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Leaker Evan Blass has posted images showing the Samsung W27 foldable in an Aura Blue colorway with extensive gold trim, visible from nearly every angle. The device is expected to launch this week exclusively in China, following Samsung's pattern of releasing a W-series variant alongside its global Galaxy Z Fold lineup.
New BBC reporting indicates photovoltaic solar will supply 10 percent of global power generation by the end of 2026, surpassing nuclear fission output. Solar generation has grown roughly 2,700-fold over the past 26 years while nuclear output has remained largely flat, a trend Oxford energy policy professor Jan Rosenow attributes partly to falling photovoltaic costs driven by Chinese manufacturing supply.
Porsche reported operating profit of €1.74 billion for the first nine months of 2026, up sharply from €40 million a year earlier when results were hit by roughly €2.7 billion in restructuring costs. Revenue fell 5.9% to €25.28 billion and deliveries dropped 16% to 178,532 vehicles, with North America remaining its top market by volume. CFO Jochen Breckner said the company has significantly cut its reliance on China, a market facing intensifying competition from domestic brands like BYD, Geely and Xiaomi.
China's first fully AI-generated theatrical release, 'Sanxingdui: Future Past' from Bona Film Group, earned only $181,000 after opening on over 10,000 screens on October 23. The film reportedly cost $1.5 million and took nearly 100 people over two years to produce, though all performers and voices were AI-generated. BFG CEO Jiang Defu acknowledged the difficulty of being first to test an AI film with audiences.
A Nature commentary argues that short-term academic visits to China can help maintain scholarly collaboration amid wider geopolitical strain. The piece suggests such visits as a practical alternative when longer-term exchanges or partnerships face obstacles.
A Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of 200 research vessels from 47 countries found Chinese ships spent a disproportionately large share of time loitering near undersea cable infrastructure in the Pacific. The report highlights a vessel from the Xiang Yang Hong fleet that spent months near three cables linking the U.S. to Australia, Indonesia, Singapore and Guam, moving in seafloor-mapping patterns.
Footage circulating online shows workshops in China desoldering GB202 GPUs and GDDR7 memory from new GeForce RTX 5090 cards, then rebuilding them with blower-style coolers for server racks. The operations reportedly process both custom partner cards and Nvidia Founders Edition units, repackaging them for shipment to data centers or AI labs.
Apple launched its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, globally on Friday, with scalpers outside the Sanlitun flagship store in Beijing offering buyers roughly 3,000 yuan ($448) above retail price for their newly purchased units. One scalper, Alex Wang, said he expects to resell the devices at a markup for about two weeks due to limited supply. Customers, including one who arrived at 6 a.m. to join a line of about 100 people, said they were eager for Apple to finally enter the foldable category.
Counterpoint Research reports China's overall smartphone shipments fell 10% year-over-year in Q3 2026, marking a 14-year low. Apple's share rose 4.8 percentage points to 19.5%, moving it from sixth to second place behind Huawei, which gained 5.3 points to lead with 21.3%. Vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi, and HONOR all lost share during the quarter.
Israeli security firm Lava says it identified 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips operating inside the network of state-owned China Telecom, despite these chips being barred from export to China under U.S. controls. Lava says it detected the chips using Nvidia's own DCGM Exporter monitoring tool, though it cannot confirm exactly where in China Telecom's infrastructure they reside. Nvidia did not dispute the finding but said diversion of controlled chips remains statistically insignificant.
OpenAI has dismissed three staff members following internal suspicions that they leaked information, according to reporting. Details on what exactly was leaked or to whom have not been fully disclosed.
TSMC has reportedly begun asking its equipment suppliers whether they can build factory automation machinery using motors that avoid rare-earth materials, according to a Reuters report citing people familiar with the matter. The move targets electric motors in TSMC's fabrication plants that typically rely on permanent magnets made from elements like neodymium, dysprosium and terbium.