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May 11, 2026
Huang: AI Levels Field for 2026 Grads
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang advises 2026 graduates not to fear AI, as it resets everyone to the same starting line. The speech is hailed as the most reassuring in the AI era. Full transcript included.
R1 Moment: LIBERO Terminator Hits 99.9%
A breakthrough embodied large model, the LIBERO Terminator, achieves 99.9% on the LIBERO benchmark, marking the R1 moment. It pioneers a new paradigm in physical reasoning by conducting 'physical thinking' in latent space. This enables true generalization in robotic tasks.
AI-Coding Kids Invited to Apple WWDC
The first post-2010 generation using AI to write code has received invitations from Apple to attend WWDC. The article emphasizes that programming skills are increasingly valuable in the AI era. It includes a promo for Ifanr's WeChat.
Uncharted Dynamics Lands Seed Funding
Embodied AI infrastructure firm Uncharted Dynamics raised millions in seed funding led by Longqing Xianfeng. Proceeds will fund high-precision multi-body dynamics solver R&D and North America expansion.
Qianli Tech's 8M AD Vehicles IPO Push
Qianli Technology has resubmitted its listing application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The AI veteran aims to deploy intelligent driving tech in 8 million vehicles after pivoting from bankruptcy.
Shanghai Index Breaks 4200 on GPU Rally
China's A-share indices opened higher across the board, with Shanghai Composite up 0.51% surpassing 4200 points. GPU, storage, and lab-grown diamond sectors led gains, featuring limit-up in Huanghe Xuanfeng and sharp rises in Tongyou Tech and JCET. Gold, shipping, and insurance sectors lagged.
Hang Seng Dips as Semicon, Robotics Soar
Hang Seng Index opened down 0.31%, with Hang Seng Tech down 0.48%. Semiconductors and hardware led gains, Ledo Robotics up over 102% and Montage Tech over 4%. Retail and software services lagged, Baidu down over 3%, Alibaba over 1%.
Pop Mart, DJI Face China Consumer Woes
Pop Mart's Wang Ning should discuss challenges with DJI's Wang Tao. Both companies grapple with structural dilemmas common to Chinese new consumer firms.
Sora Dies, Kling Born in AI Video Race
OpenAI's Sora is fading while Kuaishou's Kling emerges as a strong contender. The AI video sector is characterized as a 'treadmill' race, symbolizing relentless but non-progressive competition.
Intel Stock 5x Surge Faces 120x Valuation Test
Intel's shares have risen fivefold, raising questions about sustaining a 120x valuation. The firm has recovered from near-dismantlement to reclaim a central role in the industry.
AI Crushes $6.4B SaaS Deal to Zero
Medallia undergoes debt restructuring, wiping Thoma Bravo's $6.4B equity as AI slashes seat-based SaaS demand by automating customer roles. Debt swelled to $3B amid rising rates and AI disruption. Signals PE credit crisis in SaaS sector.
Big Tech Ditches Headcount for AI Spend
China's top 10 internet firms employ 1.3M with billions in pay, shifting from headcount to AI/R&D; Tencent tops at 857B CNY R&D. AI-focused like Baidu gain stock upside, labor-heavy lag. Trend: money to machines, tech hires surge.
Vercel Sandbox Adds Request Proxying & Filtering
Vercel Sandbox firewall now supports forwarding specific HTTP requests to a user-controlled proxy for logging, debugging, or transformation. Matchers enable scoping to paths, methods, query strings, or headers, including credentials brokering for targeted requests like POST to APIs. Available in beta for Pro and Enterprise plans via @vercel/sandbox SDK.
Domestic AI Compute Trend Irreversible
East Wu Securities report states domestic computing power trend is irreversible, with AI Xinchuang forming five core lines. DeepSeek V4 first used domestic compute for training, marking a strategic shift. Infrastructure exceeds 14th Five-Year goals, focusing on autonomy in 15th plan.
Alibaba Merges Qwen AI with Taobao Shopping
Alibaba to integrate Qwen AI platform with Taobao for conversational shopping, enabling full purchase flow via chat. Qwen accesses 4B+ products with recommendations based on history. Taobao gains AI assistant for virtual try-on and price tracking.
Qwen-Code v0.15.10 Nightly Boosts Perf & Features
Qwen-Code released nightly v0.15.10 with core performance optimizations like bounding session metadata reads to 64KB head/tail, pooled buffers, and lazy message counts. New features include CLI i18n support, runtime.json sidecars for sessions, and telemetry trace/span ID injection for OTel. Tests were stabilized to reduce e2e flakes.
Edge AI Daily: Grok Build Hits Coding Tools
Nvidia's sovereign AI vision grapples with hardware centralization; Microsoft’s $1B Kenya data center stalls on energy limits. xAI launches Grok Build programming app in AI coding race; data centers face water and noise crises.
ByteDance Ups AI Infra Capex to 200B+ RMB
ByteDance is reportedly raising its 2024 capital expenditure to over 200 billion RMB, prioritizing AI infrastructure investments. This escalation supports its AI ambitions amid fierce competition. US companies are also avoiding 'AI-native' graduates skilled in ChatGPT but lacking independent thinking.
Vercel Sandboxes Add Node.js 26.x Support
Vercel Sandbox now supports Node.js version 26.x. Users must upgrade to @vercel/sandbox 1.10.22.0.0-beta.19 or later, or specific v2 versions, and set the runtime property to :@vercel/sandbox1.10.22.0.0-beta.19runtimenode26. Documentation provides full setup details.
TGR-D Partners RICOS for AI Racing Aerodynamics
RICOS has signed a contract with Toyota Gazoo Racing Development (TGR-D) to apply its proprietary AI-CAE technology. The partnership uses machine learning for rapid aerodynamics analysis predictions in racing cars. It aims to enhance aerodynamic performance in motorsports development.