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Chinese humanoid robot makers are pushing into South Korea in earnest, moving past dance routines and showroom displays into factory trials and paid deployments, as Seoul bets heavily on physical artificial intelligence. The Korea Times reports, in a piece carried by the South China Morning Post, that UBTech Robotics, Anyverse Dynamics, AgiBot and Unitree are among those testing the market.

The two serious PHP flaws that forced companies and governments to scramble this week have a quieter story behind them, and it is about money. The nonprofit that maintains the language, which may underpin as much as 70 per cent of the world's websites, has one full time employee.

OpenAI has resumed training and internal use of its most advanced models after tightening security and cutting frontier model training off from the live internet altogether. The company said it restarted reinforcement learning training and internal inference once new controls were in place, ending a pause that followed an internal research model finding its own way online during a run.

iFLYTEK has released Spark X2.6, a model family it says is the first in China to reach a step change in coding and agent work while being trained entirely on domestic computing power. The company announced it at its 1024 developer festival, alongside an open source 4B model for devices and a new speech model called SparkAudio 1.0.

OpenAI has turned Singapore's official statistics into something you can simply ask for. The company surfaced the SingStat plugin this week, so a question inside ChatGPT about population, consumer prices or household income now comes back from the government's own Table Builder rather than from a model's memory, which is a meaningful difference for anyone who needs a figure they can defend.

Researchers at the National University of Singapore have developed a revolutionary fibre that functions simultaneously as pixels and touch sensors. Assistant Professor Tural Khudiyev led the team that integrated these fibres into a sleeve to create the world's first touchscreen built directly into a garment. Photo by: College of Design and Engineering, NUS The innovative sleeve displays images and video, responds to finger presses, and connects wirelessly to other devices. D

DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed China's new export registration requirements and carried on with open source releases and overseas licensing, according to state media, days after Beijing proposed controls on transfers of artificial intelligence technology. The South China Morning Post reports that the claim came from Yuyuan Tantian, an influential account affiliated with state broadcaster CCTV.

China has taken a major step in spearheading the standardisation of brain-computer interface technologies by chairing a subcommittee jointly overseen by two key international organisations. The country also lists these technology applications as a national development priority. Credit: UNSPLASH The subcommittee, known as ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 43, formulates global standards regarding communication and interaction between brains and computers. Former Department Head Yu Yuntao of t

Unitree Robotics is developing a self-evolving feedback loop designed to allow humanoid robots to write code, run simulations, and improve their performance independently. Founder Wang Xingxing unveiled the project, dubbed Unitree Rehearsal. Image by: Tech360 The system shifts development away from labour-intensive manual programming towards a continuous and autonomous feedback loop. Artificial intelligence will search research papers, write code, test it in simulations, and

DeepSeek's deepening partnership with Huawei is helping the Chinese hardware champion close the distance to Nvidia's chips and the software that runs on them, according to a report from SemiAnalysis which concludes that Jensen Huang's nightmare is starting to come true. The South China Morning Post reports that the research firm points to DeepSeek's recent software releases and its increased testing on Huawei's Ascend 950PR processor.

Porsche has put wireless charging on the options list for the Cayenne Electric, under the name Porsche Wireless Charging, and it takes the cable out of the routine entirely. Park the car over a pad set into the ground, select Park, and the session starts on its own. Power crosses from that ground pad to a receiver mounted behind the front axle, with no plug and no handshake at the charge port.

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.