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A team at the Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) has proposed a world model, PhiZero, that separates the task of understanding physical dynamics from the task of painting frames. The paper, titled "PhiZero: A World Model Built Around Physical Language," was published on arXiv and has begun circulating through the embodied-AI comm...

China added a new category of satellite to its orbital fleet in late July. Chenguang-1 lifted off from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation test zone carrying an eight-card compute server designed to run AI inference on orbit. The mission is the country's latest proof point for space-based compute, a category that turns satellites from dumb cameras into autono...

Alibaba's Qwen App released a major update on August 7, bundling office assistant, scheduled task and flagship Qwen3.8-MAX model access into a single version of the consumer AI app. For the first time, the release carries an explicit pricing signal: core features stay free, but the new office assistant will run on a quota that requires payment once exhausted.

China's state broadcaster rolled out a sweep of late-summer 2026 technological milestones, each of which removes an industrial ceiling the country has been pressing against for years. The package spans heavy industry, astronomy, semiconductors, displays, energy and space.

The faster pace is also a defensive move. Several of the categories where China has now...

For the first half of the AI infrastructure era, the assumption was simple: bigger chips win. The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai marked the moment that assumption officially died. The dominant motif is no longer single-board teraflops but supernodes, rack-scale systems that link hundreds to thousands of accelerators into one shared-memor...