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Liu Fang, founder of Amiro Robotics, emphasizes that embodied intelligence is not merely an extension of large models or autonomous driving but focuses on digitizing labor capabilities for industrial applications. The company's AMI-01 robot is already deployed across various production lines, demonstrating the need for robots to deliver reliable, repeatable labor outputs rather than just perform tasks.

Vercel Connect now enables seamless credential management for Chat SDK bots, eliminating the need for token storage. The new @vercel/connect/chat subpath offers adapter helpers for Slack, GitHub, and Linear, simplifying integration with short-lived tokens and webhook validation.

Chat SDK now integrates with Photon through a new official adapter, enabling bots to handle iMessages in group chats, share media, and respond to mentions. The adapter can be deployed on Spectrum Cloud, personal servers, or directly on a Mac, allowing seamless interaction without a live connection.

The Chat SDK from Vercel AI now integrates Dial support via a new adapter, enabling bots to handle SMS, MMS, and iMessage with bidirectional media and voice-call transcripts. This allows developers to create interactive bots that utilize standard Chat SDK APIs for seamless communication.

Daxiao Robotics has open-sourced ACE-Brain-0.5, a unified embodied AI model that surpasses competitors like OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Google's Gemini-2.5-Pro in multiple benchmarks. This model integrates perception, planning, execution, and self-evaluation into a single framework, advancing the capabilities of physical agents in real-world tasks.

The 2026 China Intelligent Computing Industry Ecosystem Development Conference in Shenzhen emphasized the integration of AI and Token economies, showcasing innovations from industry leaders like Intel and Huawei, with a focus on enhancing computational efficiency and infrastructure. Key discussions highlighted the shift towards a collaborative AI-driven organizational model and the evolving landscape of Token economics.

OpenAI's 'Stargate' project aims to build a 10GW computing infrastructure in the U.S. by 2025, but faces significant challenges, including financing and regulatory hurdles. Meanwhile, Elon Musk proposes a space-based solution with 100GW capacity via satellite data centers, prompting a shift in AI infrastructure strategies, particularly in China, where firms are focusing on systemic improvements in power, cooling, and interconnectivity.

Ant Group's Lingbo Technology has launched the LingBot-Depth 2.0 spatial perception model, trained on 150 million data points, achieving significant upgrades in depth estimation and object recognition. It outperformed its predecessor in 12 out of 16 benchmarks, halving depth error in complex environments, and is complemented by the new LingBot-Vision model for enhanced visual capabilities.