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Swipe right, and Alipay has been transformed. Today, this nation-wide app launched its AI version, streamlining the interface to just two main sections: the “Abao” chat assistant and the “Assets” ledger. This marks its most radical self-reinvention in nearly 20 years. The AI version of Alipay is currently in closed beta testing. Users who have been granted access to the beta...

Recently, Codex has been receiving rave reviews on social media. Some users have discovered that inviting a friend to join Codex resets the rate limit. Even if the invited user isn’t a new user or subscriber, as long as they open Codex via the link and...

Introduction: Inside and Outside the Great Wall—A small building nestled among trees in Compound No. 10, Chedaogou, Haidian District, Beijing, is home to the China Ordnance Industry Computer Application Technology Research Institute. On September 14, 1987, an email was sent from here across the Pacific Ocean to Geneva, Switzerland. It contained just one sentence: "Acro...".

According to a report by Forbes today, Swedish AI programming startup Lovable is in talks for a new round of funding, targeting a valuation as high as $12 billion—nearly double its $6.6 billion valuation from last December. This means that the company, which was founded just three years ago, is growing at a pace that would leave even Silicon Valley breathless...

Last night, Israeli AI software monitoring unicorn Coralogix completed $200 million (about RMB 1.35 billion) in Series F financing, with a post-investment valuation of $1.6 billion (about RMB 10.8 billion). The round of financing amount will be mainly used for AI intelligent body capability research and development, telemetry data technology set...

Astribot, a rope-driven AI robot company known as "China's version of Figure", announced today that it has completed a series of Series B financing. Three rounds of financing were completed in three months, totaling more than 1 billion RMB, and the company's valuation exceeded the 10 billion RMB mark in one fell swoop, formally ranking among China's...

Last night, OpenAI live streamed the release of three updates to Codex, the AI programming smartbody, namely the smartbody plugin, fixed-point modification, and one-click generation of interactive sites for documents. OpenAI also revealed that Codex has reached 5 million weekly active users, an 8x increase from earlier this year. Its ...

Early this morning, Anthropic's strongest general-purpose model Claude Opus 4.8 was officially released, the new model benchmark test comprehensively surpasses Gemini 3.1 Pro, Opus 4.7, only one inferior to the GPT-5.5, but the price of its standard model remains the same...

While the entire AI industry is still fighting over "who can train the strongest model", a Chinese woman at the helm of the company has quietly shifted the battlefield to "who can make the model run faster and cheaper" - which, in turn, happens to be the most valuable business in 2026. According to a Bloomberg report today, people familiar with the matter...

On May 22, 2026, a paper acceptance announcement on the official website of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange officially pushed an arithmetic giant spun off from Huawei into the spotlight of the capital market. (hereinafter referred to as "Super Fusion") GEM IPO was officially accepted to raise 8 billion yuan, a...