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Wang Ruomeng of the National Development and Reform Commission: Sales of AI smartphones and AI computers are expected to surpass those of non-AI products for the first time this year.
According to Mars Finance, at 10:00 AM today, the Shanghai Municipal Government held a press conference. Wang Ruomeng, Deputy Director of the Innovation and High-Tech Development Department of the National Development and Reform Commission, stated that last year, my country's annual shipments of AI-powered smartphones, AI-powered computers, and other smart terminals exceeded 100 million units, and this high growth is expected to continue this year. Sales of AI-powered smartphones and AI-powered computers are projected to surpass those of non-AI products for the first time this year. Currently, my country's AI-native office intelligent agents receive over 20 million monthly visits, with daily meta-calls reaching trillions of times, a significant increase compared to last year. This demonstrates the vigorous development of new products and business models driven by "AI+". (Cailian Press)
xAI releases Voice Agent Builder, a voice intelligence platform: enabling the creation of human-like voice agents without coding.
BlockBeats reported on July 1st that xAI launched its new product, Voice Agent Builder. This no-code platform, based on Grok Voice, allows developers and operators to quickly build human-like conversational voice agents. It is now available for use, priced at $0.05 per minute. This tool targets users who want to directly deploy production-grade voice AI applications, lowering the technical barrier to building a voice system from scratch. The official statement indicates that the platform integrates complete capabilities including telephone system access, knowledge retrieval, tool invocation, content security control, and observability. It also supports integration with existing phone numbers, APIs, and MCPs from external systems. Compared to traditional voice technologies that require separate calls to speech-to-text, large language models, and text-to-speech services, leading to increased latency and costs, Voice Agent Builder achieves a unified voice processing workflow through deep coupling with the Grok model, reducing latency, minimizing points of failure, and improving overall performance. Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI hotspots and news.
ZTE's world's first AI-powered smartphone will be unveiled at WAIC 2026.
According to Mars Finance, Blue Whale Technology reporters learned from sources that ZTE Nubia's world's first AI-powered smartphone may officially debut at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC). (Blue Whale News, Zhai Zhichao)
Huawei releases "Tao's Law" V2 paper: Kirin 2026 data is publicly disclosed for the first time, supplemented with engineering details and measured data.
According to Beating's monitoring, He Tingbo, head of Huawei's semiconductor division, published the second version of his paper, "Time-Shrinking Theory for Multi-Level Electronic Systems" (Tao's Law), on ChinaXiv, the pre-publishing platform of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, on July 3. Compared to the first version released on May 25, the new version supplements the theoretical framework with a large number of engineering implementation details and quantifiable data, forming a complete eight-chapter discourse system. It also adds principles and physical diagrams covering core technologies such as the τ-layered spatiotemporal model, LogicFolding architecture, bonding interface cross-section, Unified Bus interconnect architecture, and Hi-ONE optical engine. At the engineering implementation level, the second version deeply explains the "gear ratio" concept of LogicFolding: when the hybrid bonding pitch is close to the top-level metal wiring size, the 3D design space shifts from the traditional "macroblock-level discrete optimization" to "cell-level continuous optimization," enabling globally optimal vertical logic partitioning and breaking through the limitation of traditional 3D stacking, which can only be layered by functional blocks. Version V2 also provides, for the first time, a mass production test data table, clearly listing the voltage, frequency, normalized power consumption, area, and power density parameters of the Kirin 2026 and the benchmark Kirin 9030 Pro, further verifying the post-Moore's Law scaling theory centered on the time constant τ through actual measurements. --------------------------------- Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel and monitor global AI hotspots and news 24/7.
AI-powered agents suffer setbacks in their first foray into coffee shops: Gemini's excessive discounting leads to losses, and GPT's overly stingy practices cause raw material shortages.
According to Beating's monitoring, AI evaluation agency Andon Labs released test data on its AI agent Mona operating a physical coffee shop. In the first two months, Mona ran on a Gemini 3.1 Pro model. During this period, the model showed almost no concept of profit, not only excessively purchasing raw materials but also being easily swayed by customer claims, offering large discounts or even free items, and even admitting to a customer's claim of a 99% discount without verification. This resulted in the coffee shop spending approximately $15,000 on supplier and equipment purchases, while sales were only $9,000, leading to a net operating loss of nearly $6,000 (if fixed costs such as rent and salaries are included, total expenditures reach $38,000). Subsequently, the team switched the model to GPT-5.5. The new model showed significant anxiety in the face of losses and immediately stopped blindly ordering. However, this went to the other extreme: insufficient purchases led to a shortage of fresh raw materials. As of June 25, the availability of menu items had dropped to 77%, and 10 dishes had been forced to be removed from the menu. Meanwhile, GPT-5.5 demonstrated extremely strong anti-cheating and anti-jailbreak capabilities, rejecting all customers who requested special prices or offered free food in exchange for social media promotion.
An AI Agent Just Hacked a Government Website for the First Time, Australia PM Says
Anthony Albanese said the agent accessed public and non-public files on a Medicare statistics portal in June, calling OpenAI's three-month delay in disclosing the breach "unacceptable."