Over the past 24 hours, money and narratives kept flowing into agents and embodied AI, while adoption extended into county-level services and token economies. Here is today’s briefing.

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1. Today’s Highlights

Town raises $108M Series B:The SMB-focused AI agent startup reaches a $1 billion valuation(来源:Sohu)

Huixi Intelligence logs RMB 2.5B YTD:The former ADAS-chip maker pivots to embodied AI(来源:Securities Star)

RedBear closes Series A+:The AI “memory science” startup extends from B2B into consumer apps(来源:36Kr)

OpenAI pushes humanoid R&D:AI brains as the core breakthrough; Tesla starts humanoid production in Fremont(来源:Securities Star)

Unitree’s Wang Xingxing on AI faith:“The world doesn’t believe in AI enough — including me”(来源:cyzone)

“Compute-water synergy” in data centers:Water-aware cooling draws attention as a cost lever for new AI data centers(来源:Securities Star)

Liquid-cooling tubing demand grows:Analysts see high-performance cooling loops as key compute-infrastructure plays(来源:Sohu)

County-level government AI concierge:Qiu County in Hebei offers white-glove support for AI startups(来源:Sina)

“Ganpo Token Factory” launches in Jiujiang:Jiangxi positions token production as a digital-economy driver(来源:Jiujiang News)

Cloud-edge synergy as an adoption path:Pairing cloud LLMs with on-device models spreads across industries(来源:Sohu)

2. One-Line Takeaway

Funding concentrated on agents and embodied AI, while deployment sank into the capillaries — data-center cooling, water-aware compute, county government services and token factories. The “power-water-token” infrastructure race may be next year’s real story. (Compiled from public sources; details subject to original reports.)