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
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
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
On 12 August, SiEngine announced that its self-developed 7-nanometre automotive-grade AI accelerator, the Tiangong 100 (NNA100), has entered full mass production and begun batch supply to OEMs and Tier-1 partners. The chip is a standalone, plug-in accelerator for on-device agent AI, built to give local large models a complete domestic compute base and fix the … Read more
When Gasgoo reported NIO’s latest charging and swap progress, a reader summed up the scepticism: “That is no moat, it could be a trap.” For long-time watchers that reads as fair. NIO has poured more than 20 billion yuan into charging and swap infrastructure, a classic heavy-asset drag. It posted its first quarterly profit in … Read more
On 11 August in Shenzhen, China Changan Automobile Group and Huawei Technologies signed a strategic framework agreement, the centrepiece of a 12 August wave of OEM and supply-chain news. The two sides will explore cooperation in AI products and scenarios, general and automotive vertical large models, digital infrastructure, compute, software and hardware, and will deepen … Read more
On 23 July, Apollo Go received Hong Kong’s first driverless test licence, and on 27 July it began public-road testing on the airport island with no safety driver inside, the world’s first fully driverless project in a right-hand-traffic system. One day later its sixth-generation RT6 appeared on the streets of London, where on 28 July … Read more