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Apple's AirPods Pro 3 ad is a dance film with no music — and that's the entire point. Starring Vini Jr. moving through noisy streets in silence, the campaign is a clever inversion of the typical…
Zhipu AI's shares surged 48% after it announced GLM-5.2, a 1-million-token open-source model priced at a tenth of Anthropic's…
Goldman Sachs calls it the 'largest and longest' MLCC cycle ever: AI servers now demand up to 28,000 of the tiny capacitors per…
A plant in Shanxi's Gaoping city is converting coal gangue — the toughest solid waste from mining — into 1,000 tonnes per day of…
After 30 years in the US, UCLA emeritus professor Pei Qibing — who once studied in a resource-scarce rural school on a Yangtze…
JPMorgan's Alex Yao says China's 'hundred-model' AI war is over — the real contest is now about enterprise value delivery, not…
A peer-reviewed Chinese paper published in March 2026 calls NASA's Artemis lunar lander architecture life-threatening, citing its…
India has crossed a critical threshold in missile defence — DRDO's June 10-11 tests demonstrated a multi-layered BMD system…
A Singapore-based lab found Chinese AI models — including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Zhipu AI — jumped from near-zero to…
