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General AI company Manus adjusts its China operations, lays off employees, and relocates its core technology team to Singapore. The China region had approximately 120 employees, and the company states this move is aimed at improving operational efficiency and focusing on core business. The official website now shows that the region is unavailable, replacing previous messages about the development of the Chinese version. The official Weibo and Xiaohongshu accounts have also been cleared, indicating a significant shift in the company's market strategy in China.

Only 20% of German employees received AI training, with 70% never trained, risking EU AI Act violations. Bitkom warns firms must ensure AI skills for all workers, as AI boosts efficiency but needs proper use. 14% fear job loss to AI, 1/3 see AI replacing bosses.....

Unitree Tech accelerates its IPO on the STAR Market, raising 700 million yuan in Series C funding at a 12 billion yuan valuation. Led by China Mobile, Tencent, and Alibaba, this is likely its final pre-IPO round, marking a crucial IPO phase.....

Nvidia acquired AI startup CentML for $400M. Founded by Chinese-Canadian Wang Shang, CentML specializes in AI performance optimization. Wang will join Nvidia with his 15-member team to manage AI system software.....

EU rejects tech giants' request to delay AI Act, maintaining schedule. The Act categorizes AI by risk level: banned (e.g., social scoring), strict regulation (e.g., biometrics), or transparency. Full enforcement starts 2026 with no extensions.....

In the wave of technological innovation, AI startups are reshaping the industry landscape, but financing challenges still exist. To help early-stage AI entrepreneurs break free from traditional fundraising thinking, renowned venture capitalist Kleida Martiro will host a panel discussion titled "Winning Capital in a Competitive Market: How to Raise Funds for Your AI Startup" at the TechCrunch All Stage event on July 15th in Boston. Martiro is Gl

Tao Tian Group announced yesterday at its 'Hard-Core Youth Tech Festival 4.0' event that its independently developed hundred-billion-parameter recommendation large model, RecGPT, has officially gone live. This innovative achievement will comprehensively upgrade the 'You May Also Like' information flow on the mobile Taobao homepage, providing users with a more accurate and personalized recommendation experience through AIGR (Generative Recommendation) technology. The launch of RecGPT marks an important step forward for Taobao in the field of e-commerce recommendations. Test data shows that the recommendation feed equipped with the RecGPT large model performs excellently, with real user click-through rates

Recently, a speech synthesis model called Qwen-TTS has made new progress, with its latest version update completed through the Qwen API, bringing users a richer speech synthesis experience. In this update, Qwen-TTS added support for three Chinese dialects: Beijing dialect, Shanghai dialect, and Sichuan dialect, further expanding its application scenarios. The model is trained on a large-scale corpus of more than 3 million hours, achieving naturalness and expressiveness at a human level. Qwen-TTS can not only accurately

In recent years, the entrepreneurship trend has intensified, especially under the impact of the pandemic, many people have begun to re-examine their career development. In this context, Henrik Werdelin founded a startup studio called Audos, aiming to use artificial intelligence technology to help ordinary people realize their entrepreneurial dreams. His goal is to incubate 100,000 new companies per year, rather than just dozens as in his previous experience with Prehype. Audos is based in New York, and Werdelin is working with his partner Nic

On June 18, 2025, the technology media outlet VentureBeat officially announced the finalists for the 2025 Women in AI Awards. This award aims to honor female leaders and innovators who have made outstanding contributions in the field of artificial intelligence. Background and Significance: The VentureBeat Women in AI Awards was established in 2023 and is the first authoritative award in the AI industry to specifically recognize women practitioners.

On June 18, 2025, technology media VentureBeat officially announced the finalists for the 2025 Women in AI Awards. This award aims to honor outstanding contributions by women in the field of artificial intelligence and promote industry diversity. The background and significance of the award: Launched in 2020, the VentureBeat Women in AI Awards have become one of the most prestigious female-exclusive honors in the AI industry.

Recently, a group of tech executives from Silicon Valley announced they are joining the U.S. Army Reserve to form a newly established innovation unit. These executives include Shyam Sankar, CTO of Palantir, Andrew Bosworth, CTO of Meta, and Kevin Weil and Bob McGrew from OpenAI. They will wear officer uniforms and aim to bring much-needed technological upgrades to the U.S. military.

Global renowned open-source AI platform Hugging Face recently released the open-weight model contributor ranking. Chinese teams Qwen and DeepSeek successfully ranked in the top 15, showcasing China's technical strength and influence in the global open-source AI field. This ranking honors the teams that provide high-quality model weights to the open-source community, with their models widely applied in academic and industrial innovation. The Qwen team supported by Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group has gained favor from the community due to the excellent performance of its Qwen3 series models in tasks such as instruction following and code generation.

According to a deep analysis of Mary Meeker's latest AI trend report, the world's largest tech companies are investing in AI research and development and capital expenditure on an unprecedented scale and speed. The report points out that over the past two decades, capital expenditures in the technology industry have been continuously increasing, initially for storing and accessing data, then for distributing and scaling, and now mainly focusing on computing and intelligence. This AI trend report highlights that by 2023, AI has evolved from a research function into an important capital expenditure project. The six major U.S. companies...

During the keynote speech at Snowflake Summit 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pointed out that more and more companies are beginning to view AI agents as entry-level employees. Altman stated that the focus of many employees' work has shifted to assigning tasks to AI agents, evaluating the quality of their results, integrating work content, and providing feedback. This working model is very similar to managing entry-level employees. Image source note: The image was generated by AI.