Robotics for the deep sea: China is exporting undersea cable detection robots to break foreign maintenance monopolies, with systems that can find buried lines and cover exposed cables using sediment, operating up to 300 meters depth and around the clock. Humanoids move into real life: UBTech’s Walker S2 has begun live customs work at the Fangchenggang border with Vietnam, while Agibot says it completed the world’s first livestream of humanoid robots inspecting a full tablet production line with a reported 99.99% success rate. AI and chips under pressure: A Chinese AI chip startup exited stealth, betting on 3D stacking to bypass US controls, and Peking University researchers unveiled a neurodynamic system chip using phase-change memristors with millisecond-scale latency. Fusion timeline update: China revised its “artificial sun” roadmap, targeting first kilowatt-hour fusion power generation by 2030 after acceptance tests of domestically built superconducting magnets. Science breakthroughs: A new Jurassic bird fossil from China challenges assumptions about avian tail evolution, and researchers reported record hollow-core fiber transmission of 51.3 Tb/s over 206.5 km without regeneration. Policy and markets: China’s Global Digital Economy Conference highlighted digital-friendly city frameworks; meanwhile, public university tuition hikes point to local government fiscal strain. Geopolitics with tech stakes: China’s marine tech push and cross-strait youth exchanges ran alongside heightened regional tensions and renewed focus on rule-of-law-backed China-Europe ESG cooperation.