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Brad Lightcap, the COO who built OpenAI’s enterprise business to 25 billion dollars in annualised revenue, has left weeks before a confidential S-1 and a 7 billion dollar buyback at an 852 billion dol
RISC-V chip-design firm SunZhan and founder Zeng Yi argue AI has shifted architecture power from chip makers to AI firms, and are building tooling to auto-generate custom processors as the semiconduct
Xiaomi is reorganising XiaoAI around its MiMo base model so one shared AI layer can power phones, cars, homes and robots, protecting its service-distribution position as AI agents reshape how users re
Hong Kong’s Transport Department has granted an autonomous-vehicle pilot licence for a trial linking the West Kowloon HSR station and the Airport Express, its ninth such licence covering 69 vehicles.
China’s humanoid output could top 100,000 units in 2026, five times 2025, but most machines still land in labs and classrooms, not factories, as capital pivots from bodies to brains.
UBTECH has taken a 10 per cent stake in a new Maoming joint venture with a state-owned partner, extending its humanoids from auto and 3C factories into traditional industries and building a replicable
Japanese engineers have taken apart a Unitree G1 to study China’s humanoid advances, but Japan lacks the commercial scenes, from entertainment to data centres, that turned Chinese robots into a real i
Industrial autonomous-mobile-robot maker Standard Robots has filed for a Hong Kong IPO a third time, with cash of under 50 million yuan and cumulative losses above 400 million yuan, a snapshot of the
Shenzhen’s BridgeDP Robotics, builder of the RoboCraft AI motion platform, has closed a Pre-A+++ round led by China Mobile’s chain-leader fund, betting that cross-body motion software becomes the oper
From parcel sorting to elderly care, Shenzhen’s embodied-intelligence robots are moving into real production and service scenes, with the city targeting 50-plus scaled scenarios and 100 billion yuan i