China's exports rose 36.3% year over year and its monthly surplus reached $133.53 billion; Li Qiang framed China as both a major seller and buyer at the Canton Fair.

MemSilicon says its 28 nm chip packs four resistive memory cells behind one selector transistor, a density-focused design now moving into validation.

A seven-person Anthropic team replaced Git in its monorepo with Scion, a server-centric system designed for always-online agents and frequent automated checkouts.

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Interviews with Luckin workers describe algorithmic scheduling that cuts labor hours while leaving staff to absorb rushes, training and cleaning through unpaid work.

Alibaba's enterprise agent is expanding from office workflows into merchant operations, with the strategy centered on linking business systems and acting on their context.

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AI dramas are reportedly arriving at a rate above 1,500 a day, while creators describe low hit rates, unstable platform payouts and intense production pressure.

Hong Kong's securities regulator halted trading in the tea-chain operator while investigating alleged false demand in its IPO; the roundup also flags AI safety and chip developments.

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A profile revisits Huang Qifan's decade-long survival through Chongqing's corruption purges and examines the political environment around his eventual fall.

The Chinese developer says Reflex Agent can run long tasks by using a compact model for control decisions and a separate memory engine for retrieving prior context.

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A new Changsha venture combines robotics research, precision manufacturing and local deployment partners to make a 37-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven hand.

A research team combines structured world models with constraint-based motion planning to improve transfer across objects and tasks, rather than relying only on more demonstrations.

Initium frames prosecutions involving stalking, a feces attack and assaults as a test of whether Taiwan’s law can address cross-border repression.

The display maker says a new OLED stack improves efficiency and lifetime while supporting unusually high resolution and refresh, but the claims await independent testing.

LingBo says it will bring its vision-language-action model and tooling to factory loading and parcel sorting, pushing its multi-robot model beyond demonstrations.

A draft summit statement would urge Brussels to develop new measures against economic imbalances attributed to China, following a recent hybrid-car trade deal.

Beijing criticized TV host Kevin Tsai for attending a Taipei campaign rally, highlighting the political risks for entertainers working in both Taiwan and mainland China.

Major platforms are dropping complex bundle discounts for direct markdowns, while seven ministries have told platforms to curb automatic repricing and lowest-price pressure.

Chinese consumer models are falling toward four-figure prices, but stripped-down hardware and buyers' reported uses point more to education, entertainment and tinkering than household labor.

US regulators cited failures to report suspicious transactions, including transfers involving China, as part of more than $1.21 billion in penalties for broader AML and sanctions lapses.

Four projects, including a Qin-era canal and a Ming-era desert irrigation network, were recognized, bringing China's total on the heritage list to 46.

After a car plunged down a steep slope, the owner escaped with minor injuries; the incident renewed attention on crash protection rather than the brand's weaker reputation for smart features.

Initium presents a Wall Street Journal analysis arguing that Xi’s superpower ambitions are driving a dangerous cycle of debt expansion in China.

A report examines why a Democratic Progressive Party candidate leads in polling but is projected to win by only four points in a key Taiwan local election.

A state-controlled Chinese medicine company has named four chairmen in five years as sales fall, exposing pressure on a business model built around repeated price increases.

Bruegel economist Alicia Garcia-Herrero argues that China's next export wave could extend beyond manufactured goods into AI, biotechnology and robots.

An interview preview says Gunnar Wiegand discusses Europe's industrial defenses, Germany's tougher China stance and the difficulty of maintaining EU unity.

The Army has established a 2,100-soldier multi-domain unit intended to counter Chinese efforts to restrict US and allied operations in a possible western Pacific conflict.

A historical comparison argues that cash flow, not company size, determines who survives an auto downturn, and says many listed Chinese automakers have thin liquidity buffers.

A commentary argues that high oil prices could raise demand for Chinese renewables and electric vehicles while also strengthening China's coal-power export pitch.

The US defense secretary argues that spending on autonomy, robotics and AI is critical to maintaining an edge over China's military modernization.

Apple's new HomeView combines a seven-inch screen, home controls and personalized profiles; the China coverage also notes that the refreshed speaker is the only new device available there.

A Chinese analysis frames SpaceX's planned $8 billion spectrum acquisition as a move toward a fuller US mobile network, not simply a satellite-to-phone feature.

Techmeme relays a report that Apple plans a December mainland China rollout of older Apple Intelligence features after a long regulatory delay, excluding Siri AI.

A former OpenAI engineer was arrested after a listening device was found in an executive meeting room; the company says its model helped identify the device's source.

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