Andrew Morton sent the memory management updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window, including two performance optimizations: reducing locking contention in zs_free() of the zsmalloc allocator, which sped…
Xiaomi will publicly debut its robot at the 2026 World Robot Conference in Beijing, running from Aug. 19 to Aug. 23, confirmed by President Lu Weibing during an earnings call. The company will not sel…
Apple's system files reveal upcoming hardware including the iPhone 18 series (V63, V64, V67), a foldable iPhone Ultra (V68), and an 'iPhone Air 2' (V62), with Pro models and the foldable expected this…
Xiaomi reported a 20.3% year-on-year drop in net profit to 9.46 billion yuan for the second quarter, its third consecutive quarterly decline, while revenue fell 6.1% to 108.9 billion yuan. The company…
A developer built Muffle, an Android app that automatically silences a phone based on geofenced locations, after a phone ringing during an exam caused embarrassment. The app uses Google Play Services'…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 16 lists 30 stories, including reports that OpenAI is losing key personnel ahead of a potential IPO, Qwen 3.8 27B outperforms the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding…
Xiaomi has officially released HyperOS 4, featuring a polished glass-like UI and a system-wide AI controller called Super XiaoAi that manages memory, inputs, and cross-app execution, with global memor…
Hugging Face's biannual report on open models for summer 2026 finds that Chinese labs released the largest open models in almost every month of 2026, with monthly ceilings ranging from 754B to 2.78 tr…
Google's Pixel 11 series, announced on August 13, 2026, introduces camera features that closely mirror existing offerings from Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, and vivo. The new Camera Looks feature resembles …
Xiaomi has delivered 216,322 vehicles in 2026, less than half of its 550,000 annual target, with July deliveries at 31,267, indicating the company is significantly behind schedule. The shortfall sugge…
Li Auto, the Beijing-based electric-vehicle maker, confirmed its second-generation Livis AI glasses will launch in the second half of 2027, developed with German optics firm Zeiss to embed high-resolu…
Chinese robot maker Unitree, formally known as Yushu Technology, has triggered an unprecedented retail investor frenzy for its $900 million Shanghai IPO, which was oversubscribed by 8,000 times, accor…
TileRT's persistent engine on NVIDIA GPUs achieves up to 500 tokens/s/user on the InferenceX GLM5 FP8 744B benchmark on a single B200 decode server, approximately 3× faster than GB300 NVL72 running tr…
An independent developer has released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731-Latent-Reasoning, a 284B-parameter MoE model with a 35.7M-parameter reasoning head that performs latent reasoning in a 1024-dimensional spa…
Xiaomi released the code and weights for Xiaomi-Robotics-1, a 5 billion-parameter vision-language-action model, on August 5th under the Apache 2.0 license, making it available for robotics teams to in…
Xiaomi open-sourced its embodied-AI foundation model Xiaomi-Robotics-1 on Aug. 5, covering the full process from real-robot post-training to model deployment and including benchmark evaluation code. T…
Chinese embodied-AI startup PaXini has raised RMB1 billion in a strategic funding round, bringing its total fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, to scale its tactile-sensing chips for robots. The round was …
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has brought its first LPDDR6 chip to the tail end of R&D validation, according to a Yicai report citing unnamed industry sources, less than a week after its Shangha…
Xiaomi has opened pre-orders for the N90 Max extended-range SUV at RMB299,900, with formal release scheduled for September. The vehicle integrates Xiaomi's HAD assisted-driving system and XLA cognitiv…
Qualcomm will raise prices across most of its chip line-up by a double-digit percentage for products shipped after 1 September 2026, CEO Cristiano Amon confirmed, citing rising input costs. The increa…