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The party that repriced embodied intelligence Recent public reports say the Hong Kong Stock Exchange will consult next year on revising its Chapter 18C regime for specialist technology companies, including a review of the market-cap threshold. That will affect the dozens of embodied-intelligence companies already in the queue. The backdrop is August 2026, when Unitree, … Read more
An all-stock deal worth about US$8.2 billion On 28 September 2026 AMD posted a statement on its website saying it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire World Labs. The transaction is an all-stock deal valued at roughly US$8.2 billion (8.2 billion US dollars), and is expected to close before the end of 2026, subject … Read more
Jaime Xiao on the song played for Xi Jinping at the Trump state dinner: The Moon Represents My Heart belonged to Teresa Teng, whose music was banned on the mainland while Xi was a young secretary to the defence minister. Teng claimed a Hebei Jiguan, the same province where Xi’s own career began.
Recently an anonymous model called Space Bunny has stirred debate among developers. Since its 23 September launch it has held second place on the OpenCode usage chart and at one point topped the OpenRouter usage chart, earning the nickname ‘space bunny’. An anonymous ‘Space Bunny’ model is beating frontier rivals (Source: Zhidx) The model is … Read more
At a China-Arab digital economy matchmaking session on the sidelines of the fifth Global Digital Trade Expo, the Arab Digital Economy Alliance (AFDE) signed a framework memorandum of understanding with Ant Lingbo Technology, the embodied-AI company under Ant Group. Ant’s embodied-AI unit signed a Middle East deal that goes b (Source: Zhidx) Dr Ayman Ghoneim, … Read more
On 23 September, the Qinghai project information network published the bid result for phase one of the Kunlun Lingyi intelligent computing centre project. Shanghai GPU leader Biren Technology won package one with a bid of RMB 174 million. Biren landed a RMB 174 million compute centre order as reven (Source: Zhidx) The phase-one project issued … Read more
A humanoid robot weighing under 40 kg has pulled a car weighing 1.4 tonnes, roughly 40 times its own mass, for nearly ten metres. The stunt happened in Beijing’s Yizhuang district, where Xingyuan Zhi, working with the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (Zhiyuan), used its Thor whole-body control model to drive a 37.15 kg humanoid … Read more
On 11 September, Tesla unveiled the European-spec Semi and confirmed deliveries will begin in 2027. That alone is a product update. What is more interesting is the math Morgan Stanley published alongside it. The bank estimates that a future autonomous Semi, running about 18,000 miles a month, could generate roughly USD 12,000 to 18,000 in … Read more
The embodied-intelligence sector has no shortage of robots that can deliver one flawless demo. What it lacks is robots that repeat a task ten thousand times in a real setting and still perform reliably. PaXini says it has just closed a RMB 1 billion strategic round, lifting cumulative funding to nearly RMB 4 billion. The … Read more
A 1997-born founder who helped build Dreame’s robot-vacuum business has just put a small humanoid on sale for under 1,300 US dollars, and Ant Group led a 500 million yuan pre-Series A round to back him. Lexiang’s Bridge humanoid robot, 88 cm tall and under 13 kg. (Source: Zhidx) Guo Renjie joined Dreame in 2021 … Read more