The Belt 
Shenzhen-based humanoid-robot maker UBTECH has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xiamen C&D Co., the Chinese supply-chain and real estate conglomerate. The two partners will set up a joint venture to operate the Fujian headquarters of UBTECH Ecosystem Technology Centre. UBTECH industrial humanoid robots handle material-handling tasks on a production line (Source: Gasgoo) Under the … Read more
🇲🇾 Malaysia, 2026-09: Chinese brands took 8.0% of the market (8.0% excl MG). Perodua and Proton still own two-thirds of the market, but the China bench is stacking up fast.
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang’s children and son-in-law have moved into the company’s core businesses, and the shift is drawing fresh scrutiny as the chipmaker’s value crosses 5.5 trillion dollars. Generated editorial illustration. The most talked-about appointment is his son-in-law, Nico Caprez. Caprez married Huang’s eldest daughter, Madison Huang, in Hawaii in late September. He … Read more
China’s new-energy vehicle market showed a sharp September split. Six of the ten largest challenger brands posted year-on-year declines, while BYD and Geely did the opposite where it matters most: outside China. Leapmotor led China’s September NEV delivery surge past 105,000 units. (Source: Chedongxi) Leapmotor tops 100,000 again, exports a quarter Leapmotor delivered 105,700 vehicles … Read more
At its Suzhou technology conference on 22 to 23 September, Intel laid out two answers to one shift: AI value is moving from the cloud model race to deployment at the edge and on the factory floor. Dan Rodriguez, vice-president of edge computing, cited a forecast that about 80 per cent of tokens will be … Read more
For two years the “price butcher” of large models was never Claude. DeepSeek drove per-million-token prices to cents and trained Chinese vendors to match. On 8 October the positions flipped. Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a lightweight model for everyday tasks, at USD 0.10 in and USD 0.50 out per million tokens for requests under … Read more
DeepSeek is close to finalising a new funding round of at least RMB 80 billion, with Tencent and CATL among the largest committed investors, Bloomberg reported on 6 October, in a deal that paves the way for an initial public offering early in 2027. People familiar with the terms said the final total could approach … Read more
By September 2026, an investor’s 2025 memo had been tested daily: a humanoid will not make money in five years, but skip it now and regret it forever. IT Juzi data shows embodied-AI financing jumped from 105 deals and RMB 9.5 billion in 2024 to 333 deals and RMB 40.6 billion in 2025, up 217 … Read more
WorldArena, the benchmark that has become a reference point for world models, opened its 2.0 challenge at IROS 2026 with two new tracks built to test one thing the field dodges: can the model actually drive a robot, or only generate a pretty video? WorldArena 2.0 adds real-robot and reinforcement tracks to test whether world … Read more
From 12 to 16 October, the 26th China International Industry Fair opens in Shanghai, and KUKA will use it to launch “KAI”, short for KUKA Advanced Intelligence, under the theme “AI, embodied”. The pitch is not one smart device but a full factory layer: one brain that spans every product, software and line. KUKA frames … Read more