A 34-year-old stand-up comedian died after an infection following tonsil removal surgery, prompting doctors to explain the real risks of an operation many consider routine. The case has focused attention on consent, post-operative warning signs and the limits of calling any surgery small.
A Chinese robotics company's first earnings report disappointed investors even as its stock climbed 70%, exposing the gap between physical AI hype and near-term revenue. The story is really about how Chinese manufacturers plan to buy robots — and what they will demand before signing.
An online post claims the delivery subsidy war has cost three companies more than a hundred billion yuan, leaving nerves raw and bosses defensive. It is a glimpse of how China's cheap-takeout era is being paid for.
A viral post asks whether Hengdian, China's biggest film and TV production hub, is losing its edge as AI takes over acting and production work. The debate touches on extras, sets and the town's tourism economy.
West Lake vinegar fish is one of Hangzhou's signature dishes, yet Chinese diners now treat it as a punchline. A Zhihu essay argues the recipe was built for conditions that no longer exist, so the fame outlived the fish.
A claim that Hengdian film town fed 150,000 background performers' data to AI sparked a backlash, and the platform behind the model denied it. The dispute exposes how China's studios are digitizing extras without clear consent rules.
A new embodied-AI data center in Hangzhou aims to replace slow human-operated collection with simulation, claiming it can produce in a month what the industry took two years to gather. The pitch reframes robot training capacity as a computing problem rather than a labor problem.
Westlake University has opened a world model research center in Hangzhou, aimed at the physical intelligence bottlenecks behind robotics and embodied AI. It pairs an academic lab with a founder of an AI startup, a model increasingly common in Chinese AI research.
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