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An independent developer reports pushing Qwen3.8-27B inference on an RTX 3090 to nearly 2,000 prefill tokens per second and 132 decode tokens per second. The main improvement comes from a custom int8 kernel claimed to achieve 0.99997 similarity to fp32 output.
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA · 15d ago
ChipMango has raised $1.9 million to develop chip-design talent in Africa. Atlantica Ventures led the round, joined by DFS Labs, Kaleo Ventures, Madica, Trilinear Technologies, Malta Ventures, and other investors.
TechCabal · 15d ago
Samsung unveiled a three-phase HBM roadmap at Hot Chips 2026 that progressively moves logic and compute functions into the memory base die. Its zHBM vision ultimately stacks DRAM directly on top of the processor to improve AI system integration.
Tom's Hardware · 15d ago
Nvidia and Google are investing in Taiwan-based MediaTek, highlighting the chipmaker’s growing relevance in the AI hardware ecosystem. The move positions MediaTek as a company to watch in the next phase of AI chip development.
Bloomberg Technology · 15d ago
The article argues that selling cars abroad is no longer the hardest part of China’s automotive expansion. Compliance, localization, ecosystem collaboration, and long-term operations have become the core challenges for intelligent vehicles entering overseas markets.
钛媒体 · 15d ago
Enterprise software may shift from shipping every feature through a product backlog to generating custom functionality at request time. The concept envisions a support lead asking an application for a tailored view that is created temporarily and discarded after roughly 30 seconds.
The Next Web (TNW) · 15d ago
北京亦莊國資背景的 Robot Mall 機器人 4S 店成立近一年營收突破6000萬元，團體參觀與週末門票需求旺盛。專家指出，這種重資產模式高度依賴政府、產業集群與 B 端訂單，民營業者不宜直接複製大型門店。
虎嗅 · 15d ago
Nubia’s NaviX Ultra, billed as the world’s first AI-agent smartphone, has received its network access license and is scheduled to launch in September. It will include Doubao Phone Assistant, which relies on app-provided MCP services rather than screen reading and simulated clicks.
IT之家 · 15d ago
DeepSeek has released the weights and reference inference code for V4’s multimodal capabilities, exposing how images are integrated into its long-context and Agent architecture. Visual tokens participate directly in Attention, MoE routing, and downstream reasoning rather than being handled by a separate vision module.
雷峰网 · 15d ago
AI-related job risks are spreading beyond traditional technology roles to public relations, web development, and hotel work. The article also notes that the US job market is not showing improvement.
Bloomberg Technology · 15d ago
Lovart has quietly released a major update focused on adapting AI workflows to designers rather than forcing designers to adapt to AI. The update signals a stronger emphasis on natural, designer-centered creative interaction.
Ifanr (爱范儿) · 15d ago
NVIDIA will invest $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds and expand cooperation on custom AI chips. MediaTek will use NVIDIA NVLink Fusion and NVHBM technologies so customer-designed XPUs can connect to NVIDIA rack-scale AI systems.
虎嗅 · 15d ago
China is moving toward a mandatory national standard for autonomous driving, with L3 vehicles expected to enter the market more intensively over the next two years. The article says 享界 and 智界 appear to have anticipated the direction of the upcoming requirements.
Ifanr (爱范儿) · 15d ago
Runway is previewing Solaris, positioning it as a glimpse of a future no-code internet. The newsletter also includes guidance on connecting ChatGPT to iMessage.
The Neuron · 15d ago
The article examines the concerns surrounding Pony.ai during the Year of the Horse. It asks how investors and the market should evaluate a startup that has entered the public markets, with implications for autonomous-driving companies.
钛媒体 · 15d ago
The article compares Unitree’s sharply reduced valuation or pricing with AgiBot’s higher asking price. It presents the contrast as an early real-world stress test for embodied intelligence and the commercial value of humanoid-robot capabilities.
钛媒体 · 15d ago
The article examines why the upgraded DeepSeek appears to spend more time reasoning before responding. It raises the broader product question of how much inference time an AI system should use to balance reasoning quality and responsiveness.
钛媒体 · 15d ago
China’s 2026 interim results reveal a sharp split among robotics companies. Geekplus, UBTECH, and Unitree Robotics exceeded RMB 1 billion in revenue, but Unitree was the only profitable company, while humanoid robotics emerged as a key differentiator.
钛媒体 · 15d ago
Developers are repurposing Apple’s discontinued Touch Bar as a compact status panel for long-running AI coding and research agents. Tools such as T1Bridge, Agent Status for Pock, and Codex Touch Bar Buddy show task states and let users jump back to active workspaces without monitoring the main screen.
虎嗅 · 15d ago
A widespread Microsoft 365 outage has entered its second day, with search, file access, synchronization, and other functions still degraded across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Microsoft has restored much of Exchange Online mail flow while continuing targeted mitigation for the underlying authentication configuration issue.
Computerworld · 15d ago
Chinese chipmakers are setting increasingly ambitious targets to source wafer-fab equipment domestically. The push is testing whether local toolmakers such as Britech Semiconductor Equipment can deliver reliable machines for high-volume production.
SCMP Technology · 15d ago
AI-assisted security tools are driving Linux toward nearly 2,000 reported vulnerabilities per release as researchers scan roughly 40 million lines of code. Maintainers say they are overwhelmed by the volume, which includes both serious flaws and large amounts of low-priority work.
Tom's Hardware · 15d ago
Fifteen of 16 domestic MCU-related companies reported year-on-year revenue growth in the first half of 2026, with nine growing by more than 40%. Recovery is being driven by memory demand, automotive and industrial control, motor-control chips, wireless MCUs, and edge AI, while supply constraints are pushing prices upward.
虎嗅 · 15d ago
A Chinese court froze 2.14 billion yuan, or about $318 million, in assets held by Nexperia BV. The action intensifies the prolonged dispute over control of the Dutch chipmaker and its owner, Wingtech Technology.
Bloomberg Technology · 15d ago
Deere & Co. launched JD, an AI assistant integrated into its Operations Center mobile application.
Bloomberg Technology · 15d ago
Huawei’s first-half 2026 revenue rose 9.55% to 467.819 billion yuan, while parent-company net profit fell 36.8%. Record R&D spending, aggressive memory and component inventory purchases, higher management costs, and reduced subsidies pressured profitability as Huawei expanded across AI chips, operating systems, and smart vehicles.
虎嗅 · 15d ago
Nearly 100 display-industry companies have issued price-increase notices since late 2025, driven by higher costs for PCBs, glass cloth, chips, metals, and other components. AI server demand is tightening wafer and component supply, while AI glasses, AR/VR, and intelligent displays are viewed as potential growth engines despite limited current volumes.
虎嗅 · 15d ago
Tencent's operating-system-level AI assistant Marvis introduced a custom-model feature on September 1. Users can connect models such as Kimi, Zhipu GLM, DeepSeek, and MiniMax, or run local open-source models with synchronization across devices.
Pandaily · 15d ago
Chinese startup Direct Drive argues that embodied AI’s first major bottleneck is physical access to the real world, rather than intelligence alone. Its wheel-legged approach combines direct-drive actuators with mobility suited to curbs, slopes, and mixed indoor-outdoor environments.
Pandaily · 15d ago
Airport terminal billboards in Beijing and San Francisco are becoming a visible battleground for Chinese and global cloud providers promoting their AI capabilities. AI-native neocloud companies are also using these high-profile venues to establish themselves in the cloud market.
Pandaily · 15d ago