⚡️🇷🇺 The Russian Aerospace Forces have successfully launched the medium-class Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk spaceport

"A combat crew of Space Troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces has successfully launched a medium-class Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle carrying a spacecraft on behalf of the Russian Defense Ministry," — the ministry said.

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🤖 Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions

Alibaba Group Holding’s research arm, Damo Academy, has open-sourced an AI model capable of identifying nearly 150 abdominal conditions – including cancers – by reading computed tomography (CT) scans, marking the latest step in the firm’s growing medical AI efforts.

The vision-language model, called Damo Radar, was designed to analyse contrast-enhanced CT scans covering 18 abdominal organs and identify a broad range of diseases and other abnormalities, such as malignant tumours.

The model was trained using CT scans paired with clinical reports. In nearly 40,000 real-world examinations, it achieved an average area under the curve (AUC) of 0.913 across 146 clinical findings. An AUC of 1.0 represents perfect diagnostic accuracy.

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🤖 China just deployed a humanoid police robot alongside armed officers for patrols in Shenzhen

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🇨🇳 Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip, Calls It China’s Most Powerful

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is rolling out what it calls China’s most powerful AI chip, an accelerator to compete with Nvidia Corp. and underpin a massive expansion of data center capacity in coming years.

The ecommerce company turned AI aspirant outlined a new Zhenwu V900 accelerator that it says triples the performance of its predecessor. From Alibaba’s T-Head division, it can be combined in clusters of up to 500,000 units to power frontier-model training, Chief Executive Officer Eddie Wu said.

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🇨🇳🛰 China puts AI compute into orbit with Supercomputing-1 satellite

China has launched 9 satellites — including its first integrated “rocket and satellite” AI computing project — as part of its push to put AI computing in orbit. The Kinetica 1 Y18 rocket, operated by Chinese commercial launch provider CAS Space, lifted off on September 20, carrying the nine satellites to their planned orbits.

The payload of greatest interest is the “Supercomputing-1” satellite. Also known as the S-AIDC-1, the satellite is designed to capture and process Earth-observation data in orbit instead of sending data back to terrestrial data centers. Keeping the processing local is meant to cut cross-regional data processing times from hours to minutes. The satellite features both a high-res optical payload and the image-processing AI computer.

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🇨🇳 China offers 15-year research grants to the world’s brightest young scientists

China is offering the world’s brightest young scientists generous 15-year research grants for free exploration, as the country accelerates its drive to become a global science powerhouse.

Dou Xiankang, director of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the country’s top funder of basic research, told a recent academic forum that the agency was selecting a group of the brightest researchers under 35 for long-term financial backing.

❗️The 15-year backing would involve increasingly intensive support, Dou added. Funding will double after the first five years and double again after the next five.

“This is a new initiative undertaken by the NSFC this year,” — he noted.

“It depends on whether we can more effectively inspire and mobilise the enthusiasm and creativity of the most innovative and dynamic individuals in China,” — Dou remarked.

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⚡️🤑 CSD BR and Ripple Use the XRP Ledger Blockchain to Expand Brazil's Financial Market Infrastructure

CSD BR, a financial market infrastructure authorized to operate as a registrar, central securities depository and settlement system, today announced the first phase of a strategic partnership with Ripple.

The initiative marks a new step in the evolution of asset tokenization in Brazil, combining the robustness of CSD BR's regulated infrastructure with the decentralized blockchain technology of the XRP Ledger (XRPL). 🇧🇷

❗️In this first phase, CSD BR will begin using the XRP Ledger as an additional layer for recording and auditing financial assets, starting with BTG Pactual investment fund shares.

🔜 For the first time, a central securities depository for financial assets and securities will use a public blockchain to mirror securities ownership records, while CSD BR's systems remain the official source of record for registration, deposit and settlement of the assets.

With more than BRL 22 trillion in registered assets, CSD BR operates a highly scalable infrastructure capable of processing millions of transactions in a matter of minutes. The partnership will make it possible to assess, in a regulated environment and with live transactions, the gains in transparency, traceability, automation and efficiency delivered by blockchain technology. 💸

The model was developed within the current regulatory framework, without changing participants' legal responsibilities or requiring new regulatory approvals.

This is the first time the XRP Ledger is publicly being integrated into core financial market infrastructure of this scale. 🚀

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🇨🇳Chinese doctors shrink lung tumour for baby still in mother’s womb, using needle

Chinese doctors have performed an unprecedented surgery to save an unborn child who developed a fast-growing tumour. A medical team from Shenzhen and Hong Kong recently completed a challenging, precise reduction of a foetal chest tumour while the baby was still in the womb, offering new hope to families facing similarly dire prognoses.

Jointly performed by doctors from Shenzhen Baoan Women’s and Children’s Hospital and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the procedure was detailed and published on August 20 in the peer-reviewed journal Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology.

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🇨🇳 Chinese team creates ‘lifelike’ hydrogel that changes shape for smart devices

Chinese researchers have developed a “lifelike” shape-changing hydrogel they say could provide a platform for next-generation developments, such as flexible tissue engineering scaffolds, brain-computer interfaces and humanlike robots.

Inspired by living organisms, the team created a light-triggered system called STERS, which uses liquid metal particles to generate slow, self-sustaining chemical reactions that allow a hydrogel to change its structure over time.

Capable of growing and changing alongside living tissues, this adaptive system could inspire next-generation biomedical materials and devices. It could also have broad implications in fields such as regenerative medicine and soft robotics, according to the researchers.

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🇨🇳 China Drafts Rules to Ban Hidden Car Handles, Virtual Controls

China proposed banning fully hidden car-door handles and requiring physical controls for certain safety-critical functions as regulators seek to strengthen oversight of vehicle design and product testing, according to draft rules issued for public comment by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other agencies.

The rules would also prohibit foldable and flexible display screens in vehicles and require additional safety assessments for a range of innovative designs. The proposal says some manufacturers have launched new products without sufficient testing, increasing vehicle safety and environmental risks.

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🇨🇳 China pushes to establish a "National Blockchain Network"

A document issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on October 9, 2026, explicitly integrates blockchain into China’s strategy for developing “new quality productive forces.”

Clause (ix) calls for the creation of a national integrated computing network and a national blockchain network. This is not just rhetoric — it is a concrete task outlined in the section on the deep integration of the real and digital economies.

The national blockchain network is mentioned alongside the “Eastern Data, Western Computing” initiative, smart manufacturing, and the industrial internet — positioning it as part of China’s core infrastructure for data and computing.

The document also calls for the establishment of a unified national data market, requiring an open, shared, and secure nationwide marketplace for data. It separately highlights the need for convenient and secure mechanisms for cross-border data exchange.

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🇨🇳 China breakthrough projected to put sustainable aviation fuel gross profit margin past 50%

Chinese researchers have developed a catalyst that converts synthesis gas into sustainable jet fuel — an advance that could boost production, help meet net-zero carbon goals and yield a gross profit margin above 50%.

The team verified the efficacy of the chemical catalyst in a thousand-tonne pilot test and found that combining woody biomass-derived synthesis gas, or syngas, with the cobalt-manganese catalyst enabled the “highly efficient synthesis of jet fuel”.

Based on a techno-economic analysis that modelled a planned 100,000-tonnes-per-year jet fuel plant, the researchers estimated they could achieve a gross profit margin of over 50%.

“The excellent pilot test results and the positive techno-economic and life-cycle assessments underscore its strong potential for industrial deployment,” — the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications.

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🇨🇳China’s CXMT unveils ‘key progress’ on chip structure pursued by Samsung, SK Hynix

Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has reported “key progress” on a new cell architecture to boost memory density, an innovation that competitors such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are also working on.

CXMT planned to roll out a new server-memory product based on the structure by the end of 2026, president Cao Kanyu said at an industrial event in Shanghai over the weekend.

At the centre of the development is the “4F square” design, in which each memory cell occupies an area of four square F, with F representing the minimum line width of a semiconductor. The structure enables higher storage density by fitting more cells onto a single chip.

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⚡️🇮🇳 India Education Minister Plans Technology Push After Exam Leaks

India will overhaul its examination system using technology and large question banks, Education Minister Pralhad Joshi said, as the government addresses weaknesses exposed by exam leaks and cheating allegations that triggered widespread student protests.

“We are making it more technology driven, making it more transparent, all those loopholes, we are plugging it now,” — Joshi said. The government wants an “overall change in the system,” including computer-based examinations as early as possible, he added.

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🇧🇷 Brazil Senate Approves Bill to Shorten Workweek

Brazil’s Senate approved a constitutional amendment to reduce the country's maximum workweek from 44 to 40 hours without a salary cut. The amendment gives businesses 14 months to adopt the shorter workweek.

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is expected to sign the shorter workweek into law next week after the measure passed the Senate in two rounds of voting with the same result: 75 to 1 out of 81 members.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia Says It May Agree on Key Gas Link With China This Year

Russia said Gazprom PJSC and China National Petroleum Corp. may reach a commercial agreement by year-end on gas supplies via the Power of Baikal link, a route which has the potential to reshape global energy flows.

“We are waiting for our companies to hold commercial talks,” — Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.

“We hope that by year-end they will reach the necessary agreements,” — he said, referring to deliveries via the future route formerly known as Power of Siberia 2.

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🤖 Unitree Robotics unveils its new humanoid bodyguard robot

Unitree Robotics launched the H2-X Kung Fu Legend Guardian, a humanoid built on its 1.8-meter H2 platform, showcasing spinning kicks, high jumps, backflips, car-denting strikes, and lifting a car's front end in a rescue demo — all with up to 8 hours of battery life.

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🤖 Could China’s 100-channel single-photon detector enable broadband quantum internet?

Chinese scientists have developed a 100-channel single-photon detector, a breakthrough promising to pave the way for broadband quantum networks.

State-of-the-art single-photon detectors – essential components underpinning photonic quantum technologies – could previously support a maximum of 32 detection channels for photon signals.

Now, a newly developed interconnect scheme by a Shanghai-based team has broken this bottleneck, supporting more than 100 detection channels while maintaining accurate and stable operation.

“This work establishes a robust and scalable infrastructure, paving the way for large-scale quantum photonic applications,” — the authors said.

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🤖 Unitree Founder Now Expects Robots Breakthrough as Soon as 2028

The founder of Unitree Robotics now expects a breakthrough in humanoids in as little as two years, a reversal for a Chinese entrepreneur who once predicted intelligent machines would take as long as decade to go mainstream.

Wang Xingxing, one of the country’s most celebrated tech leaders, who created the nation’s biggest humanoid manufacturer a decade ago now predicts that, as soon as 2028, the machines can complete 80% of assigned tasks in the factory or home after receiving verbal orders — an arbitrary threshold he defines as the “aha” moment for practical robotic applications.

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🇨🇳 Chinese Team Claims World Record with 3.2 Petabits-Per-Second Optical Fiber Speed

A Chinese team has claimed a new world record for real-time data transfer speeds over a 24-core optical fiber cable, reaching 3.2 petabits per second — fast enough to download more than 20,000 4K movies in just one second. 🤯

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