Artificial Intelligence company Anthropic recorded a $80 BILLION net loss in the first half of 2026

有个新疆维吾尔族小哥在中文互联网火了，他在西安卖10块钱3个馕，一个馕就有1公斤。网友都非常心疼他，这么实惠根本赚不了多少钱，劝他开账号直播，他拒绝了，走红后馕越做越大，胳膊上也添了些伤。他的哥哥知道他忙，从喀什去西安帮他。 他身上，是千千万万个普通人的身影。🙏🙏

Song Xingyu, a self-taught Gen Z vlogger from Badong in China's Hubei province who posts as Shenqi Ayu, has built a rideable hoverboard inspired by the Green Goblin's glider in Spider-Man and flown it across the Yangtze River. After his first five-turbojet prototype caught fire, he rebuilt it around ten brushless electric units with more than 30 kg of thrust each, and trained on it with an AI posture coach made from two phones.

JENSEN HUANG ZERLEGT MERZ Der Kanzler fragt den Nvidia-Chef auf offener Bühne, wie Europa KI regulieren soll. "Man kann nichts regulieren, wenn es die Technologie gar nicht gibt.“ Die Technologiebranche muss die Technik für Sicherheit selbst erfinden. Sicherheit besteht nicht aus Hoffnungen und Wünschen, Sicherheit ist Technik und Ingenieursarbeit. Zweitens brauchen die Unternehmen verbindliche Standards. Und erst zuletzt kommen Vorgaben von Industrie und Staat. Das Internet zu regulieren ist schwer, Internetanwendungen zu regulieren ist es nicht. Genau dort sollten wir ansetzen, bei den Anwendungen. Es gibt nichts zu regulieren, wenn die Branche nicht gedeiht. Man will doch, dass die deutsche KI-Industrie floriert, und zwar sicher und verantwortungsvoll. Wir wissen, dass wir Technik entwickeln und einsetzen können, die KI sicher macht. Wir wissen, dass wir uns als Unternehmen und als Branche an gute Standards halten können. Und wenn es dann noch nötig ist, regulieren wir." Merz stimmte zu und verwies darauf, dass Maschinen bereits aus dem AI Act herausgenommen wurden. Ein europäischer oder globaler Rahmen sei noch weit entfernt.

Beijing and Moscow have united to oppose American primacy and replace it with a “post-West” order. foreignpolicy.com/2026/10/08…

Aucune place pour la violence dans notre République. Ceux qui ont cassé, attaqué les préfectures comme les commerces, pillé jusqu’à nos mairies, seront poursuivis et punis. Aux forces de l’ordre, garantes du droit à manifester, je dis le soutien de la Nation. Nous ferons tous bloc face aux semeurs de chaos, qui ne cherchent qu’à abattre nos institutions et empêchent ceux qui expriment pacifiquement leurs revendications de le faire.

Des véhicules de police sont prises pour cible par la foule dans le secteur République à Paris. #Paris #17octobre

My latest: The Iran Question Is All About China Why Operation Epic Fury Is the Opening Act of the Indo-Pacific Century The Iran question was never about Iran. Remove the Islamic Republic from the equation and China loses its pawns for a Taiwan contingency. Leave it in place and the Middle East remains what Beijing designed it to be: a second front that Washington can never afford to leave and can never afford to stay in. Trump's strikes are the first move by an American president who appears to understand that the road to the Pacific runs through Tehran. zinebriboua.com/p/the-iran-q…

This is a *very* interesting exchange that suggests beyond the theatrics, a restoration of the transatlantic relationship to the status quo ante Trump is not in the cards, whoever wins the White House in 2028.

There seems to be a kind of exchange/debate/dialogue between Brazilians and Chinese (guess only from mainland) on X. Is this real?

THE SPIRIT OF 1911 On this day in 1911, the spirit of revolution that has been gathering amongst the Chinese people sparked off in Wuchang. Knowing that the Qing dynasty authorities got a hold of a list of all their names, the mutineers decided to move first ahead of the crackdown. Provinces fell like dominoes, and within a few short months, the dynastic China that lasted for three millenia was no more. What replaced the Qing dynasty was the Republic of China, led by the idealistic and charismatic Dr. Sun Yat-sen as it's first provisional president. But Sun's weapon was the pen, not the sword, and he held on for only 45 days before abdicating to the warlord Yuan Shikai. Years of exile followed. Yuan eventually fell, but Sun's republic would battle against warlordism for the rest of his life. Under Sun worked two men whose divergent visions would eventually tear China apart in the Chinese civil war -- Mao Tse-tung was then the KMT's propaganda chief, while Chiang Kai-shek was the commandant of Sun's Whompoa military academy. It was Sun's special talent that his vision of China was so expansive it could hold so many ideological strange bedfellows. But with his death in 1925, the comrades he exhorted to continue his revolution quickly began fighting each other. Both Chiang's KMT and Mao's CCP lay claim to Sun's legacy, and it is genuinly hard to tell which side he would have favored. Ultimately in Taiwan, the last bastion of Republic of China control, he is known as the Father of the Nation. Meanwhile, on the mainland, he is respected as the Forerunner of the Revolution. We still use his galaxy-brained constitution with five branches of government here in Republic of China (Taiwan). But it's arguably on the mainland that Sun's vision of a strong and highly developed China came to life, literally, as many of the dams and bridges Sun envisaged has since been built. You'll find very little mention of this history on this day in Taiwan as everyone ahistorically rebrands Double Ten as "Taiwan's national day". To listen to President Lai Ching-te, you'd think the Wuchang uprising took place in Taiwan. Over the years, the legacy of Dr. Sun and his successor Generalissimo Chiang has been reduced to an asterisk. The fondest hope of the ruling DPP is an independent Taiwan that has nothing to do with China whatsoever. But there has never been a country called "Taiwan." It was always China. torn in two by the civil war. And for China, Taiwan's separation from the mainland is the last bit of hurt from the Century of humiliation that is still waiting to be healed. Between the 1.4 billion mainland Chinese who would like to end the Republic of China and the separatists of Taiwan who daily subverts it and denies it even as they waves its flag and uses its name, I'd like just for today to remember the True Blues: the dwindling faithful who still believe in Dr. Sun's vision, as carried on by Chiang and then his son. There was a time when Taiwanese, when traveling abroad, would proudly proclaim "I am from Free China."