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1. 20h
   Outside the spotlight: traditional industries adopting AI faster than expected

   A Chinese-language feature interviews more than ten practitioners from non-tech sectors and profiles five cases: a Foshan pig-farming-supplies owner who used AI to generate leads, move his company to the cloud and rewrite a decade-old software product; a Shanghai Jiao Tong team building AI scheduling and decision systems for manufacturers; a recent graduate who turned month-end reconciliation into an agentic workflow; and a county physics teacher and an equipment-rental owner using AI for interactive courseware and quotes. It reports that Muyuan, described as the world's largest pig producer, built a pig-farming model with Alibaba Cloud that distils veteran vets' disease-diagnosis experience into one-second results deployed across more than 1,000 farms. The article cites CAICT, McKinsey and MIT NANDA survey figures to argue the real obstacles are fragmented data, customer education and cross-department authority rather than the models themselves.

   虎嗅 AI · 🔥 14
2. 21h
   The real test for physical AI starts after the pilot

   A TechRadar Pro perspectives piece argues that the bottleneck for physical AI — vehicles, equipment, cameras and sensors — is no longer budget or ambition but execution: organizations must pick a measurable operational problem, give AI the operational context it needs (maintenance history, location, driving behaviour and conditions), and connect every insight to an action. It cites BCG's 2026 AI Radar as finding corporate AI spending will more than double from 0.8% to about 1.7% of revenue, PwC's 2026 study that 74% of AI's economic value goes to 20% of organizations, and Capgemini's finding that 79% of organizations engage with robotics while only 27% deploy or scale it.

   TechRadar · 🔥 5

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