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On Sept 15, foundation model company StepFun launched its next-gen StepAudio 3 series, unveiling five models at once: StepAudio 3 Realtime, StepAudio 3 ASR, StepAudio 3 TTS, StepAudio 3 Gen, and StepAudio 3 Music.

They cover real-time voice interaction, speech recognition, human-level voice generation, and music creation. Several models ranked No.1 globally on Artificial Analysis, an authoritative third-party AI model evaluation platform.

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Pinglu Canal in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region officially opened to navigation on Wednesday.

The 134.2-kilometer canal is designed to fast connect China's inner regions in the southwest with the sea. It is China's first major river-to-sea canal project that has been planned and coordinated at the national level since 1949.

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On Sept 16, China Mobile open-sourced Open-RAIL globally—the industry’s first universal engineering foundation connecting VLA/WAM models with robot bodies. It is already adapted to 4 heterogeneous robots and supports 10 mainstream VLA/WAM models. 

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Pony.ai and Qatar’s Mowasalat revealed key milestones in their commercial partnership, launching Doha’s first fully driverless Robotaxi experience.

Following stellar safety and satisfaction ratings that exceeded expectations, the Ministry of Transport (Qatar) is gearing up for large-scale commercial expansion across Qatar.

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Coming off a sensational 7-5, 6-3 victory over Iga Swiatek to reach the 2026 US Open quarterfinals, Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen has officially confirmed her participation in the 2026 China Open main draw.