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A self taught maker from Badong county in Hubei has flown a homemade electric board over the Yangtze, along city streets and through a canyon. Video of the flight, posted under the handle Ayu, has drawn about four million likes on Douyin and attention from state broadcasters. The board began as a replica of the glider ridden by the Green Goblin in Spider Man.

Garmin Singapore has announced the Enduro 4, which it describes as its longest lasting GPS smartwatch with solar charging. The watch pairs a 1.4 inch memory in pixel display with a solar lens, and Garmin rates it at up to 320 hours of activity use or up to 90 days in smartwatch mode. Both figures assume hours of bright sunlight at 50,000 lux, which the company states plainly in its footnotes.

Artificial intelligence agents, once autonomous tools for corporate efficiency, now generate new management demands across Asia. Businesses deploying these digital workers confront unforeseen friction and increased supervisory burdens. Xiao Mengjie, an AI product marketing manager in Shanghai, observed two agents assigned a simple task engage in prolonged debate over responsibilities, mirroring human bureaucracy.

A recent study indicates a significant prevalence of employees secretly using artificial intelligence within their workplaces, a practice termed "shadow AI". Research found over half of all workers admit to concealing their AI-assisted tasks from management. This trend raises concerns regarding data security, compliance, and overall corporate oversight.

DeepSeek has added two standalone tools to its API platform, one that searches the web and one that fetches a single page. Both return raw JSON and use the same Bearer authentication as the rest of the DeepSeek API, so one key covers all three. The company says they let agent and retrieval augmented generation applications reach live web content without a separate search provider.

China has proposed export bans and restrictions on 23 AI related technologies, including models, agents and chip designs, under a draft plan issued by the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology. The same document proposes controls on technologies tied to biotechnology and solar manufacturing. According to SCMP, the stated aim is to tighten Beijing's grip on a sector it treats as strategically vital.

Rokid has launched a ride hailing service on its AI glasses in partnership with Tencent Mobility, letting a wearer book a car by voice without taking out a phone at all. A user says a destination, and the glasses handle pickup points, fare comparison, booking and payment. Rokid describes it as the industry's first native ride hailing service for AI glasses, a claim the company makes itself with no outside party cited.

Tesla has unveiled a new Roadster that jumps over a line of cars and turns a slow rotation in midair. The trick relies on cold gas thrusters, engineering drawn from SpaceX and reworked to work in the atmosphere rather than the vacuum of space. TechCrunch reports that the car used a mix of high powered fans and thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin around, and settle back onto the pavement, before lifting itself over a Cybercab, a Cybertruck, a Tesla Semi, a Model Y, an

Roboticists from the Robotics and AI Institute, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have developed a new dual-armed robotic system known as AthenaZero. This robot achieved human-like agile movements, successfully performing baseball-inspired tasks. These tasks included throwing balls, catching them, and hitting them with a bat, a notable development in robot manipulation capabilities.

Epson has released an extension for Adobe Express that sends design files straight to print production. The extension, called Epson Print, opens the company's Print Automate application from inside Adobe Express and pushes a design to a printer in a few clicks, a change aimed at businesses and print professionals.