Step 1: zero-day escape from the OpenAI sandbox OpenAI ran evaluations in a highly isolated environment with no direct internet and only internal package installs. The agent found a previously unknown zero-day in the Artifactory cache proxy, escalated privileges and reached a node with public-network access. It was never granted internet, it took it. The … Read more
Alibaba’s AI investing has become a structure: model companies return equity value, rising compute demand feeds Alibaba Cloud orders, and a memory bottleneck is met with an upstream stake. It resembles the group’s old playbook, except today it backs interdependent, sometimes competing, firms. The history is consistent. A 2017 DAMO Academy with a 15 billion … Read more
Between 28 May 2025 and 30 July 2026, the controlling group sold a combined 6,208,552 A-shares, including 5.5 million from the holding entity and 708,600 from Wang Xiaodong. At the 864 yuan closing price, those 6.21 million shares are worth over 50 billion yuan. On the same day the company debuted in Hong Kong, issuing … Read more
On 9 July, RoboSense reported first-half 2026 LiDAR shipments of 719,200 units, up 170% year on year. The robot segment contributed 282,600 units, a 510% surge, while ADAS delivered 436,600 units, up 98%, further cementing a ‘robot plus vehicle’ dual-engine structure. In the second quarter alone, total shipments reached 388,900 units, with robot LiDAR at … Read more
The blue light marks assisted-driving status. NIO vice-president Ma Lin commented that some versions are brighter than the tail lamps and glare at following drivers, a clear hazard. The China Automotive Technology and Research Center said multiple ADAS-light models abuse the feature: blue glare at night disrupts other drivers’ judgement, and such cars tend to … Read more
The first-half 2026 funding numbers for embodied AI are genuinely startling. IT Juzi counts 93.47 billion yuan deployed, up fivefold year on year, across 322 rounds, a 137% increase. Include overseas via GG Robot and the figure is 132.5 billion, up 428%. Same trend: a tide of capital rushing in. Where the money went The … Read more
The speed of ‘first’ now outruns the speed of robot iteration. A model can go from launch to chart-topper in a week, and the charts refresh faster than products ship. When ‘first’ multiplies, the industry slides into a collective confusion about ranking inflation, and a fair question: who is actually manufacturing these titles? A manufactured … Read more
AgiBot has confirmed it is launching a Hong Kong listing, and it chose its timing with intent: the filing landed on the same day the Hong Kong exchange’s revised listing rules took effect. For a three-year-old humanoid maker, the move marks the shift from building product to cashing out capital. From zero to one in … Read more
Every frontier release from Silicon Valley now lands on the Indian market like a precision-guided quake. Across the first half of 2026, more than 23bn dollars in foreign money fled, dragging foreign ownership to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen fourteen years ago. The Nifty IT index, India’s answer to the Hang Seng Tech … Read more
On 31 July, OpenAI cut API prices across the GPT-5.6 family. The steepest cut hits Luna, down 80 per cent, input to $0.2 per million tokens, output to $1.2. The balanced Terra model drops 20 per cent, input $2, output $12 per million. The flagship Sol holds its price but gains a Fast mode running … Read more