GitHub trending repos this week show a shift from building new things to optimizing existing processes, with AI-driven efficiency and visual processing capabilities leading the charge. Ponytail, an ec…
Singapore-based startup Acti launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android that embeds AI agents directly into the keyboard, enabling actions like sharing live stock prices or local recommendations…
A developer discovered that Anthropic's Claude Code client contains a covert channel that exfiltrates user environment data via steganographic character variations in the system prompt. The embedded J…
A developer has compiled a massive list of API endpoints and domains, many of which appear to be proxies or mirrors for AI services like Claude and GPT. The list includes domains from major Chinese te…
Tencent is aggressively buying back its own shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after its market capitalization lost $309 billion, driven by investor concerns over AI spending. The company repurcha…
Baidu is preparing to take its AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, targeting a $50 billion valuation. The spin-off aims to highlight Kunlunxin's standalone value amid …
Baidu is spinning off its AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin into a standalone public company, targeting a valuation of up to $50 billion in a Hong Kong IPO. The move capitalizes on China's push for semicon…
Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and has asked prospective investors to commit to purchasing its semiconductors, blurring the line between shareholder and custom…
Chinese tech workers fear being 'optimised' out of jobs as companies like Meituan, Baidu, and Xiaomi cut roles amid AI adoption, with layoffs often euphemized as 'organizational restructuring'.…
FourA launched a six-language version of its website on June 26, 2026, adding Bulgarian, German, Polish, Vietnamese, and Chinese alongside English. The localization includes server-side rendering for …
Reka released CS2-10k, a large-scale dataset and rendering pipeline built from Counter-Strike 2 professional match demos, providing over 10,000 hours of egocentric video with per-frame action annotati…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek plans to at least double its staff of roughly 170 after raising $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, one of the largest ever for a Chinese startup. The round, …
Baidu released Unlimited OCR, an open-source 3-billion-parameter model that uses Reference Sliding Window Attention to parse multi-page documents in a single pass, eliminating the need for page-by-pag…
Mistral launched OCR 4, a document understanding system with bounding boxes and 170-language support at $4/1000 pages. Baidu open-sourced Unlimited-OCR, a 3B-parameter MIT-licensed model for multi-pag…
Baidu released Unlimited OCR, a 3B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that uses Reference Sliding Window Attention to keep KV cache constant, enabling efficient parsing of dozens of pages in one forwa…
Coca-Cola China launched a World Cup marketing campaign featuring a real-time interactive AI avatar of Chinese football icon Fan Zhiyi, developed with Baidu Yijing. The avatar is available 24/7 for lo…
Zhipu AI, a Chinese large language model developer, plans a Shanghai STAR Market listing to raise about $2.2 billion, six months after its Hong Kong IPO saw shares surge over 2,000%. The company, with…
Baidu released Unlimited-OCR, a new model that uses Reference Sliding Window Attention to parse up to 40 PDF pages in a single inference pass, eliminating the linear memory growth of traditional LLM-b…
Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense over its designation as a "Chinese military company," arguing the label has no basis in fact or law. The e-commerce giant seeks remov…
Hugging Face's inference provider information for Meta's Llama 3.1 405B model may be outdated, as the listed provider Featherless AI returns errors and does not show the model as available. A similar …