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Google Prices Pixel 10A at $499, Doubling Down on Mid‑Market Push
Google has launched the Pixel 10A at $499, consolidating its strategy of using lower‑cost Pixel models to broaden consumer reach. The device underscores Google’s focus on software differentiation and on‑device AI as the primary lever in a fiercely competitive midrange smartphone market.
Chinese Institute Unveils Fully Automatic Transplanter for Substrate-Block Vegetable Seedlings, Promising Big Labor and Cost Savings
A team at the Nanjing Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute has developed a fully automatic transplanter for substrate-block vegetable seedlings that links five automated stages to reduce seedling damage and raise planting speed. The machine can be run by two people to cover about 8–10 mu per day, is claimed to be eight times faster than manual transplanting and to save more than 400 yuan per mu in costs.
China Puts eVTOLs and a 22,580-Drone Swarm Center Stage at the Spring Gala — A Public Leap for the Low‑Altitude Economy
China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala in Hefei publicly showcased 16 EHang EH216‑S eVTOLs and a 22,580‑vehicle GD4.0 drone swarm, the latter setting a Guinness record for single‑computer control. The display underscores accelerating efforts to commercialise low‑altitude aviation while highlighting the regulatory, safety and infrastructure hurdles that remain before routine passenger eVTOL services become viable.
Chinese Robot Dog Unmasks an Indian Tech Embarrassment: University Admits It Bought, Not Built, the Demo
Galgotias University displayed a robot dog at India’s AI Impact Summit that it claimed to have developed, but later admitted the device was purchased from Chinese firm Unitree. The admission raises questions about transparency at government‑hosted tech showcases and highlights the gap between aspirational claims of indigenous capability and the practical realities of hardware development.
China’s Spring Gala Becomes a ‘Super Roadshow’ for Humanoid Robots — But the Real Test Is Commercialisation
China’s CCTV Spring Festival Gala featured multiple domestic robot makers in high‑visibility performances, turning the national broadcast into a de facto investor roadshow. The exposure has already driven search and order spikes, and several companies are accelerating listing plans, but converting spectacle into sustainable revenue will require scalable manufacturing and clear commercial use cases.
Anthropic Faces at Least $80 Billion Cloud Bill by 2029, Underscoring Hyperscalers’ Grip on AI
Anthropic expects to pay at least $80 billion to Amazon, Google and Microsoft by 2029 to host and run its Claude AI on cloud infrastructure. The projection highlights the centrality of hyperscaler compute in the AI economy and carries implications for corporate margins, cloud vendor leverage, chip demand, and regulatory attention.
Guerrilla Robotics: How Songyan Dynamics Plans to Turn Humanoid Robots into Household Appliances
Songyan Dynamics, a two-year-old Chinese robotics start-up led by Tsinghua dropout Jiang Zheyuan, is pushing to scale humanoid robots into households by combining low-cost domestic models with higher-priced exports. Backed by strategic branding and a lean "guerrilla" team, the company aims to capitalize on an industry shift from demo-driven hype to deliveries and financial metrics as trackers predict rapid shipment growth in 2026.
Nvidia and Meta Forge Multi‑Year AI Partnership as Meta Orders Millions of Chips
Nvidia and Meta have signed a multi‑year partnership that will see Meta deploy millions of Nvidia chips across on‑premises and cloud infrastructure. The deal secures compute supply for Meta's AI ambitions while reinforcing Nvidia's dominant position in AI hardware, with wide implications for competitors, cloud providers and energy use.
Meta Bets Big on Nvidia: First Major Standalone Roll‑out of Grace CPUs to Power Its AI Future
Meta and Nvidia have widened a strategic partnership to include large‑scale deployment of Nvidia GPUs and the first standalone mass roll‑out of Nvidia’s Grace CPUs, plus future plans to adopt Vera CPUs around 2027. The deal ties Meta’s planned $135 billion capex trajectory to Nvidia’s full‑stack platform while leaving room for other suppliers as a hedge against vendor concentration.
Robots on the Spring Gala: China’s Industrial AI Pays a Price for Publicity
China’s Spring Festival Gala has become a major stage for robotics firms chasing public attention, but the industry still faces fundamental commercial challenges. High-profile performances generate emotional value without addressing core needs such as repeatable deployments, cash-flow sustainability, and industrial reliability.
China Paper Flags a Breakthrough That Could Let Next-Generation Flying‑Wing Bombers Fly Supersonic
A NUAA research team reports a method to raise the critical flutter speed of flying‑wing designs by over 60 percent, potentially enabling a stealthy bomber to operate at supersonic speeds. While the result does not guarantee an operational supersonic H‑20, it removes a major technical barrier and alters strategic calculations about survivability and strike range.
China’s Spring Festival Robot Spectacle Masks a Brutal Commercial Reality: The Gala Is Not the Finish Line
China’s 2026 Spring Festival Gala turned into a high‑stakes showcase for humanoid-robot firms, offering colossal national exposure but also prompting debate over whether theatrical demonstrations translate into commercial viability. The sector now faces a pivot from spectacle to scale: 2026 will test which firms can deliver reliable, cost-effective robots and which will be left behind as capital cools.