Hangzhou startup CoolFly launched standing and seated single-person electric aircraft, using redundant flight controls and a self-developed system to lower the pilot burden.

Lenovo reported record quarterly revenue of 183.4 billion yuan, roughly $25.8 billion, as infrastructure revenue nearly doubled and AI-related sales reached 63.4 billion yuan.

ChinaTalk reads leaked investor-meeting minutes as evidence that DeepSeek is pursuing open models and generalized intelligence as a long-horizon mission rather than a conventional software business.

Coverage of former premier Zhu Rongji’s death revisits the reformer’s tax and state-finance centralization, balancing his reputation for discipline and openness against the social costs of restructuring.

Also: The Wire China, SCMP

DeepSeek’s V4 Pro final release keeps the same 1.6-trillion-parameter MoE architecture but sharply improves coding, terminal and tool-use benchmarks through post-training, making its low price more consequential.

Alibaba’s 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8 model was adapted on launch day for nine Chinese and foreign AI chips through the open FlagOS stack, turning software portability into a strategic hardware advantage.

Hong Kong reporting records bookstore searches, a sedition conviction over graffiti, a judge’s early retirement for plagiarism and a rejected student visa challenge, showing how law and institutional discipline now overlap.

Pony AI unveiled a fourth-generation autonomous heavy truck and plans to operate 500 to 1,000 vehicles within three years, shifting the company’s scaling test from robotaxis to logistics economics.

Tencent’s second-quarter capital spending rose 176% year on year to 52.78 billion yuan, roughly $7.4 billion, as it buys compute and memory for models, agents and cloud services.

A Chinese hands-on review says DeepSeek Harness’s plugin architecture and event-level trajectory view make it unusually customizable, while Chinese users debate whether the price increase is worth the control.

Also: Leiphone, Hacker News, V2EX

New tax rules apply individual income tax at transfers, income and distributions from offshore trusts; Chinese coverage sells it as the end of wealthy tax avoidance while a scholar broadens the fairness debate.

A translated Chinese essay argues that blunt platform keyword filters suppress harmless speech and push users toward coded language, while blaming platform risk management more than explicit law.

Didi says core-platform orders reached 5.052 billion in the second quarter, up 13.2%, with China mobility and overseas services both expanding as the company adds AI matching and charging.

Beijing-based YuanDian Technology raised tens of millions of yuan, roughly $4-14 million, for MatrixOS and a real-world data network aimed at embodied-AI companies.

A Chinese robotics analysis argues that reliable robot bodies, synchronized data capture and open interfaces are the overlooked bottlenecks in embodied AI, not just models and datasets.

Tighter immigration and technology controls are redirecting Chinese science and engineering students toward Singapore, reshaping the talent map that once ran through Western universities.

SCMP reports that Chinese researchers developed missile AI claiming more than 90% accuracy in distinguishing fighter heat signatures from decoy flares, a potential counter-stealth capability.

ByteDance’s Seed team says it will not use distillation as a shortcut to top-tier language models, accepting slower iteration in exchange for a more independent training and data system.

Chinese coverage highlights domestic DRAM maker ChangXin Technology surpassing Tencent after its listing, framing the move as a market bet on AI infrastructure and semiconductor self-reliance.

Also: 36Kr

Didi’s Brazilian platform 99 and rental company Movida plan discounted vehicle access for at least 50,000 drivers, turning Chinese EV exports into a local operating ecosystem rather than a sales event.

A Hong Kong research team’s AdvNav framework perturbs only visual input and reportedly achieves high attack success against navigation agents without access to model weights or gradients.

Nanjing-based Line-Control Technology raised tens of millions of yuan, roughly $4-14 million, to scale cable-driven robots for steel, shipbuilding, aerospace and wind-power facilities.

A decade after its first consumer product, Chinese camera maker Insta360’s X6 combines panoramic, gimbal and head-tracking modes while using AI to reduce the burden of editing.

A Zhejiang propaganda account warns that online pseudo-history theories claiming Aristotle and ancient Greece never existed are gaining ground, revealing an unusual official effort to police historical conspiracy narratives.

Satellite imagery indicates a Type 054B frigate under construction may have a larger vertical-launch system than the first two ships, increasing missile reserve and air-defense capacity.

A Chinese industry discussion argues that 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC machines and UV printers are moving from hobbyist niches toward consumer markets, but price and reliability remain hard limits.

After a dangerous Qinling hike, a young Chinese founder designed an exoskeleton that assists the knee rather than the hip, targeting downhill fatigue and potential energy recovery.

NOUSBOT raised nearly 100 million yuan, roughly $14 million, to expand production of miniature planetary roller screws for humanoid robots and other precision actuators.

At ChinaJoy 2026, Alibaba Cloud and TapTap argued that natural-language tools have made game prototyping easy, shifting the bottleneck to distribution, quality control and compliance.

Chinese coverage reports a White House claim that Chinese exporters route goods through more than 40 countries to avoid US tariffs, widening the transshipment dispute beyond China and Mexico.

MiHoYo will take its AI music-and-companion app BSide: Olivia Lin offline after a two-month Steam test, exposing the difficulty of turning AI companionship into a durable paid game.

At the Shanghai Book Fair, AI search and companion tools share space with a shrinking Story Club magazine, whose aging readership exposes the pressure on China’s popular print culture.

Hangzhou police say a professional group used accounts totaling more than 20.2 million followers to manufacture negative publicity, then demanded payment to remove it.

Foreign issuers have sold 202.475 billion yuan, roughly $28.5 billion, of panda bonds this year, already surpassing the full-year totals for 2024 and 2025.