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China shipped more than 19,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, accounting for 77.9% of global shipments, according to figures attributed to IDC. Global shipments reached nearly 25,000 units, up 432.1% year over year.
Insta360 is experimenting with smart glasses and developing two mirrorless cameras as it expands beyond 360-degree cameras. Co-founder Max Richter told The Verge that the glasses would focus on making it easier to capture high-quality images, rather than competing on AI assistant features.
NIO and Geely Holding Group have announced definitive agreements covering their charging and battery-swapping businesses. Geely will contribute its 100% stake in Yiyi Internet Technology and RMB 640 million in cash to subscribe for new shares in NIO Power.
China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 20% year on year and accounting for 59% of global installations, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China remained the world’s largest industrial-robot market for a second consecutive year.
The iPhone 18 Pro series reportedly sold nearly 1.3 million units in China during its first seven days, according to market blogger RD Observation. The estimate would equal about 115% of the iPhone 17 Pro series’ sales over the same period and around 90% of the entire iPhone 17 series.
Montage Technology has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DDR5 Registering Clock Driver chip, or RCD05, for high-performance RDIMM memory modules used in data centers and AI servers.
Huawei’s Ascend Tribe has released the pretraining, supervised fine-tuning and post-training reinforcement-learning code for its openPangu-2.0 model family. The code is designed for Huawei’s Ascend-based training ecosystem.
Huawei is reportedly preparing a new smartphone sub-brand called “Xingyao,” which could launch as early as November. The nova series is also said to be moving from a product line toward an independent sub-brand. Huawei’s terminal business had not confirmed the plan by publication time.
LG Display has terminated a deal to sell its automotive LCD module business in Nanjing, China, to Top Run Total Solution. The transaction, valued at RMB 491.5 million ($68.9 million), was called off after the two sides failed to reach a final agreement on the conditions needed to complete the deal.
Zhipu said it has completed a security overhaul of its ZCode AI coding tool after users raised concerns that the software could upload project data to a cloud server without clear consent.
Xiaomi MiMo lead Fuli Luo said MiMo-V3 will adopt a new architecture. Its core technology, HySparse2, is designed to reduce the cost of long-context inference and improve retrieval for agentic workloads.
Tencent’s QClaw AI assistant will stop operating at midnight on December 24, 2026, citing business adjustments. The service stopped accepting new registrations and halted subscription purchases and renewals on September 24, while existing users can continue using the service until the shutdown…
ByteDance’s Doubao has denied reports that it laid off staff and cut half of its general-session team. Liu Xing, the company’s public relations head, said on September 24 that the reports were inaccurate and that the changes were part of an internal division of responsibilities.
Xiaomi has launched the Xiaomi 18 Pro in China, with prices starting at RMB 5,999. The phone is the first to use Qualcomm’s sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite platform built on a 2nm process, with a peak CPU frequency of 5GHz and improved AI performance.
ByteDance is reducing the size of Doubao’s general Session team by about half, according to a LatePost report. The team previously had roughly 50 people and handled chat-product strategy and evaluation.
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