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AWS is returning to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity this June with a hands-on activation called Rue Visionnaire, placing AI agents directly in the hands of advertisers. From June 22 to 26, 2026, attendees can guide these agents through the complete creative workflow—starting with ideation and progressing
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Apple Inc. has approved a third-party AI agent for its iMessage Business platform for the first time, granting 'Poke'—developed by The Interaction Company—access to users' iMessage threads for tasks spanning planning, health, and smart home control, although with stringent oversight. The move positions Apple'
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Alibaba has launched an aggressive credit giveaway through its desktop AI agent workbench QoderWork CN, unveiling an AI Productivity Plan that offers billions of free credits to users starting today, a move designed to rapidly expand the platform's user base and seed early adoption among academics and developers.
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Hong Kong tech stocks surged on June 2, with Tencent posting its largest single-day gain since January 2021, climbing over 10% to HKD 481 and adding HKD 410.3 billion in market capitalization, as investors bet on AI agents as the next growth catalyst for Chinese internet giants, fueling a
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In the first week of June 2026, the global AI agent platform war entered a new phase of structured governance, operating system hegemony, and capital-intensive infrastructure buildout, as OpenAI unveiled a formal risk management framework, Microsoft redefined Windows as a native agent OS, and China’s ByteDance and CXMT advanced
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In less than five months, the open-source AI assistant OpenClaw has rocketed to the top of GitHub’s growth charts, amassing 346,000 stars and 38 million monthly visitors. Unlike conventional chatbots, OpenClaw executes real-world tasks through messaging platforms by running locally, signaling a paradigm shift from conversational AI to
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Volkswagen Group China is charting a new course for in-car intelligence, unveiling an "All-Domain AI Agent" roadmap that will deploy on-device large language models (LLMs) into vehicles starting in the second half of 2026, prioritizing proactive, privacy-preserving user assistance over cloud-dependent autonomous driving features. The initiative centers on
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Huawei’s next-generation mobile processor, the Kirin 9050 Pro (commercial name Kirin 2026), has successfully completed tape-out, achieving 3nm-level performance through the company’s proprietary τ law architecture. Set to debut on the Mate 90 series, this chip marks the industry’s first adoption of logic folding technology with a
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Alibaba Cloud has unveiled Qwen Cloud overseas in Singapore, a new cloud portal designed for the Agent era, alongside the launch of its agent product MuleRun and updates to Qoder and QoderWork, signaling a full-stack upgrade to address the exponential growth in model calls and cloud resource consumption driven by
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The battle for the AI agent data layer is escalating, with Microsoft's move to block Databricks from its Power BI service signaling a strategic gambit to control the semantic layer—the critical middleware that structures raw data for intelligent agents. As enterprise software giants race to become the
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DeepSeek has raised 70 billion yuan in a landmark funding round, signaling a strategic pivot toward foundational AI research and application-layer innovation over near-term monetization. The company officially launched DeepSeek Code, an AI coding product, while key hires and team leads—including senior researcher Deli Chen and former TSY Capital
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In March 2026, the AI agent open-source project OpenClaw (nicknamed 'Lobster') surged to over 250,000 GitHub stars, 10.4 trillion tokens in global usage, and a WeChat Index of 165 million—only to see global visits halve by April to roughly 14.2 million and its domestic