(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyChinese Robots Begin Restructuring the Global Supply Chain as TIANZHIHANG Attempts Reverse Integration From Surgical Robots to Orthopedic Implants and Overseas MarketsTIANZHIHANG plans to acquire MicroPort Orthopedics, compressing years of overseas regulatory, clinical trust, and distribution network building into a single transaction as Chinese robotics companies move beyond product-level export. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyByteDance and Alibaba Couldn't Stop It: Tencent WorkBuddy Quietly Took the AI Office Agent Top Spot in Four Months With 20.97 Million Monthly VisitsTencent WorkBuddy reached 20.97M monthly visits in June 2026, surpassing ByteDance Trae (12.79M) and Alibaba QoderWork (7.88M) combined, leveraging the OpenClaw ecosystem and WeChat enterprise integration. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyDomestic Chinese LLMs Too Expensive for Heavy Users: Per-Token Cost Advantage Vanishes When Real Development Workflows Reach Tens of Billions of Tokens DailyChinese heavy AI coding users spend 300 yuan/week on Codex vs 7800 yuan/day on domestic models like GLM-5.2, as subscription bundling rather than per-token pricing determines real-world cost. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·30 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostIn an era defined by AI, can work still be measured by the clock?Hwaseong, South Korea, past midnight. An engineer watches a defect pattern surface on her screen – the kind that, caught now, saves a week of wafers. She is locked in, fully absorbed, the way engineers get when a breakthrough is close. But she has to go home. The law says so. Yet something is disrupting the clock she races against. Artificial intelligence is quietly rewriting what her hours are worth. On June 29, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung stood alongside the leaders of Samsung... (opens original source in a new tab)David Kim·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning Post‘Explosive demand’ for cooling continues as Europe swelters, China’s Midea saysChinese home appliance maker Midea reported that European demand for its air conditioners continues to soar amid recurrent heatwaves, with two of its factories receiving hundreds of thousands of new orders in a month. The factories, in the eastern city of Wuhu and the southern port city Guangzhou, received new European orders for 200,000 units within a month amid “explosive demand”, the company said in a statement on Wednesday on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s investor Q&A platform. The company.. (opens original source in a new tab)Xinmei Shen·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostUS foreign robot ban to benefit Tesla, other American developers, analysts sayChina’s robotics firms have run into a fresh obstacle in their global expansion, after the United States banned imports of new foreign-made models, which analysts say could benefit Tesla and other American developers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List on Tuesday, blocking new models from obtaining the authorisation required to be imported and sold in the US. The ban will cover all new humanoids, quadrupeds and a... (opens original source in a new tab)Wency Chen·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)South China Morning PostGoogle makes Gemini Spark AI agent available to Hongkongers as it lowers geofencesGoogle on Wednesday launched its artificial intelligence agent Gemini Spark in the Hong Kong market, giving local users direct access to a smart assistant to manage complex digital workflows. The launch came months after the American tech giant’s decision in March to lift regional geofences for generative AI services, starting with the Gemini chatbot. Hong Kong users can now access Gemini without using a virtual private network or third-party platform. The roll-out of the Spark agent echoes an.. (opens original source in a new tab)Richard Chen·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyBYD AI Team Revealed for First Time: HyWorldVLA Hybrid World Model Achieves SOTA on NAVSIM v1 With 90.59 PDMS Marking BYD Entry Into Autonomous Driving Foundation ModelsBYD AI team publishes HyWorldVLA with hybrid pixel-latent world modeling and VLA architecture, scoring 90.59 PDMS on NAVSIM benchmark, from team including HIT robotics researchers. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyAI Teammates Enter the Enterprise: Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy NPC Reimagines Next-Generation R&D Workflow With AI Native Git ParadigmTencent Cloud launches CodeBuddy NPC with AI Native Git paradigm, letting developers @ summon NPC teammates that autonomously handle issue investigation, code development, PR submission and CI repair. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyAlibaba Tencent and 360 Simultaneously Enter the AI Office Agent Arena: Your Desktop Becomes the New Battleground as WorkBuddy Qianwen Office and 360 AI Target Productivity DominanceTencent WorkBuddy leads with 20.97M monthly visits, Alibaba consolidates into Qianwen Office under new DingTalk CEO, 360 launches AI assistant with 100M token grants targeting one-person companies. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·29 July 2026
(opens original source in a new tab)PandailyAlibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba CloudQoder releases Better Harness on GitHub, a three-layer open-source framework for coding agent workflow analysis covering Harness Engineering practices, evaluation models, and runnable implementations. (opens original source in a new tab)contact@pandaily.com (Pandaily)·29 July 2026
