Global First Rocket Net Recovery: China Achieves Multiple Major Breakthroughs in One Week
China marked several technological milestones in a single week, including a rocket recovery test and the activation of a 100,000-card AI supercluster.
China marked several technological milestones in a single week, including a rocket recovery test and the activation of a 100,000-card AI supercluster.
Nubia and ByteDance are preparing to launch their second-generation smartphone integrated with the Doubao AI agent at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference.
Meta has disabled a controversial Instagram feature that allowed users to generate AI images referencing public accounts following user backlash.
Meta has deactivated an Instagram tool that permitted the creation of AI-generated images based on public user profiles without explicit consent.
Amazon Web Services is reportedly investing one billion dollars to build a massive team of frontline deployment engineers to help enterprise clients implement AI agents directly.
Researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University have developed an electrically activated smart adhesive material that increases grip strength by 400 times, with potential applications in robotics and chip manufacturing.
OpenAI has responded to Apple's lawsuit regarding hardware trade secrets, stating that it has no interest in other companies' proprietary information and remains focused on developing its own technology.
Haier has launched its third-generation AI exoskeleton, the W3, which features real-time AI gait learning and is now available in physical stores for $2,200.
Sugon has introduced the Dawn 8000, China's first fully domestic 100,000-card AI supercluster that merges supercomputing and AI workloads.
Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's newly released GPT-5.6 model as the primary engine powering its Microsoft 365 Copilot suite.
Local opposition to AI data centers is growing as communities raise concerns over their impact on local power grids and resources.
Microsoft's carbon dioxide emissions rose by 25 percent due to rapid data center expansion and changes in how the company accounts for renewable energy credits.
Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer Seres projected a net loss for the first half of 2026 due to rising raw material costs and asset adjustments, despite growing sales of its Aito smart vehicles.
Driven by growing demand from AI and electric vehicles, Basic Semiconductor plans to raise prices on some of its products by up to 25% starting in the third quarter of 2026.
Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time executive role at OpenAI following an extended medical leave.
Financial analysts suggest that the recent correction in tech and AI stocks may be nearing its bottom, with long-term demand for AI computing remaining strong.
OpenAI's AGI chief Fidji Simo is transitioning to a part-time advisory role due to a neuroimmune condition.
The Next Platform highlights technical tools and strategies aimed at improving the resilience of development and IT operations.
Embodied AI startup Yingkan Zhiyi has raised tens of millions of yuan in its third funding round within three months to advance its bionic flapping-wing robots and fluid simulation engines.
Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.1, an AI coding tool designed to manage large agentic workloads, debug code, and assist with software migrations.
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium has raised a $100 million seed round backed by Nvidia to expand its operations to the Bay Area.
Embodied AI bionic flapping-wing robotics company Yingkan Zhiyi has secured tens of millions of yuan in a Series A funding round led by Oriza PUHUA.
China is reportedly easing its internal restrictions to allow selected domestic AI firms to purchase Nvidia's H200 graphics processing units.
Anthropic researchers have developed a tool called the Jacobian lens to gain deeper insights into how large language models process concepts internally.