Ford Sounds the Alarm: Chinese Automakers Could Break Through U.S. Trade Barriers in 5–10 Years
July 31, 2026 – Ford Motor’s top leadership is laying out a far more concrete timeline for the long-anticipated U.S. market entry of Chinese automakers, even as Washington moves to tighten existing trade barriers and advance new restrictions targeting Chinese vehicles. During an all-staff gathering held locally on Thursday, CEO Jim Farley told employees the…
Honor Robot Phone Set for August 12 Launch: Renowned Creator Han Han Named Honor Imaging Visionary
July 31, 2026 – Honor, a leading global tech brand, has officially unveiled celebrated multi-hyphenate talent Han Han as its new “Honor Imaging Visionary”. Renowned for his boundary-pushing work across literature, film direction, and professional motorsport racing, Han Han embodies a relentless spirit of redefining creative limits that aligns perfectly with Honor Imaging’s longstanding commitment…
Unitree Robotics Addresses New FCC Rules: Existing Robot Lines Unaffected, But New Models Face U.S. Market Barriers
July 31, 2026 – Unitree Robotics has laid out in its updated prospectus a detailed breakdown of how the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s newly expanded equipment control rules could reshape its market footprint and operational risk profile moving forward. The FCC recently broadened its Restricted Equipment and Services List to cover two high-growth product categories:…
Huawei Makes Its Boldest AI Move Yet: 505B-Parameter openPangu 2.0 Goes Fully Open to the Global Developer Community
July 31, 2026 – Huawei has officially announced the full open-source release of its 505-billion-parameter openPangu-2.0-Pro large language model, making the complete model weights, foundational inference code, and accompanying technical report publicly accessible across mainstream open-source platforms for industry-wide adoption. As Huawei’s flagship open AI model brand built entirely on Ascend-native training and inference architectures,…
Agibot’s 2026 Mid-Year Surge: Full Extra Month’s Salary Paid to All Qualifying Staff, Including Ex-Employees
July 31, 2026 –Chinese humanoid robotics pioneer Agibot Innovation has rolled out a surprise mid-year bonus package for all eligible full-time staff, including former employees, as the firm notched over-target performance in the first half of 2026. The special performance incentive, unveiled at the company’s all-staff mid-year meeting on July 30, grants each qualifying employee…
Memory Costs Surpass Processors: Global Smartphone SoC Shipments Plunge 15% YoY in H1 2026, MediaTek and Qualcomm Both See 25%+ Drops
July 31, 2026 –A sharp 15% year-over-year drop in global smartphone SoC shipments marked the first half of 2026, according to fresh findings from Counterpoint Research, signaling one of the mobile chip industry’s steepest downturns in recent memory. The firm projects the full-year 2026 decline will land at 14%, as skyrocketing memory prices ripple through…
Tesla China Expands Local AI Ecosystem: Qwen Under Deep Vehicle Testing After Doubao Rollout
July 31, 2026 –Alibaba’s Qwen large language model has entered deep in-vehicle testing for Tesla’s China-market infotainment systems, with a public rollout on the near horizon, multiple people familiar with the matter have confirmed. The model has already completed extensive validation work on real Tesla production hardware, with a full feature roadmap that covers voice…
Volvo Abandons Lidar for EX90/ES90 Flagships Entirely — Musk’s “I Told You So” Moment Goes Viral
July 31, 2026 – Volvo Cars has officially pulled the plug on all lidar-powered advanced driver assistance features for its flagship EX90 and ES90 electric models, scrapping years of planned high-end autonomous driving capabilities that were once positioned as a cornerstone of the brand’s next-generation safety architecture. The unexpected move sent ripples across the global…
Cook’s Final Earnings Bow: Apple Stretches $100B Quarterly Revenue Streak to Four Straight Quarters
July 31, 2026 – Apple has closed out its fiscal 2026 third quarter with a historic revenue haul of 109.42billion,markinga16109.42billion,markinga16100-billion-plus quarterly top lines to four consecutive periods. Every segment of Apple’s global footprint delivered double-digit revenue growth, with each regional market notching its own record-breaking June-quarter performance. Hardware sales surged 17% year over year, while…
Leapmotor Chairman Zhu Jiangming: Our Financial Health Outperforms Many Top EV Players – No Paid Trolls, No Underhanded Tactics
July 31, 2026 – The full-length in-depth conversation video between Luo Yonghao and Zhu Jiangming, Chairman of Leapmotor, has officially premiered on the talk show Luo Yonghao’s Crossroads. The discussion spans a decade of EV-building journeys, automakers’ financial health, cutthroat industry competition, full-stack R&D strategies, and the ongoing new-energy vehicle shakeout trajectory. During the dialogue,…