CATL bets on RoboParty: China's battery giant enters the humanoid race sideways
The world's largest battery maker takes a stake in a HIT-founded open-source humanoid startup. Not a VC move - an integration play.
4 h ago 5 8
Deutsche Telekom's LMOS: what enterprise AI teams actually want from a platform
Arun Joseph at InfoQ describes a real, in-production agentic compute layer: ephemeral agents, an ADL, and a central capabilities catalog.
4 h ago 5 5
InAgent achieves 90.2% on OSWorld: the computer-use agent gap narrows for the Chinese stack
A Chinese CUA becomes the first to surpass 90% on OSWorld. The gap with US frontier labs is now a harness gap, not a model gap.
4 h ago 5 6
Laguna 118B runs on a DGX Spark, Inkling goes multimodal, K3 secures its commercial license: benchmarks and clauses recap #23
Three architectures to dissect side-by-side: Poolside's MoE 118B / 8B active on a single machine; Inkling's multimodal 975B / 41B, also released as 276B / 12B; and Kimi K3's 2.8T / 104B context with 1M tokens, whose commercial agreement clause could exclude US companies.
17 h ago 10 10
Rust All-Hands 2026: 166 Rustaceans, 73 sessions, zero decisions—that’s the goal
Rust All-Hands 2026 (Utrecht, May) brought together 166 contributors across 73 sessions over 3 days. No formal decisions were made—this is the rule. However, several technical breakthroughs emerged: `rustc_public`, `cargo-semver-checks`, union semantics, and the allocator trait.
17 h ago 7 9
Cloudflare launches its "Agents Week" – the edge positions itself as an agent runtime
A week of announcements dedicated to agents. No product in the opening post, but a clear stance: the CDN aims to become the runtime layer for agents in production.
17 h ago 10 9
"Cancelling Cursor": Quality debt takes precedence over feature velocity
Alex Yumashev (Jitbit) explains why he unsubscribed from Cursor: VSCode base 7-8 months behind, 7 bugs reported in a year and never fixed, Agent mode forced with every update, ghost support. An individual signal that perfectly illustrates the editor-orchestrator divide.
17 h ago 11 10
August 2, 2026: The AI Act GPAI becomes enforceable – day one of a still under-equipped regime
Since today, transparency in training, disclosure of protected sourcing, and systemic risk management are no longer recommendations but legal obligations for general-purpose AI models. The question remains whether the AI Office, barely established, will be able to translate this mandate into case law—under the explicit threat of an American response.
17 h ago 9 12
MediaTek commits $5B: the Taiwanese fabless giant enters the AI capex league
The board approves a significant AI-focused budget—first custom AI chip expected in Q4 2026, a second in 2028.
yesterday 12 13
Seedance 2.5: ByteDance extends generative video to 30 seconds in a single shot
The Seed team pushes single-shot generation to 30 seconds, with multi-modal references (30 images + 10 videos + 10 audios) and timestamp editing.
yesterday 8 11
ByteDance internal re-org: Feishu team absorbed by Doubao, enterprise sales moved to Volcano Engine
This is an internal ByteDance restructuring, not a startup transaction: the Lark/Feishu productivity team is being folded into the Doubao AI product org, while Volcano Engine takes over B2B distribution.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 15 17
Montage starts CXL 3.2 chip production - China gets a second memory-fabric supplier
Shanghai's Montage begins production of CXL 3.2 controllers - the memory-pooling fabric that reshapes AI-server economics gets a second Chinese supplier.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 14 18