Today’s tech story spans both the grand and the granular: at Shanghai’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Pudu Robotics used the global stage to show off its full commercial service robotics lineup and picked up a “Most Investor-Attractive Enterprise” award, underscoring how investors remain eager for practical AI hardware. At the same time, developers are focusing on the less glamorous work of making generative AI reliable, with new write-ups detailing how better chunking, hybrid retrieval, reranking and automated evaluation pipelines can sharply cut latency, reduce hallucinations and catch failures before users do. That push for sturdier infrastructure comes as consumers got a reminder of how fragile digital platforms can be, with intermittent access problems reported on Facebook and Instagram in several markets. And beyond technology itself, the day also brought news of the death of actor Terence Donovan, a familiar face from Neighbours and Home and Away, at 90.