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.
7 h ago 5 8
LimX Dynamics: Shen Hua locks on PMF - "next stop, landing"
The co-founder LimX frames the new battle: leaving the motion control demo, entering industrial POC deployment. Luna, COSA brain, FluxVLA Engine. The next commercial filter is no longer the demo, it's the signed contract.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 9 10
Seoul: human hackers vs AI agents competition - offense meets offense
Competition, a real-world test of human/agent offensive parity - no surprise on the outcome, but the first truly calibrated signal.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 8 8
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China: CAC regulates "anthropomorphic" AI companion apps - interim measures, not outright ban [ENCADRE titre="What is an anthropomorphic AI?" contenu="An AI that mimics human characteristics, such as emotions, personality, and appearance."]
The regime targets apps that simulate a specific personality and maintain a consistent emotional relationship - new pillar of the social framework for consumer LLM in China.
Jul 20, 2026 at 16:42 9 9
MIT Tech Review: AI develops recruitment biases faster than humans
A study documents what HR managers feared without measuring it: algorithmic bias in recruitment is not inherited, it is produced.
Jul 20, 2026 at 16:42 9 10
AI bills faster than the cloud alerts: $14,000 in one day, $6,531 in 24 hours
Two recent incidents documented by InfoQ - an AWS key theft and an agent released without a ceiling - summarize the guardrail gap: the spending speed of an agent is that of a script, but the billing alert speed remains that of a human.
Jul 16, 2026 at 17:45 23 9
CERT-In mandates human oversight for high-value AI-driven payments in India
India moves to make a human step mandatory in AI-driven payment flows. The biggest UPI market gets first-mover on regulating agentic commerce.
Jul 16, 2026 at 13:50 27 8
Three seconds of voice are enough: AI voice fraud has surpassed public defense
An article synthesizes the state of voice cloning attacks: zero cost for the attacker, impossible detection for a human, and vectors multiplied. Technical defenses exist - they are not deployed.
Jul 15, 2026 at 19:28 28 6
Three loops in a trench coat: the real anatomy of an agent
An agent isn't magic. It's an inference loop, a tool loop, and a human in the way. The profession is shifting: you no longer write the prompt, you write the loop.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 8 8
Synthetic customers, real budgets: how one startup swapped focus groups for AI personas
A Singapore-based startup is replacing expensive focus-group panels with AI-generated personas that "respond" like segmented buyer archetypes. It's fast, it's cheap - and it's about to trigger a real methodology fight in market research.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 4 7