- Aug 19
China's Tiangong Ultra clocks 8.86-second 100 metres at Beijing robot games
China's Tiangong Ultra humanoid robot ran 100 metres in 8.86 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, surpassing Usain Bolt's record before colliding with a protective mat.
- Aug 3
Alibaba unveils Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter AI model that rivals Anthropic and OpenAI on key benchmarks
The Chinese tech giant's new open-weight model scored second globally for visual analysis on Arena.AI and matched GPT-5.6 Sol and Fable 5 on several text benchmarks, intensifying the US-China AI race.
- Jul 30
Militants kill at least 10 police in drone and ambush attack on Pakistan checkpoint
The overnight assault in Hangu district, near the Afghan border, also left 15 attackers dead and more than two dozen officers wounded, police said.
- Jul 28
Typhoon Dolphin floods eastern China after landfall in Zhejiang, over one million evacuated
Typhoon Dolphin, the strongest storm to hit China this year, made landfall in Zhejiang province with winds exceeding 150 km/h, flooding Shanghai streets and forcing over one million people from their homes across eastern China.
- Jul 17
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model rivals US frontier AI, rattles markets and reignites open-source debate
Moonshot AI's open-weight model matches or beats GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 on key benchmarks, sending chip stocks lower and fueling debate over regulation and distillation.
- Jul 12
Typhoon Bavi weakens to tropical storm after hitting eastern China, 1.7 million evacuated, 17 dead in Philippines
Typhoon Bavi made landfall in Zhejiang province late Saturday, bringing torrential rain and forcing nearly two million evacuations before weakening to a severe tropical storm on Sunday morning.
