AiPulse — Issue No. 73

The company announced its continuously running Dots agent and the GPT-6.1 Sol model as rivals to Meta's Muse product. It also revealed that ChatGPT has reached 1.2 billion weekly users and introduced a new Pro plan priced at $500 per month.

Aridge has completed production preparations at its Guangzhou factory with an annual capacity of 5,000 units after receiving more than 7,000 pre-orders. The company aims to begin deliveries in the second half of 2026 and enter the Middle East market in 2027.

Sebastian Raschka explains the popularity and technical foundation of the Jev model through the history of text classification methods, ranging from bag-of-words to transformers. The article analyzes where Jev is positioned among niche classifiers, given that it runs faster and cheaper than general-purpose models.

The company's project, codenamed 'Spell', has been in testing since April and is expected to be released soon. This move signals Doubao's transition from a chatbot into an autonomous assistant that performs tasks on behalf of users.

According to IDC data, China reached a 77.9% share of the global total with over 19,000 humanoid robot shipments in the first half of 2026. Global shipments increased by 432.1% year-on-year, rising to approximately 25,000 units.

The final assembly success rate at Foxconn remaining below 60% threatens the launch of the iPhone Duo. This situation is straining the planned limited production target of 6-8 million units in 2026.

Luppi and his team's work reveals that similar neural activity signatures have been conserved across hundreds of millions of years of evolution during transitions between wakefulness and anesthesia. This finding serves as an important milestone for understanding how general anesthetics work across all living species.

ENN Group achieved more than 100 million hydrogen-boron fusion reactions per second in its EXL-50U spherical tokamak device. This was recorded as the first hydrogen-boron fusion event achieved by a commercial fusion company in its own device.

Hertha Metals is building a new facility in Texas, funded by the US government, to produce high-purity iron and steel. This facility aims to close the gap in the supply of critical raw materials for rare earth magnets and to reduce production costs.