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Honor has launched its Robot Phone, a smartphone equipped with a four-degree-of-freedom titanium gimbal and a system-level AI agent architecture. The ...

Alibaba Cloud has launched Qwen AI Arena, a challenge and evaluation platform for AI agents. The platform creates tasks based on real business scenarios ...

Tencent said its Hy3 model’s weekly usage increased by more than 68 times compared with its predecessor after the model moved from preview to its formal ...

Zhipu’s MaaS open platform is reported to have nearly 7 million registered API users, about 2 million more than in early July ...

Code found in iOS 27 beta 5 points to Apple preparing a mainland China-specific version of Apple Intelligence, but does not ...

Chinese manufacturers accounted for more than 97% of global humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026, with total ...

ByteDance has reportedly formed a new top-level department focused on AI data and safety, placing it alongside Seed, Flow and Douyin within the company’s ...

Alibaba’s Qwen app has introduced paid tiers for its office assistant. The app’s in-product pricing page lists a flagship plan at RMB128 per month or ...

DeepSeek is recruiting for an IDC data-center team in Beijing, Hangzhou and Ulanqab, with roles covering data-center planning, construction, testing and ...

In 2026, Unitree Robotics once again put itself at the center of the robotics industry’s conversation. Last month, Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing ...

Unitree Robotics has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, with 40.45 million shares to be issued. The final strategic-placement list allocated 933,900 shares worth about RMB141 ...