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China's Supreme People's Court issued a 24-article opinion on handling AI-related civil disputes, setting rules on deepfakes, liability, and consumer protection.

China's Interim Measures for AI companion services took effect July 15, prompting ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to shut down persona chatbots and leaving users mourning lost digital partners.

The FCC added foreign-made humanoid and quadruped robots to its Covered List, blocking new imports as China holds roughly 85% of the global market.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University is investigating neuroscientist Zilong Qiu after a 6-year-old girl died from a severe immune reaction in an experimental gene-editing trial that went undisclosed.

Zhongqi Wuliang showed Qinghe No. 1, a neutral-atom quantum computer built to fit a standard data-center rack, at WAIC 2026 in Shanghai.

EngineAI's Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend opened in Shenzhen with 32 teams fighting on standardized T800 humanoids for a gold championship belt worth 10 million yuan. One robot lost its head mid-match and finished the fight on torso-based systems.

China's internet regulator cleared Apple Intelligence for domestic deployment, with Alibaba's Qwen model powering most features and Baidu in a smaller role, ending a two-year delay.

CASC's new Long March 10B caught its own booster in a sea-based net on its maiden flight July 10, joining SpaceX and Blue Origin as the only operators to recover an orbital-class rocket stage.

Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter MoE model under an MIT license, claiming it is the first trillion-parameter model trained and served entirely on domestic ASICs.

Guangyuan is spending $1 billion on T-glass and low-dielectric glass cloth, pushing a Chinese supplier into a niche long dominated by Japan's Nittobo as AI-server demand tightens supply.

Alibaba affiliate Ant Group is building a broad humanoid robotics position through equity deals, an in-house unit called Robbyant, and a joint venture with AgiBot.

Pudu Robotics launched the D7, a dual-arm semi-humanoid industrial robot running its PuduFM 1.0 foundation model, with a 14 kg payload and 2-meter reach for warehouse work.