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Chinese publisher covering the full model size range rather than frontier-only.
A new study says AI agents still fail at free-form research. The self-improvement story is the load-bearing beam under a lot of compute spending, and it just got a crack in it.
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Capital spending of $9.98bn in one quarter bought 45% AI cloud growth, a 12% segment margin and a $6.58bn free cash outflow. The trade is now explicit in the accounts.
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Export controls walled off China's AI demand from TSMC and Samsung. SMIC, the only domestic route to 7nm-class logic, is now repricing the captive pool it inherited.
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US export controls cover physical Nvidia chips, not remote access to them. A House-passed bill would change that, but the rule-writing and the customer checks are still unfinished business.
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ByteDance and Tencent have each taken roughly 10,000 accelerators against licence caps of 75,000 and January orders near two million. The constraint is paperwork, not fabrication.
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Revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter because a 19 percent ad decline on a bigger base beats 25 percent AI growth on a smaller one. Capex tripled meanwhile.
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TrendForce now expects domestic silicon to take about 90% of China's AI accelerator market in 2026, up from 45%. The arithmetic says the constraint is fab and packaging output, not Washington.
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The Hangzhou maker sold about a tenth of itself for roughly $900mn, with retail demand covering the offer more than 8,000 times. Most of what it ships is still quadrupeds.
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July was the biggest month for new unicorns in more than four years, and H1 alone had already beaten the whole of 2025. One company priced at $1.1 billion is less than a year old.
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Retail investors bid more than 5,000 times the shares on offer. The prospectus underneath shows adjusted quarterly profit down 52.55% and robot hands that still cannot work a full shift.
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Hugging Face now hosts 2.96 million public model repositories. The ones anyone actually pulls number in the tens of thousands, and the monthly parameter ceiling has been set in China all year.
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