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February 28, 2026
Zhipuโs Tang Jie: Quiet AI Powerhouse
Profile of Zhipu AI leader Tang Jie, a Tsinghua professor staying low-key amid AI hype. Explores his ambitions and sense of elite freedom. Highlights his influence outside the spotlight.
Seedance Boosts Long Videos, iQiyi Gears Up
Seedance AI model advantages long-form video generation. iQiyi prepares competitive response. Gong Yu forecasts AI commercial blockbusters in 2-3 years.
Meloni's Italy Growth Plan and AI Fears
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has stabilized the country. In her next phase, she aims for economic growth. She calls for a global reality check on AI risks.
DevOps Seeks ML Collab for Production
DevOps engineer offers free MLOps expertise to deploy ML models from notebooks to Kubernetes production. Services include CI/CD pipelines, autoscaling, observability, and drift detection. Collaboration builds portfolios for both parties without payment.
DeepSeek Services Hit by Outages
DeepSeek web and app services reported access issues today. Users saw 'server busy' or unresponsive errors. Testing by Sci-Tech Daily confirmed network retry prompts.
AI Boom Triples Fiber Optic Prices
G.652D fiber prices surged from under 20 to 50-60 yuan/core-km in months, driven by AI data centers needing 10x more fiber. Military drones and global projects tighten supply; high for 2+ years amid capacity lags.
Enable Qwen 3.5 Image Understanding Locally
A Reddit post details how to enable multimodal image understanding in Qwen 3.5 using llama.cpp via opencode. Users add a 'modalities' configuration to the opencode.json file specifying text and image inputs. This allows local running of the 35B model with vision capabilities.
Cable Prices Surge 77% on AI Boom
Optical cable benchmark prices rose 77% in 1.5 months to 2212 yuan/km as operators like Tianjin Telecom adjust amid AI-driven demand. AI data centers boost need for OM4/OM5 and G.654.E fibers, while drone apps spike G.657.A2; preform rod shortages limit supply. Telco procurements fail or hike limits due to supply-demand mismatch.
MICCAI 2026 Workshop Submission Rules Queried
A researcher questions if non-archival workshops on OpenReview count as prior publication under MICCAI guidelines. Rules allow arXiv preprints but ban other peer-reviewed venues including workshops. Seeks website clarification.
Seedance 2.0 Ignites Weibo AI Frenzy
Seedance 2.0 topped Weibo's hot search list right after launch, amid 371 AI topics during Spring Festival. Discussions evolved from hype to practical tutorials, model comparisons, and real-world applications. Weibo's text-image feed positions it as China's key AI diffusion platform.
Burger King AI Earphones Score Employee 'Thank Yous'
Burger King is equipping employees with AI-powered earphones to monitor and score customer interactions in real-time. The AI specifically evaluates politeness markers like 'thank you' to improve service quality. This represents a novel use of AI in fast-food operations.
Vibe Coding Lessons with Google AI Studio
Author built a production-ready MarTech app using Google AI Studio and Gemini 3.0 Pro without writing code, by directing AI as a teammate. Success required strict constraints like JSON schemas, no AI math ops, and separation of probabilistic AI from deterministic TypeScript logic. Key was active oversight, clear product backlog, and architectural discipline.
China Releases First National Humanoid Robot Standards
China unveiled its first national standard system for humanoid robots and embodied intelligence at the HEIS annual meeting on February 28. This top-level framework covers the full industry chain and lifecycle. It signals a new phase of standardized development in the sector.
Juewu Raises $14.4M for All-Terrain Robots
Juewu Technology, backed by Anker, secured over $14.4 million in Series A funding led by China Growth Capital. The funding comes after 1 million kilometers of field testing its modular deformable robot platform. The platform targets heavy-load all-terrain applications.
Ye Tan: AI Era Needs Human Empathy
Finance expert Ye Tan responds to a reader's life struggles, viewing AI-driven unemployment optimistically. She emphasizes lifelong learning, agility, and empathy as key skills amid predictions of a 2028 'intelligent crisis'. Humans will gain premium for kindness in an AI world.
AI Lab Runs 30K Experiments, Cuts Bio Costs
AI-driven autonomous robot lab tested 30,000+ conditions in 6 months for cell-free protein synthesis, slashing costs 40% beyond human efforts. Powered by GPT-5-like LLMs for design and analysis, with robotic execution. Experts say it augments, not replaces, biologists for exploratory work.
ModelBest Secures China Telecom-Led Funding
ModelBest has completed a funding round of hundreds of millions of yuan led by China Telecom. This marks a strategic collaboration with national information infrastructure providers. The partnership aims to advance efficient large model development.
Xiaomi Patents LLM Auto-Driving Report Gen
Xiaomi Auto granted patent for generating autonomous driving algorithm evaluation reports via LLMs. Process: Acquire eval data, select targeted prompts by data/algorithm type, input to LLM for report output. Reduces manual effort, cuts costs, boosts efficiency and quality.
Unitree Pushes Robot Standards Normalization
Unitree Chairman Wang Xingxing aims to standardize humanoid robot efficiency, stability, safety at HEIS meeting. Robots achieve near-100% success on trained single tasks but struggle with long-task planning. Stresses stable, rich motion as prerequisite for reliable productivity.
Sandbox for Multimodal UI Agents
AGB CLOUD offers secure sandbox for training multimodal agents on screens/UI elements. Supports simultaneous text, image, and web interactions safely.