Joyn’s 50/Cut meat-and-mushroom blend won 92% support in a South Carolina high school taste test, as startups seek to cut beef demand by blending plants into familiar meat foods.
Nord Security has fixed CVE-2026-106030, a Windows app flaw that let local attackers stop some unprotected services; version 8.12.0.0 and later are unaffected.
South Korea’s Navy plans a 30,000-ton-class manned-unmanned carrier and nuclear attack submarines by the early 2040s, alongside new destroyers and interceptors, to counter North Korean threats.
A sspai review explores a dual-monitor desk setup using BenQ's MA270S 5K and MA320U 4K displays, highlighting Mac-matched color and seamless macOS integration for creative work.
iQIYI is embedding generative AI across viewing and production, from a ‘Skip Watch’ feature that compresses long-form drama to script-evaluation and image-generation tools used by its studios.
Meshy releases Meshy Edit, letting users circle a region on a 3D model and describe changes in one sentence to generate a new model in about a minute, with unselected areas unchanged.
Saidou Technology’s AIVA ME7, its first AI-defined car, has appeared in MIIT filings as a nearly five-meter electric SUV with CATL batteries and up to 571 hp; pricing is still unofficial.
Cloudflare previewed Clairic on Workers AI, an extraction model returning typed values in one pass; a test claims pipeline fell to 19.3 seconds from 61.7.
Estonia-based Blackwall has raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $2.2 billion valuation, quadrupling its valuation as it expands tools for hosting providers to filter bot and AI-agent traffic.
US tech shares rebounded, lifting the Nasdaq more than 1%, while Asia's Kospi fell over 4%. Nvidia unveiled backing for four German AI startups, and Jio's IPO anchor book drew heavy demand.
Policy & Regulation · World · Large Language Models
iQIYI and Oscar-winning cinematographer Peter Pau are running a Beijing creative camp for an AI theater, with 15 teams set to produce 15-minute-plus AI films for a platform launch within a quarter, according to Leifeng.com.
Neolix completed a nearly $400 million Series E round, the largest single autonomous driving financing in China this year, and plans to expand its unmanned delivery network and end-to-end model training.
Peking University’s Dong Hao team and Qiyuan Robot have launched HIL-UMI, a human-in-the-loop handheld collection system that flags when a model’s predicted actions diverge and prompts targeted corrections without a robot arm. Reported tests show average task progress rising to 94.8 from 58.0 and 5.63-fold collection efficiency.