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The 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence will be held in Shanghai from July 17 to 20. According to CCTV-1's report today, this year's conference has been upgraded to a "three cities, four venues" exhibition model, bringing together over 1,100 exhibiting enterprises and more than 300 globally debuted AI products.
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How far can a hackathon push Physical AI?
From July 10 to 12, the first "Yueliang Plan · Physical AI Hackathon," initiated and hosted by the TanYue Embodied Intelligence Community and co-hosted by Baidu AI Cloud, was held in Zhongguancun, Beijing. Over 200 entrepreneurs, developers and young researchers formed 50 teams, pushing ideas about robots one by one, from papers, PPTs and minds, toward runnable MVPs.
This hackathon also attracted many leading embodied intelligence industry enterprises to participate deeply: Galaxy General, Unitree Technology, Qianxun Intelligence, Zhibianliang Robot, JLCPCB, Gaoqing Power, Lingxin Qiaoshou, DIGU Robot, AgileX Robotics, RoboParty, Ruoban Technology and others joined together, letting contestants' creativity not just stay in code, but be rapidly validated in real hardware, real tasks and real scenarios.
Baidu AI Cloud Vice President and General Manager of Baidu AI Cloud Pan-Technology Business Department Zhang Wei said in his speech that since the second half of 2023, Baidu AI Cloud has been continuously investing in the embodied intelligence direction, witnessing the industry move from concept validation to prototype iteration, from laboratory to real scenarios. Embodied intelligence is not a single-point technology breakthrough, but a systematic innovation with joint participation from government, industry organizations, startup enterprises, universities and institutes, investment institutions and developer communities.
Facing this "tough battle," Baidu AI Cloud will combine its advantageous technology and product solution accumulation to continuously support industry innovation:
On the model side, perform engineering optimization around training and inference of world models and VLA models;
On the data side, provide from real-machine teleoperation to real scenarios without
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Supply chain sources revealed that the initial stock of this generation of products far exceeded the previous generation, and the scale of some spare parts exceeded one million; due to the rise in upstream component costs, it went through multiple adjustments, from the original 300,000 to about 200,000 units. (Jiemian News)
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The second generation was postponed to the second half of 2026, and was directly split into two versions — one packed with features, one grinding the weight down to just over 20 grams. (AR circle)
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#Silicon Valley Prophet Predicts China Will Produce the Best Chips Within 5 Years# Renowned American columnist, internet expert, and futurist Kevin Kelly outlined the potential role of AI in future education. He stated that the world will become increasingly globalized. In this process, China is expected to play a leading role, guiding us to build an interdependent system—a global system.
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Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
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The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.
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Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.
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OPPO AndesGPT large model has completed on-device generative AI service filing. The company responded that on-device AI is an important technical strategy, and will steadily advance the integration of large models with smart terminals in the future, with the goal of enabling AI and the Xiao Bu assistant to achieve a more personalized proactive intelligent experience.
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The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.
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The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.
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Tongfang CNKI Digital Technology Co., Ltd. issued a statement today saying that recently some journals published papers listing artificial intelligence (AI) such as DeepSeek and Gemini as authors, triggering compliance disputes in the industry over copyright ownership and academic norms. CNKI has taken down such AI-authored papers.
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Data shows that since the release of ChatGPT, adult-oriented and romantic AI companion apps have accumulated over 160 million downloads, with user spending reaching 427 million US dollars. In the first half of 2026, just 214 such apps generated 162.8 million US dollars in revenue, among which Zeta had the highest revenue at 33 million US dollars. Although ordinary AI companion apps have more downloads, their willingness to pay is lower than that of romantic ones. #AI Companion# #Digital Companion# #AI App Market#
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Among WorkBuddy users who choose their own model, the share selecting Hy3 reaches 60%
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IBM releases the Power Autonomous Operations system, with built-in AI agents that can manage servers like chatting and automatically solve problems. It also launches the entry-level Power S1112 server to improve local AI inference performance. Enterprise system management is entering a new stage of automation. #IBM# #AI Agent#
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The product integrates voice interaction, emotional expression and other capabilities of the self-developed large model SoulX, and existing adapted software supports users to customize AI characters, and will debut at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference
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Sources familiar with the matter revealed that Apple and Baidu will cooperate to develop AI functions for Chinese iPhone users. (Star Market Daily)
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Hassabis boldly claims: drug development will no longer need ten years of lengthy trial and error, new clean energy may break through within a few years, and advanced materials will make "resource scarcity" a historical term. We may even arrive at a point — resources are no longer a constraint on human progress. An astonishing new era of abundance is knocking at the door.
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