(opens original source in a new tab)FreightWavesC.H. Robinson: Nuclear Verdict’s Existential Threat to BrokersSummaryView Transcript The C.H. Robinson earnings call was overshadowed by the massive $600M nuclear verdict. FreightWaves’ John Kingston and Max Fuller dive into the lawsuit’s implications, from rising insurance costs to the redefinition of independent contractor status. Is this an existential threat to the brokerage business model as we know it? C.H. Robinson’s CEO Dave […] The post C.H. Robinson: Nuclear Verdict’s Existential Threat to Brokers appeared first on F (opens original source in a new tab)FreightWaves Staff·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostAlibaba’s AI model Qwen3.8-Max made widely accessible ahead of open-weights releaseAlibaba Group Holding has made its next-generation flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model Qwen3.8-Max widely accessible to global users ahead of an open-weights release next week. The move marks Alibaba’s return to open-sourcing its top-tier AI models after keeping several recent flagship releases proprietary earlier this year. It also signals the firm’s entry into a recent round of powerful releases by Chinese developers aggressively narrowing the gap with leading US labs. The massive... (opens original source in a new tab)Wency Chen·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostPotential US ban on Chinese AI models could cost American businesses US$12b a year: reportA potential US ban on Chinese open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models could cost American businesses up to US$12 billion per year, according to calculations by a US-based academic, as technology firms increasingly turn to cost-efficient Chinese solutions. While the exact economic toll of a ban remains difficult to quantify, usage data from New York-based OpenRouter – a large language model (LLM) aggregator – offers a glimpse into the potential fallout, said Daniel Yue, an assistant... (opens original source in a new tab)Xinmei Shen·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Patently-OHas Patent Term Adjustment Peaked?I wrote in April that PTA showed no sign of leveling. It has leveled. I am not ready to call that a decline, though, and biotech is carrying the burden. Continue reading this post on Patently-O. (opens original source in a new tab)Dennis Crouch·3 August 2026
Clean Energy (opens original source in a new tab)CleanTechnicaFuel Cell Trucks And Buses Are Still Coming, And They Still Need More Green HydrogenHydrogen fuel cell buses and trucks are zero emission electric vehicles, but they need green hydrogen to complete the sustainability loop. The post Fuel Cell Trucks And Buses Are Still Coming, And They Still Need More Green Hydrogen appeared first on CleanTechnica. (opens original source in a new tab)Tina Casey·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostWill new batteries give China’s EVs the jolt they need to charge past their rivals?On a cloudy evening in late April, a tech event hosted at Beijing’s National Convention Centre by Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) drew nearly 1,000 people eager for a glimpse of next-generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries that could reshape the global automotive landscape. Gao Huan, chief technology officer for the auto business at CATL, the world’s largest producer of EV batteries, exuded confidence while promoting the new Shenxing product series. According to the company, its... (opens original source in a new tab)Daniel Ren,Themis Qi·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyTsinghua Team Open-Sources VeriLoop Coder-E1: Evidence-Governed Spiral Drives Verifiable Recursive Self-Improvement for Repository-Level Code RepairVeriLoop Coder-E1 based on Qwen3.6-27B achieves SWE-bench Verified 85.20, SWE-bench Pro 62.38, Terminal-Bench 2.0 76.40, and DeepSWE 33.63 with narrow-domain PEFT and Self-Harness. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyQingyang Gansu Grows Digital Wheat Fields on the Loess Plateau: Computing Power Gravity Field Reaches 185,000P Carrying 25% of National Independent Model AI Token DemandQingyang national data center cluster reaches 185,000P computing power with 99% intelligent computing share, 0.398 yuan/kWh green power, and 700+ enterprises across chip-compute-model-application chain. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyTrillion-Level From Day One: What Kind of Commercial Space Companies Will the Six Networks Infrastructure Plan Encompass as Ground Equipment Orders Arrive First?The April Politburo meeting launched six networks investment exceeding 7 trillion yuan, with remote sensing, satellite communications, and BeiDou timing ground equipment expected to see first commercial space orders. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyDeepSeek-V4-Flash Official Version Released and Open-Sourced: 304B Lightweight Model Surpasses V4-Pro Preview and Matches Claude Opus-4.8, Hailed as Third DeepSeek MomentDeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 official release outperforms V4-Pro preview with 82.7 performance score at 0.14/0.28 USD pricing, tops VulcanBench, and reaches HuggingFace trending second. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·3 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostHow likely is Beijing to walk the talk on boosting consumption?Chinese officials tend to report only good news and bury bad news for propaganda purposes and career advancement. That is why it came as a genuine surprise when, on July 22, Zhang Enhui, the party chief of Changchun, an industrial powerhouse known for its automobile sector and technological research, publicly broke with that tradition. He warned of “unprecedented difficulties and challenges” facing the city’s economy. The remark was apparently swiftly scrubbed from the city government’s website, (opens original source in a new tab)Wang Xiangwei·3 August 2026
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