The Belt On 18 August, the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government and China Telecom Corporation signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement. Shenzhen Party secretary Jin Lei and deputy secretary and mayor Qin Weizhong met China Telecom chairman Ke Ruiwen and general manager Liu Guiqing and jointly witnessed the signing. Jin and Qin thanked China Telecom for its active … Read more
Shenzhen’s artificial-intelligence sector is pushing hard to go global, and Russia has become one of the association’s priority outward markets. That is what Zhang Zhehao, deputy secretary general for international relations at the Shenzhen Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, told Shenzhen Press Group on 17 August, local time in Kazan, where he attended the fourth “Rostok: … Read more
For years, three words trailed SMIC wherever it went: behind, restricted, catching up. It could not buy the best tools, could not take the most advanced orders, and the market kept asking the same question: when would it close the gap with TSMC? For a company carrying the hopes of China’s domestic chipmaking, simply surviving … Read more
Zeng Yi’s office tea was refilled again and again as the conversation unfolded, a typical Guangdong reception: no need to sit stiff, but the matter was clear. He speaks with a Chaoshan accent, not fast, always finishing a sentence with a smile, eyes narrowing, leaning in, easy to relax around. Talk of AI and RISC-V … Read more
AI large models are evolving from a business and product into the infrastructure a company runs on. Past software and hardware firms organised by product, with AI as one function among imaging, voice, recommendation or interaction. After foundation models arrived, AI reached product definition, user interaction and service distribution. Teams once split by product must … Read more
Yesterday OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber-security programme and launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a model built for security scenarios. Notably, GPT-5.6-Cyber splits AI cyber capability into two directions: Daybreak Blue for defence work, and Daybreak Red for advanced security research and attack simulation. This red-blue confrontation is the core drill mechanism traditional security uses to validate system safety. … Read more
How expensive is AI, really? We once measured compute in GPU counts. Now OpenAI and NVIDIA measure it in gigawatts. On 17 August, the PORTS-Pike project disclosure showed OpenAI building world-class AI infrastructure in Ohio. OpenAI said it has secured about 8 GW of IT capacity at the site, with NVIDIA providing credit support for … Read more
In late July, San Francisco startup Tau Robotics launched a humanoid home-cleaning service at US$30 an hour, about RMB 200. It is invite-only, covering the city’s Mission and Noe Valley neighbourhoods. Tau runs three robots named Chelsea, Elon and Tony, in black uniforms with assigned roles. Chelsea tackles kitchen counters and mirror water marks. Tony … Read more
In August 2026, Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, its new robot foundation model. Pretraining used over 1 million hours of first-person human video, roughly 170 years of continuous awake experience. Across seven benchmarks, the WAM architecture reached 1.55 times the success rate of the previous VLA models. High-precision manufacturing task success jumped from Dyna-1’s 20 per … Read more
Open any tech outlet and humanoid funding looks like a flood. 2026 was crowned the first year of embodied intelligence, capital queuing to pay. Step into an embodied-AI lab and you see something else. No sci-fi autonomy. No elegant conversation. An operator wears a VR headset, motion-capture suit and handheld controller, repeatedly driving an arm … Read more