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China Gives Robot-Assisted Surgery Its Own Reimbursement Group to Complete the Pricing Puzzle

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? China’s National Healthcare Security Administration has carved robot-assisted surgery into its own reimbursement group in the DRG/DIP 3.0 plan, ...
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Tencent Hunyuan Releases Hy4 Preview, Ranking Among the Top Tier of Open-Source Models

On August 28, Tencent Hunyuan released and open-sourced Hy4 preview, its next-generation large language model with 770 billion total parameters and a context window exceeding 1 million tokens. Tencent ...
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Xiaomi Launches Smart Switch 2 With Plexiglass Panel and Single/Zero-Wire Auto-Adapt

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Xiaomi's Smart Switch 2 starts crowdfunding at CNY69, offering acrylic-glass panels, single- or zero-wire self-adaptation, Mesh 2.0, and faster ...
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Anonymous AI Model 'Ox Alpha' Crushes Coding Benchmarks, Sparking a Cross-Country Guessing Game

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? On August 20, OpenRouter quietly listed stealth/ox-alpha, an anonymous, free model whose real-world coding results beat several closed frontier ...
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Xiaomi's Lu Weibing Shows Xuanjie O100 Prototype: On-Device AI Terminal Without a Rear Camera

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Xiaomi president Lu Weibing unveiled the Xuanjie O100 prototype, an on-device AI terminal that drops the rear camera for dual-chip computing and ...
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iKang and Huawei Cloud Launch AI Agent for Enterprise Health Management

On August 21, iKang Group and Huawei Cloud jointly launched an AI health management agent that extends AI to corporate employee health, covering data, personalized plans, ongoing intervention, ...
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Chang'e-7 Heads for the Moon in a New Chapter for China's Lunar Program

Chang'e-7 and its Long March 5 Y14 rocket are at the Wenchang pad for a south-pole mission combining orbiting, landing, roving and hopping. Its key goal is confirming water ice in permanently shadowed ...
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China's Floatboat Harness Beats Claude Opus 4.8 on All Five Benchmarks While Running on the Cheapest Model on the Market

AOE Tech Labs' Floatboat team ran a single-variable Harness benchmark experiment on August 7. With DeepSeek-V4-Flash as the model base and only the execution Harness swapped, the same 0.14-dollar ...
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Former Qwen Tech Chief Lin Junyang Launches Pragmatik Labs with a Two-Billion-Dollar Valuation — and Pivots from Foundation Models to Agents

Lin Junyang, the former Alibaba Qwen technical lead and one of the youngest P10-level engineers at the company, has founded Pragmatik Labs in Shanghai with a 2 billion dollar angel-round valuation.
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Zhang Yiming Returns to ByteDance Headquarters and Tells the Seed Team to Stop Distilling

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming made a rare appearance at the company's Beijing headquarters two weeks ago and sent the Seed AI research team a ...
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From Models to Workflows: A Review of Image and Video Generation Models in H1 2026

A comprehensive roundup of H1 2026's image and video generation models from Midjourney, Google, ByteDance, Kuaishou, Zhipu AI, Tencent, and more. The first half of 2026 has been transformative for ...
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Zhipu AI Computing Ambitions Surface: 1GW Data Center, Hundreds of Millions in Infrastructure Acquisition, and Self-Developed Chip Plans Signal Nvidia Independence Push

Want to read in a language you're more familiar with? Zhipu AI builds 1GW data center with all domestic chips, acquires compiler startup Zhongke Jiahe, and explores custom AI chip development, ...