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Blue Origin Grounds New Shepard for Two Years to Reallocate Effort Toward Crewed Moon Missions
Blue Origin will suspend New Shepard suborbital flights for at least two years to concentrate resources on developing crewed lunar capabilities. The pause narrows Blue Origin's near-term business from tourism and short-duration research toward a high-stakes push for lunar hardware and human missions.
Musk Bets on Orbit: Pushing AI Compute from Data Centres to Satellites
Elon Musk is accelerating plans to relocate some large‑scale AI computing into orbit, arguing that intelligence density has been greatly underestimated. The idea could become economically viable within a few years as launch costs fall, but it faces serious technical, regulatory and geopolitical hurdles.
China’s 2025 Smartphone Market Seen at 307 Million Units, Lifting Momentum for Apple and Xiaomi
CAICT forecasts China’s domestic smartphone shipments at 307 million units in 2025, reflecting a large but mature market driven by replacement demand and premium upgrades. Apple and Xiaomi stand to benefit from premium positioning and broad model portfolios, while suppliers and policymakers navigate margin pressure and localisation trends.
Chengdu Shows Off 'AI+Health' Wearables as Local Industry Pushes for Tech-Healthcare Fusion
At Chengdu’s 2026 municipal political meetings, locally made AI health products — notably a multispectral, AI-driven "health hat" — were showcased as proof of the city’s strategy to marry AI with medical devices. Backed by national compute resources, strong manufacturing chains and favourable local policies, the company behind the hat reports rapid sales growth and expanding exports while aiming to shift spectral diagnostics into portable and home settings.
China’s Nuclear Research Pushes On: Harbin Engineering University and Atomic Energy Institute Open Accelerator Lab
Harbin Engineering University and the China Institute of Atomic Energy have inaugurated a joint accelerator laboratory to advance accelerator physics and ion-beam applications. The partnership follows the commissioning of China’s first commercialised domestic serial accelerator and aims to deepen research, talent development and industrial application in the nuclear sector.
Musk’s Orbital Gambit: Merging SpaceX and xAI to Build a $1.5 Trillion AI-in-Space Empire
Elon Musk is reportedly preparing to merge xAI into SpaceX and pursue a blockbuster IPO that would combine rockets, the Starlink network, X and the Grok AI model. The strategy aims to move compute into orbit to bypass terrestrial energy and cooling limits, but it raises major technical, regulatory and national-security questions.
Musk Eyes ‘Space Compute’ and Robot Missions to Moon and Mars as He Weighs Corporate Consolidation
Elon Musk is reportedly advancing plans to shift substantial computing into space, consider mergers among his companies, and explore delivering Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robots to the Moon and Mars. The ambition combines SpaceX’s launch capability with Tesla’s robotics and Musk’s AI interests, but faces steep technical, economic and regulatory hurdles.
China’s Cambricon Forecasts Strong 2025 Profit as AI Compute Demand Rises
Cambricon expects 2025 net profit of ¥1.85–2.15 billion, a year‑on‑year turnaround driven by stronger AI compute demand and successful product deployments. The result signals that Chinese AI chipmakers are beginning to convert rising demand and policy support into commercial profit, though challenges around scaling, margins and competition remain.
China’s Fourier Says Brain‑Controlled Exoskeletons for Stroke Rehab Could Reach Clinics in 1–2 Years
Fourier, a Chinese robotics firm, says it will integrate brain‑computer interfaces with exoskeletons to enable robots to detect patients’ movement intentions and provide timed physical assistance, aiming for clinical rollout within one to two years. The move rests on more portable BCI hardware, AI advances in signal interpretation, and a staged market strategy that targets hospitals first, then care homes and households.
Chinese Chipmaker Ziguang Guowei Rules Out Nvidia Buy, Underscoring Limits of Cross‑Border Tech Acquisitions
Ziguang Guowei, a Chinese semiconductor firm, told investors it has no plans to acquire Nvidia. The response highlights practical, regulatory and geopolitical obstacles to cross‑border purchases of cutting‑edge chipmakers and points to China’s continued focus on building domestic capabilities.
SenseTime Open-Sources ‘Sense Nova‑MARS,’ Betting on Agentic Multimodal AI to Drive Execution‑Capable Applications
SenseTime has open‑sourced Sense Nova‑MARS, a multimodal Agentic VLM available in 8B and 32B parameter sizes that the company says can plan actions, call tools and deeply fuse dynamic visual reasoning with image‑text search. The move democratizes access to execution‑oriented multimodal models, accelerating research and product integration while raising safety and governance questions about agentic AI.
Build the ‘Brain’ for Robots and You’ll Rule AI, Says Yushu’s Founder — A Bold Bet on Robot-Centric Large Models
Yushu Technology’s founder Wang Xingxing argued that the company or group that builds a large-scale AI model tailored to robots will become the leading global AI and robotics firm. The remark underscores a wider industry shift toward embodied, multimodal foundation models that fuse perception and action, but success requires massive embodied data, hardware–software integration and viable commercial deployments.