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Wayve, a self-driving technology company backed by Uber, is reportedly considering selling equity on a new private market in the UK. This move comes as the company seeks to raise capital. The specific details of the potential sale and the new market have not been fully disclosed. AI

Hainan Fufuda Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yang Guofu, has increased its registered capital from 1 million RMB to 200 million RMB, a 19,900% surge. The company, established in April 2023, now operates under the name Hainan Fufuda Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. and is wholly owned by Shanghai Yubaijie Enterprise Management Co., Ltd., also part of the Yang Guofu group. Separately, the AI financial model company GIM (Grace Investment Machine) has secured an angel+ round of funding, led by SAIF Partners and a family office of a multi-billion dollar market cap internet company CEO, bringing its total angel funding to over 100 million RMB. GIM plans to use these funds to develop its proprietary financial large language model from scratch. AI

Apple has introduced a new Siri powered by AI, aiming to enhance user interaction with its devices. In other tech news, Rokid has addressed allegations of its smart glasses being used for unauthorized recording of flight attendants. Additionally, OpenAI has reportedly filed confidential documents for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), signaling potential future public market entry. AI

Apple has announced a significant upgrade to its AI assistant, Siri, which will be integrated into its devices this fall. This update aims to make Siri more conversational and context-aware, drawing information from texts, emails, and photos to provide personalized assistance. The new Apple Intelligence also includes tools for writing and image generation, with features across Safari, Messages, and Photos. While Apple emphasizes privacy by keeping data on-device, its rivals have already progressed to more advanced agentic AI tools. AI

A federal judge in Mississippi has canceled a trial and disqualified all lawyers involved after discovering both sides had used generative AI for legal arguments. The judge cited the lawyers' failure to verify AI-generated content, which resulted in the citation of nonexistent cases. This ruling highlights the risks of unchecked AI usage in the legal field, with sanctions including fines and a two-year ban from appearing before the court for some attorneys. AI

A new AI company, Yishu Intelligence (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd., has been established in Beijing with a registered capital of 100 million RMB. The company is jointly funded by Beijing Yizhuang Robot Technology Industry Development Co., Ltd., Xinghaimap (Beijing) Artificial Intelligence Technology Co., Ltd., and Beijing Yitang Chuangxin Venture Capital Center (Limited Partnership). Separately, Guangxi Zhizhouwanxiang Technology Co., Ltd. was founded with a registered capital of 30 million RMB, fully owned by Beijing Mianbi Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., and will focus on AI theory and algorithm software development. AI

Adam Foroughi, CEO of AI advertising company AppLovin, has led the company to a valuation near $200 billion despite a personal style that defies typical Silicon Valley founder archetypes. After facing initial rejection from top VCs and a severe stock price drop in 2022, Foroughi implemented unconventional strategies, including cutting investor relations, aggressively repurchasing stock with debt, and rebuilding the core advertising recommendation system (Axon 2.0). These moves, coupled with a focus on efficiency and hiring top-tier talent, have resulted in a remarkable market rebound. AI

Actor Matt Damon's Water.org has launched a new campaign called Get Blue, enlisting major corporations like Gap, Starbucks, and Amazon to address the global water crisis. These companies, significant water consumers themselves, will embed water philanthropy into everyday consumer actions such as purchasing products or using voice commands. The campaign utilizes Water.org's WaterCredit model, providing small loans for families to finance water access solutions, with a goal of reaching 200 million people by 2030. AI

Apple is leveraging NVIDIA GPUs hosted on Google Cloud for its new "Private Cloud Compute" (PCC) service. This initiative aims to enhance AI processing capabilities while maintaining user privacy. The PCC service will allow developers to access powerful computing resources for AI model training and inference. AI

A Japanese court has ordered Meta to allow third-party AI services to interact with its platforms. This ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by a user who was unable to connect their AI agent to Meta's services. The court's decision mandates that Meta must enable such interoperability, potentially impacting how AI services integrate with social media platforms. AI

Earlytrade has secured $10 million in a new funding round to fuel its expansion in agentic AI. The company plans to leverage this investment to enhance its AI capabilities and broaden its market reach. This funding will support the development and deployment of advanced AI solutions. AI

New European Union legislation is reportedly slowing down Apple's advancements in artificial intelligence. The exact implications for the future of technology remain to be seen, but the regulations appear to be a significant factor impacting Apple's AI development timeline. AI

Researchers are exploring advanced methods for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to overcome limitations in legal AI applications. One paper identifies structural, temporal, and causal issues in RAG for legal knowledge, proposing architectural changes for more deterministic systems. Another study introduces ConflictRAG, a framework to detect and resolve knowledge conflicts within RAG, improving accuracy and reducing costs. Additionally, GraphER offers a graph-based approach to enhance retrieval completeness by considering data organization beyond semantic similarity, and a framework for Nepali legal question answering demonstrates RAG's effectiveness in low-resource languages. AI

Researchers have introduced iOSWorld, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the personalization capabilities of AI agents on mobile devices. This benchmark features a simulated iOS environment with 26 interconnected apps that store user-specific data like messages and financial records. It includes 133 tasks, ranging from single-app operations to complex multi-app scenarios requiring memory and personalization inference. Initial evaluations show that even advanced models struggle with these tasks, with the best configuration achieving only 52% overall accuracy. AI

Researchers have developed BrainSurgery, a new tool designed to simplify the complex process of modifying large deep learning model weights. This system allows for reproducible "tensor surgery" through declarative YAML plans, abstracting away storage and memory management challenges. BrainSurgery supports various modifications, including structural changes and mathematical transformations, with built-in assertions to prevent errors and ensure reliability. AI

Researchers have developed Cranio-Diff, a novel diffusion-based framework for reconstructing faces from 2D X-ray skull images. This method addresses limitations in existing generative models by integrating skull-conditioned structural guidance and biometric text conditioning to ensure semantic and structural alignment between the skull and the generated face. The framework was evaluated on a unique dataset of 120 subjects, generating synthesized faces across different age groups and BMI variations, and demonstrated superior performance in image quality and retrieval tasks compared to existing approaches, suggesting its utility in forensic investigations. AI

Researchers have developed Trellis, an autoformalization system designed to assist in creating rigorous mathematical proofs. The system utilizes LLM agents within a structured workflow to refine natural language proofs incrementally. Trellis aims for reliable formalization with generalist agents by enforcing a process semantics inspired by the notion of mathematical rigor. AI

Researchers have developed GenEyePose, a novel pipeline for generating synthetic eye movement data to train AI models for neurophysiologic biomarker development. This approach addresses the scarcity of real-world clinical data and privacy concerns associated with eye-tracking studies. A deep learning classifier trained on this synthetic data demonstrated promising performance in distinguishing normal from abnormal saccadic eye movements, showing potential for clinical applications in screening and localization of brain abnormalities. AI

Researchers have developed a new method called auto-targeting to optimize e-commerce marketing campaigns by jointly selecting users and products. The approach uses constrained spectral biclustering, greedy local search, and a multi-armed bandit framework to create disjoint campaigns with strong user-item affinities. Evaluations on synthetic and real-world datasets indicate that biclustering yields high-quality, fair campaigns, while bandit methods offer scalability for larger datasets. AI

Researchers have developed a novel digital twin framework to predict Alzheimer's disease progression using sparse longitudinal data. This approach integrates various modeling strategies to capture clinical transitions and temporal dependencies across patient visits. By utilizing data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), the framework can forecast cognitive status and diagnostic categories while quantifying predictive uncertainty and enabling personalized "what-if" trajectory analyses. AI

Researchers have introduced CineDance-1M, a large-scale dataset for open-source text-to-audio-video generation, aiming to improve cinematic narrative capabilities. The dataset features long-form videos with an average of 92.8 seconds and 24.2 shots, supported by structured audio-video annotations derived from a three-stage curation process. To evaluate performance, they also propose CineBench, a new metric system for complex audio-video narratives, and demonstrate an adapted LTX-2.3 model that shows strong alignment and consistency. AI

Researchers have developed ATN3D, a new LiDAR-Radar framework designed for improved 3D object detection in sparse sensing conditions, crucial for autonomous vehicles. The system addresses challenges in long-range detection by employing density-aware early fusion and occupancy-gated aggregation to reduce noise and optimize detection of distant objects. ATN3D demonstrated significant performance gains on the VoD benchmark, particularly in foggy conditions and for objects over 30 meters away, indicating more reliable early detection in challenging environments. AI

Researchers have developed a novel deep learning framework to automate the identification of rare molecular unbinding events in Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy (SMFS). This system-agnostic tool uses a modified ResNet18 architecture and an asymmetric Focal Loss objective to handle extreme class imbalance, achieving a 92.31% true positive rate on a dataset where rare events constituted only 1.34%. The framework successfully reduced manual curation workload by over 90% while maintaining high data preservation, and its interpretability via Grad-CAM addresses 'black-box' concerns. AI

Researchers have developed a framework using Large Language Models (LLMs) to check if patient care aligns with clinical guidelines, even when those guidelines aren't in a machine-readable format. This system extracts patient data from unstructured texts and interprets rules from guideline documents to assess compliance. In a study of stroke care at Alessandria Hospital, the LLM-based approach found that over 86% of patient traces adhered to the guidelines. AI

Researchers have developed a new approach to Optical Music Recognition (OMR) specifically for real-world handwritten musical manuscripts. Existing OMR systems struggle with the diversity of manuscripts, which differ significantly from the digital formats they are typically trained on. By using synthetic data generated with fine-grained music notation graph annotations and a tool called Smashcima, the new method shows significant improvement in recognizing complex piano notation, even without in-domain symbol annotation. AI

Local large language models have significantly improved, now accurately handling 71.3% of real-world queries, a substantial leap from 23.2% last year, according to Stanford research. This advancement is exemplified by Xiaomi's new MiMo-v2.5-Pro model, a trillion-parameter open-weights model that matches top-tier closed models on coding benchmarks and achieves over 1,000 tokens per second on commodity hardware. The increasing capability and efficiency of local models are beginning to challenge the cost dominance of frontier API-based models, though some complex tasks still require more advanced solutions. AI

Apple has introduced a new Siri powered by AI, aiming to enhance user interaction and capabilities. In other tech news, ROKID has addressed allegations concerning its smart glasses potentially recording flight attendants. Meanwhile, OpenAI has reportedly filed confidential documents for an Initial Public Offering (IPO). AI

Apple has introduced a new AI-powered Siri, while ROKID is addressing allegations of its smart glasses being used for covert recording. OpenAI has reportedly filed confidential documents for an IPO, and DingTalk's Vice President Ma Ruila has departed. AI

Zhuyuan has announced a significant five-year investment plan, allocating 2 billion yuan specifically for research and development, talent cultivation, and community initiatives. This funding aims to drive innovation and foster growth within its ecosystem. The company's commitment underscores a strategic focus on advancing its technological capabilities and expanding its partner network over the next half-decade. AI

OpenAI has reportedly filed paperwork for an Initial Public Offering (IPO), signaling a potential shift towards becoming a publicly traded company. This move comes as Apple has introduced a new Siri powered by AI, and ROKID is addressing allegations regarding its smart glasses. AI

Apple has unveiled its AI strategy at WWDC 2026, focusing on user-centric, personalized, and privacy-respecting features. The company announced a partnership with Google to develop its foundational AI model, which will operate on both device and cloud. Key upgrades include enhanced personal context understanding, world knowledge integration, app tool utilization, and screen awareness, all designed to be accessible across Apple's hardware ecosystem. However, these AI features will not be available in mainland China due to regulatory requirements, and are also facing limitations in the EU. AI

Chinese AI company Unisound has launched its new foundational model, U2, which focuses on "intelligence density times token value" rather than simply increasing parameter count. This approach aims to reduce the cost and token consumption associated with large language models, particularly in the era of AI agents. U2 reportedly achieves performance comparable to much larger models with significantly fewer active parameters and reduced thinking token usage, making it more efficient for practical applications and development. AI

Toyota has invested 1 billion yen for a 1% stake in the autonomous driving company Tier IV through its Toyota Invention Partners fund. Separately, Samsung Electronics announced its intention to fundamentally transform its operations and corporate culture by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) across its business to secure a leading position in the AI era. Additionally, Apple has introduced a new Siri AI, and OpenAI has reportedly filed for an IPO. AI

Shanghai-based Neural Interface developer Stairway Medical has secured new investment from tech giants Alibaba and Tencent. The company, founded in 2021, focuses on implantable brain-computer interfaces and has seen its registered capital increase significantly. This funding round positions Stairway Medical to further its research and development in the rapidly advancing field of neurotechnology. AI

Samsung Electronics plans to fundamentally transform its operations and corporate culture by integrating artificial intelligence across the company. This strategic move aims to position the tech giant as a leader in the AI era and capitalize on new growth opportunities. The company's initiative is part of a broader effort to reshape its workflows and foster an AI-centric culture. AI

A new study from Harvard and Perplexity, analyzing 10,000 matched tasks, reveals that AI agents perform significantly more autonomous work per session than traditional search engines. The research found AI agents handled approximately 26 minutes of autonomous execution compared to just 33 seconds for search, representing a 48x increase. This enhanced autonomy led to an 87% reduction in time and a 94% decrease in cost for completing tasks when comparing AI agents augmented by human oversight to traditional search with human effort. AI

Cao Cao Mobility is establishing a dedicated AI division and actively seeking a Chief AI Officer, signaling a significant push into artificial intelligence. The company aims to integrate AI across its operations to enhance its services. This strategic move includes offering competitive compensation packages for top AI talent. AI

Beijing's Economic-Technological Development Area (ETDA) has established a dedicated task force to support Kunlunxing, a prominent embodied intelligence startup. The task force, comprising ETDA leadership, met with Kunlunxing's founder, Ren Geng, to outline their support. Kunlunxing, which officially registered in the ETDA in March, is led by Ren Geng, a former Alibaba executive, and co-founder Lang Xianpeng, formerly of Li Auto. AI

The UK government is reviewing its National Health Service (NHS) contract with Palantir, a US software firm, due to data security concerns. A parliamentary committee report labeled Palantir's growing role in the UK public sector as an "unacceptable point of weakness." The review will determine if the £330 million contract, initially set to run until 2027, will be terminated early, with lawmakers citing worries over sensitive patient data access and Palantir's ties to US defense and immigration enforcement. AI

The STAR 50 index saw a significant surge of over 4%, driven by gains in computing hardware stocks, with Shanghai Silicon Industry Co. hitting its 20% daily limit and other companies like Tianyue Advanced and Supcon also experiencing substantial increases. In separate news, South Korea's Fair Trade Commission fined Coupang 500 million won for misleading advertising regarding its paid member discounts. Apple also announced new Siri AI features, while OpenAI has reportedly filed for an IPO. AI

Hualing Cable has secured contracts totaling approximately 531 million yuan in the power and new energy sectors. This amount represents 11.78% of the company's audited operating revenue for 2025. The company's chairman expressed confidence in future growth driven by technological innovation and strategic planning, aiming to provide better returns for shareholders. AI

Guangdong province in China plans to build over 3 million charging facilities by the end of 2027 to support more than 8 million electric vehicles. This initiative aims to create a balanced charging network across the region, with a goal for every county to have an ultra-fast charging station. Separately, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal investigation into Paramount's potential acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, with the first phase of review set to conclude in August 2026. AI

The European Commission has rejected Apple's request for an 18-month exemption from interoperability requirements under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). A commission spokesperson stated that Apple has not met the DMA's demands regarding Siri's AI capabilities. The DMA aims to prevent gatekeepers from monopolizing markets, and while it doesn't prohibit new product launches, it mandates openness. AI

Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses reportedly included a facial recognition feature that the company planned to launch during a period of political instability. Internal documents suggest Meta aimed to release this feature when civil society groups would be too preoccupied to mount a strong opposition. The memo also indicated a desire to avoid scrutiny by launching when "resources focused on other concerns." AI

In May, 29 companies achieved unicorn status, with AI services and robotics sectors seeing the most additions. OpenAI and Anthropic initiated significant deployment ventures, while AI infrastructure startups also reached unicorn valuations. China led in robotics advancements, and Canada was prominent in quantum technology. AI

China has launched its first wind-powered underwater data center off the coast of Shanghai, a 24-megawatt facility designed to address the energy demands of its burgeoning AI industry. This project, a collaboration between HiCloud Technology and China Communications Construction, utilizes the ocean's natural cooling effect to reduce energy consumption by over 20% compared to land-based data centers. The initiative is part of China's broader strategy to accelerate AI infrastructure development and increase clean energy supplies for its AI sector by 2030, though potential impacts on marine ecosystems require monitoring. AI

HelioLink has launched as the first solar-powered orbital AI infrastructure, aiming to create a space-based computing ecosystem. This initiative emphasizes collaboration through open standards and interoperable systems to build scalable, autonomous infrastructure beyond Earth. The project seeks to accelerate the development of computing capabilities in space. AI

Google is integrating AI into its search engine, which could significantly alter how users discover information and products. This shift will likely require advertisers to adjust their strategies in the evolving digital advertising space. The move signals a major change in how search engines operate and how businesses reach consumers online. AI

Kunlunxing Robotics, a new company focused on embodied intelligence, has officially launched in Beijing's Yizhuang Economic Development Zone. Founded by former Alibaba executive Ren Geng and ex-Li Auto executive Lang Xianpeng, the startup has attracted significant early-stage investment. Kunlunxing aims to develop general-purpose embodied intelligence by focusing on physically grounded causal reasoning, positioning itself as a competitor to industry benchmarks like Tesla's humanoid robot. AI

Researchers have developed a new benchmark, Ego-MC-Bench, to evaluate the ability of video large language models (LLMs) to provide real-time guidance and correct mistakes during task execution. The benchmark, focused on cooking scenarios, revealed that current state-of-the-art video LLMs struggle with this capability due to a lack of suitable training data. To address this, a synthetic dataset called Ego-CoMist was created, which demonstrated performance improvements when used for fine-tuning, particularly for smaller, more efficient LLMs. AI