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Storm season is quietly resetting the argument about electric cars and water. When Typhoon White Dolphin made landfall on 9 August, Shanghai recorded close to 300 millimetres of rain and thousands of cars were submerged across several cities. Xiaomi founder Lei Jun used the moment to post a reminder: pay attention to wading ability. Xiaomi’s … Read more
On 17 August, RoboScience released REX G1, a wheeled humanoid general-purpose manipulation robot and its first commercial product, pitched as a next-generation embodied-intelligence productivity partner. Built on the company’s self-developed VLOA general embodied model, Visics, the robot targets logistics, factories, retail and home settings, and is designed to close the full loop from task understanding … Read more
Jaime Xiao argues the Western press misread Zhu Rongji’s legacy. The real inheritance is not the economic-Tsar narrative but the STEM-driven human-capital machine built across three decades that now runs China’s AI race. Embedded below.
Tencent’s second-quarter results show new AI products cut 10.5 billion yuan from operating profit, while capital spending hit 52.78 billion yuan, up 176 per cent, as it bets on WorkBuddy, the WeChat a
Paul Meade, the Apple veteran who led Vision Pro hardware for seven years, is joining OpenAI’s hardware team after a reorganisation under incoming CEO John Ternus, a sign OpenAI is moving from concept
Anthropic, the Claude maker, could launch an IPO as early as October 2026 at a valuation of 2 trillion US dollars or more, potentially surpassing SpaceX as the largest offering ever, after annualised
China’s dexterous-hand funding hit 25 billion yuan in the first half of 2026, past all of 2025, with shipments set to climb from over 20,000 units to 70,200, as InTime, Lingxin, Turning Point and Brai
Honor unveiled the Robot Phone in the Greater Bay Area on 12 August, pairing a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal with an on-device agent OS, with pre-orders past 400,000 units and prices from 9,9
Cambricon’s first-half revenue reached 5.996 billion yuan, up 108 per cent, while Moore Threads narrowed its loss to 11.56 million yuan as China’s domestic AI chips ride demand and US export limits in
Unitree Technology has set the terms of its STAR Market debut, raising 4.202 billion yuan with 80 per cent going to R&D, after 2025 revenue of 1.708 billion yuan jumped 335 per cent and net profit top