Unitree Robot Withdraws from Mount Tai Climbing Race Due to Overheating, Carried Down on a Stretcher

Headline highlights

1. Trending twice within 7 months! Logitech ad again accused of "insulting users like dogs," customer service responds

2. Unitree robot withdraws from Mount Tai climbing competition due to overheating, carried down the mountain on a stretcher

3. Structural differences between China and US versions of iPhone Duo? Apple: There may be individual differences in parts production

4. Baidu Netdisk bypassing Apple's shake restriction? Source: Not a deliberate bypass; an adapted version will be released

8. OpenAI about to release a new model? GPT-6.2 Astra exposed on Toutiao

Trending twice within 7 months! Logitech ad again accused of "insulting users like dogs," customer service responds

November 2 news: In March this year, when the Logitech official flagship store was promoting the GPW3 mouse, it published controversial promotional copy saying "When I cut the price, don't you come running over like a dog," which sparked widespread dissatisfaction among gamers. The company later apologized, and the operating company was also fined 200,000 yuan by market regulators.

However, some netizens noticed that the "Logitech G Audio-Visual Flagship Store Official Account" recently featured controversial "dog" marketing again in a promotional video for the GPW4 Vermilion Bird mouse, and the topic "Logitech is picking a fight with users" trended on Weibo.

The video that sparked controversy this time uses a two-part meme comparison: the GPW4 Vermilion Bird is labeled "100 off instantly," paired with a puppy waving its paw with the caption "Not interested, thanks"; then labeled "60% off after coupon, get it for just over 300," paired with a puppy giving a thumbs-up and the caption "You really know people!" Some netizens questioned whether the content was "slyly mocking consumers for coming forward as soon as they see a price cut." In response, Logitech customer service told the media, "We are very sorry for the bad experience we have brought you, and we have launched an investigation. Thank you for your supervision and understanding. Logitech China always respects every player."

Another baffling issue is that the puppy IP image used by Logitech in the ad was not authorized. The company that holds the copyright told the media that its legal department is handling the matter and is preparing to defend its rights in accordance with the law. (IT Home, Sina Finance) Domestic News

Unitree robot withdraws from Mount Tai climbing competition due to overheating, carried down the mountain on a stretcher

On November 2, the first CMG World Robot Mount Tai Climbing Competition kicked off in Tai'an, Shandong. At the referee's signal, the robots set off one after another at intervals of more than a minute.

The star product, the Unitree robot, appeared as the entry selected by Yongda Zhicheng. According to the operator, the robot is a development version of the Unitree G1, the same model as the one featured in the Spring Festival Gala. However, the Unitree robot did not finish the race. Midway through the competition, the robot encountered a problem due to overheating, and for safety reasons the operator chose to withdraw; staff placed the robot on a stretcher and carried it down the mountain.

At the scene, the first robot to finish wobbled and staggered on the final upward flight of steps, even "taking one step forward and three steps back," while another robot successfully finished after being led by its operator with a rope around its neck.

It is understood that the robot Mount Tai climbing competition course is 3.9 kilometers long with more than 3,100 steps in total. The event includes four official competition categories: humanoid robot racing, legged robot racing, legged robot load-bearing, and exoskeleton robot assistance, as well as one all-terrain mobile pathfinding challenge. (Jimu News)

Structural differences between China and US versions of iPhone Duo? Apple: There may be individual differences in parts production

November 2 news: Recently, a teardown comparison video of the iPhone Duo posted by a digital blogger sparked much discussion in the tech community. The video visually showed differences in the internal structure of the China and US versions of the product, leading many netizens to question whether the China version of the iPhone had reduced hardware specifications.

In the video, beneath the motherboard shield, the US model is equipped with satellite communication-related components, while the corresponding position in the China model contains only a placeholder plastic piece. At the same time, 6GHz Wi-Fi-related radio frequency hardware and the 25W wireless charging circuit are also missing. Outsiders roughly estimate the hardware price difference at 800-1,000 yuan.

In response to these questions, the media sought verification from a relevant Apple technical source, who said that the accuracy of the third-party claim could not currently be verified; the iPhone Duo may indeed have individual differences in components and production processes, but no specific details of parts differences could be provided at present. (Lanjing Technology)

Baidu Netdisk bypassing Apple's shake restriction? Source: Not a deliberate bypass; an adapted version will be released

November 2 news: Recently, the official version of Apple's iOS 27.2 launched the "Limit Motion Data" feature, aimed at blocking apps from triggering ad redirects through phone shaking. Some users reported that after adding Baidu Netdisk to the restriction list, its "shake" splash-screen ad could still redirect, sparking questions that "Baidu Netdisk is deliberately bypassing the system restriction."

In response, a source familiar with the matter told the media that it was not that the Baidu Netdisk business deliberately bypassed the feature, but rather that Apple App Store review is relatively strict and the new version of Baidu Netdisk had not yet passed review; the new version has completed feature adaptation, and "users are expected to be able to update to the new version within the next couple of days, and it may even go live today." It is understood that the adapted version can be properly blocked by iOS's "Limit Motion Data" feature. (Sina Technology)

Yao Shunyu's RSI startup, co-founder team made public for the first time

November 2 news: According to media reports, the RSI startup that Yao Shunyu is advancing (company name/funding and other information are not yet convenient to disclose) has basically taken shape its co-founder lineup. One co-founder is a senior employee from Google DeepMind, and the team is still attracting research and engineering talent from top AI labs such as Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

The team hopes to develop customized models for enterprises, productizing the AI working methods already validated at Google, so that the system enters enterprises' real workflows, reads data, calls tools, executes tasks, and continuously improves based on real work results. Simply put, the company turns AI from a tool that requires constant instructions into a system that can learn over the long term within an enterprise and continuously improve work results. (Top Chinese Science and Technology Innovation Society)

Pang Tianyu, head of multimodal reinforcement learning at Tencent Hunyuan, has left

Beijing time, November 2: According to people familiar with the matter, Pang Tianyu, head of multimodal reinforcement learning (R/L) at Tencent Hunyuan, has left. For now, he may choose to start a business; other reports say he has joined another major tech company.

On January 30 this year, Pang Tianyu announced on Xiaohongshu that he had joined Tencent as a Hunyuan Principal Scientist and also served as Tech Lead of Multimodal RL. Pang Tianyu's main research direction is reinforcement learning for multimodal models, including generative models (e.g., diffusion models) and understanding models (e.g., VLMs).

According to public information, Pang Tianyu was born in 1995 and was recommended for admission to Tsinghua University in his first year of high school. He graduated from the Tsinghua University Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2017 and received his PhD from the Tsinghua University Department of Computer Science and Technology in 2022, under the supervision of Professor Zhu Jun. He has published more than 70 papers in top conferences and journals such as ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR, with total citations exceeding 15,000. After graduating from Tsinghua, Pang Tianyu served as a senior research scientist at Sea AI Lab in Singapore. (Shen Ma's Moments)

Chinese Online lays off at least 25%: overseas live-action production is the hardest-hit area

November 2 news: Recently, related news circulated on social platforms: "Chinese Online is carrying out major layoffs." The media contacted an insider at Chinese Online, who confirmed the matter: "At least 25%."

Regarding the specific departments being laid off, the person said: "The overseas short-drama production live-action team has the most layoffs; other departments also include overseas advertising, the materials team, domestic live-action short-drama production, and the offline film and television business unit."

According to previous reports, Chinese Online's third-quarter report disclosed a few days ago showed: during the reporting period, Chinese Online's single-quarter revenue was 255 million yuan, down 43.95% year on year; its loss was 89.2804 million yuan, up 69.58% year on year; the company's revenue for the first three quarters was 833 million yuan, down 17.64% year on year; and its net profit after deducting non-recurring gains and losses showed a loss of 137 million yuan, up 73.64% year on year. (Xinwan'er)

Xingyu, the automotive lighting company that mass-dismissed fresh graduates, saw third-quarter net profit fall nearly 40%

November 2: Automotive lighting listed company Xingyu released its third-quarter report for 2026. The report shows that in the third quarter the company achieved operating revenue of 3.61 billion yuan, down 8.67% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders was 262 million yuan, down 39.62% year on year.

Regarding the decline in performance, Xingyu explained that it was mainly due to a decline in the company's business revenue, a significant year-on-year increase in the prices of some raw materials that led to higher costs, and an increase in R&D expenses.

Previously, the company attracted public attention due to an incident in which it mass-dismissed fresh graduates. In August, Xingyu was reported to have recruited 440 fresh graduates and then terminated labor contracts with 107 of them, with the negotiation process described as "simple and blunt." The Changzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau subsequently reported that the company had suspended its human resources director and denied any violation in receiving government subsidies. On August 27, Xingyu issued a letter of apology and implemented measures for the affected students, including three months of job-seeking and living subsidies, free accommodation, and an additional six months of salary compensation for those not yet employed. (Phoenix Technology)

Phantom Blade Zero sells over 4 million copies in three days, revenue already exceeds 1 billion yuan

November 2: Domestic AAA game Phantom Blade Zero officially announced that sales exceeded 4 million within 72 hours. The official statement said that issues reported by users have been recorded one by one and optimization adjustments have begun, and a batch of obvious bugs will be fixed first in the near future. Regarding this figure, one game investor predicted, "It's no problem for the game to reach 10 million copies in sales."

Using the lowest price of 268 yuan for Phantom Blade Zero, the media calculated that the game's revenue has already exceeded at least 1 billion yuan. Currently, the PC digital standard edition of Phantom Blade Zero is priced at 268 yuan, the deluxe edition at 328 yuan, and the physical collector's edition gift box for collector players is priced at 1,199 yuan. A game industry analyst told the media that even after deducting platform fees and marketing expenses, Phantom Blade Zero should have recouped its costs within 72 hours. Previously, Liang Qiwei, founder of the game's developer S-Game, revealed that the total R&D cost of the game was between 300 million and 400 million yuan.

As of November 2, the peak concurrent player count of Phantom Blade Zero on Steam had exceeded 830,000. In addition, Phantom Blade Zero has received more than 40,000 player reviews on Steam, with an approval rating of about 90%, up from its initial score. Among the earliest players to enter the game, some believe it is more fun than Black Myth: Wukong and has a lower barrier to entry, while others criticized its hit feel, writing and narrative, and game pacing. (Yicai)

Fourier responds to report of cooperating with Meta to develop humanoid robots: not convenient to reply for now

November 2 news: Regarding reports that Meta is cooperating with Shanghai robotics company Fourier to develop a humanoid robot prototype, Fourier founder and CEO Gu Jie responded that it is not convenient to reply for now.

According to a recent report by foreign media, Meta and Fourier have developed a humanoid robot prototype with the internal codename "Max," and in September began developing a second-generation prototype, Max 2. The report cited a Meta spokesperson as saying that the cooperation with Fourier is mainly for internal research and experimentation, and that there are currently no plans to sell these prototypes.

It is understood that this humanoid robot prototype, called Max, weighs about 48 kilograms. People familiar with the matter revealed that Max needs to be able to recognize sounds from 5 meters away, recognize gestures and waving from 3 meters away, maintain eye contact, and express states such as listening, thinking, speaking, and uncertainty through different status signals. Previously, Li-Chen Miller, Meta's vice president of robotics products, also stayed at Fourier's factory in Shanghai for nearly two months. (Sina Tech)

Li Auto executive denies rumor of tens of thousands of 0-kilometer used cars in a Changzhou parking lot: they are actually vehicles withdrawn from exhibitions and test-drive cars

November 2 news: Recently, a video showing multiple Li Auto vehicles parked in a parking lot circulated online. Some netizens sarcastically remarked in bullet comments and comments that these cars were "0-kilometer used cars" and "cars used to collect subsidy payments and get registered," and there were also claims that there were tens of thousands of vehicles in the parking lot.

In response, Zhou Ruoyu, product operations head of Li Auto's second product line, said that the video was filmed at Li Auto's parking lot at the Gehu depot in Changzhou. The vehicles parked on the periphery are test-drive cars and display cars after being withdrawn from exhibitions in various regions, so there are models from all over the country that have already been registered.

In addition, this Li Auto executive also said that there are roughly several hundred vehicles parked in the lot, and they are currently being processed gradually according to the used-car disposal process. There are also some new inventory cars parked in the middle area. The total size of the warehouse is 3,900 parking spaces, far below the scale of "tens of thousands of vehicles," and he asked everyone to "consume the gossip rationally." (IT Home)

Tencent Hunyuan releases Hyra 2.0: building reusable tools for model R&D

November 2 news: Tencent Hunyuan released the AI scientific research system Hyra 2.0, shifting its R&D focus from directly using AI to tackle scientific problems to having general Agents participate in the R&D and upgrading of scientific models, research workflows, and software tools, so that the results of one R&D effort can be repeatedly used in subsequent research, promoting a shift in the scientific research paradigm from "solving problem sets" to "building tools."

Previously, Hyra 1.0 drove open-source models to solve an open problem in additive combinatorics that had been unresolved for more than fifty years, validating the feasibility of the path of "giving AI difficult problems with clear evaluation criteria and trying repeatedly." On this basis, Hyra 2.0 further proposes that the benefits brought by tool upgrades can be repeatedly reused by downstream tasks, thereby forming an intelligence compound interest.

In terms of architecture, Hyra 2.0 divides research work into three layers: Overall, Mission, and Worker. Overall is responsible for communicating with human researchers and aligning goals; Mission is responsible for a single research problem over the long term and judges route trade-offs; Worker independently reads code, conducts experiments, analyzes the causes of failures, and can question Mission's judgments. The system also designs three separate storage mechanisms: project status, Agent hierarchical memory, and a shared knowledge base called Books. During project reviews, transferable methods can be organized into skills for direct use by subsequent tasks. (IT Home)

Xiaomi spends 1.7 billion yuan to become the third-largest shareholder of Sunwoda Power

November 2 news: Recently, Sunwoda Electronic Co., Ltd. issued an announcement: in the C++ round of financing of its subsidiary Sunwoda Power Technology Co., Ltd. (Sunwoda Power), Xiaomi invested 1.7 billion yuan in cash through a wholly owned subsidiary to subscribe for a 5.34% stake, becoming the third-largest shareholder. The second-largest shareholder is Li Auto. In September this year, Li Auto invested 2.65 billion yuan to subscribe for 8.79%; after Xiaomi's investment in this round, Li Auto's stake was diluted to 8.32%, and together with affiliated companies it exceeds 10%. Sunwoda no longer has absolute control over Sunwoda Power. (Global TMT)

NetEase Games operations head leaves; formerly served as World of Warcraft operations director

November 2 news: According to media reports, Zhang Fengyi, vice president of NetEase Interactive Entertainment Group and head of the operations center, recently stepped down and left due to personal work and life planning, and October 30 was his last day at NetEase. Zhang Fengyi himself also posted on WeChat Moments: "The long road lies ahead, passion will not disperse, see you later!"

It is understood that Zhang Fengyi worked at NetEase for more than 20 years. He joined NetEase through campus recruitment in 2004 and has successively served as head of multiple core projects and business lines, having experienced almost the entire course of NetEase Games' development stages over the past more than 20 years. In the early stage of his career, Zhang Fengyi mainly focused on the game product business. As early as 2008, Zhang Fengyi began serving as the head of World of Warcraft in China, and together with the China team at that time, took a solid step for the long-term cooperation between NetEase and Blizzard.

After 2011, Zhang Fengyi shifted to the field of game ecosystem and platform construction, and was responsible for multiple innovative businesses such as CC Voice, CC Live, NetEase Dashen, and NetEase Esports NeXT. It can be said that Zhang Fengyi also participated in and witnessed NetEase's more than 20 years of development, the complete journey from product R&D and agency to platformization and ecosystemization. (Jinghe) International News

OpenAI about to release a new model? GPT-6.2 Astra exposed

Beijing time November 2, multiple users posted on X that OpenAI seems to have begun testing the GPT-6.2 Astra model.

Currently, the latest model publicly released by OpenAI is GPT-6.1 Terra, and GPT-6.1 Astra has not yet been launched. X user Token Gremlin, who tracks the latest developments in AI models, posted that OpenAI is quietly conducting A/B testing on a new version called GPT-6.2 Astra, and that this model has already appeared in Codex usage statistics.

At present, the model selector still shows GPT-6 Astra, but in the usage details of some user accounts, "gpt-6.2-astra" has already appeared separately, with about 19.8% of requests allocated to that model. Multiple users have observed the same situation, so this is not a simple display glitch. This may be a gray-scale test, meaning that a new generation of Astra is coming soon.

Token Gremlin said that compared with GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.2 Astra may have a major performance improvement, with performance in multiple aspects even surpassing Opus 5.5. Token Gremlin subsequently followed up, saying that GPT-6.2 Astra may be released very soon, and that he had verified with several Chinese friends, whose interfaces also showed this model. (Phoenix Technology)

Anthropic plans to sell up to $3.5 billion in shares in Japan

On November 2, according to foreign media reports, a regulatory filing disclosed on Monday showed that Anthropic plans to issue shares to Japanese investors alongside its U.S. listing, with the issuance amount reaching up to 552.9 billion yen, about $3.5 billion.

The filing clearly stated that the funds raised from the new shares issued to Japanese investors will mainly be used to supplement working capital and pay for the company's daily operating expenses and massive capital expenditures. The filing did not disclose the overall issuance size or valuation of Anthropic's IPO. Reuters previously reported that some investors discussed a company valuation of about $1.5 trillion.

In June this year, SpaceX raised $75 billion in its IPO, setting the record for the world's largest IPO. Among that, Japanese investors subscribed to about $2.2 billion worth of shares. This time, the maximum amount Anthropic plans to offer in the Japanese market alone has reached $3.5 billion. (Bianniushi)

Samsung display plant notifies that next year's OLED panel prices will be significantly raised, not due to cost issues but to control prices

November 2 news, it is understood that rumors in the industry say that Samsung's display plant has notified all partners that the supply price of OLED panels next year will be significantly raised. The tip-off also mentioned that the reason for the increase is not a cost issue, but that Samsung believes the current OLED market price is chaotic and hopes to regain control of OLED market pricing by raising supply prices. (Sina Finance)

Apple CEO says it will not make products just for the sake of AI

November 2 news, Apple CEO John Ternus recently said in an interview, defending Apple's current layout in the field of artificial intelligence.

Over the past few years, the outside world has often believed that Apple is lagging behind in the AI race, especially since Apple delayed the launch of a stronger version of Siri, which only officially launched this summer. Ternus insisted: "I am very satisfied with where we are now."

Ternus added that Apple will certainly use artificial intelligence in new products, but he said: "We don't want to launch AI just for the sake of doing AI. If we do it well, users will not think about whether this feature is implemented by AI or by traditional software. The key is whether we create products that users truly love." (Global TMT)

Lu Weibing: Xiaomi 18 Pro series phones will land in overseas markets in November

November 2 news, Xiaomi Brand General Manager Lu Weibing announced that the Xiaomi 18 Pro series phones will land in overseas markets in November. Previously, Lu Weibing posted that foreign media and users have strongly voiced their anticipation for the Xiaomi 18 Pro series and look forward to an early launch, and that the new series will land in the international market within this year.

The Xiaomi 18 Pro series phones were officially released on the evening of September 23, equipped with the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite series mobile platform, a rear Leica 200-megapixel large-sensor main camera + 200-megapixel large-sensor telephoto camera, and an AI variable rear screen, starting at 5,999 yuan.

It is understood that an Italian retailer previously disclosed in advance the global version pricing of the Xiaomi 18 Pro series phones, with a starting price of 1,549 euros (about 11,511 yuan). (Bianniushi)