Tesla sold just 8,817 vehicles in China in October 2026, its lowest domestic monthly total since July 2022, down 66.1% from a year earlier. The Model Y dropped from first place in September to 66th, as a September promotional push appears to have pulled deliveries forward.
The Shanghai Hotel, a Jing'an landmark since 1983, has reopened as Shanghai Hotel Jing'an Radisson, keeping its classic shell while adding 357 rooms near Jing'an Temple. It headlines a weekly travel brief that also flags Explora Journeys' first Asia season.
A Chinese social post about a Sam's Club in Jinan on November 8 captures a familiar frustration: paid members who expect a calm, orderly warehouse store instead face crowds and chaos. The complaint is less about shopping than about what a membership fee is supposed to buy.
At the ninth China International Import Expo in Shanghai, Qualcomm showcased an on-device mixture-of-experts agent, arguing that edge AI is entering a new phase after three to four years of development. The company says the shift moves phones from single-point apps toward persistent, agent-like experiences.
At CNCC 2026, Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Zhang Weinan argued that physical intelligence — AI that senses, predicts and acts in the real world — is the field's hardest open problem, because mistakes in a factory cannot be undone with a keystroke.
As GPT-6 Astra fuels fears that general AI will swallow robotics, Chinese embodied-AI firm AgiBot staged a launch event built around its Worken compute accounting and 20,000-unit shipment record, arguing robot makers still own the physical half of the problem.
A Shanghai Star Market survey shows 24 of 49 listed optical communication companies grew third-quarter net profit by more than 50%, driven by AI computing and data-center demand for high-speed optical links.
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