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Genesis AI company opens its World 1.0 platform, providing high-performance full-stack simulation infrastructure for robot and physical AI developers, helping agents efficiently train in a virtual training ground, reducing the learning barrier for skills such as robots cooking, and accelerating the implementation of embodied intelligence.

Skild Art offers a 9.9 yuan 7-day trial, unlocking all premium features for the price of a drink. Includes 150 credits, generating ~150 images, allowing AI visual creators to test the platform stress-free without committing to long-term membership.....

Goldman Sachs derivatives expert Brian Garret notes investors are broadly underweight the Magnificent Seven, with funds rotating into AI-benefiting semiconductors. The Seven have underperformed, raising concerns over profitability of massive AI spending and institutional selling. Hedging costs in QQQ options are rising, outpacing those of small-caps.....

Lin Xi, head of ByteDance's Doubao AI phone hardware, has left, becoming the first core hardware lead to depart since the 2024 AI phone project launch, sparking speculation. Insiders deny the project is cancelled, stating it has entered a new adjustment phase.....

AI research paradigm is undergoing profound transformation. At the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum, Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, noted that AI R&D has entered the third stage of 'AI-led research.' Starting 2026, past reliance on human-crafted rules and fine-tuning will be overturned, as AI increasingly leads its own development.....

Alibaba DAMO Academy, Renmin University and UCAS released the first AI agent for superconducting material discovery, Elements Claw. It achieves independent research, offering an efficient automated paradigm that could replace the trial-and-error long-cycle method.....

Google DeepMind's text-to-video model Gemini Omni Flash climbed to the top of the authoritative blind test ranking Video Arena with 1404 Elo points, demonstrating Google's multimodal technology strength and confirming that the video generation field is rapidly evolving.

NVIDIA released the Nemotron-Labs-TwoTower discrete diffusion language model, solving the problem of slow token-by-token generation speed in large models. The weights have been open-sourced on Huggingface. The model reuses pre-trained weights of existing backbone networks without the need for retraining from scratch, significantly reducing costs. It adopts a 60B dual-tower architecture, with two 30B networks working in parallel. Each tower activates 3B parameters and is equipped with 128 routable expert modules to improve generation efficiency.

Microsoft's internal AI operating system, Project Aion, designed for AI PCs, has been exposed. Built on Edge and lightweight web technologies, it abandons traditional Start menus and desktop icons, with the Copilot-invoked taskbar as the sole interaction hub. Focused on feeds, creation, and real-time info, it introduces 'Spaces' to auto-categorize webpages, fundamentally rethinking interaction logic.....

ByteDance Engine launched its self-developed advertising governance large model, Mamoda 2.5, achieving an upgrade in content safety risk control technology. Starting from version 1.0, which could only identify basic prohibited text, the model has continuously evolved, expanding its capabilities. It now provides stronger support for efficiently and accurately identifying and managing prohibited content in the digital advertising ecosystem.

Anthropic will remove access to its top model Claude Fable5 from subscriptions on July 7, 2026, excluding core features from membership. Costs for developers and heavy users will likely surge. The move follows the US lifting export curbs on Fable series, with global redeployment underway.....

Chinese scientists unveiled the first stratigraphic AI model and intelligent global stratigraphic correlation system at the 5th International Congress on Stratigraphy. It aims to integrate global geological data, replace tedious manual correlation with AI, efficiently interpret Earth's 4.6-billion-year evolutionary history, and serve as an 'intelligent steward' of the Earth.....

Starting July 7, Anthropic will remove its top model Claude Fable5 from subscription tiers and switch to usage-based credits. Pro and Max users, who previously could use up to 50% of their weekly allowance on this model, will lose access. The move has sparked user backlash.....

AI Safety Center's Remote Labor Index reveals a breakthrough in remote work automation. Claude Fable5 achieved a record 16.1% automation rate on freelance tasks like 3D modeling, architectural design, graphic design, and video animation, based on industry standards measuring AI output quality matching or surpassing human professionals.....

Alibaba issued an internal ban to discontinue all Claude products from Anthropic by July 10, including models like Sonnet, Opus, Fable, and agents like Claude Code. Previously, Alibaba had allowed external AI use with free quotas and reimbursements to accelerate intelligence, hinting at a strategic shift.....

Meta's new app Pocket lets users generate interactive mini-games or apps ('Gizmos') from text prompts in real time, showcasing AI's exploration in interactive content creation.....

Tencent launched the '2026 Summer Unprotected Minors Special Action', introducing an 'AI Dual-Engine Addiction Prevention' mode on top of national gaming restrictions. This approach uses AI technology to strengthen health protection from both inside and outside games. Although the industry has already established time limits and spending controls, new measures aim to address regulatory gaps by leveraging AI, reinforcing a firewall.

Oracle is betting billions on massive data center buildouts to lead in the AI cloud race. But as infrastructure comes online, Wall Street worries that if key clients like OpenAI can't sustain huge AI spending, this gamble could become a heavy asset burden. Oracle recently detailed these risks in its annual report.....

UBS report: AI-driven stock rally pushed global wealth growth to a recent high, with total wealth up 10.8%. Billionaires benefited more, with assets surging 25% on average. The number of billionaires rose 13% to 3,302; 18 have $50-100bn, 19 above $100bn, most top ones based in US.....

Alibaba Open Sources Page Agent, Changing the Approach to Browser Automation. It allows large models to directly parse web page structures, rather than relying on external screenshots or protocol-driven methods, thereby dynamically adapting to changes and solving the 'reinventing the wheel' dilemma.