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The European Union will allocate 10 billion euros (about 11.4 billion US dollars) to fund enterprises in building seven artificial intelligence factories. The initiative aims to boost AI infrastructure and competitiveness in the region.
Shenzhen's municipal authorities have issued a plan to develop new quality productive forces and cultivate strategic emerging industries and future industries. By 2030, the city aims for the value-added of strategic emerging industries to reach RMB 2.3 trillion, accounting for 45% of its gross domestic product, with advanced manufacturing as the backbone of a modern industrial system.
At the 2026 Science and Technology Innovation Industry Integration Development Conference, Wen Zhi, General Manager of Shanghai Guotou Xian Dao Fund, stated that the three major leading industry mother funds total RMB 900 billion, with cumulative investment decisions of RMB 565 billion and disbursements of RMB 340 billion, leveraging over RMB 2.5 trillion in social capital. Direct investments exceed 70% into early-stage and small enterprises, while 55 sub-funds allocate over 80% to such projects. Wen Zhi outlined four practices addressing the challenges of early-stage investing, supported by policies from 2025 and 2026.
In March 2026, China's average daily token usage exceeded 140 trillion, a more than 1,000-fold increase over two years. A one-minute video consumes over 1 million tokens, and China ranked first globally for three consecutive weeks. Since late January 2026, some model companies generated more revenue in 20 days than in all of 2025. Tokens, with their quantifiable and cost-linked properties, serve as a bridge between technology supply and commercial demand.
Dongguan has released a dedicated AI server industrial policy and a 'Computing Power Island' core carrier. The plan targets the city's entire server industry chain output value to exceed 500 billion yuan by 2030, with 1-2 chain leaders worth 100 billion yuan and 3-5 backbone firms valued at 10 billion yuan. Over five years, 100 billion yuan will be invested to develop the 9,000-mu island. In 2025, Dongguan's server output approached 600,000 units with industry chain value near 100 billion yuan, producing one in ten Chinese servers. 95% of components are sourced within a one-hour industrial circle.
A report by AI Forensics found that 7 of the 9 most popular image-editing models on Hugging Face generated sexualized deepfake images when prompted to undress subjects. A honeypot space set up to track requests received over 1,000 prompts in a week, of which 73% were sexual, 83% aimed to undress people, and 95% of victims were female. Nearly 7% of sexualized requests targeted children. The platform lacks effective safeguards.
On July 27, a white paper commissioned by Qualcomm and independently researched by IDC was released. Titled "From AI Devices to Personal AI: Agent-Driven Terminal Evolution and Industry Restructuring", it systematically reviews industry trends and discusses core features, value potential, and implementation paths of personal AI.
01. AI, founded by Li Kaifu, pivoted from large language models to B2B, benchmarking Palantir. Li serves as the company's top salesperson. In 2025, orders reached 500 million yuan with audited revenue of 250 million yuan. By May 2026, orders exceeded 1.5 billion yuan. The company targets 1.5-2 billion yuan in contracts for 2026 and aims for breakeven. It is pursuing a Pre-IPO round and plans a Hong Kong listing in 2027.
Anthropic on July 22 disclosed the Claude Code team's internal verification loop, which runs four automated checks after code writing: code-review (bug fixing), simplify (redundancy reduction), verify (end-to-end), and design (visual alignment). This shifts the agent workflow from manual review to iterative auto-verification and repair. The team uses these Skills daily, with underlying support from built-in /verify, CLAUDE. md commands, and GitHub Actions. Anthropic also provided guidance on writing custom verification Skills, which can be triggered at four automation levels. The Skill format is becoming an open standard adopted by multiple vendors.
Hikvision reported record first-half results for 2026, with revenue of RMB 46.823 billion, up 11.97% year-on-year, and net profit of RMB 7.896 billion, up 39.57%. Innovation business revenue reached RMB 15.17 billion, accounting for 32.4% of total revenue, a new high. The company's stock rose over 4% on the first trading day after the release. Operating cash flow fell to RMB 3.231 billion, while inventory rose 44% to RMB 29.488 billion. The company plans interim dividends of RMB 5.041 billion, equivalent to 63.84% of net profit.