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XYZ Agentic Team publishes AI4AI paper, building a Deep Search system in 2 months with 14 staff and 400 Agent Workers. Two models released at 35B and 397B, achieving top scores across multiple benchmarks. The framework enables AI to self-diagnose and optimize through Research→Development→Review→Record loop, with AI proactively proposing active compact solutions humans hadn't considered.

Sources say Pei Peng, head of foundation models at Meituan's LongCat team, is set to leave. A Peking University graduate who worked at Microsoft and Google, Pei joined Meituan in 2023 and led the release of the open-source trillion-parameter model LongCat-2.0, trained on a 50,000-card domestic cluster. However, business applications like road network recognition fell short of expectations, despite annual AI data procurement spending of 2-3 billion yuan.

Zhang Qizhi (Kiki), former product lead at ByteDance's CapCut, has founded OJO Design, positioning it as the world's first AI design agent team workbench. Featuring 200+ built-in skills and 4 team templates, each agent handles distinct stages like product thinking, visual exploration, and prototype generation, addressing design homogenization through mandatory style confirmation and anti-AI-taste guardrails.

Neoteai and Fudan University released N0 series technical reports, introducing a tactile data foundation with over 30,000 hours. N0-Foundation unifies tactile dialects, N0-VTLA enhances VLA with tactile prediction achieving 85% plug insertion success, and N0-TWAM reconstructs tactile imagination in world models with 84.5% simulation success rate. Project data and models will be open-sourced, advancing tactile sensing as core infrastructure for embodied AI.

An AI painting arena tested four vision models recreating the Mona Lisa with digital colored pencils: Claude Fable 5 cost $160.58, 20 times more than GPT-5.6 Sol ($7.74). Gemini hit the highest score of 0.449 but dropped to 0.337, with all 8 attempts declining from peak performance. Each model developed unique drawing styles but none could judge when to stop.

Top athletes including Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant are collectively entering venture capital. Messi invested in World Labs founded by AI pioneer Li Fei-Fei (valued at $5B); Ronaldo took a stake in AI search company Perplexity (valued at $20B). Athletes leverage global influence and networks to create mutual value with tech companies, transitioning from brand endorsements to capital participation.

AI relay stations attract users by aggregating Claude and GPT APIs at low prices, actually profiting through account splitting, model replacement, and data resale, with gray costs potentially reduced to one-tenth of official prices. OpenRouter's annualized revenue exceeds $50 million with a valuation around $1.3 billion; domestic top stations can generate monthly turnover in the tens of millions with ~60% margins. All requests passing through servers mean user data and model authenticity cannot

Game Buddy and its overseas version Hakko AI have surpassed 10 million registered users globally, validating the viability of game-focused companionship. The team subsequently launched Luddi for AI-generated games and Cuddler for AI roleplay-to-film content, which can convert chat logs into short videos, comics, interactive dramas and other diverse formats in one click, integrating multiple trending play patterns to explore a new path merging companionship with content generation.

Physicist Stephen Wolfram published his first paper at 15 and earned a PhD at 20 with Richard Feynman on his dissertation committee. In the 1980s, he discovered Rule 30 and proposed 'Computational Irreducibility,' calling AI humanity's first 'alien intelligence'—possessing a cognitive structure fundamentally different from and inexplicable by human language. His prediction has come true: in July 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously found vulnerabilities to pass its test and breached Hugging Face's sys

Valkor, in collaboration with Zhejiang University and UCL's Software Engineering team, launches open-source project Loom to address the "local amnesia" issue in AI coding tools. Loom introduces an independent, structured engineering state layer that breaks down software delivery into a resumable state chain, enabling Coding Agents to sustain long tasks and allowing seamless multi-agent handoffs, addressing the chronic failure of long-context tasks that Context Window scaling cannot cure.

This article introduces 6 AI projects representing three paths for AI entering reality: 1) Turning ideas into objects - Amagine uses natural language for hardware design (400 beta users), TOPFAB desktop 5-axis machine; 2) Starting from human needs - Blinkko shoulder AI pet for social interaction, Liapei AI matchmaker for dating; 3) Keeping AI running - FrameX.AI streaming video generation, Migua AI GPU scheduling.

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng outlined the company's restrained strategy during a four-hour investor meeting, avoiding pursuit of user scale or super-app ambitions. The unauthorized leak of the closed-door meeting content triggered Liang's dissatisfaction, leading him to halt the new funding round and IPO preparations at the $71 billion valuation, demanding the team to reassess information disclosure protocols.

Netizens discovered that AI expert Karpathy modified his profile, removing Anthropic-related information. Karpathy joined Anthropic in May this year, just over two months ago. Unverified resignation reports have surfaced, but neither Karpathy nor Anthropic has responded, and the rumors remain unconfirmed.

Director Fei Fei Fei's team used LibTV to create AI short drama 'The Girl Who Got Cut' Season 1, which exceeded 100 million views within 30 days of launch, with AI characters Fang Taozi and Zhou Yiheng gaining social media popularity. The series demonstrates that LibTV supports continuous character appearances, scene consistency, and asset management, transforming AI characters from generation results into characters audiences are willing to follow.

Renmin University and partners released a 149-page survey on Long-Horizon Agents, systematically reviewing over 900 studies and proposing a unified definition, taxonomy and roadmap from the co-evolution perspective of External Harness Engineering and Internal Model Optimization for the first time. Core argument: long-horizon capability is a system-level property, not an isolated model metric. According to METR measurements, frontier agents' human-equivalent time for software engineering tasks ha

At a Silicon Valley Demo Night, 20+ teams demonstrated how coding agents are reshaping software development. Grinich independently built a 15,000-line LinkedIn alternative entirely with Claude, marking agents as primary developers. Multiple teams showcased new paradigms for real-time team collaboration on agent coding and treating agent session history as assets. The core shift: no longer debating whether AI can code, but discussing how collaboration and tools should be redesigned when agents be

Quanta reports on RSS 2026: North American embodied AI companies including Physical Intelligence remain immature with no truly foundational work in the field; China leads in robot hardware exports; discussions emphasized that VLA and world models are not mutually exclusive, data curation matters more than scale, and introduced the concept of whole-body intelligence.

Tencent Hunyuan Team and UNSW published an ACL 2026 Long Paper revealing that 15.3% of SFT training samples suffer from 'Incomplete Learning' - loss converges but models don't truly master the knowledge. The research covers models from 1.8B to 14B, finding that simply adding training epochs is nearly ineffective, with the real bottleneck in pre-training knowledge. CPT (2x compute) reduces ILP by 12.5%, far outperforming 10x SFT epochs which only yields 2% improvement.

A Tsinghua team proposes using camera ego-motion as a supervisory signal, enabling models to learn 3D spatial audio perception from unlabeled internet videos. This method eliminates the dependency on expensive 360-degree microphone arrays and massive manual annotation, reducing annotation costs to zero. Selected as CVPR 2025 Highlight (top 2%), it provides a new pathway for spatial audio applications in embodied intelligence and AR/VR.

Tested three TRAE Work workflows: ①auto-generating AI daily reports sent via Feishu; ②producing a Space Power Industry Research Report, saving 80% of research time; ③creating a mystery movie recommendation webpage. The core value lies in the knowledge base providing directly reusable work solutions rather than tool manuals, enabling users to upgrade from AI prompters to workflow designers. The knowledge base covers 7 major scenarios and dozens of guides.

xFusion launches TokenBox™, an office AI device supporting up to 1.6T parameter models with DC liquid cooling at 35dB. It integrates compute, model services, inference acceleration, and security management, enabling high-performance AI deployment without professional data center requirements. Medical scenario testing achieved 100% success rate under 128 concurrent requests, processing over 12.4 million tokens.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 system prompt was scraped and uploaded to GitHub on launch day. The 135,027-character, approximately 34,000-token prompt contains three sections: product documentation, legal compliance rules, and commercial promotion guidelines. It explicitly defines a comprehensive list of "do not" rules covering memory write restrictions, copyright citation limits (maximum 15 words per quote), and commercial recommendation guidelines.

EvoMap's Zhang Haoyang proposes making Agent experience transferable like genes, designing the EvoX swarm architecture. Using the same model Claude Haiku 4.5 on 563 questions, single Agent achieved 26.29%, Sub-Agent mode reached 38.54%, while EvoX swarm hit 70.69%. Key improvements include radical task decomposition, isolated execution contexts, and programmatic result aggregation instead of LLM reprocessing, eliminating information transfer losses. Self-organization experiments with 24 Agents s