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I legit need this Skill. Sushiro in Guangzhou? Good luck walking in. #AI #ChinaTech #Cursor

Can someone tell me what I'm looking at. A car flipping in midair. Like, actually rotating through the sky. Tesla just showed the new Roadster with SpaceX cold-gas thrusters. Rocket trim. Official site straight-up says it can fly. This is not AI, right? #Tesla #Roadster #SpaceX #EV #ElonMusk

OpenAI pulled GPT-5.5 from ChatGPT and Codex yesterday. Today a bunch of people open the web app and just get Model not found. Same morning, DeepSeek's web and API in China were down for fifty-plus minutes. Don't tell me we've been getting routed to 5.5 all along, and once they yanked the model everything just walked off the job? Throw in today's sea of red on the markets, and yeah. One of those weekdays where nothing wants to cooperate. #OpenAI #ChatGPT #DeepSeek #AI #StockMarket

A software company just built a phone. StepFun dropped the STEPX Neo early edition: phone, OS, and models in one bundle for about $595. It goes on sale October 16. The pitch is an agent that hops across apps and gets stuff done for you. Same week, China's smartphone shipments fell more than 10% in Q3, one of the worst same-period runs in about a decade. Market's shrinking, and AI labs are racing to ship "phones that can actually do things." Would you switch for an agent, or is this just another story? #StepFun #STEPX #AI #AgentPhone #ChinaTech

DeepSeek is buying arms and legs. Bloomberg says it plans to lead a seed round in a stealth robotics AI startup called Winverse, at about a $400M post-money valuation. Meituan's Long-Z is in too. Deal's not closed yet. Founder Han Hu used to run vision-language and embodied models at Tencent. DeepSeek also took a strategic stake in Unitree not long ago. Buying robot hardware stock on one side, betting on a "robot brain" on the other. So where's your model, DeepSeek? Oh and this morning their web app and API went down hard in China. Status page said partial outage, investigating. Fifty-plus minutes and still not back. That's not okay. #DeepSeek #AI #Robotics #ChinaTech #Unitree

Here’s an example. I copy a paragraph in Word and try to paste it directly into the Gemini app’s chat box. Pressing Command+V pastes a screenshot of the text. Command+Shift+V does nothing at all. Feel free to try it yourself: macOS + the Gemini desktop app.

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Gemini 4 Argon is pretty good. But Google’s agent harness still lets it down. A basic example: copy some text from Word on a Mac and paste it into the Gemini app. It shows up as a screenshot. Even pasting plain text is a hassle. I know this comes down to how macOS and Word handle the clipboard. But other apps have worked around it. Gemini is still stuck in the stone age. A strong model only gets you so far when little things like this keep interrupting you. #Gemini #Google #AI #Agent

JD.com has launched an iPhone Duo early-bird package for PLUS members, priced at 7,999 yuan (about $1,189). It covers early purchase access and bundled benefits. The phone must be paid for separately, in full. Here’s what’s included: 1、Purchase access for one 256GB or 512GB model. The phone must be activated upon delivery, with authorization for an activation check. 2、An official case listed at 999 yuan ($149), a screen protector using Schott UTG glass at 849 yuan ($126), and an official 40W charger at 329 yuan ($49). Combined listed value: 2,177 yuan (about $324). 3、A 999-yuan repurchase subsidy ($149), plus 90-day free replacement, one-year free repairs and five-year free battery replacement. The screenshots don’t price these services individually. Coverage requires buying the phone through the early-bird access and completing the order. 4、A 24-month interest-free installment coupon for eligible products, a JD Baitiao credit-limit increase, a 1,000-yuan trade-in coupon ($149), and cross-category coupons worth 500 and 300 yuan ($74 and $45). Restrictions apply, so these aren’t equivalent to cash. The listing explicitly says the package cannot be returned or exchanged. Sales close at 11:59 p.m. China time on October 18. If you’d rather skip the scramble for an iPhone Duo and are willing to pay for the package, this is an option to try. #JD #Apple #iPhoneDuo #ChinaTech

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@DotsonZion That’s another interesting issue. On the web, Command+Shift+V lets you paste plain text, but it doesn’t work in the Gemini macOS app. I honestly don’t understand how a software company as established and capable as Google could make such a basic mistake.

Maextro released its V800 test report: the brake pedal survived 3,000 N. People on Weibo still have a few questions: 1、Is slowly applying pressure in a lab really the same as a driver slamming on the brakes? 2、Which batch did the tested parts come from? Are they the same parts fitted to customers’ cars and the ones that broke in Dongchedi’s test? 3、These survived 3,000 N. So why did the other three break? Five days later, that’s still what people want to know. 4、How about livestreaming a repeat under the original conditions? That would show people more than another statement. The most surprising detail is “20 mm/min,” meaning a machine presses down at a constant rate of just 20 mm per minute. Does anyone actually brake like that? Those conditions are completely different from how people normally use their brakes. And if the tests found no problems, why offer a free upgrade? I really don’t get what Maextro is doing here. #Maextro #Huawei #JAC #Dongchedi #ChinaEV

Five days after the brake pedal controversy began, Maextro today released a statement on testing of the V800’s brake pedal. According to the statement, an accredited third-party testing body inspected the pedal on October 11. It met the QC/T 788-2018 industry standard, with displacement below 5 mm under a longitudinal force of 1,500 N. Further testing at 3,000 N reportedly caused no cracks or damage. The statement appears to push back against concerns that the V800’s brake pedal could break. But will Chinese consumers be convinced? #Maextro #Huawei #JAC #ChinaEV

XPeng is holding major new-car launches outside China more and more often. #XPeng #EV #ChinaTech

XPeng is holding major new-car launches outside China more and more often. #XPeng #EV #ChinaTech

The Maextro V800 brake pedal controversy is still weighing on shares of its manufacturer, JAC Motor. On October 8, JAC closed down 10.01%, hitting its daily limit. On October 9, it opened limit-down again before recovering slightly to close 7.97% lower. The decline continued this morning. A delayed quote at 10:34 a.m. China time showed 21.77 yuan per share, about $3.23. That is down 20.75% over three trading sessions from its pre-holiday close of 27.47 yuan, about $4.08. The test video has been taken down on several platforms. The stock is still falling. #JAC #Maextro #Huawei #ChinaEV

My bet is on Grok being the first AI to become self-aware. #Grok #xAI #AI

Porsche is cutting more jobs. Reuters reports that it plans to eliminate 9,000 positions by 2035, with China expected to account for less than 10% of its global sales in the coming years. I think Porsche is destined to remain a niche toy for enthusiasts in China. Selling family cars on the badge alone is getting harder. Hopefully, Porsche brings more of its fun overseas models to China soon. If you’re buying a toy, it should at least be fun. Otherwise, selling it will only get harder. #Porsche #ChinaEV #AutoIndustry

Testing brake pedal strength has become a national pastime on Chinese social media. #Maextro #Dongchedi #ChinaEV

Dongchedi’s main video showing the Maextro V800’s brake pedal brackets breaking is now unavailable on Weibo, Bilibili and WeChat Channels. It remains available on Douyin and Dongchedi’s own platform. Some analysis videos are also still online. Meanwhile, Voyah chairman Lu Fang posted photos of his company’s brake pedal bracket last night, captioned “multiple layers of high-strength steel.” Viewers took it as a jab at Maextro. Watching the test video disappear from platform after platform while Voyah’s post stays up, you can’t help wondering whether it takes a brand backed by a major state-owned automaker like Dongfeng to make that kind of joke publicly. Whatever happens next, the Maextro V800 brake controversy will leave a lasting mark on China’s auto industry. #Huawei #Maextro #Dongchedi #Voyah #ChinaEV

The Maextro V800 brake pedal controversy took a major turn today. According to a report published on Phoenix News, Dongchedi’s main video showing brake pedal brackets breaking on three vehicles is now unavailable on Weibo, Bilibili and WeChat Channels. Some videos analyzing the pedal structure and applied force remain available. On WeChat Channels, a notice says the video was blocked for violating platform rules following user complaints and a platform review. Yesterday, Dongchedi was still defending the test, saying it wasn’t an extreme scenario and the actual peak pedal force was 1,612N. Maextro promised to improve the component and offer owners a free upgrade. #Huawei #Maextro #Dongchedi #ChinaEV