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As Xi Jinping visits Washington, Chinese economists warn that Beijing's heavy focus on AI comes at the expense of addressing a severe broader economic crisis (Li Yuan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/busines

In China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags Behind
As Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week for a state visit, China’s advances in artificial intelligence will be in the air. Less discussed: China’s economy in its worst shape in decades.

Since China offered a truce in the trade war last October following its threat to deprive the United States of rare-earth magnets,
the Trump administration has been happy to stop escalating.
After all, imports from China have been falling, down by 40% in the year to June, compared with the same period in 2024.
Best to declare victory and call it a day.
But the US hasn’t won this battle
– and there’s strong evidence to show it’s afraid to really try.
Last …

Is the US actually too chicken to take on China for trade?
A weak yuan guarantees Beijing massive trade surplus even as the White House tries tamp down on Chinese imports

Family tied to suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang gave $4.4 million to Newsom, other California politicians (Josh Boswell/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/yin-family-christine-fang-4-4-million-gavin-newsom-california/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260921/p120#a260921p120

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
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- Clarify Before Executing: A Self-Evolving Agent for Resolving Intent Asymmetry in 3D Tool Orchest...
Xiaoye Zhu, Weixin Li, Junan Huo, Bozhong Wang, Jia Zeng, Yi Yang, Cen Chen, Qi Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16352
- CNS-Edit : Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation
Jingyu Hu, Weilong Yan, Zhengzhe Liu, Haipeng Li, Ka-Hei Hui, Hao, Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16577
- TopoGS: Planar Reconstruction via Topology-aware 3D Gaussian Splatting
Shanshan Pan, Jiale Chen, Yilin Liu, Hui Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16838
- SciForma: Structure-Faithful Generation of Scientific Diagrams
Yuxuan Luo, Peng Zhang, Xinjie Zhang, Xun Guo, Zhouhui Lian, Yan Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18091
- SGA: Plug&Play Geometric Verification for Educational Video Synthesis
Lopez Jhon, Hinojosa Carlos, Ghanem Bernard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18116 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116957182951799578
- Lossless-INR: Lossless Volumetric Implicit Neural Representations
Kaiyuan Tang, Daniel Burke, Chaoli Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18150
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Filing: Chinese chipmaker CXMT seeks to raise ~$9.8B in an IPO on Shanghai's chip-heavy STAR Board (David Morris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/cxmt-prices-shanghai-star-board-ipo-at-8-66-yuan-pe…

According to Xin Zhi Yuan reports,
the list of 2026 Fields Medal winners has been unexpectedly leaked.
Two Peking University alumni, Wang Hong and Deng Yu, are both on the list
— marking the first time Chinese mathematicians will claim the highest honor in mathematics in the same edition.
Someone discovered four Fields Medal laureate lecture fields marked “HIDDEN” in the front-end code of the ICM 2026 official schedule.
A single curl command generated by Codex c…

2026 Fields Medal List Accidentally Leaked: Peking University Alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng on the List
PANews July 14 news, according to Xinzhiyuan reports, the 2026 Fields Medal list has been accidentally leaked. Two Peking University alumni Hong Wang and Yu Deng are both on the list, marking the…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- Conformal tubular parameterization and toroidal bending of tube-like surfaces
Shunyu Yao, Gary P. T. Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16305 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116600097651538857
- SCALMU: Synthetically-trained Coupling of Adaptive Learned Multiplicative Updates for Hyperspectr...
Xinxin Xu, Yann Gousseau, Christophe Kervazo, Sa\"id Ladjal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30973 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/116673699236122120
- CNS-Edit : Category-Agnostic 3D Editing with Coupled Neural Shape Representation
Jingyu Hu, Weilong Yan, Zhengzhe Liu, Haipeng Li, Ka-Hei Hui, Hao Zhang, Chi-Wing Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16577
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Memo: MiniMax CEO Junjie Yan tells employees he will forgo his salary until MiniMax achieves AGI and promises to allocate personal shares to employee incentives (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/minimax-ceo-vows-forgo-s…

MiniMax CEO Vows to Forgo Salary Until Achieving AGI
Junjie Yan, founder and CEO of Chinese AI developer MiniMax told employees in an internal memo that he will forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while also promising to allocate some of his personal shares toward employee incentives. In the memo, which was shared publicly in an X post by another MiniMax executive, Yan said he will allocate shares

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/de

DeepSeek’s Annualized Revenue Nears $500 Million, Boosting Fundraise and IPO Plans
Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese open-source AI star to raise its second-funding round of 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) and plot a potential public offering in Shanghai next year, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The three-year-old startup’s ...

Hong Kong-listed Z.ai reports H1 2026 revenue up 5x YoY to ~$142M, with "open platform and API revenue" up 28x to ~$122M, and net loss down 12% YoY to ~$308M (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chines…

Chinese AI Model Firm Z.ai’s API Sales Surge in First Half
Chinese AI firm Z.ai’s revenue in the first half jumped nearly fivefold from a year earlier to 954 million yuan ($142 million), boosted by skyrocketing sales of cloud-based AI model services. Z.ai, whose stock is listed in Hong Kong, said its “open platform and API revenue,” which includes the sales of its models through application programming interfaces and other services such as coding