Chinese Tech Daily — 2026-04-18#
Top Story#
The Chinese AI landscape is experiencing significant tremors as DeepSeek reportedly seeks its first external funding at a valuation of over $10 billion. Facing mounting compute costs and a fierce talent war that recently saw core contributors to its V3 model poached by Xiaomi and ByteDance, founder Liang Wenfeng is shifting the previously self-funded strategy to fuel the delayed V4 model.
Engineering & Dev#
The C++ ecosystem is gearing up for what is being called the most important update in a decade, as the C++26 standard draft is now complete. Led by Herb Sutter, the update introduces powerful reflection capabilities without runtime overhead, memory safety enhancements that have already prevented thousands of bugs at Google, and a new std::execution framework for concurrency. In the open-source AI sphere, Google has released the Gemma 4 model family under the Apache 2.0 license, featuring edge-friendly sizes and a 31B dense model that punches above its weight class with native multimodal and agentic workflows. Domestic AI developers are also pushing agent capabilities forward, with Zhipu launching a self-evolution mechanism for its AutoClaw agent to solve the common “amnesia” problem by learning from user corrections and persisting memory. On the security front, developers using Tiandy’s surveillance systems should note a critical Easy7 SQL injection vulnerability found in its REST API, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands and potentially tamper with databases.