Hainan Switches On Its AI Engine Hainan · Technology A state-backed platform in Haikou wants to make artificial intelligence cheap enough for ordinary businesses to actually use — and it's betting on free tokens to get there. By Staff Correspondent , Haikou June 14, 2026 · 5 min read On a humid Saturday in Haikou, a room full of officials and executives watched a screen light up with a number most companies never get to see attached to their own name: one hundred trillion. That's how many AI tokens Hainan's provincial government is prepared to hand out for free, through a new platform it hopes will do for local businesses what cheap electricity once did for factories. The Hainan Artificial Intelligence Service Platform went live on June 13 at a launch event in the provincial capital, built and bankrolled by two state-owned firms — Hainan Information Industry Investment Group and Hainan Computing Power Technology. Unlike a lot of A...
Humanoid Robots in 2026: Which Companies Are Actually Shipping Humanoid Robots 2026: The Hype-to-Reality Gap, Company by Company Everyone claims their robot is already working. The filings, partner statements, and earnings calls tell a much narrower story. 📅 July 24, 2026 ⏱️ 6 min read Quick Highlights Tesla Optimus has no public sale, no audited production count, and full production hadn't started as of mid-July 2026. Figure AI has the strongest verified commercial record, having run real production shifts at a BMW plant. China's Unitree ships more humanoid units than any Western rival, at roughly a tenth of the price — but its profits are falling. 1X and Apptronik are pursuing different bets: home robots and logistics partnerships, backed by serious funding. Across the board, most "deployed" robots are still in a learning phase, not full autonomous production. Scroll through humanoid robot headlines this y...