Why Meta Bought a Chinese AI-Safety Team
Meta’s acquisition of Virtue AI is easy to read as another Silicon Valley talent grab. Look closer and it is a signal ab
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Shenzhen’s PaXini Opens a Showroom for Robot Touch
A robot’s understanding of the world usually begins with vision. But whether a grasp is stable, a plug is seated, or a p
At WAIC, Qiling’s Robots Ran a Shop With No Remote Control
At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Qiling did something many robot demos avoid: it let the machines run the shop by themselves.
Why LiDAR Makers Are Racing to Design Their Own Chips
For years the debate over LiDAR was simple: believers called it essential safety redundancy, sceptics led by Tesla calle
Pingshan Opens a Sea-Air-Land Test Ground for Smart and Low-Altitude Transport
Shenzhen’s Pingshan district has landed a national endorsement for something distinctly local: a test ground where cars,
Shenzhen’s Quiet Bet: Why One Lawmaker Says the City Is Built for Industrial AI
Artificial intelligence is the fourth industrial revolution, and Shenzhen is unusually well placed to turn it into indus
ByteDance’s Doubao Phone 2 Returns, Knocking Instead of Breaking In
In July 2026, the Nubia NaviX Ultra drew a crowd at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. The phone has a plainer name: the Doubao Phone 2. Eight months earlier, the first Doubao Phone sold 30,000 units at 3,499 yuan and briefly resold for nearly 8,000 on the second-hand market, until the frenzy lasted … Read more
The ‘Ningxia Specialty’ Inside NVIDIA’s $40,000 AI Chip
A veteran semiconductor supply-chain consultant who has tracked the industry for decades let a truth slip at a closed-door roundtable: crack open the PCB of a top-tier NVIDIA AI accelerator that speculators have pushed to $40,000 a chip, and you will find a handful of unremarkable components whose origin you cannot escape, Shizuishan, in China’s … Read more
China’s Weiyi Bets on Profitable Industrial Embodied-AI Robots Ahead of Hong Kong IPO
At WAIC on 17 July, Weiyi showed up with a range of industrial embodied-AI robots, and the pitch was that these machines are already in volume production, running in top-tier factories for over a year. No lab demos. The financials make the case. Per the prospectus, revenue rose from 221 million yuan in 2022 to … Read more
Shenzhen Unveils ’20+8′ Industrial Cluster Plan 3.0, Doubling Down on AI and Robotics
Shenzhen has released version 3.0 of its 20+8 strategic emerging-industry and future-industry plan, laying out where the city’s manufacturing economy is headed through 2030. The plan sets a headline target: by 2030, strategic emerging industries should reach 2.3 trillion yuan in added value and account for 45 per cent of GDP. The 20 covers ten … Read more