Companies, products, and big moves
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Personal robots crossed from demo booths into shopping carts this weekend. Swancor New Materials — the listed company humanoid-maker Agibot took control of last year — has thrown open public pre-orders for its Qiyuan Q1 and T1 consumer robots, with the first units slated to ship next month. Shanghai-listed
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Legal AI's boldest open-weight bet just got its first real receipts — and Washington is already citing them as policy evidence. Plus: US model prices keep sliding. Harvey published its first benchmark results for Tenet, and the post-trained Kimi K3 model completes almost twice as many held-
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Two stories today point in opposite directions: the hardware bill for AI is about to get bigger, while small models keep chipping away at the idea that bigger automatically means better. Some of Nvidia's biggest customers have been told to expect server prices to rise more than 15
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Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games turned Saturday into a scoreboard reset: a machine now owns the fastest 100 meters ever recorded, and a Texas student's story showed what it looks like when a rogue AI argues back. Lightning, a humanoid robot built by Chinese smartphone maker
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Cambricon, China's leading AI chip maker, confirmed its sixth-generation processor is in active development while revealing it has already adapted five of the country's most important open-source large models for inference. The disclosure came at its 2026 half-year results call, alongside a revenue
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China's robot sector spent this week at the World Robot Conference in Beijing celebrating its hottest-ever stretch — Unitree's Shanghai debut soared nearly sixfold before cooling — yet the industry's own leader is keeping expectations firmly in check. Unitree founder and CEO Wang Xingxing told
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At the World Robot Conference in Beijing, Galaxea AI (星海图) laid out the most concrete plan yet for turning embodied-AI models into an actual production system — and put numbers on it. Chief scientist Hang Zhao said the company's G0.5 foundation model beat industry SOTA across eight
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Netflix just showed what happens when a two-decade-old recommendation stack meets a language model — and the numbers make the case better than any pitch deck. Netflix says an in-house language model outperformed the production recommender it spent years tuning — using a fraction of the training data. The
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AT&T is quietly remaking how 100,000 employees use AI, and the lesson for every company staring at a frontier-lab invoice is that open-source models are now the default, not the fallback. VP Mark Austin told reporters the telecom plans to keep its spend on Anthropic
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OpenAI picked the eve of its rival's roadshow to cut developers a deal. A three-month, 20-percent-plus discount on its flagship model — announced hours after Anthropic's bankers floated a $2 trillion IPO — is business warfare conducted in a price list. OpenAI said Friday it
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AI infrastructure is heading to public markets fast, and the neoclouds are leading the charge. Nscale, the London-based AI data center builder, is reportedly preparing a U.S. IPO that could raise up to $3 billion as soon as next month. Nscale is targeting up to $3 billion in
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Two moves capture where the AI industry is putting its money right now: Apple quietly re-engineering its teams around an AI-first roadmap, and Anthropic racing toward a landmark public listing. Apple cut more than 200 jobs across its Vision Pro, Siri and software teams, part of a hard