歐元區8月消費者信心指數初值 -15.5，預期-16.3，前值-15.9。

Aug. 21 — Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads founder Zhang Jianzhong said at the 2026 World Robot Conference that the embodied-intelligence sector is entering a ChatGPT-style inflection and that compute capacity is the critical constraint. Language models have passed the trillion-parameter threshold, and driven by scaling laws embodied-intelligence models are advancing from billions and tens of billions to hundreds of billions and trillions of parameters. AI compute clusters will expand from thousands of accelerator cards to tens of thousands, and a move toward 100,000-card scale has become inevitable.

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