(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChina’s MiniMax curbs overseas access to new AI video model over copyright disputesChinese artificial intelligence company MiniMax has open-sourced its new H3 video model but imposed licensing conditions on users in major overseas markets including the US and European Union, underscoring the copyright challenges in generative video AI. After the Shanghai-based company released the model’s weights to developers on Monday, users found that the licence restricted free access in the US, EU, UK and South Korea. The weights – the underlying parameters that encode its intelligence –. (opens original source in a new tab)Minxiao Chang·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostHas a Chinese physical AI start-up manipulated a global ranking to beat Nvidia?A Chinese physical AI start-up’s brief claim to global dominance in robotics has run into controversy, underscoring the intense US-China competition to develop next-generation artificial intelligence and the challenges of evaluating autonomous systems. In June, Spirit AI, a Hangzhou, Zhejiang province-based firm founded in 2024, briefly overtook United States tech giant Nvidia to take the top spot on RoboArena – a global benchmark for physical AI – with its new Spirit v1.6 model, launched at the (opens original source in a new tab)Coco Feng·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostSpaceX report, share unlock may sway Hong Kong, mainland China stocks as AI trade recoversSpaceX’s first earnings report since its listing, together with the coming supply of a large chunk of shares available for public trading, will test the strength of the artificial intelligence trade’s recovery, which has driven the S&P 500 within striking distance of its record high and helped Hong Kong equities outperform. The first set of results from SpaceX as a publicly traded company will be under close scrutiny, with Elon Musk’s commercial aerospace unit viewed as a gauge of investors’... (opens original source in a new tab)Zhang Shidong·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Rest of WorldThe global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boomLocal tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. (opens original source in a new tab)Rina Chandran·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)Rest of WorldThe global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boomLocal tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach. (opens original source in a new tab)Rina Chandran·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChinese chip-tool maker AMEC says first-half profit to nearly quadruple amid soaring demandAdvanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment China (AMEC), the country’s top chip-tool maker, says its preliminary profit will nearly quadruple in the first half of the year as robust demand for home-grown semiconductors continues amid US sanctions. Based on unaudited figures, the company said its income between January and June was at least 2.7 billion yuan (US$400 million), representing a year-on-year growth of 282 per cent, according to a filing to the Shanghai Stock Exchange on Monday. The upper... (opens original source in a new tab)Howard Liu·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostChina embraces basic science as US downplays it amid AI raceSenior Chinese official Cai Qi welcomed China’s scientific and technological elite at the seaside resort of Beidaihe, a sign that China’s leaders have begun their secretive annual summer retreat. The leaders’ gathering at the resort in Hebei province, east of Beijing, presages the party’s fifth plenum in October, the last before a leadership reshuffle next year. Cai, who ranks fifth in the Communist Party hierarchy and is often referred to as President Xi Jinping’s “chief of staff”, “extended... (opens original source in a new tab)Brian Rhoads,Raymond Ma·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyWorkBuddy Security Center Goes Live: Tencent Brings OS-API Layer Sandboxing, Recoverable File Deletion, and Version Rollback as Default Agent Safety DefaultsTencent WorkBuddy 5.0 ships default security sandbox, recycle-bin file deletion, and version-restorable edits at the OS API layer, addressing the agent safety crisis without slowing agent efficiency. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyProductivity Agent Becomes the New Office Entry Point as ByteDance Tencent Alibaba and WPS Race to Organize Enterprise AI WorkflowsKingsoft Lingxi, Tencent QClaw, Alibaba Qianwen Office, and ByteDance Doubao-Feishu integration redefine enterprise office as the agent becomes the task entry while Feishu DingTalk and WeChat Work become supporting infrastructure. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyDeepSeek V4-Flash Tops Global Token Consumption: Chinese Models Sweep OpenRouter Top 5 as Price-Performance Kill Line Reshapes Developer DefaultsDeepSeek V4-Flash leads OpenRouter weekly rankings with 7.1 trillion tokens, Chinese models claim nine of the global top 10 slots, and global weekly AI token usage crosses 56.8 trillion. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyBetween Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4: Why Native Multimodal Capability Defines the Next Phase of Chinese Frontier ModelsMoonshot AI Kimi K3, Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max, and ByteDance Doubao-Seed-2.1 commit to native multimodal training while DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Tencent Hunyuan stay text-only as vision-in-the-loop becomes decisive for long agent tasks. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·4 August 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyWukong Disappears Four Months After Launch: Alibaba Consolidates Into Qianwen Office Public Beta as Big Tech Races to Integrate AI Work Into Single Unified Agent ProductsAlibaba Qianwen Office opens public beta integrating QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun, as the four-month Wukong cycle shows AI office competition moving beyond single agents. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·4 August 2026
