OpenAI released a 175-page manuscript claiming the four-dimensional Hausdorff-dimension Kakeya conjecture, alongside a stronger three-dimensional maximal-function result, but neither has peer review or Lean formalization.

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VISTA lets multimodal models preserve raw frames outside context, then retrieve, crop and compare them on demand; the reported benchmark results point to memory tooling as a major agent lever.

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 report describes trillion-parameter MoE models, million-token contexts and $2.6 million reinforcement-learning runs built around separate rollout, grading and training capacity.

Chinese coverage stresses Manus's blocked Meta deal and regulatory reset while its new $500 million-plus round signals renewed investor appetite for a now-independent agent company.

Biren Technology plans a discounted HK$4.02 billion, roughly $515 million, placement to fund supply-chain locking and commercialization as domestic GPU shares fall from their highs.

Tao Zhexuan argues that AI is making proofs abundant, shifting mathematics from rewarding scarce solutions toward rewarding verification, understanding and meaningful exploration.

The roundup argues that DeepSeek favors open models and Chinese chips over near-term products, while some Chinese researchers increasingly interpret US AI-safety rhetoric as technological containment.

Geely's new electric off-roader drew more than 10,000 orders in 12 minutes at a launch price from 169,800 yuan, about $24,000, built around a hybrid structural frame and three-motor control.

Former Wuhan mayor Zhou Xianwang received a 14-year corruption sentence for using senior posts to help companies and individuals win projects and approvals.

Eight leading Chinese institutions launched an alliance led by Fields medalist Shing-Tung Yau to apply AI to mathematics and build a network of more than 1,000 researchers.

Chinese cars made up 23% of British new-car purchases in the cited month, forcing Europe to balance industrial defenses against buyers' appetite for cheaper Chinese vehicles.

Scientists warn that Antarctic ice loss could raise sea levels 15% to 20% more than the global average around Shanghai, Hong Kong and other densely populated Chinese coastal cities.

An open-source DeepSeek Harness plugin lets users create persistent bots with roles, long-term Markdown memory and a supervisor that coordinates other agents.

Chinese coverage says ByteDance is rushing its Spell personal agent while Tencent is testing LightVela through WeChat, as domestic firms respond to Meta's Muse and a wider compute race.

Hangzhou's new technology bets span smart glasses, inference GPUs, compute-in-memory chips and space computing, but lack the instant public excitement once generated by Unitree robots or DeepSeek.

Three Avatr V800 vehicles reportedly suffered similar brake-pedal bracket fractures in emergency tests, exposing the gap between feature-rich luxury positioning and verifiable mechanical reliability.

China's new AI job categories are expanding faster than ordinary workers can enter them, while agents may remove the junior tasks that traditionally trained engineers and other professionals.

A life-size replica of a Yuan dynasty Medicine Buddha mural at New York's Metropolitan Museum helped produce an unusual collaboration between US and Chinese cultural institutions.

Bengbu Technology reached a roughly HK$11.5 billion valuation after listing, but 95% of revenue still comes from low-priced consumer direct-drive modules rather than humanoid joints.

Materials scientist Antonio Facchetti has joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a chair professor in its new materials department.

Chinese analysis argues that AI-server demand is diverting DRAM and NAND capacity from budget phones, pushing the once-common thousand-yuan handset toward extinction through 2030.

Chinese sports-AI company Pompom Robotics raised several hundred million yuan, roughly $30-60 million, to expand its hand-eye-brain coaching platform from table tennis into tennis and overseas markets.

Open Academic Paper Gen uses a nine-stage multi-agent workflow to draft papers and inspect full-text passages, not just metadata, before accepting a citation.

Chinese city banks outperformed other bank types in the first half, but the strongest are shifting toward corporate lending and wealth management while weaker peers repair risk and capital.

A Chinese software analysis argues that open weights and public code do not guarantee reproducible AI capability when data, prompts, tools, state and runtime conditions remain coupled.

Kuaishou's Conan agent is designed to aggregate crash evidence, diagnose root causes and propose fixes across Android, iOS, HarmonyOS and cross-platform code.

Bloomberg's look at Beijing-based Neolix and Shenzhen's nighttime driverless parcel trials shows Chinese cities testing autonomous delivery as an operating business, not just a demo.

Zheng Qinwen became the first Chinese woman to win the China Open, turning a comeback from elbow surgery into the tournament's strongest commercial moment.

Taiwan's volunteer staffing rate has stayed below its 80% target for a third year, with shortages reaching infantry, artillery, missile and air-defense units.

IDC data cited by the Financial Times puts Shenzhen-based DJI at 73% and Insta360 at 20% of the global smart-camera market in the second quarter, leaving GoPro at 3%.

Honolulu still honors Sun Yat-sen's formative years, but many sites tied to the Chinese revolutionary survive only as approximate locations or memories.

Guangzhou wafer maker Yuexin Semiconductor will list on Shenzhen's ChiNext at 12.01 yuan, about $1.69, with 2.878 billion shares outstanding after issuance.

A high-risk 7.2-kilometer tunnel has been completed on the Xi'an-Chongqing line, a 739-kilometer railway due in 2028 that should cut travel to about 2.5 hours.

Meituan has started deploying a 7,500mAh shared power bank with dual built-in cables and 22.5W output ahead of China's 2027 mandatory safety standard.