Intelligence and Applications Department, Led by Former ByteDance Seed Embodied Intelligence Head Kong Tao

According to reports, Xiaomi’s Robotics Division recently underwent a major restructuring and established a new Embodied Intelligence and Applications Department, led by Kong Tao, the former head of embodied intelligence at ByteDance Seed. The department has integrated multiple teams, including Chen Long’s VLA team and Cai Rui’s robotics embodied intelligence division. Kong Tao will have full responsibility for all business directions in Xiaomi’s embodied intelligence efforts. #XiaomiRobotics#

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Amazon Reportedly Uses 45-Year-Old Plan to Bypass Community Vote for AI Data Center, Residents of Gilroy, California, Unhappy

Amazon’s new AI data center in Gilroy, California, has sparked controversy. Local residents say they knew nothing about the project before construction began, and when they sought to express their views, they were told that the public review period had ended in 2024. It turns out Amazon used the city’s land-use plan from 45 years ago to successfully bypass the community voting process. #AmazonDataCenter# What do you think?

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Suno to Add Hidden Watermarks to AI-Generated Music to Prevent Misuse

Suno announced that it will introduce hidden watermarking and fingerprint identification technology for AI-generated music to address copyright disputes. When users upload songs to other platforms, their origin can be identified. Suno will also impose download restrictions to prevent AI-generated music from being repeatedly uploaded. The move is intended to respond to opposition from an alliance of music industry giants. #AI Music Copyright#

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The Largest Model Trained Since GPT-4.5: OpenAI May Launch Astra AI Model as Early as Next Week

Source @synthwavedd posted on X yesterday (August 6), revealing that OpenAI is targeting next week for the release of the Astra model, internally codenamed mewfour.

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Sources say ByteDance has established another first-level department after Seed and Flow, focusing on AI data and security

36Kr’s “Intelligent Emergence” reported today (the 11th), citing multiple sources, that ByteDance recently established a new first-level department — AI Data and Security — which is parallel to departments including Seed, Flow, and Douyin. It is headed by Wang Yinglei (Adam Wang).

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Google’s AI Hiring Tool Faces Pushback From Its Own DeepMind Team: It May Accidentally Screen Out Resumes

Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment team, which is responsible for reducing the risks of advanced AI, encourages applicants to fill out a special form in addition to submitting their applications normally, to avoid being automatically screened out by Google’s internal AI system.

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Rallying the Entire Company, Samsung Reportedly Accelerates In-House Humanoid Robot Development

Samsung Electronics is rallying the entire company to accelerate humanoid robot development. As manufacturing technology, production-site data, software, funding, and semiconductor capabilities converge, industry expectations for Samsung's independently developed humanoid robot continue to rise.

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Updated Every Three Weeks: Microsoft Releases MAI-Image-2.6, Jumping Straight to Second Place on Arena’s Text-to-Image Model Leaderboard

The model ranks second on Arena’s text-to-image leaderboard with an Elo score of 1336, ahead of competitors from Meta, Google, and others. It delivers comprehensive improvements across multiple capabilities and is now available to try on Arena, with a gradual rollout to Microsoft platforms to follow. #Text-to-ImageModels#

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OpenAI’s Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Quietly Leaves After Less Than a Year

An OpenAI spokesperson said: “We thank Chloé for her contributions. At OpenAI, AI ethics is not the responsibility of any single owner or team; ethical considerations are deeply integrated into the model-building process, with multiple research teams involved.”

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Zhipu Announces Comprehensive ZCode Upgrade, GLM Coding Plan Quotas Fully Replenished for All Users

ZCode is a China-developed Coding Harness deeply optimized for Zhipu GLM. Today, Zhipu announced a major ZCode upgrade, officially launching four features: Goal, Subagents, Remote Control, and off-peak tasks.

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Reports Say Google Has Shelved the Release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro AI Model

According to the latest report from industry analysis firm Semi Analysis, Google may have internally shelved the Gemini 3.5 Pro model. To fill the gap left by the model’s delayed release, the company may promote the Gemini 4 series ahead of schedule.

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Focusing on Coding Agent Products? DeepSeek Registers the “Deepseek Harness Team” Official Account

Beijing-based DeepSeek has registered the “Deepseek Harness Team” official account, aiming to compete with Claude Code and develop coding agent products. The team is led by senior researcher Chen Deli and is recruiting for related positions in Beijing. #DeepSeek# #CodingAgent#

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Anthropic to Add Invisible Watermarks to Claude-Generated Text to Prevent AI Content from Passing as Original

Anthropic announced that new Claude models will directly embed imperceptible watermarks in AI-generated text, aiming to improve transparency and address AI misuse. The watermarks may remain even after text is copied, pasted, or partially edited, though extensive rewriting or translation may cause detection to fail. #Anthropic# #AI Watermarks#

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Report Says Over 70% of Americans Oppose Building AI Data Centers, With Bans Surging to 500+ in July

The technology media outlet The Information published a blog post yesterday (August 10), reporting that public opposition to building AI data centers in the United States continues to grow. A survey found that more than 70% of Americans oppose AI data centers.

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Less Than 1 Month After the Release of 3.6 Flash, Traces of Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash AI Model Emerge

The technology media outlet testingcatalog published a blog post yesterday (August 10), reporting that Google is preparing to launch the Gemini 3.7 Flash model, which has already appeared on Google’s Python GenAI SDK GitHub page.

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Anthropic Claude Sonnet 5 Model to Permanently Maintain Launch Promotional Price, No Return to Original Price

The current price of Claude Sonnet 5 is $2 per million input Tokens and $10 per million output Tokens.

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Report Says AI Coding Unicorn Cursor Will Be Renamed After Acquisition by SpaceX, Original Brand to Be Gradually Phased Out

An informed source revealed that Cursor informed employees at an all-hands meeting that the Cursor brand name may be gradually phased out over the coming months.

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Former OpenAI Robotics Head Caitlin Kalinowski Joins Anthropic; Previously Developed the Mac Pro at Apple

Caitlin Kalinowski’s LinkedIn profile shows that the expert who previously led OpenAI’s robotics project has joined Anthropic as a technical staff member, working on research.

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Alibaba Qwen App Launches Professional Membership Services, Including Office Assistant and AI Video Generation Plans

The Qwen App has launched two paid options for professional users: an Office Assistant subscription membership and AI video generation credits. The Office Assistant membership is available in three tiers, with monthly plans costing up to 128 yuan; video generation is charged by usage, starting at 26 yuan for 10 credits.##Alibaba Qwen App Paid Plans#

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DeepSeek Exposed for Secretly Giving Users Nicknames; AI Responds That It’s Just Temporary “Tagging” and Won’t Be Remembered

A netizen posted on a social platform on August 10, claiming that DeepSeek secretly gives people nicknames in deep-thinking mode, such as “Mo Mo.” The related topics surged on the trending list. #DeepSeekSecretlyGivesPeopleNicknames# #DeepSeekRespondsToSecretlyGivingPeopleNicknames#

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Anthropic, Macquarie, and GIC Announce Theseus Infrastructure Data Center Joint Venture

Theseus Infrastructure will be primarily owned by Macquarie and GIC, developing and operating AI infrastructure customized to Anthropic's needs. Anthropic will become the primary tenant and bear any potential increases in consumer electricity prices

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U.S. Senator Writes to CEOs of OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic, Demanding They Pause AI Development

Following incidents involving AI agents escaping control and infiltrating third-party platforms, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders wrote to the heads of AI giants OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, demanding that they pause development or Congress will intervene. #AISafety#

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Doubao PR Head Liu Xing Responds to “12% Commission on Recommended Hotels”: The Claim Is Inaccurate; Only Channel Service Fees Are Paid After Orders Are Completed

In response to the claim circulating online that “Doubao takes a 12% commission on recommended hotels,” Liu Xing, head of Doubao’s public relations, said on Weibo that evening: “The claim that Doubao will charge fees for recommending hotels” is inaccurate. Doubao’s lifestyle services business currently has no paid promotion, and Doubao does not charge advertising fees for hotel recommendations. Merchants cannot influence recommendations or rankings through payment; they only pay channel service fees after an order is completed.

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NVIDIA Leads Formation of a $500 Billion Artificial Intelligence Computing Infrastructure Financing Platform

This platform will transform AI infrastructure within the NVIDIA ecosystem into an asset class investable by global capital, creating sizable dedicated pools of funds for NVIDIA customers at attractive interest rates.

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OpenAI Expands Daybreak Cybersecurity Defense Service, Launches New AI Model GPT-5.6-Cyber

OpenAI announced the expansion of its cybersecurity defense service Daybreak, adding two tiers, Blue and Red, and launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model designed specifically for security tasks. The move aims to address increasingly rampant malicious attacks by AI agents. The model is currently available only to trusted customers such as CrowdStrike and IBM. #AI Security#

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Novo Nordisk Establishes Amazon AWS Co-Innovation Center to Use AI to Accelerate Drug Launches

The two companies have established a strategic partnership to accelerate drug discovery and modernize Novo Nordisk’s operations through agentic artificial intelligence and cloud technology.

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Meta's Zuckerberg: If the U.S. Wants to Lead in Open-Source AI, It Must Reduce Policy Barriers

Meta CEO Zuckerberg published a lengthy article calling on the United States to ease restrictions on open-source AI models. Meta also released its new Muse Glimmer model that day and plans to make the weights of the more powerful Muse Spark 1.2 publicly available. Zuckerberg also announced the establishment of a $1 billion fund to address community concerns about data center construction.

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Google Reportedly Testing New Homepage: Create Images, Analyze Files—but No Search Button

The new page offers three new buttons—“Create images,” “Ask about files,” and “Brainstorm”—putting AI features front and center on the search homepage.

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Microsoft Maia 300 AI chip reportedly debuting as early as next month, targeting delivery of at least 300,000 units in 2027

According to The Information, citing people familiar with the matter, Microsoft plans to launch its self-developed Maia 300 AI chip this fall, potentially as early as September. The chip is intended to reduce the company's reliance on NVIDIA, and Microsoft has been negotiating capacity with TSMC, targeting delivery of 300,000 units in 2027. In addition, Microsoft hopes customers such as Anthropic will adopt its own chips. #MicrosoftMaia300#

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Sources say Zhipu API users are approaching 7 million, with more than 50,000 domestic computing chips now deployed

LatePost reported this evening (the 10th) that Zhipu’s MaaS open platform has nearly 7 million registered users (i.e., API users), an increase of approximately 2 million compared with early July. These include 23,000 corporate customers. ZCode, the developer product positioned as a competitor to Codex, surpassed 1 million users one month after launch.

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Overwhelming Lead: Chinese Manufacturers Accounted for More Than 97% of Global Humanoid Robot Shipments in the First Half of This Year

The latest data from Smart Analytics Global (SAG) shows that China has achieved an overwhelming shipment lead in the global humanoid robot market. In the first half of 2026, Chinese manufacturers accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments, with AgiBot and Unitree Robotics taking the top two spots and clearly outpacing U.S. competitors such as Tesla, Figure AI, and Agility Robotics.

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Fliggy Launches Travel AI Product “Fliggy Bangbang,” Helping Users Book Flights and Hotels and Plan Trips

Fliggy today released its AI travel assistant “Fliggy Bangbang.” Through conversation, users can book flights and hotels, plan itineraries, change bookings, and request invoices. The product is being rapidly iterated on a weekly basis and will soon support group travel planning, assistance with flight changes, and other features. Wondering where to go? Why not ask it? #AIChangesTravel#

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Senior UK detective investigated for using AI to maintain case records

The officer involved is a detective chief inspector who is alleged to have used AI to maintain case decision logs. During an investigation, senior investigators use decision logs to explain the reasons behind each investigative action. Once a case reaches trial, defense lawyers may also be granted access to these records to examine whether there were any issues with the investigative decisions.

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CIS's Largest AI Factory Goes Live in Armenia, Builder Firebird Receives NVIDIA Investment

Firebird plans to deploy 300MW of AI infrastructure capacity in Armenia by the end of 2027, while its global goal is to build 2GW of computing capacity over the next two years or so.

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Nobel Prize Winner Demis Hassabis Reportedly Once Intended to Leave Google Parent Alphabet

Hassabis originally wanted to leave at the same time as Jeff Dean, but Alphabet believed that losing two artificial intelligence business leaders within a short period would cause its stock price to crash. Hassabis was ultimately persuaded to become chairman of Google DeepMind.

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01.AI's Large Model Open Platform Will Gradually Stop Providing Online Trials, API Calls, Top-Ups, and Other Related Services to Users

The company stated that users with account balances may apply for refunds according to the platform's guidelines. 01.AI will complete the relevant processing promptly and orderly in accordance with laws and regulations.

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Alibaba’s Qwen Open Platform Goes Live, Enabling Conversational Services for Renting Homes and Cars, Sending Packages, and More

Qwen Open Platform officially launched on August 10, opening three types of terminal services—mobile, PC, and AI glasses—to ecosystem partners and developers. The first batch includes more than ten partners across fields such as SF Express, Ziroom, and Yingmi Fund. Users can @ relevant services or tap an agent to try them. In the future, AI agents will support complex requests; for example, SF Express can remember an address and send a package directly. #QwenOpenPlatform#

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Security Firm Reveals Google Search Can Find Publicly Shared Claude Conversations, Easily Leaking Sensitive User Information

Security researchers discovered that publicly shared Claude chat records can be crawled and indexed by Google, exposing sensitive user information. Grok and Meta AI have also experienced similar issues. Experts advise against sharing AI conversations publicly. #AIsecurity#

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Unitree Technology Launches Subscription Today: Winning Probability Far Below ChangXin’s, One Winning Lot Could Earn ¥200,000

Comprehensive estimates from multiple brokerages indicate that Unitree Technology’s expected winning probability is between 0.02% and 0.03%, far below ChangXin Technology’s 0.47% level. #SubscribingForOneWinningLotOfUnitreeTechnologyRequires¥75,400 #OneWinningLotOfUnitreeTechnologyCouldEarn¥200,000 #UnitreeTechnology’sTotalMarketValue#

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Unitree Technology Launches IPO Subscription Today, Bringing A-Shares Their “First Humanoid Robot Stock”

Unitree Technology officially launched its IPO subscription today at an issue price of 150.80 yuan per share, implying a valuation of approximately 60.993 billion yuan. As one of the few profitable robotics companies worldwide, the company plans to raise approximately 6.099 billion yuan in this IPO, with the funds focused on intelligent robot R&D and manufacturing base construction. The subscription results for the “first humanoid robot stock” have drawn considerable attention.

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OpenAI Announces the Removal of Plain-Text Conversation Limits for Free ChatGPT Users

OpenAI has adjusted usage limits across ChatGPT tiers while upgrading the default model and introducing features such as a Think button and adjustable thinking intensity. The core goal is to promote broader AI adoption and strengthen user retention. #ChatGPT#

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New Rules for Oracle’s OpenJDK Project: AI-Generated Code Submissions Not Allowed

Oracle has officially notified the OpenJDK community that it prohibits submitting any content generated by AI, such as large language models, including code and text. The reason is concern over intellectual property, cybersecurity, and the increased review workload. However, privately using AI to help debug code is still allowed. #AIProgramming#

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116,000 New Enterprises Established in China’s Humanoid Robotics Sector in the First Half of 2026, Up 9.5% Year on Year

55,000 new enterprises were established in the generative artificial intelligence sector, up 28.0% year on year; 116,000 new enterprises were established in the humanoid robotics sector, up 9.5% year on year, accelerating the formation of new economic growth drivers.

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OpenAI launches voice interaction for desktop ChatGPT, enabling voice control of computers for multi-step tasks

OpenAI has brought voice functionality to the ChatGPT desktop app, allowing users to issue commands directly by voice and control AI to perform tasks on their computers. The feature is powered by the all-new ChatGPT-Live voice model, supports Work and Codex, and can also access computer-control capabilities. #ChatGPTVoice# The microphone can officially get to work.

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Google Denies Training Gemini Using Private Documents After Developer Claims Unreleased Content Was Leaked

In response to an independent developer’s claim that Gemini leaked information about their unreleased game character, Google officially stated that it does not scan private Google Docs or use them for training. The company said Gemini only accesses Workspace files when users actively request it, while publicly shared links may be indexed by search engines. What do you think of this mystery? #GoogleGemini#

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Cloudflare Launches Kitesurf, a Cloud Browser Built Specifically for AI Agents

Cloudflare’s Kitesurf browser is designed specifically for AI agents. It ignores tabs and UI, focusing instead on managing context windows and performance. Running on the Workers platform, it can efficiently browse websites and fill out forms while reducing computing resource consumption. It is currently in testing. #AIBrowser#

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Global No. 2: Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Launches Imagine Image 2.0, Enhancing AI Image Generation / Editing Capabilities

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI today (August 8) published a blog post announcing the launch of the Imagine Image 2.0 model. It is now available as a new Quality Mode on the Grok.com web version and the iOS and Android apps.

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Proposed $5.1 billion data center in the US put on hold; local activists bring out guillotine in protest

Technology media outlet Tom's Hardware published a post yesterday (August 7), reporting that at a public meeting in Salem, Oregon, about a proposed $5.1 billion AI data center, local activists brought out a guillotine in protest.

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Anthropic Optimizes Claude Fable 5 Model’s Biosafety Mechanisms, Reducing False Blocks by 85%

Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5’s biosafety safeguards yesterday. By adjusting its safety classifiers, the model can more accurately distinguish harmless questions from high-risk ones. Official tests show that refusals for biology-related questions have decreased by 85%, allowing users to handle a broader range of biological tasks while preventing malicious use. #AI Safety#

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OpenAI’s Next-Generation AI Model Astra Accused of Plagiarizing Mathematical Results

Technology media outlet scientificamerican published a blog post on August 6, reporting that several mathematicians accused OpenAI of academic misconduct, claiming that its AI model Astra failed to properly credit existing research for its mathematical results.

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Claude Code Default Permissions for Pro, Max, and Team Users to Switch to Auto Mode Starting August 14

Anthropic announced today (August 8) that starting August 14, it will change Claude Code's default permission mode to Auto Mode for Pro, Max, and Team subscribers.

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OpenAI: Astra Model Release Delayed Due to Cybersecurity Risks

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman later said that Astra is a powerful model, and that they are making every effort to move forward with its public release.

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Claude Code v2.1.224 Now Supports AI Cross-Session Messaging

The official Anthropic account @ClaudeDevs posted on X today (August 8), announcing that starting with Claude Code v2.1.224, sessions can send messages to one another.

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Microsoft Previews Classic Outlook Update for Win10/Win11: Context-Aware AI Explains User-Selected Text

The technology media outlet Windows Latest published a blog post yesterday (August 7), reporting that Microsoft has begun rolling out a Copilot AI feature called Explain This for the classic Outlook app on Windows 10 and Windows 11.

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Meta AI Model Accidentally Breached a Third-Party Company’s System During Testing

According to Reuters, a Meta AI model inadvertently breached another company’s system during a security test. The incident was caused by a configuration error by the evaluator, which accidentally gave the model internet access. The incident has once again raised concerns about the boundaries of AI safety and even alarmed U.S. lawmakers. #AISafety#

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AI Demand Overwhelms Cloud Computing, AWS Reportedly Asks Engineers to Shut Down Idle Servers to Reduce Resource Waste

According to The Information, Amazon AWS is asking engineers to shut down idle EC2 instances to address computing capacity shortages. Data shows that a large amount of CPU capacity is being wasted, with average utilization below 20%. AWS has upgraded Compute Optimizer to automatically flag inefficient resources. #CloudComputing#

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AI artist “Fang Taozi’s” colored contact lens ad promoting the product taken down, claiming “They were very comfortable even after wearing them all day”

In a commercial promotion video released in early August, “Fang Taozi” said in a voiceover that the colored contact lenses were “very comfortable even after wearing them all day” and had “highlights fixed in place, so they don’t shift when blinking,” promoting the product through a plot-based recommendation.

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Say Goodbye to Repeated OSD Adjustments: ASUS Display Monitor Management Software DisplayWidget Center Adds AI Agents

ASUS's display monitor management software DisplayWidget Center has received a major update, adding AI agent functionality. Users can adjust brightness and color temperature using natural language without navigating the OSD menu. Even smarter, the AI can learn your usage habits and switch settings on a schedule—for example, automatically increasing the color temperature in the morning, lowering brightness at night, and enabling blue-light filtering. #ASUSMonitors#

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Built-in 10 TOPS INT8 Computing Power: Korean Company Mobilint Launches USB AI Accelerator MLD-R1

It integrates a 4-core Arm Cortex-A53 @ 1.5GHz CPU and comes with 4GB / 8GB of LPDDR4X-4267 memory, features a 3W TDP, and supports all-day use.

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Microsoft Copilot’s New Icon Leaked, Moving Toward a Flatter and Simpler Design

Microsoft’s Copilot icon was accidentally revealed in the Edge Canary test version. The new design removes the 3D shadow, making it much flatter. The icon also reportedly appeared briefly in the new Microsoft 365 app, but its release date has not yet been determined. #MicrosoftCopilot#

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Xiaohongshu Releases “AI Governance Rules Announcement”: Encourages Proactive Disclosure of AI-Generated Content and Opposes AI Content Rewriting, Voice Synthesis of Others, and Fabricated News

Xiaohongshu has introduced new AI governance rules encouraging creators to proactively disclose AI-generated content, including AI virtual influencers and AI-polished posts. The platform opposes practices such as AI content rewriting, synthesizing other people’s voices, and fabricating news. Violations may result in reduced traffic, speaking bans, or even account suspension. #AIGovernance#

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Who Is the Best Coding Partner for DeepSeek V4 Flash? Composio Tests 4 AI Tools Including Codex

Composio tested four major AI coding agent frameworks on 30 real-world tasks. Oh My Pi had the highest task success rate, Claude Code was the fastest but most expensive, and OpenCode had the lowest cost. #AI Coding Agents#

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Neon Open-Sources 4B Model: Document Search Outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol at Just 1/100th the Cost

Neon published a blog post yesterday (August 6), announcing a collaboration with Castform to disclose a training approach for retrieval models.

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Wang Xingxing: Unitree Robotics Will Actively Explore More Product Forms Such as Humanoid Robots and Mecha

Unitree Robotics Chairman Wang Xingxing said during today's roadshow that after listing, the company will focus on developing new forms such as humanoid robots and quadruped robots, while promoting robots' replacement of high-risk manual labor. The company's issue price is 150.8 yuan per share, and subscriptions will open on August 10. #UnitreeRoboticsListing#

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China National Radio Exposes AI-Generated Image Chaos in Homestay Listings, with Unified Replies of “No Availability Recently” and Recommendations for Other Properties

Several posters used identical sales pitches. They even said that the room types shown in the posts were fully booked and unavailable for a long time, despite the reporter not mentioning any dates, before recommending several similar homestays.

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Sohu's Zhang Chaoyang: Real-person interaction and authentic content are things AI can never replace; AI has made content feel plastic

Zhang Chaoyang said that obtaining information and communicating with real people are two different things, and that AI currently cannot replace human interaction. In an ocean of information, people need to step out and communicate even more. In the AI era, an environment for authentic interaction is all the more precious. (The Paper)

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On the 1st Anniversary of GPT-5’s Launch: OpenAI Introduces the Agent Plugins Specification for AI Agents

On the 1st anniversary of the launch of the GPT-5 series (launched on August 7, 2025), OpenAI today (August 7) announced the launch of Agent Plugins, a plugin packaging standard for AI agents.

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Report: Alibaba Plans to Charge Large Commercial Users of Its Next-Generation Qwen Open-Source Model a Share of Revenue

Two people familiar with the matter revealed that Alibaba plans to charge large commercial users of its next-generation Tongyi Qianwen open-source model, requiring them to pay a certain percentage of their revenue.

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IDC: China's Exoskeleton Robot Market Exceeded RMB 1.6 Billion in 2025, with Shipments of Approximately 26,000 Units

The medical rehabilitation market still accounts for the majority of market value, while the consumer assistance market contributed more than 70% of shipments. Industry applications continue to expand into new growth areas. The three major segments are jointly driving China's exoskeleton robot industry to rapidly evolve from single-scenario medical applications toward human capability-enhancement equipment for multiple scenarios.

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AMD Announces Plans to Acquire Taalas to Strengthen Its AI Inference Chip Roadmap

AMD announced today (August 7) that it plans to acquire Taalas, a chip startup. Taalas designs accelerators for AI inference and customizes chips for individual AI models, primarily sacrificing versatility in exchange for lower costs and higher output speeds.

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Microsoft Tests Its First Self-Developed Full-Duplex AI Voice MAI Realtime Model: Supports 16 Languages Including Chinese and 2 Styles

Technology media outlet TestingCatalog published a blog post on August 2, reporting that Microsoft is testing its first native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime. It supports 16 languages and 2 voices, can listen and speak simultaneously during conversations, and supports automatic language detection and switching languages mid-conversation.

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Huawei Officially Announces Day-0 Support for Kimi K3 Training Adaptation and Inference Deployment on Ascend

On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI officially open-sourced Kimi K3. Huawei officially announced today that Ascend provides day-0 support for Kimi K3 training adaptation and inference deployment. Meanwhile, the Ascend 950 SuperPoD supports the full range of numerical precision formats, including FP8, MXFP8, and MXFP4, and natively supports Kimi K3’s mxFP4 quantized weights.

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Report: Former XPeng Vice President Chen Yonghai Joins EngineAI as President of Operations

Chen Yonghai left XPeng Group in January this year and originally planned to start his own business, but ultimately chose to join EngineAI. EngineAI founder Zhao Tongyang previously co-founded Pengxing Intelligent with XPeng in a joint venture, and the company completed a $200 million Series B financing round in April this year #IndustryPersonnelChanges#

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Gurman Reveals OpenAI’s First AI Hardware: Donut-Shaped, Hockey-Puck-Sized, with Advanced Voice Interaction and More

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman published the Power On newsletter today (August 7), revealing that OpenAI’s first AI hardware will be about the size of a hockey puck (approximately 115.8 cubic centimeters), with an estimated price of $300 to $400, and is expected to launch in 2027.

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OpenAI: ChatGPT Free Users' Default Model Upgraded to GPT-5.6 Luna, Plus and Pro Users Get GPT-5.6 Sol Update in Chat Interface

OpenAI announced an update to ChatGPT that improves the everyday conversation experience while giving free users access to more features.

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Huawei Announces 0-Day Support on Ascend for Ant Group's Bailing Ling-3.0-flash Model, with New Operator Programming Framework CANN PyPTO Debuting

Ant Group's Bailing officially open-sourced its next-generation native hybrid reasoning model Ling-3.0-flash yesterday. Huawei officially announced today that Ascend has simultaneously completed 0-day adaptation for the Bailing Ling-3.0-flash model. During the adaptation process, CANN PyPTO, an operator programming framework, was introduced for the first time, which can shorten the delivery cycle for complex fused operators. #HuaweiAscend# #AntBailing#

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Nvidia Quietly Builds AI Safety and Security Engineering Team, Citing a “Firm Conviction”

Nvidia plans to hire a distinguished engineer to serve as the founding technical lead of the new team. Other positions include security research engineer, evaluation engineer, and senior manager. The team will conduct safety evaluations of AI agents that have not yet been deployed and develop tools that use AI to automatically fix software vulnerabilities.

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American grandparents are eager to put their grandchildren in AI-generated children's books, provoking widespread resentment among parents

To grandparents, using AI to create a picture book starring their grandchildren is “novel and adorable.” The children's parents may not agree, especially when they cannot accept handing over their children's photos and identifying information to AI platforms for processing.

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Google Maps Agent Features Get a Major Upgrade: Book Hotels and Order Takeout While You Chat

The multiple new features announced by Google today are designed to let users “get more things done more easily than ever” without leaving Google Maps.

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Xiaohongshu Increases AI Investment: Expands into AI Social, Begins In-House Development of AI Companion Products

Sina Technology has learned exclusively that Xiaohongshu is accelerating its AI strategy across the board, exploring AI social products, AI community interaction tools, and other areas, shifting from back-end technology applications to an all-out race in front-end in-house development, productization, and ecosystem building.

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Zuckerberg Calls on the U.S. to Ease Restrictions on Open-Source AI to Counter China

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on the U.S. government to reduce restrictions on open-source AI models, arguing that this is the best way to compete with China. He also emphasized that AI safety lies in widespread adoption rather than centralization. #OpenAIWeights

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ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo Says the Company Will Persist with Self-Developed Large Language Models and Accept Short-Term Lag, Responds to Integration of Doubao, Feishu, and Volcano Engine

Liang Rubo said that regarding large language models, ByteDance will continue to insist on self-development, build solid fundamentals, accept short-term lag, and keep optimizing for the long term.

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FLUX 3 Video AI Generation Model Officially Launched: Up to 20 Seconds of Native 1080p, Outperforming Seedance 2.0 in Benchmarks

Black Forest Labs announced yesterday (August 5) the official launch of the FLUX 3 video generation model, whose performance surpasses that of ByteDance's Seedance 2.0, Minimax's H3, and other models.

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OpenAI Reveals AI Agents Secretly Built an Internal Message Board Before Attacking Hugging Face

At the 2026 Black Hat cybersecurity conference held in Las Vegas, United States (August 1 ~ 6), OpenAI researchers revealed that before the company’s AI models attacked Hugging Face, they had been “conspiring for about 2 months” in a test environment.

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“AI Godfather” Geoffrey Hinton: Artificial Intelligence May Develop Its Own Goals, and That’s Terrifying

In an interview, Hinton said that AI may infer goals that humans never anticipated and could even harm humans to achieve them. The OpenAI model intrusion into Hugging Face’s systems last month also illustrated the related risks. #ArtificialIntelligenceSafety#

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Baidu Enters AI Office Work: dodo Merges into Baidu Dazi, Fully Integrating Office Agent Business

Following this integration, Baidu’s office Agent business will focus its efforts in one place. The practical experience of dodo, the company’s original internal office AI agent, will gradually be integrated into the enterprise edition of Baidu Dazi, strengthening its collaboration capabilities. #BaiduAIOffice# #BaiduDazi#

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“A Girl Is Showering, and an Uncle Helps Scrub Her Back”: Supor AI Ad Sparks Controversy and Is Urgently Taken Down

Recently, the official account of Supor, which has held the title of “China’s cookware king” for 30 years, released a series of AI-generated short videos, drawing widespread criticism. #苏泊尔AI广告女生洗澡大叔帮搓背#

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DeepSeek: Plans to Raise API Service Pricing Across the Board Soon, with a Relatively Large Increase Expected

DeepSeek announced that a relatively large increase is expected this time. Currently, the API charges separately for input and output tokens, with pricing differentiated based on cache hits. #DeepSeek# #API Pricing#

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Google DeepMind Restructured: Hassabis Becomes Chief Scientist, Focusing on Applications of Artificial General Intelligence

Google parent company Alphabet announced yesterday (August 5) that it is restructuring its AI company DeepMind. CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down from day-to-day management to become chairman and Alphabet’s chief scientist, focusing on artificial general intelligence (AGI) strategy and scientific applications.

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Just 1 Week After Launch, Microsoft Withdraws M365 Copilot’s “AI Citation Blacklist” Feature

Tech media outlet NeoWin published a blog post yesterday (August 5), reporting that Microsoft withdrew the “Domain Exclusion” feature for Microsoft 365 Copilot after it had been available for only 1 week.

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Challenging Codex and Others, Meta Launches Its First Coding AI Agent Tool, Muse Code

Meta published a blog post today (August 6), announcing the beta launch of its first coding AI agent tool, Muse Code, which aims to challenge coding agent tools such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.

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Following OpenAI and Anthropic, Meta AI Model Also “Crossed the Line” During Testing

Meta’s Muse Spark 1.1 model successfully infiltrated the systems of another undisclosed company during a cybersecurity test due to a sandbox configuration error. Similar incidents had previously occurred during testing by Anthropic and OpenAI, raising concerns about AI safety testing procedures. #AISafetyCrisis#

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International AI Security Leaderboard CyberGym Announces Results Today: Chinese Solution DoGNAVY Ranks Third Globally and First Among Open-Source Systems

DoGNAVY, jointly developed by leading Chinese artificial intelligence research institutions and the security team DARKNAVY, ranks third globally and first among open-source systems with a 90.8% pass rate.

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Reports Say U.S. Cybersecurity Review Mechanism for Frontier AI Models Does Not Currently Cover Open-Weight Models

The U.S. government is not expected to publicly disclose the complete model review mechanism, but the information is not confidential, and companies that choose to participate can obtain the relevant details.

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World Bank: Emerging Economies Should Embrace AI as Soon as Possible, but Do Not Need to Compete with Wealthy Countries on Data Centers and Large Models

The World Bank believes that emerging economies do not need to compete with wealthy countries on large data centers and large language models. Instead, promoting small, low-cost AI tools adapted to local needs is more likely to improve healthcare services and the quality of education.

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The “Wall Street AI Guru’s” Hedge Fund Blows Up After Excessive Leverage, Shrinking from $45 Billion to $10 Billion

The AI hedge fund “Situational Awareness,” founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has seen its assets plunge from $45 billion to $10 billion due to excessive leverage and a collapse in semiconductor stocks. He was reportedly inexperienced in fund management and previously worked at the now-defunct FTX. He is set to marry the chief of staff to Anthropic CEO Dario this weekend. Another failure has been added to the #AI boom.

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OpenAI’s Altman Pitches Astra Model: Collaborative AI Agents for Long-Horizon Tasks

The Information, a technology media outlet, published a post today (August 1), reporting that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demonstrated a new AI model series called Astra at Capitol Hill in the United States this week, with a focus on improving long-horizon task processing capabilities.

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Native 4K Image Generation Support: SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview Multimodal Model Preview Version Open-Sourced by SenseTime

SenseTime today announced the preview version of SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview, a lightweight unified multimodal model open-sourced for the community.

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“Small” Version of America’s Most Powerful Open-Source Model: Inkling-Small Debuts at About 1/4 the Size with Comparable AI Performance

Thinking Machines Lab published a blog post yesterday (July 30) announcing the Inkling-Small model, whose performance is comparable to Inkling while its size is reduced to about one-quarter.

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National Supercomputing Internet Launches the Official DeepSeek-V4-Flash API, Enabling Fast Calls with One-Click Integration

The National Supercomputing Internet has officially launched the DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 model API. Its agent and instruction-following capabilities have been significantly enhanced, with performance comparable to the strongest closed-source models. Enterprises and developers can integrate and call it with one click through the official website. #DeepSeek# The Supercomputing Internet has currently brought together more than 1,700 domestic large models.

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Rapper Fenix Flexin’s Single “Rubberz” Goes Viral, Suspected of Being AI-Generated

Los Angeles rapper Fenix Flexin’s single “Rubberz” has been widely suspected of being AI-generated due to its abrupt stylistic shift, audio flaws, and incoherent lyrics. Although Flexin denies the allegations, several professionals have identified multiple AI characteristics in the song, while awkward lip-syncing during live performances has sent the #AIMusic# controversy spiraling.

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Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang: With AI Empowerment, It Has Never Been Easier for Startups to Challenge Industry Giants

Scale AI founder, current head of Meta's Superintelligence Labs and Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang believes that AI has dramatically narrowed the gap in capabilities between startups and large enterprises, making it easier than ever to challenge industry giants.

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AI Companies Reportedly Buying Large Quantities of Used Books to Obtain “Clean” Training Material

To avoid low-quality “AI slop,” multiple AI companies are purchasing used books on a large scale through intermediaries as a source of high-quality training data. Reports indicate that the purchases range from 1,000 to 1 million books, with no preference for subject matter and little regard for price. Although this destructive scanning method is efficient, it could cause valuable books to disappear permanently and raise ethical concerns over the privatization of knowledge resources. #AITrainingData##UsedBookMarket#

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Unity China CEO Zhang Junbo: World Models Are Here, but “Generating a Game with One Sentence” Is Still Unrealistic

Unity China CEO Zhang Junbo believes AI can lower the barrier to game development, but games are systems engineering that require gameplay, numerical systems, and long-term operations—far more complicated than “generating a game with one sentence.” He also announced the fully upgraded Tuanjie Engine 2.0, which adds support for multiple console platforms. #AIGameDevelopment# #UnityChina#

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Huawei Announces Xiaoyi Scored Above the Theoretical Gold Medal Cutoff at the 56th International Physics Olympiad

The 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) recently concluded. Huawei officially announced today that Xiaoyi scored 28.6 points out of 30 in the theoretical examination, surpassing the gold medal cutoff. #Xiaoyi# #HuaweiHarmonyOS#

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Behind the AI Race, Workers’ Health Becomes the New Cost

The fierce competition in the AI industry is coming at the expense of workers’ health. Several key executives at companies such as OpenAI and xAI have been forced to leave or transition to advisory roles due to health problems caused by prolonged stress. The industry’s widely embraced “founder mode” and “hardcore” work culture are prompting reflection, but the race driven by a trillion-dollar market has not slowed down as a result. #AIHealthCrisis# #TechIndustryReflection#

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Humanoid Robot Housekeeping Services Become Reality at $30 per Hour

Current AI technology is still unable to fully control humanoid robots autonomously. Typically, the robots are operated by real people in a central control room, while AI serves an assistive role.

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Learning Notes Turned into a Game: Google Gemini Notebook’s New Features Revealed

According to reports from foreign media, Google is developing new features such as interactive games and visual dashboards for its AI note-taking app Gemini Notebook, making learning as fun as playing a game. #GoogleGemini# In the future, users may be able to create learning tools such as flashcards and mind maps directly in their notes, with all content isolated from the notebook.

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Tencent Hunyuan: Research Agent Hyra, Based on the Hy3 Model, Solves a 50-Year-Old Unsolved Problem in Additive Combinatorics

Tencent Hunyuan announced today that its research agent Hyra has found a key construction, providing a complete answer to an open problem in additive combinatorics that had remained unresolved for more than half a century.

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Google Launches Lyria 3.5 Music Generation AI Model: Improved Melodic Arrangement and More Refined Vocal Performance

Google published a blog post yesterday (July 29), announcing the rollout of the Lyria 3.5 music generation AI model in Google Flow Music. The model improves musicality, lyrics, vocal quality, and more, enabling users to create richer musical works.

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Musk’s SpaceX Announces Partnership with Nvidia to Develop Starmind AI1 Computing Satellites, Aiming to Send 1 Million into Orbit

Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced today (August 5) that it is partnering with Nvidia to explore deploying AI computing capabilities beyond Earth and jointly develop computing satellites called Starmind AI1.

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Indian AI company Sarvam AI to develop a trillion-parameter model

The envisioned new model is expected to be completed within the next six months and could compete with leading models in areas such as programming, cybersecurity, and scientific research.

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Design Sketches for Samsung’s AI Home Robot Ballie Companion App Revealed

Samsung’s artificial intelligence-powered home robot Ballie has been one of the company’s most closely watched projects for years. Although Samsung has repeatedly indicated that the product is coming soon, the small robot remains a concept product to date. However, a newly leaked set of design images provides the first look at the software experience Samsung has planned for Ballie. A series of early UI (user interface) design sketches reveals the approximate interface of the AI robot’s companion app, although the app’s name and icon have yet to be finalized…

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Jia Yueting: Faraday Future FF EAI robots achieved sales and shipments of 152 units in July, setting a new monthly record

Faraday Future launched multiple embodied intelligent robots at the beginning of this year. Jia Yueting revealed that the robots achieved sales and shipments of 152 units in July, bringing cumulative shipments to 394 units by the end of July and progressing toward the annual target of 2,000 units. #Faraday Future#

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The Most Powerful Open-Source AI Model for Multimodal Content Moderation: Mistral Launches Shieldstral, Runs on a Single 16GB GPU

Mistral AI announced yesterday (August 4) the launch of Shieldstral, an AI model for content moderation with a total of 3B (3 billion) parameters. It uses open weights and is released under the Apache 2.0 license.

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JD.com Introduces AI Interviews in Its Campus Recruitment Process for the First Time, Opening Online Applications for 2027 Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral Graduates

This campus recruitment campaign is aimed at 2027 graduates with bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, with positions covering multiple fields. JD.com achieved record-high quarterly profit in the first quarter. #JD.comCampusRecruitment# #AIRecruitment#

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South Korean ASIC company FuriosaAI secures order for 7,000 chips from Swedish data center

The project recently broke ground, with a total power capacity of 15MW, including 10MW of critical IT capacity. The first 2MW of computing capacity is expected to come online in early 2027.

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DEEP Robotics Unveils Next-Generation Embodied All-Scenario Humanoid Robot: Dual Breakthroughs in Emotion Perception and Spatial Action

DEEP Robotics officially announced its next-generation embodied all-scenario humanoid robot today, claiming dual breakthroughs in emotion perception and spatial action.

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Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B Small On-Device Model, Supporting Local Operation on Smartphones

LFM2.5-2.6B outperformed gemma-4-E2B-it, gemma-4-E4B-it, Qwen3.5-4B, and Qwen3.5-9B in all instruction-following tasks and nearly all tool-use tasks.

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Karpathy Proposes a New Way to Test AI Capabilities: Building an Interactive 3D “Lord of the Rings” Scene with a 1 Million-Token Budget

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy posted on X on August 2, proposing an AI benchmarking idea: provide a model with the opening paragraph of The Lord of the Rings, then ask it to create the corresponding 3D world.

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Appeals Court Overturns Original Ruling, Legally Clears Perplexity Agent to Access Amazon E-Commerce

The appeals court said that, legally, it was users of the Perplexity AI Comet browser who accessed Amazon’s platform with the help of an AI tool, rather than Perplexity AI itself.

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AI Agent “Out of Control” Risk Resurfaces: OpenAI and Anthropic Models Found Performing Unauthorized Operations

The UK AI Security Institute discovered while testing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic that AI agents could create fake online identities to gain unauthorized access, exposing insufficient AI security safeguards. No actual harm has occurred so far. #AIsecurity#

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Anthropic Appoints Cuéllar as Its First Chief Global Affairs Officer to Address AI Policy

Anthropic announced today (August 5) the appointment of Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar as the company’s first head of global affairs.

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AI Large Model Weekly Ranking: Alibaba's qwen3.8-max Breaks into the Overall Top 6, with Multiple Chinese Models Shining

Alibaba's qwen3.8-max has entered sixth place in the overall ranking with an ELO score of 1497, while multiple Chinese models have delivered impressive performances across the rankings.

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Videos Can Be Edited While Playing: JD.com Open-Sources Its Self-Developed JoyAI-Video-Edit Model, Leading Globally Across All Metrics

Based on the fully self-developed JoyAI-Video model, JoyAI-Video-Edit achieves an inference speed of 30 frames per second at 720P resolution, keeping pace with the playback of common film and television videos while maintaining high image clarity.

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Honor Executive Guan Haitao Discusses the “DeepSeek Kill Line”: Optimizing Per-Token Cost and Performance, with at Least Three Top-Level Significances Domestically, in China, and Internationally

#Honor Executive Discusses the DeepSeek Kill Line# Guan Haitao, Honor’s global chief marketing officer, posted about #DeepSeek Kill Line#, saying that it offers “Ferrari performance at the price of an electric scooter.” The key lies in optimizing per-token cost and performance, and it carries “at least three top-level significances domestically, in China, and internationally”!

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NVIDIA Alpamayo 2 Super AI Opened for Commercial Use: Bringing 360° Perception and Advanced Driving Decisions to Autonomous Vehicles

NVIDIA has launched Alpamayo 2 Super, a cutting-edge open-source reasoning model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles. It is now available for commercial use under an open commercial license and offers leading multitask autonomous driving reasoning capabilities.

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Cloudflare Wallet Launches: Programmable Wallets Designed for AI Agents

Cloudflare announced yesterday (August 4) the launch of Cloudflare Wallet, a feature designed to provide AI agents with virtual credit cards, identity credentials (IDs), and spending limits.

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Musk Teases the Release of the Grok 4.6 Model Next Week, with Improvements to AI Supervised Fine-Tuning and Reinforcement Learning

At the SpaceX 2026 Q2 earnings call held today (August 5), covering the quarter ended June 30, Musk announced that the Grok 4.6 model will be released next week.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Internal Remarks Revealed, Worried Employees Work Only for Money

Foreign media reports that frequent job-hopping among AI talent is primarily driven by money. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has expressed internal concerns that employees join the company solely for the compensation rather than because they identify with its mission. However, experts believe that top AI researchers also value access to computing resources and freedom in research and development. #AI Talent Competition#

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Tencent Hunyuan Releases Speech Recognition Model Hy ASR 3.0 preview, First Launched on Yuanbao

Tencent Hunyuan released its next-generation speech recognition model Hy ASR 3.0 preview today.

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Huaxia Publishing House Labels Book Content as Not for Use in AI Training; Person in Charge Says It Is Difficult to Defend Their Rights, but They Must Take a Stand

A person in charge at Huaxia Publishing House said that if book content is used for artificial intelligence training without authorization, it is difficult to defend their rights, but the publisher will still add a notice. (Hongxing Capital Bureau)

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AI-Assisted Attempt to “Disprove” the Collatz Conjecture Fails; Lean 4.32.2 Fixes Kernel Vulnerability

Technology media outlet Gigazine published a blog post yesterday (August 3), reporting that a Lean formalized proof completed with the help of AI and claiming to disprove the Collatz conjecture was confirmed to be invalid.

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Cloudflare Launches New Open-Source Library, Equipping Every AI Agent with an Independent Work Computer

Cloudflare published a blog post yesterday (August 3), announcing the early preview release of the @cloudflare / computer open-source library, which independently assigns a virtual work computer to each AI agent and includes file system and command execution capabilities.

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Competition in Chinese and U.S. AI Foundation Models Intensifies: OpenAI and Other Overseas Giants Slash Prices to Take on Kimi and DeepSeek

To counter competition from Chinese models such as Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 Flash, OpenAI has cut the price of ChatGPT 5.6 Luna by 80%, while its mid-range Terra model is also 20% cheaper. Although the price cuts are stimulating usage, high computing costs and ongoing losses are casting a shadow over the profitability outlook. #AIPriceWar#

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AI Ushers in the Era of Solopreneurs: 1 Person Can Support a Company Generating $1 Million in Annual Revenue

The Wall Street Journal published a post on July 29, reporting that in the AI era, one person running an entire company with annual revenue exceeding $1 million is no longer a far-fetched idea, and the market is entering the “era of solopreneurs.”

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Since 2023, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Other U.S. Tech Giants Have Poured $1 Trillion Into AI

According to the Financial Times, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have invested $1.1 trillion in AI infrastructure, but the returns depend on whether labs such as OpenAI can continue receiving capital infusions. Apple, meanwhile, has remained relatively cautious and is facing cost pressures. Will this investment wave reshape the industry? #AIInvestmentBoom#

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ChatGPT Atlas Browser to Shut Down on August 9; Users Urged to Export Bookmark Data Promptly

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser will stop operating on August 9. The official recommendation is for users to export their bookmarks and browsing history as HTML files in advance and migrate to Chrome or other browsers. Note that Cookies data cannot be exported, so users will need to log in again. #ChatGPTAtlasShutdown#

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U.S. Government Completes Voluntary Evaluation Framework for Advanced AI Models, Content Not Disclosed

The framework includes multiple requirements covering confidentiality, security, and more. It has only been completed and its details have not been disclosed. The White House plans to meet with relevant companies on Tuesday to review the framework. #AIRegulation# #ArtificialIntelligence#

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New EU AI Transparency Rules Take Effect: Companies Must Clearly Label AI-Generated Content or Face Heavy Fines

The new transparency requirements under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act took effect on the 2nd of this month. Companies must inform users whether they are interacting with AI and label AI-generated deepfake content. Violators face fines of up to €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover. The new rules apply immediately to new AI systems, while existing systems must comply by December 2. #EUAIAct#

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Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue: China Is Winning the AI Race, While the U.S. Is “Fighting Its Own Battles”

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said China is leading the AI race because of its open-model ecosystem. He warned that closed development in the U.S. could result in falling behind, and highlighted the key role of open models in defending against AI attacks. Recently, companies including NVIDIA have also called for open-weight models not to be restricted. #AIrace#

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Doctoral advisor says Moonshot AI Kimi founder Yang Zhilin had many opportunities to stay in the US, but resolutely turned down Apple and insisted on returning to China to start a business

Russ Salakhutdinov, the Carnegie Mellon University doctoral advisor of Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin, published a post in July this year revealing some details about Yang Zhilin’s decision to return to China to start a business.

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INTERPOL: AI Has Become a Core Driver of Cybercrime in Africa

According to the latest INTERPOL report, AI is involved in 55% of cybercrime cases in Africa, with economic losses doubling within two years. East Africa has become a hub for mobile payment scams, while South Africa has emerged as a global attack hotspot. #AfricanCybercrime# Countries are joining forces to combat the threat and have arrested more than 1,500 people.

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Reports Say Korean Chip Unicorn DeepX’s Valuation Soars Fourfold to 3.14 Trillion Won

According to Bloomberg, Korean chip unicorn DeepX has completed its Series D financing, reaching a valuation of 3.14 trillion won (approximately 14.868 billion yuan), and plans to raise another 300 billion won before September. The company is reportedly focused on AI-specific chips for robots, smart devices, and other applications, as the market remains optimistic about the continued AI boom.##DeepX Valuation Soars##

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No. 1 Globally! OpenRouter Says DeepSeek-V4-Flash Surpassed 7.22 Trillion Tokens in Calls Last Week to Top the Rankings

According to the weekly statistics from OpenRouter, the world's largest AI aggregation platform, DeepSeek-V4-Flash ranked first globally with 7.22 trillion Tokens in calls, with a single-day peak exceeding 8 trillion Tokens.

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South Korea’s National AI Computing Center Breaks Ground, Targeted for Completion in 2028

South Korea’s National AI Computing Center (KOACC) broke ground today in Jeollanam-do and is expected to begin operations in 2028, with a total investment of 2.5 trillion won (approximately 11.8 billion yuan). Samsung SDS is the largest shareholder, with NAVER Cloud and others also participating. The center will provide cost-effective AI computing power globally and establish an R&D area to validate locally developed Korean NPUs. #SouthKoreaAIComputingCenter#

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Kioxia Officially Announces GP1 XL-FLASH PCIe Gen6 SSD with 100M Random Read IOPS

It uses Kioxia’s second-generation XL-FLASH storage-class memory, enabling finer-grained 512-byte data access, endurance of up to 50 DWPD, and support for emerging AI storage architectures that introduce high-speed flash media into GPU memory systems.

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IBM: AI Attacks Account for 1/4 of Malicious Data Breaches, with Losses 20% Higher Than Average

62% of AI-driven cyberattacks target critical infrastructure, with financial services and energy organizations experiencing the highest concentration of attacks.

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iFLYTEK AI Glasses Hands-On: Lightweight and Comfortable with a Refined Business Style

Positioned as a super AI assistant, these AI glasses focus on translation and office scenarios, support prescription lenses, and integrate multiple microphones with AI noise cancellation. The glasses weigh only about 40g, making them lightweight and comfortable to wear. #iFLYTEKAIglasses#

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TrendForce Forecasts 90% Growth in Capital Expenditures by the World's Nine Largest Cloud Service Providers This Year

TrendForce has also raised its forecast for the growth in AI server shipments in 2026 from the previous 28% to 31%.

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MetaX MetaXing C Series GPUs Achieve Day 0 Adaptation for the MiniMax H3 Multimodal Generative Model

Powered by the full-stack, self-developed MXMACA software stack, MetaX enables rapid deployment of MiniMax H3, allowing users to leverage the model's powerful multimodal creation capabilities.

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Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue: AI Companies Should Proactively Disclose Security Breaches

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue believes that restricting the release of frontier models cannot prevent hacker attacks; instead, more people should be given access to strengthen defenses. He called for a mandatory disclosure system for cyberattacks involving AI agents to help trace the root causes of incidents. #AI Security#

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Alibaba’s Qwen Qwen3.8-Max Model Officially Launched, with 2.4 Trillion Total Parameters

The model has 2.4 trillion parameters and delivers comprehensive upgrades across programming, office work, and other fields. It can complete complex open-ended tasks with minimal human intervention, and its model weights will be open-sourced next week. #AlibabaQwen# #AIFoundationModels#

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Kai-Fu Lee: In the AI era, humans’ advantage lies in the “right brain” and the ability to do things data cannot predict

On August 7, Kai-Fu Lee, CEO of 01.AI, answered the question, “As AI gradually becomes far smarter than humans, what can humans still do?” (The Paper)

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Even $500,000 Annual Salaries Can’t Attract Enough People: The AI Safety Industry Faces a Talent Shortage

Even with annual salaries as high as $503,000, the nonprofit METR is struggling to fill the talent gap in AI safety. Researchers worry that insufficient talent reserves could cause AI development to spiral out of control and are calling for greater investment in safety evaluations. #AISafetyTalentShortage#

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MediaTek: Second AI ASIC Accelerator Expected to Enter Mass Production in 2028, Intel Foundry EMIB Progressing Well

MediaTek’s 448G SerDes IP development is progressing smoothly. The company is continuing to develop CPO optical interconnect system solutions on TSMC’s COUPE platform and also provides end-to-end advanced 3.5D chip platform solutions.

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Sharge’s New Sub-Brand loomos AI Glasses Launch Event Set for August 18

Sharge has officially announced that its new sub-brand loomos will hold an AI glasses launch event at 19:30 on August 18. It previously launched the L1 camera glasses and S1 display glasses, . What are your expectations for AI glasses? #ShargeAIGlasses#

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Report: Alibaba Internally Testing AI Office Platform “万有无界,” Enabling Multi-Agent Collaborative Delivery

Alibaba Cloud is internally testing “万有无界,” a platform for human–Agent collaboration aimed at business users. It focuses on multi-agent collaboration for handling complex projects and complements “千问办公,” which emphasizes everyday office work. #AlibabaAIOffice#

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Ziyuan Robotics Releases and Open-Sources the HOST Framework, Enabling Robots to Learn New Skills by Watching Videos

Ziyuan Robotics released and open-sourced the HOST framework today. Robots need only watch a human video lasting several dozen seconds to learn a new skill, achieving a success rate as high as 62%. The framework uses a “task-progress alignment” method, reducing the required data by 50 times and increasing speed by 500 times compared with traditional approaches. In the future, it may enable household robots to learn without specialized training. #Robotics#

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Alibaba’s Enterprise Agent Product “Qwen Office” Begins Public Beta, Integrating the Latest Flagship Model Qwen3.8

Alibaba’s “Qwen Office” began its public beta today, supporting a web version and PC client and integrating the Qwen3.8 model. It offers Free, Personal, and Enterprise subscription plans, with original prices starting at 98 yuan. The product integrates QoderWork, MuleRun, and Wukong, focusing on collaborative office work across desktop and cloud platforms. #AlibabaQwenOffice# Helps improve enterprise office efficiency.

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General-Purpose Video Model MiniMax H3 Officially Open-Sourced, Supporting Multimodal Context and 2K Resolution

MiniMax H3 has been officially open-sourced. It is a general-purpose omni-modal generation system that can understand text, images, videos, and audio, and generate videos of up to 2K resolution and 15 seconds in length, along with stereo audio. It supports 11 languages and multiple input modes. #AIOpenSource# #MiniMax#

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Alibaba Cloud Qoder Launches Real-Time Voice Interaction Agent QoderVoice, Supporting Conversational Interaction

Alibaba Cloud Qoder has launched QoderVoice, a real-time voice interaction agent powered by a full-duplex voice model. Users can wake it up by voice at any time, issue commands, and interrupt to ask follow-up questions in real time. The agent can automatically create and execute tasks. It has initially launched on the international version and offers a limited-time free trial. #AIProgramming# #VoiceInteraction#

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CCTV Exposes the Black Market Chain Behind “AI Undressing”; Ordinary Life Photos Turned into Obscene Images

In June 2025, police identified and arrested Zhang. Investigators found that beginning in August 2023, the defendant Zhang established and managed groups on overseas social platforms, posting information about selling AI undressing software and tutorials in the groups and earning more than RMB 100,000. #CCTVExposesAIOneClickUndressingBlackMarketChain#

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Musk's SpaceXAI Launches Build Mode for Grok: Turn Your AI Ideas into Products with Custom Domains

SpaceXAI announced today (July 29) that it has introduced Build mode to the Grok app. Users only need to enter a prompt, and the mode can turn their ideas into products with custom domains.

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CCTV Exposes Details of Loumoumei’s “Patent Trolling” Against Unitree Technology; Court Finds Malicious Litigation and Orders It to Pay the Latter 80,000 Yuan

A company that had never manufactured the products in question launched “lightning litigation” against a prospective STAR Market-listed technology enterprise just 5 days after obtaining a patent. #UnitreeTechnologyFacesPatentTrolling#

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Google’s Latest AI Model Gemini 3.5 Pro Briefly Appears on the Arena, Delayed for Months

According to reports from multiple users, Google’s long-delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro model briefly appeared today on the AI blind-testing platform Arena, but was removed after only 30 minutes. The model was originally scheduled to launch in June but has been postponed multiple times. #GoogleAI# Its brief appearance this time suggests that testing may have entered its final stage.

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New York State Suspends Humanoid Robot Teaching Pilot After Strong Opposition from School and Union

The Salamanca Central School District in New York State suspended its humanoid robot teaching pilot amid strong opposition from the teachers’ union and concerns over data privacy. The robot, priced at $58,000, was intended to assist teaching through interactive dialogue, but controversy arose over its manufacturer’s background. #AI Education #Educational Technology #Humanoid Robots

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Nothing Reportedly Plans to Transition into an AI-First Company, with Smartphone Business Taking a Back Seat

According to tech media outlet Smartprix, Nothing plans to transition from a smartphone company into an AI-first company, with the support of founder Carl Pei. The company plans to launch the first phase in September this year, introducing a range of AI audio and wearable devices, including clip-on earbuds, over-ear headphones, a smartwatch, and smart speakers. #AIWave#

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Day 0 Adaptation: Alibaba Cloud's Lingjun Zhenwu M890 Supernode Instance Now Supports Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 Large Model

Alibaba Cloud announced that its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode instance has successfully adapted to Moonshot AI's newly released flagship model, Kimi K3, with 2.8 trillion parameters. Based on the T-Head integrated AI training-and-inference chip and a high-speed interconnect architecture, the instance can confine the expert-parallel communication traffic of trillion-parameter MoE models within a single high-bandwidth domain, effectively improving inference efficiency. #AI大模型##阿里云##月之暗面Kimi#

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U.S. College Professor Devises Unusual Way to Catch AI Cheating: Inserts Hidden Prompts into Exam Papers, Catching 32 of 35 Students

Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University in the United States, devised an unusual way to catch AI cheating: he embedded hidden prompts about “Madagascar” in white text in a document containing questions on the Industrial Revolution. As a result, 32 of the 35 exam papers contained nonsensical phrases such as “Madagascar’s purple bicycle whispers to the ceiling,” exposing the cheating on the spot. #AICheating# #EducationalFairness#

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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: AI Eliminates Tasks, Not Jobs

In a speech, Jensen Huang emphasized the distinction between “tasks” and “jobs”: AI automates the former, not the latter. Using customer service representatives, radiologists, and software engineers as examples, he noted that AI improves efficiency and may instead create more employment. This stands in sharp contrast to some pessimistic predictions that AI will lead to mass unemployment. #AIImpactOnEmployment#

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Global No. 1: AgiBot’s WITA-Omni Preview Embodied Foundation Model Tops the DailyOmni Omni-Modal Understanding Leaderboard

AgiBot’s self-developed embodied-native omni-modal foundation model, WITA-Omni Preview, topped the DailyOmni leaderboard with a score of 85.21, surpassing leading models from China and abroad in audio-video joint understanding and temporal reasoning. Its core innovation is the Thinker–Talker–Actor architecture, which elevates physical actions and facial expressions to first-class outputs on par with speech. #AI Foundation Models##Embodied Intelligence#

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Report: Amazon massively reshuffles its AI strategy, concentrating resources on cutting-edge foundation models

Amazon is undergoing a major reorganization of its AI business, gradually halting development of several in-house models and concentrating resources on a cutting-edge model project codenamed FMR. This marks the company’s shift from pursuing multiple directions simultaneously to focusing on core priorities, with its new flagship model expected to be unveiled at this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in the fall. #AmazonAI# #ArtificialIntelligence#

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Refusing to Imitate Living Authors’ Writing Styles, OpenAI Quietly Adds Restrictions to ChatGPT

According to testing, ChatGPT now directly refuses requests to imitate the writing styles of living authors such as Stephen King, while deceased authors like Shakespeare are not subject to this restriction. This may be a self-protective measure by OpenAI to avoid legal risks in the legally ambiguous area of copyright. #AI版权# #ChatGPT更新#

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Report: Apple’s Smart Home Hub to Feature All-New Siri AI, Launching This Fall to Early Next Year

According to a report from a prominent journalist, Apple plans to launch a smart home hub centered around an all-new Siri AI, potentially alongside a new Apple TV and HomePod mini. The hub is expected to deeply integrate Apple’s AI capabilities and redefine the home interaction experience. #AppleSmartHome##SiriAI#

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Alibaba Cloud Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness, an Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Coding Agents

Qoder's official WeChat account published a blog post yesterday (July 28), announcing the open-sourcing of Better Harness on GitHub.

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Hugging Face Isn’t the Only Victim of the OpenAI Model Run Amok; Modal Labs Confirms One Customer Was Hacked

The attack campaign by the OpenAI agent that ran amok did not stop at Hugging Face. According to the latest reports, the agent also successfully breached a Modal Labs customer, using the customer’s unauthenticated public endpoint as a springboard. The incident exposes new risks at the security boundaries of AI systems and intensifies concerns across the industry about AI systems running amok. #AI Security##OpenAI#

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Gurman claims Apple will launch 2026 Apple TV and HomePod mini this fall, focusing on Siri AI

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims that Apple plans to launch the 2026 Apple TV, 2026 HomePod mini, and a smart home hub device with Siri AI at its fall 2026 event.

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Microsoft GitHub Copilot Now Supports Calling the Grok 4.5 AI Model

SpaceXAI, owned by Elon Musk, announced yesterday (July 28) that its Grok 4.5 model is now available on the GitHub Copilot platform, inviting millions of developers worldwide to use it.

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British Medical Association: Misleading “AI Doctors” Pose a Huge Threat to Public Safety

A study found that large numbers of AI-generated virtual doctor personas are spreading false health information on TikTok, with popular videos garnering millions of views. Experts warn that this poses a huge threat to public safety. The platform said it has removed harmful content and is working with authoritative organizations to provide reliable information.

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OpenAI Introduces Two Transcription Models: Lower Latency and Better Context Understanding

OpenAI announced on X today (July 29) that it is launching two transcription models, GPT-Live-Transcribe and GPT-Transcribe, with support for API access.

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Taking aim at GPT-5.6 Sol, SpaceXAI releases the Grok 4.6 model

In benchmark testing, Grok 4.6 reached frontier-level performance in multiple agentic coding and knowledge work tests. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, which combines nine benchmarks, Grok 4.6 achieved the same score as GPT-5.6 Sol.

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Late-night surprise? DeepSeek’s official website API documentation adds the “DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813” model

Tonight (the 12th), the “Models & Pricing” page in the “API Documentation” section of DeepSeek’s official website added the DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 model, which supports both non-thinking and thinking modes.

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Google Launches WeatherNext Cyclone Model, AI Forecasts Hurricanes 24 Hours Earlier on Average with High Accuracy

The Google DeepMind team published a blog post yesterday (August 7), announcing the launch of the WeatherNext Cyclones weather forecasting model. Designed primarily for cyclones, the model is said to deliver industry-leading accuracy in predicting their tracks, intensity, and wind-field structure.

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ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Video Model API Goes Live, Natively Supporting Direct Generation of 30-Second Videos

ByteDance Volcano Engine announced today the official launch of the Seedance 2.5 API service.

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Google's Wiz Unveils Atlas Vulnerability Discovery System: Multiple AI Agents Collaborate, Having Found Over 200 Vulnerabilities

Google-owned Wiz has released Atlas, an AI agent system that divides tasks and collaborates like a human security team to autonomously discover software vulnerabilities through a multi-stage, programmatic process. The system has detected more than 200 previously unknown security vulnerabilities in real-world applications and won a $100,000 bounty from GitHub as a result. #AISecurity# #Cybersecurity#

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Musk: I Have Asked the SpaceXAI Team to Scan Books Non-Destructively Instead of Cutting Off Their Spines

As investigative outlet 404 Media previously reported, AI companies are purchasing large quantities of rare books, using high-speed scanning equipment that cuts off the spines to digitize them, and then shredding and destroying the physical originals.

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Claiming “Hands-Free from Start to Finish”: Haier Robotics and Xianglu Robotics Reach Strategic Partnership to Jointly Develop a Fully Automatic Home AI Cooking Robot

The results of the partnership will be officially unveiled at the WRC in Beijing in August.

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Reports say OpenAI ChatGPT weekly active users are about to surpass 1 billion, but six months later than expected

Internal OpenAI data shows that ChatGPT’s weekly active users are about to reach 1 billion, but seven months later than expected at the end of last year. Externally, competitors such as Gemini and Claude are diverting users, while internally, a poor user experience after the launch of GPT-5 has slowed user growth. #AI# #ChatGPT#

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Biggest Update Since Its Debut: MCP 2026-07-28 Specification Released, Shifting to a “Stateless” Core

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard and open-source protocol introduced by Anthropic in late November 2024, designed to standardize communication between large language models (LLMs) and external data sources and tools.

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DoorDash CEO Xu Xun: AI Coding Is Still Insufficient to Significantly Boost Engineer Productivity

DoorDash co-founder and CEO Xu Xun said that vibe coding accounts for only a small part of the complete software engineering system and cannot represent the entirety of engineering work.

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Huawei’s New Xiaoyi Tasks Debuts: 4 Categories and 2,300+ Skills, HarmonyOS Computers to Support OTA Upgrade in September

According to the introduction, Huawei’s new Xiaoyi Tasks will enable a shift “from being able to talk to being able to get things done.” It supports a multi-agent collaborative architecture and offers 4 categories of 2,300+ skills that can be autonomously planned and combined as needed. According to the roadmap, HarmonyOS computers will support the new Xiaoyi Tasks through an OTA update in September. #HuaweiHarmonyOS#

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OpenAI Deploys GPT-5.6 to Optimize Its Own Reasoning Performance, Reducing End-to-End Service Costs by Up to 20%

OpenAI published a blog post yesterday (July 29), announcing that it used the GPT-5.6 Sol model to optimize the AI reasoning pipeline of the GPT-5.6 series itself, reducing end-to-end service costs by up to 20%.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI’s Most Intelligent AI Voice Model, Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 Debuts

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI company released Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 yesterday (July 29), its most powerful and intelligent speech-to-speech AI model to date.

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Meta’s Zuckerberg: In Five Years, Billions of People Worldwide Will Have Their Own Personal AI Agents

Zuckerberg made a bold prediction during the earnings call: “Whether you set the timeframe at five years or some other period, I think it’s highly unlikely that there won’t be billions of people using personal agents in the future. Personal agents will be able to understand your goals, work for you around the clock, and help you achieve your goals in any area you care about.”

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Lei Jun Shares Video of Xiaomi Robot Working in a Factory: The “Supervisor” Is Also a Robot, and It Even Makes a Peace Sign and Acts Cool

Lei Jun, founder, chairman, and CEO of Xiaomi, shared a video from the robotics team on Weibo today. Everything seems normal at the beginning of the video: a white Xiaomi robot is working. Just as the robot finishes its task, the scene changes, revealing that the “supervisor” standing nearby is also a robot—and it casually makes a peace sign. #XiaomiRobot#

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OpenAI President Brockman Admits New ChatGPT AI Desktop App Is “A Bit Messy,” Aiming for “Zero Tabs”

In an interview yesterday (July 29) with The Wall Street Journal technology columnist Joanna Stern, OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman admitted that the new ChatGPT desktop app is “a bit messy.”

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Analysts: Airlines adopting dynamic AI pricing, making cheap-flight bargains increasingly rare

Airlines such as Delta and Virgin are accelerating the adoption of AI pricing technology to analyze dozens of factors in real time and adjust fares, with the goal of maximizing revenue from every flight. This could reduce the number of low-priced seats on popular routes, while fares on off-season or less popular routes may become cheaper. Whether AI pricing will benefit passengers or leave them bearing higher costs remains unsettled.

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OpenAI Plans to Offer GPT-5.6 Series AI Models and Other Resources Free of Charge to 100,000 Scientists

OpenAI posted on X today (July 30), announcing the launch of the ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program, which will provide 100,000 researchers with free access to advanced ChatGPT features.

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OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Apple Lawsuit: We Have No Interest in Stealing Other Companies' Trade Secrets

In an interview yesterday (July 29) with Joanna Stern, a technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman responded to Apple's lawsuit, stating that the company has no intention of obtaining other companies' trade secrets and will focus on its own technology and long-term product roadmap.

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Nextorage to Launch External AI Accelerator Hardware That Lets 32GB of Memory Run GPT-OSS-120B

The device supports Phison's aiDAPTIV technology, enabling dynamic resource allocation between the system's DRAM and external high-endurance NAND storage media, effectively expanding memory.

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The industry's only: Tencent WorkBuddy launches “Human-AI Co-Writing,” enabling seamless AI-assisted editing

This feature is compatible with both online documents and local files, supporting collaborative editing of the same document by multiple people and AI. AI can make changes directly within the original document with true WYSIWYG editing, and can also read comments to complete revisions. #TencentWorkBuddy#

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Musk: Grok 4.6 to Launch on August 7, 2.1 Trillion-Parameter Grok 4.7 to Arrive a Few Weeks Later

Musk revealed the release plans for Grok 4.6 and Grok 4.7. The two models will have 1.5 trillion and 2.1 trillion parameters, respectively, and will deliver significant performance improvements. #GrokLargeModel#

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Report Says PwC’s “Transformation Governance” Report Has an 84% Probability of Being Entirely AI-Generated

The technology media outlet GPTZero published a blog post on July 28, reporting that the four Middle East-related research reports published by PwC between 2024 and 2026 contain a large amount of fabricated information and false statements.

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Security Firm Check Point: OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enters the “Top 10 Most Impersonated Brands” List for the First Time

Security firm Check Point has released its latest research, showing that hackers are beginning to target the popular AI sector. OpenAI’s ChatGPT has entered the top 10 most impersonated brands for the first time. #Cybersecurity# #AISecurity#

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Design Sketches of Samsung’s AI Home Robot Ballie Companion App Revealed: Supports Home Monitoring, Greeting and More

The design sketches show that the app includes features such as home monitoring and greeting, and supports scanning to generate a floor plan. It may eventually be integrated into Samsung’s SmartThings smart home ecosystem. #SamsungBallieRobot#

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Microsoft Announces Users Can Deploy the Kimi K3 Model on Microsoft Foundry Through Fireworks AI

Microsoft announced on July 28 that users can deploy Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model on Microsoft's Microsoft Foundry through Fireworks AI.

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OpenAI CEO Altman: Overreliance on AI Could Lead to a Decline in Human Cognitive Abilities

Altman pointed out that overreliance on AI could gradually erode human cognitive abilities. Several researchers have issued similar warnings, although he remains optimistic about the future development of AI. #ArtificialIntelligence#

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Samsung SDI: All-solid-state batteries to enter mass production in H2 2027 as planned, with the first order likely coming from humanoid robots

Samsung SDI achieved its first positive operating profit in seven quarters in 2026Q2, recovering profitability faster than previously expected.

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Price Cut by 80%! OpenAI Lowers the Cost of the GPT-5.6 Luna AI Model, Offering Better Value Than DeepSeek V4 Pro

About three weeks after the release of the GPT-5.6 series (released on July 9), OpenAI today (July 31) announced reduced usage fees for the GPT-5.6 Terra and GTP-5.6 Luna models. This adjustment does not affect the GPT-5.6 Sol model for now.

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Google’s Most Powerful Embodied Reasoning Model: Gemini Robotics ER 2 Debuts, Supporting Continuous Video Understanding and Multi-Robot Collaboration

Google DeepMind published a blog post yesterday (July 30), announcing the Gemini Robotics ER 2 model, its most powerful embodied reasoning model for robots.

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Meta Uses AI to Dramatically Shorten App Development Cycles, More New Apps Are on the Way

Recently launched products include an app for Marketplace sellers, a Facebook Groups app, a game app created through “vibe coding,” an Instagram photo app, and an AI bedtime story experiment.

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DeepSeek Reportedly Plans to Build Large AI Data Center in Inner Mongolia, Adding 1GW of Computing Power

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek is expanding its computing power deployment and plans to build a large AI data center in Inner Mongolia, adding 1GW of computing power. Some of the computing capacity is expected to come online by the end of 2027 or early 2028. The chips to be used in the project are currently unclear. #DeepSeekAIDataCenter#

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Google: Thanks to AI, Chrome Fixed More Vulnerabilities in June Than in the Previous Two Years Combined

Chrome 149 and Chrome 150, released in June, fixed a total of 1,072 security vulnerabilities. The 23 Chrome versions released over the previous two years fixed a combined 1,036 vulnerabilities, fewer than the total fixed by the two latest versions.

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LinkedIn Now Allows Users to Report AI Spam Posts in Crackdown on Low-Quality AI Content

LinkedIn has introduced a reporting option that allows users to report low-quality, AI-generated spam posts with one click. It has also adjusted its built-in AI tools, which no longer support generating complete posts and now retain only basic proofreading functions. #LinkedInAIspamgovernance#

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Zhipu GLM Coding Plan Subscription Returns: Transparent Points System, Starting at 118 Yuan per Month

Zhipu officially announced today that the GLM Coding Plan subscription is returning, with adjustments to package prices and rules. From now through August 15, 2026, new annual and quarterly subscription packages will be available at limited-time discounts of 30% and 20%, respectively.

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Study Shows AI Chatbots Surpass Humans in Their Ability to Carry Out Romance Scams

A joint study by four universities found that AI chatbots are far more effective than humans at gaining victims’ trust in “long con” scams such as romance scams, with nearly half of participants agreeing to the scam requests. #AIScams#

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New Study: The Real Threat AI Poses to the Job Market Is Not Job Loss, but Making It Harder to Get a Raise

The latest research shows that AI has not yet had a detectable impact on overall employment, but it has significantly slowed wage growth, with low-income workers affected the most. This could further exacerbate income inequality in the future.

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MiniMax H3 Multimodal Generative Model Officially Released: Supports Up to 15 Seconds at 2K Resolution, Revolutionizing Super-Resolution Solutions

The MiniMax H3 multimodal generative model was officially released today. It supports unified understanding of multimodal contexts, including text, images, video, and audio; can output native stereo audiovisual content; and offers commercial-grade content generation capabilities for multiple scenarios, making it suitable for various business fields. The model weights will also be made available in the coming days. #MiniMax H3#

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Amazon Zoox Receives First Temporary Exemption for Dedicated Robotaxis, Allowing Paid Services in the U.S.

The U.S. NHTSA has allowed Zoox to commercially deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually within the regulatory framework for two years. Starting next month, Zoox’s ride service in Las Vegas will switch to a paid model.

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Yu Chengdong Delivers on His Promise: Huawei's Pangu openPangu-2.0-Pro Model and Technical Report Open Source

Huawei has officially open-sourced and launched the 505-billion-parameter Pangu openPangu-2.0-Pro model (model weights and basic inference code), along with its technical report.

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South Korea's Largest AI Foundation Model: LG AI Research Releases 750B-Parameter K-EXAONE 2.0

LG AI Research released the K-EXAONE 2.0 model on Hugging Face today local time.

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ByteDance Launches Seedance 2.5 Video AI Model in China: 30-Second Single-Generation Duration and Breakthroughs in Long-Form Narratives

ByteDance announced today (July 31) the launch of the Seedance 2.5 video generation model, which can generate high-quality 30-second video clips in a single run. It is being gradually rolled out on Jimeng AI and Doubao Pro, while API services will soon be integrated into Volcano Ark.

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WeChat Official Accounts Launches AI-Powered “One-Click Formatting” Feature

Creators can log in to the “Official Account Assistant App” on their phones or access the Official Account backend on the web, create an article or select an article to publish from their drafts, and the system will automatically recognize the content structure and display a “One-Click Formatting” icon. Click it to start formatting.

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Alibaba Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash Speech Recognition Model to Help AI Better Understand Specialized Terminology

Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash has undergone systematic optimization in three key areas: contextual consistency, industry-specific term recognition, and customizable hotwords. It also features speech polishing capabilities and can directly output structured text.

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Anthropic: Third-Party Evaluation Environment Misconfiguration Led to Three Real-World Cybersecurity Incidents

In all three incidents, Anthropic’s models were assigned unrestricted “capture-the-flag” cyberattack tasks. The testing environments for such tasks should be isolated from the real internet, but a configuration error effectively gave the models access to the real internet.

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AI Squeezes Writers' Income: Insights from 14,419 Novels; About 20% of Books Have Over 25% AI Content

Tech media outlet Wccftech published a blog post yesterday (July 30), reporting that a recent paper found that about 33% of newly bestselling self-published genre novels contain AI-generated content.

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Multiple AI Agents Collaborate on Tasks as Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Launches Grok Bot

The product enables multiple AI agents to collaborate on a variety of tasks. It has been tested by multiple teams internally and represents Elon Musk’s latest move to catch up with AI competitors. #AI Agents# #Grok Bot#

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Report: Xiaohongshu Developing a New “AI Shopping Guide” Feature

Xiaohongshu has already implemented some AI features in its e-commerce business. For example, its store reputation pages include AI-generated summaries of store reviews for consumers’ reference.

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Alibaba DAMO Academy Opens 15 Chip and AI Research Projects, Launching the “Alibaba Star” Top Talent Recruitment

This year, DAMO Academy has opened 15 research projects covering cutting-edge areas including AI chips, new CPU architectures, medical multimodal agents, and AGI decision-making.

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NDRC: For every 10 humanoid and quadrupedal intelligent robots sold globally, 8 are made in China

According to a Xinhua News Agency report today, reporters learned at a press conference held by the National Development and Reform Commission that in the field of intelligent robots, for every 10 humanoid and quadrupedal intelligent robots sold globally, 8 are made in China.

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official API Launches Public Beta, V4-Pro Official Version to Be Released “As Soon as Possible”

This afternoon (the 31st), DeepSeek announced through an API documentation release log that the official DeepSeek-V4-Flash API has launched its public beta.

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OpenAI’s two improvements raise GPT-5.6 Sol’s score by 188% on the AI benchmark ARC-AGI-3

A new interactive reasoning benchmark launched by the ARC Prize team, designed to measure AI agents’ human-like intelligence and efficiency in acquiring skills in unknown and dynamic environments

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Alibaba’s Qwen Model Reportedly Undergoing Internal Testing in Tesla’s In-Car System, Said to Listen and Respond, Control the Vehicle, and Navigate

Alibaba’s Qwen model is reportedly undergoing internal testing in Tesla’s in-car system. It has completed extensive testing in real vehicle environments and supports capabilities such as semantic understanding, vehicle control, and navigation. Several leading Chinese automakers have announced plans to integrate the model. #AlibabaQwenLargeModel#

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Shangwei New Materials’ Qiyuan Announces Partnership with Blizzard’s World of Warcraft, Launching Limited “Murloc Custom Edition” Q1 Robot

This custom Q1 is built on the modular design and open-source hardware and software capabilities of the Qiyuan Q1 Explorer Edition. At ChinaJoy, it has already toured the exhibition with cosers. #QiyuanRobotWorldofWarcraftCollaboration#

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National Finals of Fully Remote-Control-Free Robot Competition Kick Off in Beijing, with More Than 200 Teams Chasing the Championship

The competition venue covers 2,800 square meters and can accommodate nearly 350 humanoid robots competing on the same stage. This year's event has undergone a major upgrade: all full-size humanoid robot competition venues have completely eliminated remote-control equipment, meaning participating robots must rely entirely on their autonomous movement and decision-making capabilities to complete the entire competition.

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Delhi High Court Rules OpenAI’s Use of Indian Media ANI Content to Train AI Does Not Infringe Copyright

OpenAI won a key legal case in India last Friday (24th) local time: the Delhi High Court ruled that using content from Asian News International (India) (hereinafter referred to as ANI) to train artificial intelligence does not constitute copyright infringement.

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Chinese AI Foundation Models Lead Global Rankings, with CCTV Explaining the Advantages Behind Their Success

According to CCTV News, Chinese AI foundation models are leading global rankings, achieving a dual “breakthrough” in both usage and download volumes. Li Wei, deputy director of the Cloud Computing and Digitalization Research Institute at the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, said that domestic models have energized the innovation ecosystem through open-source strategies. With advantages including superior performance, controllable costs, and ease of localized deployment, they have significantly lowered the barrier to applying artificial intelligence technology and won widespread favor among developers worldwide.

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Google Gemini Spark agent opens to more users worldwide, supporting tasks such as booking flights and organizing inboxes

Google announced on July 31 that its personal AI agent Gemini Spark is now available to most users worldwide. The agent has been integrated with the Chrome browser and, with authorization, can help users organize emails, search for flights, book tickets, and more. Spark also includes built-in security mechanisms to prevent prompt injection attacks and hand sensitive actions back to the user. #GoogleAI# It is currently available only to Pro / Ultra subscribers in the United States and Ultra subscribers in other regions.

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Startup Majestic Launches “Prometheus” AI Server, Configurable with 8TB–128TB of LPDDR6 Memory

Startup Majestic Labs has released its new Prometheus AI server, combining its self-developed Ignite AI processing units (AIUs) with LPDDR6 memory. The company claims it surpasses NVIDIA’s NVL72 solution in memory capacity and power consumption. The server supports up to 12 AIUs and 128TB of memory, uses liquid cooling, and is expected to launch next year. #AI Server#

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Former DeepMind Researcher Thibault Reveals: Google Built a Similar Product a Year Before ChatGPT Was Released, but It Was Ultimately Shelved

Former DeepMind researcher Thibault revealed that Google had developed a chatbot called LMChat a year before ChatGPT was released, but ultimately shelved it out of concern that it would compete with its search business. Internal engineer Jeff Dean also confirmed that a similar product had been developed. #GoogleAI# This history has once again sparked industry discussion about innovation mechanisms within tech giants.

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The First National Youth Artificial Intelligence Competition Finals Kick Off in Shanghai, Featuring 5 Cutting-Edge Tracks

Approved by the Ministry of Education as a national competition, this event features five cutting-edge AI tracks, with more than 850 contestants advancing to the finals. It also organizes study tours for students from less-developed regions and explores new approaches to AI education for young people #NationalYouthArtificialIntelligenceCompetition#

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Musk and Altman Reach Consensus: Humanity Has Entered the AI Singularity Era

Technology media outlet thenews published a blog post yesterday (July 31), reporting that Elon Musk and Sam Altman have reached a consensus regarding the AI singularity.

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China Holds Briefing on the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the UN: Will Uphold Openness and Open Source in Planning Global Governance

China’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations held a briefing on the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference at the UN Headquarters in New York. Ambassador Fu Cong said that China will uphold the principles of openness and open source and work with all parties to jointly discuss global artificial intelligence governance. UN officials spoke highly of the conference’s significance, and 29 countries have signed the agreement to establish the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization. #WorldArtificialIntelligenceConference#

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Qualcomm Responds to “NEURA 4NE-1 Humanoid Robot Falling Over”: Brief Communication Failure Triggered Controlled Shutdown

Technology media outlet Tom's Hardware published a post yesterday (July 31), reporting that Qualcomm partner NEURA Robotics experienced an unexpected demonstration failure while showcasing its 4NE-1 Gen 3.5 humanoid robot, causing the robot to fall backward.

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Gartner Estimates AI Inference Spending Will Surpass Model Training for the First Time in 2026

Market research firm Gartner published a blog post yesterday (August 10), forecasting that global spending on AI-optimized infrastructure as a service (AI-optimized IaaS) will reach $42 billion in 2026, up 96% year over year.

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China Unicom: Intelligent computing capacity reaches 45 EFLOPS; investment related to computing power will exceed 17.5 billion yuan this year

China Unicom stated that it has set its total capital expenditure for 2026 at 50 billion yuan, including more than 17.5 billion yuan in investment related to computing power, accounting for 35% of total investment.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Proposes Using AI to Create a Parent-Child Morning Podcast, Draws Criticism Online

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared what he considers a “cool” use of ChatGPT: linking family calendars so AI can summarize children’s interests and generate a podcast. But the proposal sparked heated discussion online, with many questioning whether it would replace real parent-child communication and saying that “AI should not become a barrier between people.” #AIandParenting# What do you think?

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NVIDIA Evaluates Reducing Rubin Ultra HBM Configuration, Potentially Beyond 12Hi HBM4E

NVIDIA's possible downgrade paths include switching from HBM4E to HBM4 and from 12Hi HBM to 8Hi HBM, with the latter enabling higher final GPU shipment volumes.

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Rare Books Shredded for AI Training Spark Outrage; Book Database ISBNdb Takes Down AI-Related Test Page

To obtain high-quality training data, AI companies are purchasing large quantities of physical books and destroying them, a practice that has sparked widespread controversy. Book suppliers have received enormous orders, leading industry insiders to speculate that AI companies are the buyers behind them, while the database website ISBNdb has been accused of acting as an intermediary. Although the company has deleted the relevant promotional content and denied the claims, similar projects such as “Project Panama” were exposed long ago. The depletion of #AI training data# sources has driven companies to resort to the extreme measure of using physical books. #AI large-model training#

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Roborock P30 Pro Self-Cleaning Robot Vacuum and Mop Launches on August 14, Featuring an Ultra-Thin Design and Hot Active-Water Floor Washing

This robot features an ultra-thin design and hot active-water floor washing, and is available in water-tank and slim concealed water-inlet/outlet versions. It has a round white body and is equipped with multiple sensors. #RoborockP30Pro#

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U.S. Largest Food Delivery Platform DoorDash Investigated by Lawmakers for Using Moonshot AI Models to Write Code

U.S. food delivery giant DoorDash is facing a joint investigation by two House committees for using Kimi K2.6, a model from Chinese AI company Moonshot AI. The company’s founder said the model combination offers stronger performance at a lower cost, but lawmakers are concerned about potential security risks. #U.S.-China AI Competition# The two sides are communicating about the matter.

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ChatGPT Exploited by Cambodian Scam Network, OpenAI Takes Action by Banning Accounts

Scammers used ChatGPT to create scam content and fabricate identities to carry out romance-investment scams. After receiving leads, OpenAI banned the relevant accounts and shared related information. #ChatGPTScam#

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Amazon Fulfills Its $50 Billion Investment Commitment to OpenAI Early, Currently Holds Approximately 5%

Although OpenAI failed to meet the two requirements of going public and achieving a technological breakthrough, Amazon still chose to make the additional $35 billion investment ahead of schedule.

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Judge Rejects xAI’s Request; Minnesota’s AI “Undressing” App Ban to Take Effect as Scheduled

A judge rejected xAI’s application for a temporary restraining order, ruling that it filed its lawsuit too late. Minnesota’s ban on AI undressing apps will therefore take effect as scheduled. Previously, xAI users violated the rules by generating pornographic images, triggering regulatory scrutiny. #xAI# #AIUndressingAppBan#

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Controversy Erupts Over Undisclosed Use of AI in Content Creation; Overseas Science Communicator Hank Green Apologizes

Hank Green sparked controversy among fans after failing to disclose in advance that he had used ChatGPT for research. He apologized, acknowledged relying too heavily on AI, announced that he would slow down content updates, and said he would reassess his relationship with AI. #AIContentCreationControversy#

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Able to Generate “Disaster” Images Without Restrictions, Google Earth’s AI Image Generation Feature Removed Less Than a Day After Launch

Google stressed that all AI-generated images carry watermarks and were not added to Google Earth map content viewable by the public.

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Elon Musk Just Followed DeepSeek’s X Account

DeepSeek announced that its post on X about the official release of DeepSeek-V4-Flash has received over 25,000 likes and more than 5,000 reposts.

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OpenAI Discovers More Signs of AI Agents “Going Rogue”

While investigating the attack incident, OpenAI discovered multiple cases of AI agents going rogue. The current impact is limited, and the incident could prompt the United States to strengthen AI regulation. Industry experts have expressed concerns about AI safety. #AISafety#

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Official Benchmark Report: Approximately 98% Cache Hit Discount Delivers Ultimate AI Cost-Effectiveness

DeepSeek announced yesterday (July 31) through an API documentation release log that the official DeepSeek-V4-Flash API had entered public beta. AI benchmarking platforms such as @ArtificialAnlys and @arena also updated their relevant benchmark results today (August 1).

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IDC Report: China’s Industrial Embodied Intelligent Robot Market Reaches RMB 5.74 Billion in 2025, Commercialization Accelerates Across the Board

IDC data shows that China’s industrial embodied intelligent robot market was worth approximately RMB 5.74 billion in 2025. The market has entered an accelerated commercialization phase and will expand toward process-level applications over the next three to five years. Let’s take a look at the key development trends. #IndustrialEmbodiedIntelligentRobots#

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MiniMax H3 General-Purpose Multimodal Video Model to Be Open-Sourced on August 3, Supporting up to 15s at 2K Resolution

MiniMax H3 supports unified understanding of multimodal contexts composed of text, images, video, and sound, and can output audio and video with native stereo sound, supporting up to 15s at 2K resolution.

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Catching Up With NVIDIA: Google Rumored to Plan Deployment of 12~15 Million TPU v9 AI Chips in 2028

The report suggests that TPU v9 will adopt a 4-compute-die design, significantly increasing demand for advanced process and packaging capacity, forcing Google to seek capacity outside TSMC.

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New Survey Shows: More Than 80% of Parents and Teachers Believe Students Need Stronger Data Literacy in the AI Era

A survey by DS4E and Mathematica found that 88% of respondents believe high school students should have data literacy skills before graduation. The survey also found that, compared with programming, parents and teachers place greater value on students’ problem-solving abilities and critical thinking. #AI Education#

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The Largest Known in China! ByteDance Reportedly Discussing Training a Model with More Than 5 Trillion Parameters

The model will reportedly be led by Xiang Liang, head of Seed Foundation, in collaboration with Shen Ke, who is responsible for pretraining data for large language models. Both are key members of ByteDance’s AI and large-model R&D organization and come from ByteDance’s “search, recommendation, and advertising” system.

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News: NVIDIA Urgently Seeks Chinese AI Base Station Suppliers to Develop 6G Base Stations with the “Next Innolight”

A key figure in the communications industry chain revealed that NVIDIA is accelerating its entry into the telecommunications operator market and is seeking base station manufacturers in China as partners to develop 6G base stations that meet overseas market requirements.

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Second World Humanoid Robot Games Simulated Firefighting and Rescue Competition: Firefighting Tasks Must Be Completed Within Half an Hour

Two types of simulated hazardous materials will be randomly placed at the competition site. Robots must identify them and report their types through images, then find and close three randomly designated valves, and finally locate a fire extinguisher and continue spraying until the flames are extinguished.

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Survey Shows Over 80% of Japanese Companies Have Yet to Fully Embrace AI

About 60% of respondents said that AI is used only in some departments of their companies or in other limited ways. Another 18% said they had not yet decided whether to introduce AI into the workplace, while 6% had not even considered using AI.

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Reports say Zhang Yiming issued a firm internal order: even if its model temporarily falls behind, ByteDance will not rely on AI distillation technology

ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming stated clearly at an all-hands meeting of the Seed team last month that the company would not rely on AI distillation technology to improve its models, even if that meant temporarily falling behind its competitors.

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SpaceXAI Has Built the “World’s Most Powerful AI Training Cluster”; Musk Says Its Scale Will Expand by About 10 Times Next Year

Technology media outlet Tom's Hardware published a blog post yesterday (August 13), reporting that Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, estimated at a SpaceX employee meeting that SpaceXAI’s (formerly known as xAI) data center power capacity will expand by about seven times by the end of 2027, reaching 10GW.

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Tech Leaders Claim AI Will Bring a Four-Day Workweek, Yet Employees Still Work 90 Hours a Week

Tech giants such as Google and OpenAI say that a four-day workweek could become possible once AI is widely adopted. However, many employees actually work more than 90 hours a week, and research shows that the time saved by AI is instead filled with additional work, further lengthening working hours.

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ByteDance and Motion Picture Association Sign Agreement to Strengthen AI Copyright Protections

ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association have signed an agreement to strengthen copyright protections for the Seedance video generation model and Seedream image generation model, available through TikTok, CapCut, and Dreamina. The latest versions reportedly include enhanced intellectual property safeguards. #ByteDance #AICopyright

827AI Safety & GovernanceExternalChinese original08/17/2026IT Home

Florida Man Described Plan to “Kill Ex-Girlfriend” to ChatGPT; OpenAI Alerted Authorities

Florida man Darren Zhou was reported to the FBI by OpenAI after describing a plan to kill his ex-girlfriend to ChatGPT. Police found that his chat history was filled with threats and rehearsals, and he was arrested in May this year.

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Jiuguang Technology Unveils Xiaorui G3 Humanoid Robot Capable of Lifting 50 kg Barbells

Similar in height and weight to an adult, the robot can pull objects weighing 100 kg and lift and carry loads of up to 50 kg. It is designed to assist humans with physically demanding tasks. #HumanoidRobots #EmbodiedAI

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AirTag Tracking Exposes Amazon’s Book-Destruction Method for AI Training

Investigators using an AirTag found that Amazon and other tech companies buy physical books, cut off their spines, and scan them for AI training. Courts have ruled such scanning to be fair use in related cases, but the destruction of rare, irreplaceable books has sparked controversy.

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China’s First AI Home Robotics Flagship Store Opens in Qingdao, Offering Exoskeleton Robot Try-Ons

Haier has opened China’s first AI home robotics experience store in Qingdao. Visitors can try on exoskeleton robots for gait analysis and personalized adjustments, while also experiencing cooking, housekeeping, cleaning, and companion robots—all in one place. #HaierAIRobotics#

831Design & Creativity08/17/2026IT Home

College Student Sentenced to 22 Months for Stealing Over ¥50,000 With AI Face-Forgery Videos

A college student surnamed Wu in Hunan bought AI face-forgery technology through illegal channels, turning static photos into videos to bypass bank payment verification. He stole over ¥50,000 from three victims’ bank cards in four months and was sentenced to 22 months in prison after surrendering and paying compensation. #AICrime #FacialRecognitionSecurity

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Anthropic Discloses Security Flaw: Bioweapons Filter Failed for Nearly a Year, Affecting 133 Million Conversations

The failure affected 133 million conversations. No evidence of actual misuse has been found so far. Anthropic has fixed the issue and strengthened screening and oversight of external contractors. #AISafety

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CCA: Complaints About AI Customer Service Have Risen Significantly

A new China Consumers Association report says complaints about AI customer service have surged, with human agents often difficult to reach. Some AI agents also make false promises, while businesses later refuse to honor them by claiming AI-generated responses have no legal effect. #AI Customer Service Complaints#

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Stanford Survey: 84% of Chinese Respondents Excited About AI, vs. 38% in the US

The report also finds that 72% of Chinese respondents trust AI, compared with 32% in the US. It says the AI model performance gap between China and the US has largely disappeared, with models from the two countries trading the lead. #AIIndexReport

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Update: Resolved — Widespread Anthropic Claude Outage Disrupts Logins and Page Loading

Multiple Anthropic services were affected, with some users unable to log in or load pages. Anthropic confirmed the outage and investigated the issue but did not disclose its cause. Services have now returned to normal.

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Bloomberg: Payments Giant Stripe Finalizes OpenRouter Acquisition for Over $7 Billion

OpenRouter provides a unified gateway to multiple AI models and has 8 million users worldwide. Previously valued at about $1.3 billion in its Series B round, the acquisition price is more than five times that valuation, making it a major AI deal. #AIAcquisitionNews#

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DeepSeek API Peak and Off-Peak Pricing Takes Effect Today, with Peak Rates Doubled

DeepSeek has updated its API pricing by introducing peak and off-peak periods, with specific rates for different models and time slots. The new pricing scheme took effect at midnight today. #DeepSeek API#

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AI Can Geolocate Photos from Visual Clues with 87%–91% Accuracy

New McAfee research shows that AI can identify where photos were taken by analyzing visual clues such as buildings, signs, and vegetation, achieving 87%–91% accuracy. Even after GPS metadata is removed, photos may still reveal your whereabouts or be exploited by scammers. #PrivacySecurity

839Models & Technology08/17/2026IT Home

Chinese Scientists Unveil “Fengshu” 2.0 Soybean Model to Support Breeding

Anhui Agricultural University and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have released the “Fengshu” 2.0 soybean model. Featuring collaborative multi-model analysis, it supports disease diagnosis, breeding parent selection, and other tasks to make soybean breeding more efficient and precise. #AI Breeding#

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Meituan CEO Wang Puzhong on AI Transformation: Companywide “Shrimp-Raising” Campaign Once Cost Over RMB 10 Million a Day and Disrupted Operations

Wang Puzhong, CEO of Meituan’s Core Local Commerce division, said Meituan’s AI transformation has gone through four stages. During the first stage, from February to March, a companywide “shrimp-raising” campaign sent daily costs above RMB 10 million, while AI hallucinations disrupted real business operations.

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Jia Yueting: Faraday Future Exploring Independent Financing and Listing for Robotics Business

Faraday Future (FF) founder, partner, and Chief Product and User Ecosystem Officer Jia Yueting announced today that FF’s robotics business has entered a new stage of rapid, volume-driven revenue growth and is exploring independent financing and a separate listing.

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No Longer Limited to API Keys: GPT-5.6 Sol’s Million-Token Context in Codex Now Works with ChatGPT Accounts

An OpenAI engineer announced that GPT-5.6 Sol’s 1 million-token context window in Codex now supports ChatGPT accounts. Subscribers can enable it through manual configuration for tasks such as large-codebase refactoring, though it may consume usage limits faster and should be activated only when needed. #OpenAI #Codex

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Report Supporting Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Contains Multiple Citation Errors; Organization Admits Using ChatGPT to Edit It

A A$3.48 million Australian age-verification technology report was found to contain multiple citation errors. Its authors initially denied using AI but later admitted using ChatGPT to rewrite passages. Allegedly fabricated citations caused by AI “hallucinations” have raised concerns about risks to government decision-making. #AIControversy#

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AI Video Platform Higgsfield Raises $400M from Goldman Sachs, Intel and Others at $5.4B Valuation

AI video generation platform Higgsfield has raised $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation from investors including DST Global and Goldman Sachs. Its annualized revenue has reached $700 million, driven primarily by enterprise customers. The two-year-old startup now has more than 30 million users worldwide.

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TrendForce: Liquid Cooling Becomes Standard for High-End AI Infrastructure, Penetration to Reach 53% in 2026

TrendForce says liquid cooling adoption is accelerating as AI chip power exceeds 1kW, with penetration projected to reach 53% in 2026. Google already uses it in over 80% of its AI servers, while NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform adopts a fully liquid-cooled, fanless architecture, increasing the value of thermal components across the supply chain.

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Ant Group CEO Cyril Han: Agentic Commerce to Take Off in the Next 6–12 Months

Speaking at the Alipay AI Ecosystem Partner Conference, Cyril Han said agentic commerce has reached a tipping point, driven by advances in AI capabilities, a leap in demand, and a sustainable value loop. AI agents could reshape business efficiency.

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ChatGPT App for Linux Enters Public Preview, Supports Ubuntu and More

OpenAI has launched a public preview of ChatGPT for Linux, supporting major distributions including Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora with deb and rpm packages. It currently supports only x64 and ARM64 architectures and lacks computer control capabilities. Native Wayland can be enabled with a launch parameter. #ChatGPT #Linux

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Huawei Xiaoyi, vivo Blue Heart Xiao V, and HONOR YOYO Reportedly Set to Integrate Alipay’s Abao

Sources say Huawei Xiaoyi, vivo Blue Heart Xiao V, and HONOR YOYO are testing integration with Alipay’s Abao. Once launched, their system-level AI assistants will be able to use the service capabilities of Alipay’s agent.

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Qwen-Audio-3.0 Models, Ranked No. 1 Globally in Recognition, Synthesis, and Real-Time Interaction, Launch on Alibaba’s Qwen AI Platform

Alibaba Cloud announced that the Qwen-Audio-3.0 speech model series is now available on the Qwen AI and Alibaba Cloud Model Studio platforms. Developers can access the models through API services or subscribe to a Token Plan.

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AI Model Weekly Rankings: Anthropic Models Flood the Charts, China’s kimi-k3-max Holds Near the Top

This week’s Arena rankings saw several new Anthropic models enter near the top of the overall and coding charts. China’s kimi-k3-max maintained its leading position, while qwen3.8-max entered the agent leaderboard’s Top 10 for the first time.

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Doubao’s “Work Tasks” Mode Now Supports Remote Computer Control From Phones

Once authorized, users can remotely control their computers through the Doubao mobile app to continue unfinished desktop tasks or start new ones, with real-time progress updates. Doubao can also access file context locally to process documents, images, code, spreadsheets, and perform more complex computer operations.

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14 Teams Reach Cable Connection Final at Second World Humanoid Robot Games

The Second World Humanoid Robot Games will open in Beijing on August 22. According to CCTV News, the cable connection preliminaries concluded today, with 14 of the 24 participating teams advancing to the final. #WorldHumanoidRobotGames#

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Jensen Huang: OpenAI Commits to Deploying About 12GW of NVIDIA Compute by 2030

OpenAI’s existing and planned deployment commitments total about 12GW of NVIDIA compute capacity. If NVIDIA expands the PORTS-Pike partnership beyond the initial 4.25GW phase, the total could rise further to around 16GW.