On 7 September, just days after OpenAI released a powerful new model, its chief scientist published a blog calling to slow the pace of AI development. Jakub Pachocki wrote that he worries “no one is prepared for the consequences of the continued rapid growth of machine intelligence.” Pachocki said OpenAI is researching technical solutions to … Read more
SpaceX’s IPO drew global attention, not only refreshing the record for a first raise at US$75 billion but becoming the world’s fourth-largest listed company on its third trading day, sending Musk past a trillion-dollar fortune. AI data-centre power use is set to roughly double by 2030, nearing Japan’s annual generation. (Source: LeiFengWang) The prospectus stated … Read more
The author had Qwen 3.8-Max build a 3D large-model evolution universe website from scratch and iterated against GPT-5.6. Alibaba’s Qwen 3.8-Max was tested against GPT-5.6 on a 3D website build. (Source: LeiFengWang) On ceiling, Qwen 3.8-Max showed far more delivered detail than GPT-5.6. On efficiency and cost, Max’s high completion came with low efficiency, and … Read more
After Zhipu and MiniMax listed in Hong Kong earlier this year, who becomes the third large-model company to land is still open, but the field of serious contenders is thin. China’s leading large-model startups are now in an IPO sprint. (Source: Sohu IT) New reporting says Moonshot has confidentially submitted an A1 filing to the … Read more
In August 2026 Dyna Robotics released Dyna-2, a robot foundation model pretrained on over 1 million hours of first-person human video, about 170 years of continuous waking experience. Across seven benchmarks the WAM architecture hit 1.55 times the success rate of the prior VLA model. High-precision manufacturing success rose from Dyna-1’s 20 per cent to … Read more
China sits at the pivot from manufacturing giant to smart-manufacturing power, and industrial software, CAE simulation, fluid compute and electromagnetic EDA, is the bridge. Domestic industrial software has advanced fast in algorithms and physics modelling toward self-reliance, yet in aerospace, chip design and energy exploration it hits one core bottleneck: not enough speed, it runs … Read more
The Delin Cup 2026 AI Startup Contest lays out its rewards first. The champion takes RMB 2 million in cash, unconditional and equity-free, a sum that dwarfs the RMB 300,000 to 600,000 typical of domestic AI contests. Up to 15 finalist teams enter a roughly 4,000-square-metre Delin Residency for ten weeks of deep incubation. During … Read more
From 1 September, China charges a 2 per cent consumption tax on lithium batteries, rising to 4 per cent in September 2027, while sodium-ion, solid-state and fuel cells stay exempt through the end of 2028. The levy ends an 11-year tax holiday for an industry that now dominates global lithium supply. A rush to beat … Read more
Faraday Future has signed a cooperation deal with California advanced-air-mobility firm AIBOT to support compliance and manufacturing for its AI robotics business, as Washington tightens control over foreign-made robotic and power hardware. Faraday Future’s EAI robot concept under its Built in USA plan (Source: Gasgoo) A compliance and build partner Announced on 4 September, the … Read more
On 24 August, media reports said the US government is considering approving Apple’s purchase of products from Chinese memory makers, in a move to ease the storage supply pressure the company currently faces. According to the reports, Apple has already been testing DRAM and NAND chips from two Chinese memory suppliers. If later cleared for … Read more