X product head said the platform posted its highest-ever downloads last week, iOS monthly active users exceeded any prior year, and X is the fastest-growing social network at its current scale.

Aug 13, Optics Valley — China has launched drafting of a national standards series for humanoid robot testing, initiating seven draft standards including general rules, environmental perception, decision and planning, and motion control. More than 200 industry and academic representatives attended, including Unitree Robotics, Xiaomi Robotics, Magic Atom, ZTE, CloudMinds, Horizon Robotics, Lingxin Qiaoshou and other domestic robotics firms, plus Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Jiliang University and University of Bamberg. Hubei provincial electronic information standardization committee unveiled a Humanoid Robot and Embodied Intelligence standards working group; the first 29 members include the Hubei Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, Hubei Institute of Metrology and Testing Technology, Wuhan University and HUST.

US June business inventories unchanged MoM at 0.0% vs 0.1% expected; May revised up from 0.3% to 0.4%.