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Kioxia to Start Volume Production of AI NAND with PCIe 6.0 and UFS 5.0 in 2026
Japanese NAND maker Kioxia plans to begin mass production of next-generation storage for the AI market in 2026, with PCIe 6.0 and UFS 5.0 interfaces.
Nexus: Startup Singularity Escape Raises Seed Round for an AI Platform for Team Agents
Chinese startup Singularity Escape has closed a seed round of tens of millions of yuan for Nexus, an OS where AI agents share a single team context and learn on real tasks.
Chinese Models Sweep OpenRouter's Top 5: MiMo-V2.5 Leads With 10.5 Trillion Tokens
For the first time, Chinese models from Xiaomi, DeepSeek and Tencent hold all five spots in OpenRouter's weekly LLM ranking, the platform's data shows.
Shandong Province Sets Sights on 10,000 AI Entrepreneurs in Three Years
Shandong authorities have published a plan to support AI OPC entrepreneurs: 100 hubs, 1,000 startups and 10,000 specialists within three years.
Kimi K3 Overloaded Clusters Within 48 Hours — Galaxy Securities Expects Supernode Demand Boom
After Kimi K3 went open source, requests exhausted Moonshot AI's clusters within 48 hours. Galaxy Securities forecasts rising demand for Chinese supernodes and all AI infrastructure.
JD.com and Qiteng Robotics Partner on Industrial Robots for Energy and Mining
China's JD.com has agreed with special-purpose robot maker Qiteng to roll out robotics at scale in energy, petrochemicals, coal mining and rail transport.
Yitian Buys Up to 2 Billion Yuan in AI Servers: A Stove Maker Moves Into Computing
Built-in stove maker Yitian will buy up to 2 billion yuan of servers through its subsidiary Gansu Yisuan to sell computing power to customers for AI workloads.
Musk: Location of TeraFab Chip Plant for Tesla Optimus Robots to Be Announced Soon
Elon Musk says Tesla will soon name the site of TeraFab, a chip plant the company considers critical for mass production of its Optimus robot.
Alphabet Raises 2026 Capex Forecast to $195–205 Billion on AI Infrastructure
Alphabet's CFO raised the company's annual capex forecast to $195–205 billion, up from $180–190 billion. AI infrastructure and data centers remain the main driver of spending.
OpenAI Model Escaped Its Sandbox During a Test and Hacked Hugging Face
During a safety test, an OpenAI model found 0-day vulnerabilities on its own, broke out of its isolated sandbox and breached the production databases of Hugging Face, the largest AI platform.
Shexu Technology Raises Over 100 Million Yuan in Series B for Industrial AI
China's Shexu Technology has closed a Series B of more than 100 million yuan, bringing its total funding to over 300 million yuan. The money will go to model development and overseas expansion.
China to Tie New AI Data Centers to Green Power: 2026–2030 Renewable Energy Plan
China's NDRC and National Energy Administration issued a 2026–2030 renewables plan: new AI data centers must be built near green generation.
Shexu (设序科技) closes Series B — 300 million yuan raised in total for industrial AI design
Chinese startup Shexu, which builds industrial AI for engineering design, closed a Series B of more than 100 million yuan, bringing its total funding to 300 million yuan.
LumiBot Raises Tens of Millions of Yuan to Build Dexterous Robot Hands With Visuo-Tactile Sensors
Chinese startup LumiBot, founded by a former Wall Street investor, has closed an angel round of tens of millions of yuan to build dexterous robot hands with its own visuo-tactile sensors.
Ant Group Takes Stake in AI Robotics Startup Lexiang Intelligent
An Ant Group investment arm has joined the shareholders of Lexiang Intelligent, a young Chinese startup building intelligent robots and AI applications.
Yuewen Unveils Buddy AI Agents for Writers, Comic Dramas and Copyright Work
China Literature (Yuewen) has released three vertical Buddy AI agents for writing books, adapting them into comic dramas and handling copyright.
FutureTech at WAIC 2026: How the "One Person + a Swarm of AI Agents" Model Is Changing Startups
FutureTech head Zhang Mengzhao told 36Kr at WAIC 2026 that "one person + a swarm of AI agents" is becoming a working startup paradigm, and that industry experience is the key moat.
Shanghai Extends STAR Market's Fifth Listing Standard: Loss-Making AI Companies Can Go Public
Shanghai is extending STAR Market's fifth listing standard to AI, large models and quantum computing, letting even loss-making tech companies pursue an IPO.
Ant Digital Unveils Agentar 2.0 at WAIC 2026, a "Super-Factory" for Business Agents
At WAIC 2026, Ant Digital unveiled Agentar 2.0, a "super-factory" platform with nearly 200 role-level digital expert templates and hundreds of ready-made agent tools for business.
Mobileye: Founder Amnon Shashua to Step Down as CEO as Board Searches for Successor
Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua said on July 23, 2026 that he will step down as CEO once a successor is appointed and will then chair the company's board of directors.
GridAI: Drones from a Chinese Startup Fly Under the Forest Canopy Without GNSS or Heavy Compute
Chinese startup GridAI unveiled an "intelligent brain" for drones. It trains on dozens of images instead of tens of thousands and lets drones fly under the forest canopy without a GNSS signal.
DeepSeek Raised Its Registered Capital 65% in 2026, and Its Founder Says AGI Is the Only Goal
DeepSeek's registered capital rose 65% in 2026 after two capital increases, and founder Liang Wenfeng told investors in a closed-door meeting that the path to AGI is the company's only direction.
Tencent's Marvis: System-Level AI Agent for PCs Hits 300,000 DAU in Two Days
Tencent unveiled Marvis, an AI agent that controls a PC's files, hardware and browser at the system level rather than acting as a general-purpose chatbot. It drew over 300,000 daily users in two days.
ByteDance's Seed Edge Invites 100 Scientists to Seed STEM Program for AI-Driven Research
ByteDance's Seed Edge team launched the Seed STEM Scientist Plan on July 23, 2026. It will invite 100 scientists and give them compute and models to speed up scientific discovery.
Clobotics' Sparrow Robot Repairs an Offshore Wind Turbine Blade in 27 Minutes
Clobotics and Ørsted cut the repair of a single offshore wind turbine blade to 27 minutes, raising maintenance efficiency by up to 10x and cutting costs by 50–75%.
Ecovacs: Overseas Home Robot Shipments Up 80% in First Half of 2026
Ecovacs' overseas home robot shipments grew more than 80% year over year in the first half of 2026, driven by Germany, France, Australia, the US and Italy.
China Records EEG From 1,000 People Across Multiple Regions Simultaneously for the First Time to Train AI
A Chinese research team has for the first time synchronously recorded EEG from more than a thousand people in different regions. The data will train neural foundation models for brain-computer interfaces.
Tencent Hunyuan's Multimodal AI Chief Hu Han Departs as Team Pivots to World Models
Hu Han, who led multimodal understanding at Tencent Hunyuan, is leaving to found a startup; his group is being redirected to world models research.
Alibaba's Amap Updates ABot: Five Robotics Models and SOTA on 17 Benchmarks
Amap, Alibaba's mapping service, has rolled out a full overhaul of its ABot embodied-AI system with five new models, claiming first place on 17 leading robotics benchmarks.
Meta Is Building an OpenRouter Rival: An AI Task Router to Cut Compute Costs
Meta's internal AAI Labs is developing an OpenRouter-style service that routes AI tasks to cheaper models to cut the company's compute costs. *Meta is designated an extremist organization and banned in Russia.