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Aptera has found someone to build its solar car, and it is in Shanghai

Aptera has partnered with Shanghai’s Launch Design on a manufacturing programme worth up to $44mn, covering tooling, testing and pilot production. Aptera pays two-thirds of the costs, while its latest filing reports $10.1mn in cash and substantial doubt about continuing as a going concern. Aptera has finally found someone to build its solar car. The […]

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DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live on the company’s API platform. It takes the text-only V4-Flash and adds the ability to read images and screenshots. […]

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Chinese video platform Bilibili is expanding worldwide

Bilibili has relaunched its international app without identity verification, plans an English-language website and is hiring community managers in six cities including London. The company says content on its international and Chinese sites will be the same. Bilibili is making a serious attempt at the world outside China. The video platform has relaunched its international […]

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China is removing Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies

China is removing a government version of Microsoft’s Windows 10 from state agencies, earlier than planned. The Ministry of State Security recently told some state-linked entities to uninstall the customised software, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The instruction stemmed from data security concerns, they said. They did not specify the vulnerabilities involved. […]

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Baidu’s revenue falls for a fifth quarter as ads keep sliding

Baidu revenue fell for a fifth straight quarter. The advertising business kept shrinking faster than the AI business could grow. The Chinese search company reported its results on Tuesday, with second-quarter revenue of RMB31.3bn ($4.62bn). That is down 4 percent on a year earlier and 2 percent on the previous quarter. Net income attributable to […]

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Google plans to end Pixel production in China by 2027

Google has told suppliers it plans to move all Pixel production out of China from 2027, according to Nikkei Asia. That covers phones, smartwatches and wireless earbuds. Lauly Li reported the plan on 18 August, citing the ongoing tensions between Washington and Beijing. Nikkei named Vietnam and India as the destinations. The date has moved. […]

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Qwen is the world’s most downloaded open model, by a smaller margin than Alibaba says

Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, making them the most used open-weight family in the world. The Hugging Face report published a day earlier counts 2,045 million for Qwen this year, and 151,448 derivatives against Alibaba’s claim of more than 300,000. Alibaba says its Qwen models have passed 3 billion downloads, […]

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Voyah recreated Mercedes’ upside-down tunnel ad, then launched the car for $33,800

Dongfeng’s Voyah launched the Passion S electric SUV on Friday after promoting it with a stunt in which the car drove a full loop around a tunnel ceiling in Wuhan. Prices start at 229,900 yuan, about $33,800, for a car with 800V charging and Huawei’s latest driver assistance. Dongfeng’s premium brand Voyah launched an electric […]

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Five of Europe’s biggest companies just bought compute Mistral has not built

Mistral set out the plan on 11 August. Its own announcement covers three things at once. Regional endpoints are now generally available, letting customers pick Europe or the US for inference. A Priority Tier in public preview adds custom rate limits and an uptime commitment. The third part is the one that funds the other […]

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