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Ant's October 27 upgrade turns LingGuang from an assistant you ask into an agent that watches, remembers and acts — free, where Meta's Muse charges $20 or $100 a month.
More than 1,800 teams from 13 countries have entered a contest built on Robbyant's open-source LingBot-VLA 2.0 model, with a real-robot final due in Shanghai in November.
Sony Semiconductor Solutions says its IMX742 packs roughly 0.51 effective megapixels into a 1 mm-square chip and can carry digital video over a 5 m cable.
The update brings folder-level sharing, link permissions and on-demand sync to the Mac client, which TerraMaster says reduces the local storage large file libraries occupy.
The 2026 Inclusion Conference on the Bund showed a shift from chatbots to working AI; Ant Group’s AQ health companion has over 150 million users.
A week of corporate power moves, AI infrastructure build-out and the first serious attempt to give AI agents identities.
The week's most consequential stories were about the infrastructure and capital behind AI, from SK hynix's record…
This week's roundup: HCLTech's bookings, AI server forecasts, Bybit's equities push, Chinese biotech and clean energy.
