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The FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, blocking new imports as China holds roughly 85% of the global market.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University is investigating neuroscientist Zilong Qiu after a 6-year-old girl died from a severe immune reaction in an experimental gene-editing trial that went undisclosed.

Zhongqi Wuliang showed Qinghe No. 1, a neutral-atom quantum computer built to fit a standard data-center rack, at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai.

EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend opened in Shenzhen with 32 teams fighting on standardized T800 humanoids for a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan. One robot lost its head mid-match and finished the fight on torso-based systems.

China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for domestic deployment, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering most features and Baidu in a smaller role, ending a two-year delay.

CASC's new Long March 10B caught its own booster in a sea-based net on its maiden flight July 10, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only operators to recover an orbital-class rocket stage.

Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model under an MIT license, claiming it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served entirely on domestic ASICs.

Guangyuan is spending $1 billion on T-glass and low-dielectric glass cloth, pushing a Chinese supplier into a niche long dominated by Japan's Nittobo as AI-server demand tightens supply.

Alibaba affiliate Ant Group is building a broad humanoid robotics position through equity deals, an in-house unit called Robbyant, and a joint venture with AgiBot.

Pudu Robotics launched the D7, a dual-arm semi-humanoid industrial robot running its PuduFM 1.0 foundation model, with a 14 kg payload and 2-meter reach for warehouse work.

Alibaba's logistics arm Cainiao launched ZeeBot, a warehouse robot that drives the floor at up to 4 m/s and climbs five-level racks in about 10 seconds.

LeoLabs says it detected and cataloged an object released by China's secretive Shenlong space plane, repeating a pattern from earlier missions.