Chinese coverage highlights coding benchmarks, open weights and new Search and Fetch APIs, while Bloomberg’s US-facing brief emphasizes a faster, leaner model update.

Also: Techmeme, Hacker News, V2EX

Chinese coverage stresses Beijing’s warning that EU pressure will not force concessions, while Brussels is preparing a mechanism to remove China from the single market; the timing keeps trade-war risk alive.

A Chinese court sentenced a kindergarten owner to life in prison after more than 200 children were poisoned by lead, putting accountability for a major food-safety failure back in focus.

China is proposing to add 40 technologies across AI, biomedicine and solar to its export-control catalogue, including 14 for a ban and 26 for restriction; the proposal is not yet a final rule.

A former US export-control official argues that restricting DUV tool exports could leave China producing far fewer AI chips than the US by the mid-2030s, making the claim a consequential but untested policy projection.

Chinese economists argue that using China’s Loan Prime Rate to estimate below-market borrowing can inflate subsidy figures, making the benchmark choice central to a trade debate increasingly driven by databases.

China’s top anti-corruption body is using fresh cases against senior officials to reinforce a message that rank and past survival offer no protection from Party discipline.

Beijing has approved an expanded Japanese business delegation, a limited opening that observers see as economic pragmatism coexisting with cold political relations.

Shenzhen’s APEC preparations combine new visitor services and extensive city coordination, illustrating how China mobilizes local and national authorities around a major diplomatic event.

Chinese researchers are reported to have used iron-driven chemistry inspired by wastewater treatment in a cancer trial, with the article citing 84% efficacy but not specifying the endpoint in the supplied excerpt.

Chinese coverage questions whether the iPhone Duo’s rapid sellout reflects strong demand or scarce first-wave supply, noting long delivery queues and production constraints around its hinge and display.

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China’s embassy in Thailand has urged citizens to take extra care after kidnappings targeting Chinese nationals and warned influencers and artists about high-paying job scams.

Hangzhou’s new housing package gives developers more financing flexibility and a transition path for existing projects, showing how cities are adapting completed-home sales to a stressed property market.

Akka reports that 57 of 65 AI-assisted ports improved either code size or runtime performance, while its experiment also exposes the cost and evaluation limits of spec-driven coding.

Taiwan plans to use AI to scan satellite imagery for PLA ships, aircraft and missile launchers, aiming to shorten the time and manpower needed for military early warning.

Hesai’s Kosmo combines an 8K spatial camera with cloud reconstruction software that turns scans into 3D Gaussian splats, meshes and depth data for robot training and simulation.

A Chinese industry analysis argues that subsidy changes, weaker sales and proposed testing rules are pushing EV makers away from price-led growth and toward safety, validation and export compliance.

Several Chinese regions have added exoskeleton-assisted rehabilitation to medical insurance or long-term-care pilots, turning wearable gait-training robots into a reimbursable care option.

A Chinese analysis argues that office AI is shifting from model choice to control of organizational context, as Tencent’s WorkBuddy connects to Enterprise WeChat’s messages, documents, meetings and customer workflows.

An analysis describes Manila’s push to reduce reliance on Chinese manufacturing inputs as a high-risk economic bet amid rising tension with Beijing over the South China Sea.

A Chinese report says some investors are discussing a roughly $1.5 trillion Anthropic IPO valuation, down from $2 trillion, as growth cools and usage gains outpace customer spending.

Chinese coverage casts a garden-side moment between Xi and Trump as a possible opening for gift diplomacy amid disputes over trade, technology and Taiwan.

A Chinese consumer-industry analysis says diners’ interest in fresh, wok-fired cooking is pushing chains to automate parts of the cooking process without giving up the taste cue of food made to order.

A Chinese analysis frames the Ray7 as part of GAC’s push to reposition Aion, combining Huawei’s electric drive with driver-assistance technology derived from a robotaxi program.

Also: IT Home

Chinese coverage stresses that the US drink-supplier change will not extend to Chinese KFC outlets, where Pepsi remains the current offering.

A Chinese electrical-equipment maker says its first solid-state transformer has entered mass production, combining power semiconductors, a high-frequency transformer and digital control.

An Initium feature appears to follow customers across generations at Chinese therapy shops, but the supplied article text is corrupted and offers no usable reporting detail.

A headline reports that researchers from Tsinghua University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications warned that safety defenses in diffusion-based vision-language models can fail; the supplied article text is corrupted.

The Chinese technology outlet reports that decomp.dev will close because AI has made game decompilation fast enough to undermine its human-led collaboration model.

A Chinese report says the latest informal UN Security Council voting pointed toward a Latin American candidate, with women also attracting support, after Senegal’s former president withdrew.

A Chinese analysis sees Salesforce’s AIforce as a strategic concession: agents in tools such as Claude or Slack can use Salesforce data and workflows without employees opening the CRM interface.

In a Shenzhen interview, Roger Federer describes helping design On tennis shoes and encouraging young people in China to take up sport, extending his relationship with the Chinese tennis audience.

A Chinese analysis distinguishes using general AI to generate robot-control programs from using it to speed research on specialized vision-language-action models, arguing that the two approaches can coexist.

A Chinese-language headline describes a local company competing with OpenAI’s work agent, but the supplied article body is corrupted and does not identify the product or its capabilities.