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Tencent is cracking open WeChat's historically closed ecosystem, letting smartphone AI agents from Huawei, Honor, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo send messages and make calls inside the 1.4 billion-user app —…
US businesses are paying DeepSeek directly — routing American data to China-hosted servers — to cut AI costs, pushing the Chinese…
A sub-1kg robotic knee brace that resists rather than assists movement helped six Chinese children with spinal muscular atrophy…
Hangzhou start-up Spirit AI's v1.6 model scored 1,924 on the Nvidia-co-developed RoboArena benchmark — overtaking Nvidia's own…
Nvidia says regional AI leaders are advancing sovereign AI using its Nemotron model family, building localised datasets, models…
Chip giant Nvidia has unveiled NVIDIA OpenShell for Windows, framing it as the next step for local agentic AI on RTX PCs and DGX…
Nvidia has outlined a full enterprise agent stack, with chief executive Jensen Huang explaining how models, orchestration,…
Chip giant Nvidia has announced three Nvidia Research papers at CVPR 2026 focused on physical AI, headlined by GraspGen-X —…
A UN University report reveals that AI data centres already consume as much electricity as France, and unnecessary chatbot…
