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Blood Cancer UK lost 53% of its leukaemia page traffic in a year. Its patient community grew 86% in the same window, and five other major UK health charities report the same pattern.
On July 15, a Chinese rule disabled user-built human-like AI companions on Doubao and Tongyi Qianwen, two of the country's largest consumer chatbots, prompting quiet goodbyes, careful export, and small resistance among users interviewed by
Northwestern researchers flagged irregular heartbeats with 98% accuracy on simulated ECG data, betting the brain's noise-filter region is a better template for low-power AI than the 'thinking' one.
Stripe President Will Gaybrick said on X that the company's internal coding agents merged 1,300 pull requests — proposed code changes submitted for review — in a single week, making the case on Andreessen Horowitz's podcast, The a16z Show, that AI
Gujarat Police is expected to launch a hackathon in September to test whether more than a decade of piecemeal CCTV procurement can be unified through a single software layer.
PC Partner, the manufacturer behind Zotac and Sapphire, warns of a second-half shortage. Jon Peddie Research's numbers show unit sales up 28% and revenue up 76% year over year.
Released August 13 with a joint Peking University paper, the open-source agent runtime runs on Cordis, a framework that registers an inverse for every component change and replays them on unload.
India's grid planners see 26.3 GW of new data-centre demand by 2031, and Gartner sees AI infrastructure spend nearly doubling in 2026. Cheaper AI and pricier power can be the same curve.
In an 8/17 memo, the Chinese internet-security firm reframes every manager from "approval machine" to "AI team coach" and gives the year-end review teeth.
A brand-new Chinese embodied-AI startup used a go-kart as a controlled rig to test whether one AI model can coordinate a humanoid's arms, legs, and vision in one continuous task.
Eyou Robot, a Chinese supplier of integrated servo joints (the sealed motor modules that act as humanoid robots' rotary 'muscles'), pairs the 1.5M-set order book with a fully automated Shanghai line: one joint every 60 seconds at 98% yield.
Spec sheet: 22 degrees of freedom (joint axes), 10 kg per arm, 2,070 teraFLOPS (trillions of floating-point operations per second) of on-device compute.