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At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Intel and Tencent Cloud launched new-generation cloud instances based on Intel Xeon 6+ processors, delivering an overall performance improvement of more than 30% over the previous generation. Xeon 6+ offers up to 288 efficiency cores, and a single processor can support the stable deployment of more than 1,000 agents, while also introducing Intel TDX for hardware-level isolation. The two parties also leveraged IAA to bring 2M-page decompression

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Unitree Technology released its 2026 third-quarter financial report on October 28. Third-quarter revenue rose 69.93% year on year to 665 million yuan, while total profit fell 27.78% year on year to 112 million yuan. From 2023 to 2025, Unitree's revenue was 159 million yuan, 393 million yuan, and 1.699 billion yuan, respectively, with a three-year compound growth rate of 226.78%. Net profit shifted from a loss of 11.1451 million yuan in 2023 to 278 million yuan in 2025. The report noted that robo

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WeRide's subsidiary JingShuo Technology has completed a pre-A financing round of tens of millions of USD, with investors including Jiayu Capital, HKSTP (Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks), and Sirius Capital. JingShuo Technology centers on its data-model integrated platform WorldEngine and its self-developed world model GENESIS-Robotics, and already has 100+ customers and ecosystem partners, with orders in hand amounting to several billion yuan and annual revenue growth exceeding 100%. This

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The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, together with the Jiangsu Provincial Branch of Bank of Communications, has launched the "Manufacturing Token Loan," which uses enterprises' Token localization deployment, usage, and management system development level as the core evaluation basis for credit line increases. The product focuses on supporting manufacturing enterprises that have implemented the four major Token application scenarios—production-rigid, operation

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The "Nanjing Regulations on the Promotion of Artificial Intelligence Industry Development and Innovative Applications" was reviewed and passed at the 30th session of the Standing Committee of the 17th Nanjing Municipal People's Congress. Comprising seven chapters and 62 articles, it establishes the nation's first systematic support system for AI OPCs (one-person companies) and explicitly sets out a full-factor support system covering computing power, data, algorithms, funding, carriers, scenario

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Wan Bowen, a 31-year-old Chinese woman in Seattle, died after allegedly stopping her anti-epileptic drug lamotrigine on her own according to a day-by-day medication-reduction plan given by ChatGPT. Her parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, accusing OpenAI and Altman of practicing medicine without a license and providing dangerous medical advice. The report states that in January 2026 she asked ChatGPT to reduce her dosage from 400 milligrams to 300 milligrams pe

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Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new-generation world model that can generate interactive environments in real time and collaborates with Gemini 3.8 Flash through a division of labor: the latter observes the visuals, decomposes tasks, and adjusts plans. Leiphone.com analyzes its technical challenges from three aspects—dynamic language condition injection, Agent causal hallucination, and dual-model asynchronous collaboration—and notes that DeepMind has not yet disclosed the network archite

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Shunheng Intelligent's self-developed dexterous manipulation humanoid robot SynDexy C1 has completed its first small-batch delivery and will be used for precision assembly processes at customer factories in consumer electronics and electronic components. In prior testing, the success rate for key tasks exceeded 98%. The robot is equipped with self-developed visual-tactile sensors and the visual-tactile-force tri-state fusion manipulation model SynDexy M1, has 22 degrees of freedom across its bod

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According to Bloomberg, U.S. robotics AI company Physical Intelligence is in talks for a new funding round of at least $1 billion, with existing investors Avenir and Lux Capital considering leading the round, and a post-money valuation expected at about $20 billion. The company was founded in 2024 and was valued at $5.6 billion in its November funding round last year; it currently has no commercial revenue and has not mass-produced robot products. Its technical approach is to build on VLM by int

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LimX Dynamics has updated the second version of the technical report for its open-source engineering foundation FluxVLA Engine. Compared with the first version in September, it adds post-training experiments with online reinforcement learning and expands the coverage of simulation evaluation and real-robot deployment. The report shows that 14 policies were integrated into the same LIBERO closed-loop evaluation, and the inference frequency of 8 model-device combinations increased to 2.31–9.64 tim

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LimX Dynamics has updated the second version of the technical report for its open-source embodied engineering foundation FluxVLA Engine. Compared with the first version in September, it newly adds post-training experiments with online reinforcement learning and expands the coverage of simulation evaluations and real-robot deployment. The report shows that after online reinforcement learning, SmolVLA's success rates on the ten tasks of LIBERO-10 and RoboTwin Clean increased by 10.0 and 15.4 perce

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At CNCC 2026, Tianjin University's Zhang Changqing presented the report "Generalized Multimodal Fusion Technology," introducing the team's research on multimodal representation, dynamic trustworthy fusion, and the general-purpose prediction foundation model Fusion Anything Model (FAM). The TMC method uses evidence theory to estimate uncertainty, raising crystal structure recognition accuracy from about 58%–59% to around 93.9%. FAM was tested on 18 real-world datasets, 12 modalities, and 11 types

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Liu Rui, the first director of Huawei's Xiaoyi Large Model Application Lab, proposed that AI assistants must move beyond the chat box and shift from passive response to proactive service. The conversational photo-editing technology he previously failed to get approved as a project at SenseTime has already been unveiled at the 2025 Huawei Mate 80 launch event. The lab has also launched the Aura streaming video understanding model, which supports real-time video interaction and proactive service,

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Google DeepMind has released the world model Genie 4, which supports real-time text-based scene modification, native ambient sound, and interactive dialogue, with Gemini 3.8 Flash serving as the real-time director in the background. The author says it no longer pre-renders video, but instead simulates physical collisions in real time and dynamically loads scenes as the player acts. Currently, the limit for a single simulation is about two minutes; over time, details will drift, and it is only a

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Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group has entered the 8th IC Fengyun List in seven award categories with its CVC 2.0 model, managing 33 billion yuan in capital and completing 83 investment projects this year, including 33 specialized, refined, distinctive and innovative (SRDI) projects. In the semiconductor sector, three projects—Moore Threads, OnMicro, and MetaX—have filed for listing or completed an IPO, while Wang Guangxi and Song Chunyu have been shortlisted as candidates for Best Investor of t

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NeuroXess has completed a 700 million RMB Series B financing, jointly led by SDIC Jili, Shenzhen Capital Group, and Qinzhi Capital. The funds will be used for multicenter clinical trials and registration approval, mass-production construction, and next-generation product R&D for its "fully implanted, fully wireless, fully functional" brain-computer interface system. The system has completed 65 clinical trials, and in July this year entered the Class III medical device registrational clinical tri

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Google DeepMind has released Genie 4, a new-generation general-purpose world model. For the first time in the Genie series, it natively generates ambient sound and improvised character dialogue, doubles the duration of a single coherent world to about 2 minutes, and renders real-machine footage at about 24 frames per second. The model uses Gemini 3.8 Flash to perform multi-step reasoning and control in the background and Gemini 4 Argon to break down action instructions, forming a hybrid world mo

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The 2026 ROBOTECH Intelligent Robot Expo opened on October 27 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao'an), where companies including AGIBOT, Unitree Robotics, UBTECH, Leju Robotics and Deep Robotics showcased humanoid, quadruped, underwater and inspection robot products and scenario solutions. On the first day, four themed forums were held concurrently—technological innovation and supply chain collaboration, industrial intelligent manufacturing upgrading, commercial service dep

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Nomura Securities believes that market concerns about the outlook for AI investment are "overreactions," that the memory chip shortage will persist until 2028, and that memory sector valuations are severely undervalued. It estimates that global new data center capacity will grow about 41% next year, from 22.3 gigawatts to 31.5 gigawatts; the combined net cash flow of nine semiconductor companies will rise from $282 billion in the second quarter of this year to about $2 trillion by the end of 202

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