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Unitree, the Chinese robotics company widely considered the world's largest humanoid robot manufacturer, made its public market debut on Shanghai's Star exchange this week, with shares climbing sharply out of the gate. The listing signals growing investor appetite for humanoid robotics at a moment when the industry is moving from research labs into real-world deployment at scale.
Shifting to the cloud, Alibaba has quietly made a significant move in high-performance AI compute, putting its Lingjun Zhenwu M890 supernode on commercial sale through its public cloud platform. These are sixty-four-card computing units built entirely on Alibaba's own silicon — the kind of frontier-scale infrastructure that was previously inaccessible to most organizations. The catch is a notable one: availability is currently restricted to the Ulanqab region in Inner Mongolia, making this a powerful but geographically narrow offering for now.
And on a lighter note from the world of AI security, a piece circulating today challenges what it calls the end-state fallacy — the tendency to imagine AI threats as fixed destinations rather than moving targets. It argues that treating security as a problem with a final solution is itself the vulnerability, and that adaptability, not certainty, is what the field actually needs.
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