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May 13, 2026
Anduril Secures $5B Funding at $61B Valuation
Defense startup Anduril raised $5 billion in funding. The company, specializing in AI-backed weapons, doubled its valuation to $61 billion in one year. This underscores investor confidence in AI military tech.
Sci-Fi Author Builds Solo AI Company
郝景芳解散開發團隊，轉用AI代理獨自開發AI老師產品，並將童行書院拆分成9個一人公司，總部全職人力為零。她形容AI編程帶來如熱戀般的上癮快感，遠勝寫小說的艱辛過程。這種全AI工作流避免了人機混合的溝通障礙。
DoD Uses Anthropic Mythos Despite Exclusion
The US Department of Defense revealed it is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview. Simultaneously, it is accelerating migration to phase out Anthropic services entirely. This dual approach occurs amid critical national security challenges.
MediaTek Unveils AI Agent Engine 2.0 & Claw
MediaTek launched Dimensity AI Agent Engine 2.0 with SensingClaw for low-power always-on sensing, enabling proactive Agent OS on devices. Partnered with OPPO, Xiaomi, and Transsion for system-native Claw featuring cross-app execution and privacy protection. Also released Tianxian AI Dev Kit 3.0 to boost edge multimodal AI agents.
Alibaba Health Launches Hydrogen Ion Medical AI
Alibaba Health has unveiled 'Hydrogen Ion', a medical AI tool. It partners exclusively with UK's BMJ Group, providing Chinese doctors access to over 70 leading medical journals and multimedia resources.
SoftBank Profit Jumps on OpenAI Gains
SoftBank Group Corp. reported a surprise quarterly profit rise. The increase was driven by valuation gains on its OpenAI investment. This bolsters Masayoshi Son's AI investment strategy.
GEEKOM A9 Max Upgrades to Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
GEEKOM released the 2026 A9 Max mini PC, upgrading solely the processor to AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 from the Gorgon Point family compared to the 2025 model. It features full metal body, IceBlast 3.0 cooling, DDR5 support, dual M.2 PCIe Gen4 slots, Wi-Fi 7, and extensive I/O ports. The 32GB+2TB version prices at $1709.
MediaTek Expands Beyond Phones for AI Agents
As AI Agents become ubiquitous across devices, MediaTek aims to extend its role beyond smartphone chips. The company underscores chips' unchanging centrality as device hubs amid evolving hardware.
Anthropic Seeks $30B Raise at $900B Valuation
Anthropic is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in new financing. The Claude maker targets a valuation over $900 billion excluding the investment. Bloomberg reports the discussions.
Siemens CEO Backs Buyback, Eyes AI Regs
Siemens CEO Roland Busch discussed orders outlook, profit guidance, and Middle East supply chain risks. He addressed European AI regulation challenges. The company plans a €6 billion share buyback.
New Benchmark for AI Engineering Optimization
Einsia AI's Navers Lab launched Frontier-Eng Bench, a new benchmark evaluating AI agents' long-term optimization in real-world engineering tasks across five domains. It shifts focus from one-shot answers to iterative generative optimization under compute budgets. Results highlight depth in iterative reasoning over width for breakthroughs.
Qianwen Enables AI-Powered Taobao Shopping
The article explains why AI will redefine shopping as an expert skill, highlighting Taobao's integration with Qianwen. Users can now browse, select, and purchase directly in the Qianwen app, with AI providing personalized recommendations based on body type, preferences, and history. This creates the first closed-loop AI shopping experience, solving choice paralysis across categories like clothing, books, and health products.
Script Kill Shops Chase Romance Boom
Struggling script killing stores pivot to 'lianpei ben' romance scripts, where DMs act as lovers, driving massive tips and premiums up to 10k RMB per player monthly. Players cross cities and subsidize groups for emotional immersion, mirroring otome games and AI companions' growth. Industry hits 172B RMB with emotional content dominating.
Korea Exchange Rolls Out AI for Market Surveillance
Korea Exchange (KRX) announced it has begun incorporating AI technology into its capital market monitoring operations. The rollout follows its acquisition of local AI startup Fair Labs approximately three months ago. The move is intended to accelerate KRX's AI transformation and enhance its data business.
Shanghai AI Lab KrF Resin Breakthrough
Shanghai AI Lab and partners developed high-purity KrF photoresist resin via AI-driven synthesis platform. It achieves batch consistency meeting semiconductor standards. Now entering customer validation with Hengkun New Materials.
JD.com AI Try-On for 618 Festival
JD.com launched AI virtual try-on generating personalized clothing fit images from user photos. Feature rolls out ahead of 618 shopping festival. E-commerce rivals compete on AI-enhanced shopping experiences.
MiniCPM-V 4.6: 1.3B Model Runs on RTX 4090
OpenBMB and Tsinghua University open-source MiniCPM-V 4.6. This 1.3B-parameter multimodal model runs on a single RTX 4090. It matches larger competitors on key benchmarks.
Hongdu Sole Supplier for NVIDIA AI Backplanes
Hongdu Electronics, a Kunshan-based PCB maker, is the world's only supplier of NVIDIA's 78-layer backplane, vital for advanced AI servers. It posted 62.9% YoY profit growth in Q1 2026 amid booming AI server demand.
SEEKOO Launches Multi-Agent Video Platform
Hangzhou startup SEEKOO, founded by ex-ByteDance and Tencent executives, raised tens of millions in funding. It launched Anijam.ai, a multi-agent video platform now with over 1,000 paying users.
AI Cracks 60-Year Erdős Math Puzzle
23yo hobbyist Liam Price used ChatGPT Pro to solve Erdős problem #728 via novel probabilistic path, formalized in Lean by Aristotle. Chinese undergrad Tang Quanyu rediscovered key 2001 counterexample for #613, aiding Terence Tao's formalization. Signals shift to AI-human math collaboration.