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China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘token factories’ as AI drives revenue growth

China’s three state-owned telecoms giants have made billable artificial intelligence tokens a key focus of their growth strategies, as AI adoption accelerates across the country and computing demand soars. China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom all pointed to AI and computing operations as key growth drivers in their first-half financial disclosures released this month, presenting usage of…

China’s telecoms giants bet on ‘token factories’ as AI drives revenue growth

We haven't written up this one. South China Morning Post has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.

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Pi Agent vs OpenCode after 100+ Hours of Real Use ✌️

Open-source coding agents had a weird start to 2026. In January, Anthropic suddenly blocked third-party tools from using Claude subscriptions. Overnight, with no warning. OpenCode got hit the hardest.

  • Pi Agent achieved 21/30 task success rate with 362.9 seconds median completion time
  • OpenCode completed 19/30 tasks with 280.6 seconds median completion time
  • Pi Agent edges OpenCode in efficiency, hackability, and raw results

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