AI·Miyixi Shares stock has surged past 1,000 yuan amid hype in China's domestic GPU sector, but the company remains far from profitability with 15.49 billion yuan in accumulated losses.
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AI·Viral stories of AI-crafted mRNA vaccines saving pets or spotting cancers mirror the Theranos blood-testing fraud, with exaggerated claims by non-experts creating hype while AI merely integrates existing tools rather than innovating breakthroughs.
AI·Alibaba's Lingbo released six embodied AI models from July 7-10, 2026, introducing 'Embodied Native' — a new paradigm that trains foundation models from scratch on physical-world data, interactions, and causal physics rather than migrating internet LLMs, with LingBot-VA 2.0 as the flagship VLA model achieving real-time 150Hz inference and strong generalization.
AI·SpaceX filed FCC for 100,000 Gen 3 Starlink satellites with 10x bandwidth upgrades, explicitly linking the constellation to AI workloads, data centers, autonomous vehicles, and humanoid robots for global compute connectivity.
AI·Meta plans to mass-produce its own Iris AI chip by September, DeepSeek and Zhipu AI are developing custom inference chips, and OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, signaling a shift from NVIDIA GPU reliance to full-stack model + chip + cloud strategies.
AI·OpenAI's GPT-5.6 limited preview, reportedly requiring White House approval, was abruptly released without permission after 10 days, with the government clarifying no approval is needed and labeling the cooperation 'voluntary'.
AI·YouTube CEO Neil Mohan seeks to balance AI-generated content flood with human creativity safeguards, including labeling AI videos, while launching virtual avatar tools and noting 17.5% of shorts may be AI-generated.
AI·Cloudwise, marketed as Hong Kong's first AGI stock, saw a 41% single-day plunge on unlock day; frequent equity raises and project-based revenue reveal ongoing losses, long receivables, and lack of self-sustaining API/token model.
AI·36kr AI, a Chinese tech startup, is discussed for updates on AI chip developments, highlighting advancements in AI capabilities and recent changes in industry organization.
AI·Open-source models attract more traffic and earn most of the revenue, causing Anthropic's revenue to drop from dominance to a small fraction of the market.
AI·OpenAI integrates Codex capabilities into its new ChatGPT Work agent for general office tasks, rebrands models as Sol/Terra/Luna tiers, and makes GPT-5.6 the default for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
AI·A University of California San Diego team used two teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robots in preclinical trials to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomies on live pigs: one with a human surgeon as assistant, and one with two robots collaborating, marking the first use of general-purpose humanoids in live surgery.
AI·2025 saw multiple AI companionship app closures including Woebot (150M users, clinical tool shut down due to unsustainable economics) and Dot AI (vision divergence, funds exhausted), with global closures in at least five products and domestic in eight; survivors like Replika (post-data deletion), Character.AI (Google talent acquisition), and China's Xin Bing (ice) lost users amid regulatory scrutiny and high inference costs, revealing unsustainable business models lacking self-reinforcing revenue.
AI·AI is tested in real disaster simulations like fires, evacuations, and crowds to assess decision-making, collaboration, and survival ability rather than human-like appearance.
AI·Upstart PhD founder of Eaglewing Zhiwei completes third funding round in three months for a bio-inspired flapping-wing robot that learns to understand and drive fluid dynamics via self-developed simulation engine.
AI·OpenAI folds Codex into the new ChatGPT desktop app as Work mode, shifting focus to usage-based billing and water-meter-style pricing for AI agents, effectively 'killing' the old standalone Codex product.
AI·SK Hynix filed to list ADS on Nasdaq, raising $2.65 billion for Korean expansion while cutting the 'Korea discount' through improved disclosures and global investor access. The move aims to reprice its storage assets ahead of AI-driven demand.
AI·Nubia is set to launch the second-generation 'Doubao Phone' at WAIC 2026 as a mass-market flagship with improved AI agent OS, memory, and execution capabilities.
AI·1X Technologies released an update for NEO robot's 25-DOF hand with tendon-driven actuators, high-resolution tactile skin, and IP68 safety rating, enabling complex tasks like bulb tightening and grape picking.
AI·Reports of Meta selling excess AI compute and Anthropic signing massive data-center deals prove the notion of AI compute oversupply is a myth; actual deliverable frontier capacity remains scarce.
AI·Unitree G1 humanoid robot completed live cholecystectomy on two pigs using standard laparoscopic tools under remote doctor control, with the lead author being a 00-after PhD from UCSD; results published in Nature.
AI·Momenta listed on HKEX and soared over 6% on day one, securing global capital, while Mushroom Car Network's ToG Robobus model lags due to heavy hardware investment and cashflow pressure despite earlier physical AI claims.
AI·OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three tiers—Sol (flagship), Terra, and Luna—boosting benchmarks in Agent's Last Exam (56.3 score), math, coding, security, and research while slashing token costs and adding Max/Ultra reasoning modes.
AI·MaaS shifts Chinese cloud providers from CPU to Token/GPU metrics, with token consumption exploding 16x at Volcano Engine and 8x client growth at Alibaba Cloud, but overall public cloud growth slowed to 8-11%.
AI·Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie releases internal letter after 'GLM Moment' success, announcing focus on long-horizon tasks, autonomous agents, and self-evolving AI beyond coding and reasoning.
AI·Zig founder Andrew Kelley angrily criticized Jarred Sumner and Bun's 11-day rewrite of its 1 million lines of code from Zig to Rust using Claude Fable 5 and Claude Code; the move succeeded with 16.5K USD in API costs but left 27K lines of unsafe code and sparked debates on AI-generated code quality and community ethics.
AI·Power semiconductor manufacturers are rapidly expanding capacity amid high demand from EVs, AI data centers, and power grids, while low-end supply exceeds demand.
AI·Apple filed a federal lawsuit on July 10, 2026, accusing OpenAI of trade-secret theft by poaching Apple engineers and exploiting a post-departure access bug; the suit targets OpenAI's hardware ambitions and a possible AI-powered iPhone rival.
AI·Anthropic's J-space analysis of Claude reveals a small subset of internal representations forming a functional global workspace for flexible reasoning, but the paper explicitly states this has no bearing on AI consciousness and clarifies the core of AI alignment research.