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Unitree has published a one minute film of a humanoid it calls H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian, described in its own post as built to serve and guard its owner, with a maximum endurance of about eight hours. The company said only that the machine has powerful performance, and asked people to use the robot safely and in a friendly manner. It appears in white and black panels, and its face carries a lit panel that glows blue.

Cloudflare says more than 10 million developers are now building on its platform, up from 7.4 million in the previous quarter, as it pitches its network at software that is written partly by AI agents. The company announced the figure at an event in Singapore, where it also set out the products it wants developers to adopt next. It traces the growth to Workers, the serverless compute service it began building almost a decade ago, which runs code at the edge of its network ins

Xiaomi has released Xiaomi Lens 0, a four billion parameter model that can mark the exact region of an image it is talking about while it answers, with the weights, code and technical report published openly. The work comes from SeerRay Lab, the visual understanding group inside Xiaomi's large language model applications team, and it is licensed under Apache 2.0.

Anthropic has unveiled Claude Duet, a standalone agent app it describes as a proactive assistant for professionals and small business owners, as OpenAI and Meta race to build software that can finish work without being driven step by step. The app goes further than a chat window. According to Reuters, it watches the apps a user connects and raises items that need attention instead of waiting to be asked.

Two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language that underpins much of the web, have forced governments, councils and broadcasters to take sites offline after a fix was rushed out. Cyber security agencies in several countries urged organisations to patch immediately, and to take systems down where they could not. According to the BBC, the fix landed after details of the vulnerability leaked.

Antigravity has moved the controls of its A1 drone onto a wrist. The company's new Follow Me Bundle swaps the goggles and the handheld grip controller for a Watch Remote and a Ring Remote, so a pilot can launch, follow and frame a shot without holding anything. Antigravity, the drone maker incubated by Insta360, is selling the bundle through its own store and at Best Buy.

Researchers have introduced PingpongDuo, a robotic framework enabling humanoid robots to play table tennis doubles through organised movements and alternating strikes. The system addresses challenges inherent in co-operative robotic play, including sharing limited space, swift repositioning, striking accuracy, and avoiding physical contact between partners.

Google has brought shopping tools into Gemini for users in Singapore, turning the assistant into a place to research a purchase rather than a place to be sent elsewhere. A shopping prompt now returns product listings, compiled reviews, comparison tables, cross platform pricing and stock checks inside the chat window itself. The company says the features are available to all users in the country, timed for the discount season.

China has established a new enterprise owned by the state, the National Data Group Co, tasked with managing vast national data resources. This development aims to accelerate the nation's artificial intelligence industry and its digital economy. Concurrently, Beijing is considering proposed export bans and controls on artificial intelligence technologies, actions that analysts suggest will tighten its grip on a strategically important sector.

Southeast Asia's digital economy is on course for USD 368 billion in gross merchandise value this year, up 17% on the year before and tracking past USD 1 trillion within a decade, according to the eleventh e-Conomy SEA report from Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. The headline the authors push is adoption rather than spend. Generative AI use has reached 243 million people, or 58% of the working population, in under three years, a pace four times faster than the mobile inter