EgoVerse: Li Fei-Fei's Student Launches International Data Standard for Embodied AI; Only Chinese Company Is Guanglun Intelligence

Danfei Xu, a former PhD student of Li Fei-Fei, founded the EgoVerse initiative — an ecosystem and data standard for first-person human activity data to train robots. Partners include leading universities and companies such as Meta, Scale AI, and the sole Chinese company Guanglun Intelligence. EgoVerse aims to create a unified "language system" for embodied AI data, akin to ImageNet in computer vision.

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35 Large State-Owned Enterprises Tested: Causality World Model Deployed

Chinese company Zhongshu Ruizhi has unveiled "AI for Reasoning," a causal world model that helps enterprises make decisions in critical scenarios such as oil drilling, energy, and finance. The system has been deployed at over 35 major state-owned enterprises, covering 800+ business scenarios, and has made zero hallucination errors over 15,000 hours of operation.

DeepSeek Is Not an Idealistic Company, It Simply Subordinates Reality to Ideals

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng explained the company's strategy at an investor meeting: focus on AGI with a phased plan (language models, chain-of-thought, agent, self-learning, embodied intelligence), reject trendy directions (video generation, 3D) to stay on the main track, maintain a flexible organization without KPIs, emphasize team stability, and adopt open-source as a business model. The company does not seek monopoly, is willing to help competitors, and aims for a reasonable profit margin.

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American AI Models Adopt DeepSeek Architecture: China Becomes Trendsetter

American developers of large language models are increasingly using the architecture of the Chinese company DeepSeek, marking a role reversal: now it is not China copying the West, but the opposite. This signals the growing influence of Chinese AI research on the global industry.

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Grabette: Open System for Recording Robot Manipulation Data

The Pollen Robotics team has introduced Grabette—an open, low-cost system for recording manipulation demonstrations that does not require a robot. The device is a handheld gripper with cameras, enabling the collection of training-ready datasets in LeRobot format. The project aims to build a large publicly available manipulation database.

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Tencent Hunyuan Hy3: Dual-Mode Automatic Output, Outperforms GLM5.1 in Tests

Tencent has introduced a new AI model, Hunyuan Hy3, which automatically switches between two output modes. According to test results, the model outperforms GLM5.1 on several metrics.

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Moonshot AI CEO Addresses Three Major Controversies: SOTA Models Must Set Their Own Pricing

The CEO of Moonshot AI, the company behind the Kimi model, commented on three key controversial issues in the AI industry: pricing of state-of-the-art (SOTA) models, competition, and regulation. He emphasized that leading models should have the right to set their own prices based on their value and market position.

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Zhipu builds data center using only domestic chips

Chinese company Zhipu has launched a data center that operates exclusively on chips made in China. This is a step towards reducing dependence on foreign technology.

Model Kimi K3 Tops Global Coding Rankings — Can Chinese Large Models Lead the New AI Era?

Chinese company Moonshot AI unveiled its new model Kimi K3, which claimed the top spot in global coding rankings, surpassing leading international models. The article discusses whether Chinese large language models can become leaders in the field of artificial intelligence.

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New Fields Medal Winner Joins OpenAI Same Day

Jacob Zimmerman, winner of the 2026 Fields Medal, announced his move to OpenAI immediately after the ceremony to work on AI safety. He is known for predicting that AI could lead to human extinction and for classifying such scenarios. Three days earlier, his former student, Levant Alpöge, who works at Anthropic, used Claude Fable 5 to disprove an 87-year-old Jacobi hypothesis.

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Meta faces higher borrowing costs in $12 billion data center financing

In a new data center financing deal for Meta (recognized as an extremist organization in the Russian Federation) worth $12 billion, investors are demanding yields above 7%, significantly higher than terms nine months ago. The El Paso project, with a capacity of nearly 1 GW, plans to issue bonds through BlackRock's SPV.

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Intel Sets 15-Year Revenue Growth Record Amid AI Boom

Intel reported better-than-expected quarterly results, with revenue rising 25% to $16.1 billion, marking its fastest growth since 2011. The server segment grew 59%, while the contract manufacturing unit Intel Foundry increased revenue by 30.5%. The company expects further growth and forecasts third-quarter revenue above analyst estimates.

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Legal or Not: US Government Controls Global Access to the Most Powerful AI in the World

According to an article in The Conversation, the US government is effectively establishing control over global access to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems, using not only legal but also extraterritorial measures. This raises questions about the sovereignty of other countries and concerns about inequality in access to AI.