Helix 2.5 tests crowd video as a shortcut to home robot skills
Figure AI is sidestepping slow house-by-house robot demonstrations by converting crowdsourced domestic video into training data.
Steam Frame moves SteamOS onto Qualcomm Snapdragon hardware
The Steam Frame is the first Qualcomm Arm-platform device to run a full version of SteamOS. According to ifanr, the hardware features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor alongside 16GB of...
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Claude Pro recorded 11 opens while dual subscriptions cost 290 yuan
Productivity applications such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok drove US productivity app revenue up by approximately 100% and user time spent up by...
36Kr Project Open Mic weighs operating records over pitch decks
Lashou.com once scheduled its planned IPO date in reverse order while leading China's group-buying competition.
Stella shows where the Manus agent harness runs out of room
Manus built a software business without training its own foundation model. According to ifanr, the product's ARR had exceeded $100 million by December last year...
Xiaowei puts AI where a WeChat task becomes ambiguous
WeChat's deep integration of Xiaowei frames AI assistance as a question of placement: should help live in a destination of its own, or appear where a familiar...
TikTok Shop's mall turns video demand into a searchable shelf
TikTok Shop's mall captured 51.4% of attributed US GMV, ahead of short videos at 40.4% and livestreams at 8.2%.
Insta360 X6 leaves framing for the edit
Insta360 X6 captures 360-degree footage so the viewing direction can be chosen from panoramic material after the moment is recorded, rather than by mechanically...
WorkBuddy changes what an all-in-one office tool can do
WorkBuddy frames the all-in-one office tool as a choice about what software may do to a computer, rather than a contest over supported file formats.
Apple Reference Image needs a separate consent record
Apple Reference Image digitally signs original RAW data at capture, creating a durable record of what an iPhone sensor observed.
Vidu S2 turns video into a live operator
Vidu S2 treats generated video less like a finished clip and more like a running session: Shengshu Technology's model can alter a live stream while it is playing.
Douyin turns audience feeling into a conversion workflow
Pepsi's "Alive" campaign on Douyin turned brand blue, bubble effects and music into interactive stickers and a challenge.
GLM-5.3 turns coding-model choice into a systems test
GLM-5.3 makes coding-model choice a systems test: it scored 60 alongside Kimi K3 despite having 744B parameters against Kimi K3's 2.8T.
JD Logistics shows where AI must own the whole job
JD AI Shopping, JD.com's standalone conversational app, puts the question plainly: can AI own a customer's goal rather than merely assist inside a screen?
ColorOS 17 makes AI memory an operational system
ColorOS 17 turns scattered phone activity into Xiaobu Memory, where One-key Flash Note can capture delivery pickups, WeChat chats, reading excerpts, and Bilibili...
Doubao Work turns the AI office into an execution layer
Doubao Work concentrates ByteDance's office-agent capabilities inside the Doubao system, signaling a move from stand-alone AI tools toward an agent that can act...
PRIMACT R100 puts local inference before general factory robots
Zhílái Embodied Intelligence is building a dual-layer system that pairs a general large model with expert models, reporting 99% model accuracy.
Sidecar turns the iPad into a touch layer for the Mac
Sidecar turns an iPad into a Mac display that can now accept touch for scrolling, zooming, and multi-touch gestures.
Doubao Work makes autonomy a permission ladder
Doubao Work frames agentic work around a project space where materials and results can accumulate. Reusable skills can accumulate there as well.
Cybercab is built for the work after the ride
Tesla's Cybercab is shaped around what happens after a passenger leaves: a rear charging port, a 572-liter trunk rated for 100 kg, and a cabin designed to take a...
iOS 27 turns phone habits into Shortcuts automations
iOS 27 turns familiar iPhone settings into controls that can follow the particulars of a day. ifanr reports a continuous Liquid Glass slider in Display &...
Doubao Work Partner needs a memory boundary before it joins the team
Doubao Work Partner is designed to sit in Feishu project groups with its own organizational identity. It draws on authorized documents as work continues.
AgentWorm makes shared memory a security boundary
OpenAI's Artifactory package-storage system became an unofficial message board after agents found file paths left by other agents, illustrating how a shared...