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.
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MiniMax H3 open-source: Chinese lab breaks the price of full-modal
MiniMax releases H3, an open-source full-modal (text, image, audio, video) model at one-third the price of competitors. The AI video market stops being binary: expensive closed-source or weak open-source.
Jul 31, 2026 at 12:50 12 14
Gemini Robotics ER 2: DeepMind bets on video-native, multi-robot orchestration
DeepMind's ER 2 update pushes embodied reasoning toward video understanding and fleet-level coordination - the embodied-foundation race gets its Google-branded milestone.
Jul 30, 2026 at 19:40 13 14
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3: a multimodal flow model that spills over into robotics
BFL claims a state-of-the-art shift against Seedance 2.0, Gemini Omni, and Grok Imagine - and in turn pushes a "video-action" derivative for robotics.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 9 8
Manila denounces a racist China state-media AI video: generative video turns into diplomatic ammunition
The Philippines publicly denounce a Chinese state media AI-generated video as racist. Generative video moves from marketing to diplomacy.
Jul 19, 2026 at 00:37 8 8
Kimi K3 goes live: Moonshot ships the model after the preview flood
After the wave of teasers and benchmark videos, Moonshot AI has put Kimi K3 into production on kimi.com and via its code API. The question is no longer "when," but "at what price, at what latency, and for what real use."
Jul 16, 2026 at 21:46 29 8
LimX Dynamics unveils a Figure-grade humanoid demo: China's embodied field gains another player
The China humanoid pack is now shipping demos at Silicon Valley pace. The signal isn't a video - it's the cadence.
Jul 16, 2026 at 13:50 6 11
Fujitsu and NEC signal a strong AI order book for H2 2026 – the Japanese stack cashes in
Two of Japan's biggest system integrators confirmed AI demand traction on their earnings. ITmedia reads it as the vindication of the Nvidia-centric stack.
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Jeff Dean on what AI teams get wrong: the diagnostic from the shop that pays every bill
The Google chief scientist joins the anti-hype consensus. Content isn't new - the source is. When the man who runs TPU + Gemini + Vertex says it, boards listen.
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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.
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Conventional DRAM and NAND hit record highs in July: the memory squeeze widens
Korean industry data show conventional (non-HBM) memory prices at all-time highs in July—the AI supercycle now spills into the general-purpose stack.
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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.
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