Krypton Evening News | Taotian Group Launches "AI Productivity Plan" and Opens It to All Interns; Beijing Has Led the Formulation of Over 500 International Standards in the Past Five Years; The European Parliament Votes to Approve the EU-US Trade Agreement
Large Companies:
It is reported that major South Korean conglomerates led by Samsung and SK have rolled out a series of energy - saving measures, including turning off office lighting and implementing vehicle restrictions for employees commuting by car, to respond to the South Korean government's energy - saving policy. Samsung announced that it will implement a vehicle restriction system at all domestic business sites starting from the 26th for ten days. The system stipulates that vehicles with license plate numbers having the same last digit as the date are restricted from using the parking lot, except for electric vehicles, hydrogen - fuel cell vehicles, and vehicles for pregnant women and the disabled. (Caixin)
Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center releases an open - source and open - ecosystem plan
On March 26th, at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, Tang Jian, the CTO of Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center, announced that the company has launched a plan to build an open - source and open - ecosystem for embodied intelligence. It will work with partners to create the industry's leading open - ecosystem for embodied intelligence, covering the entire chain of open - source and open - ecosystem plans such as developer cultivation, industrial application implementation, embodied technology base, standard testing, and pilot - scale service. Tang Jian said that this plan is advanced in line with the national "Artificial Intelligence +" strategic requirements, following the general idea of "using the whole - machine to drive the ecosystem, using intelligent evolution to drive improvement, and using scenario promotion to drive application". Its aim is to break through industry pain points such as technical barriers, data islands, and inconsistent interfaces, and ultimately form industrial synergy. (Securities Times)
Taotian Group launches the "AI Productivity Plan" and makes it accessible to all interns
36Kr learned that Taotian Group has officially launched the "AI Productivity Plan" and made it accessible to all interns. Interns enjoy the same permissions, quotas, and processes as full - time employees. It is understood that employees of Alibaba's Taotian Group can use paid AI tools such as Wukong and Qoder series for free for technology R & D and general office work, and the company provides Token quotas to employees. In addition, employees can apply for reimbursement when purchasing the Bailian Coding Plan membership or external AI development tools. In the recruitment of interns for the class of 2027 that started earlier, AI was also a key word for Taotian, with technical positions accounting for 90% and three new types of AI positions added.
36Kr learned that on March 26th, at the Tmall 2026 TOPTALK Super Brand Private Event, Jialuo, the president of Tmall, said: "In 2026, Tmall's investment in high - quality brands will be stronger and more comprehensive." Specifically, the investment will be increased in three aspects: increasing consumer subsidies to match high - quality products with more users; fully rolling out deal - promoting tools to significantly increase merchants' revenues; and building an all - link integrated AI workbench to improve brand operation efficiency.
36Kr learned that on March 25th, the 2026 Qishui Music x Douyin "See Music Plan · Industry Conference" was held in Beijing. It is reported that the platform will fully open up cooperation, optimize the revenue - sharing method and incentive activities for song licensing cooperation on the Douyin Music Open Platform, and continuously support music creators and institutions. Data shows that in 2025, the user scale of Qishui Music increased by 120% year - on - year, and 25% of them were new users of music streaming. Currently, the number of platform creators has reached 5.7 million, including 550,000 musicians.
Investment and Financing:
"Xuntu Technology" officially completed a nearly 200 million yuan Series A financing
36Kr learned that "Xuntu Technology" has officially completed a nearly 200 million yuan Series A financing. This round of financing was jointly led by Qiming Venture Partners, Sequoia China, and Hillhouse Capital. GF Qianhe, Xinchen Capital (the private equity investment business under CITIC Capital), and Qingke Holdings participated as follow - on investors and provided industrial synergy. Existing shareholders Zhongding Capital and Jiacheng Capital continued to increase their investment. Huaxing Capital served as the company's exclusive financial advisor.
On March 26th, Dinggu Jichuang exclusively completed a multi - million - yuan angel - round investment in "Xingtu Helium Energy". This is Dinggu Jichuang's third foray into the commercial space industry, aiming to enter the commercial exploitation of lunar helium - 3 and continuously improve its space industry chain layout.
36Kr learned that the AI health hardware company "OdyssLife" has recently completed multiple rounds of financing in succession, with a total amount of nearly 200 million yuan. This round of financing was led by Sequoia China and Monolith respectively, and existing shareholders Linear Capital and Creekstone continued to increase their investment. The funds from this round of financing will be mainly used for product R & D of software and hardware, global marketing, and team expansion.
Today's Views:
36Kr learned that on March 25th, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference officially opened. At the Zhongguancun Forum Open Mic ZGC Tech - Show, Liu Weihong, the chief scientist of intelligent perception technology at Hanwang Technology, pointed out that digital olfaction is becoming a key breakthrough for artificial intelligence to move towards multi - modal perception. Currently, machine olfaction is upgrading from single recognition and static recognition to general - purpose recognition and spatial - sense recognition. Hanwang's fully self - developed general - purpose olfactory perception platform, with "olfactory cell chips + AI algorithms" as the technical cornerstone, has achieved rapid response recognition and quantitative analysis of complex odors and has been successfully applied in seven major life scenarios such as food, beverages, and daily chemicals.
On March 26th, the "2026 Research Report on the Top 100 Chinese Commercial Real Estate Enterprises" released by the China Index Academy showed that in 2025, the commercial real estate market continued the trend of weak supply and demand. In terms of scale performance, the commercial real estate market has entered the stock era, and enterprises' expansion strategies are more cautious. Enterprises' layouts continue to concentrate in high - tier cities. In 2025, 60% of newly opened shopping malls were located in first - and second - tier cities. From the perspective of development trends, the commercial real estate industry is facing multiple opportunities such as the upgrading of consumption scenarios, the revitalization of stock commercial and office assets, and the pilot of commercial real estate REITs. The industry's development focus is gradually shifting towards "improving quality and efficiency". (Securities Times)
Other Noteworthy News:
On March 26th, Zhang Zhitong, the deputy director of the Shanghai Agriculture and Rural Affairs Commission, said at a press conference of the Shanghai Municipal Government that leading agricultural - related technology enterprises are the main force in breaking through key core technologies and developing new - quality agricultural productivity. This year, a special policy document to support the development of agricultural - related technology - based enterprises will be studied and formulated, with the needs of enterprises as the orientation and strengthening the innovation - leading position of enterprises. (Shanghai Securities News)
The daily average application volume of China's e - business licenses has exceeded 1.2 million times
The State Administration for Market Regulation announced today (March 26th) the issuance, application, and service innovation of China's e - business licenses. As of the end of December 2025, 111 million business entities across the country had downloaded e - business licenses 463 million times, and had used e - business licenses to handle identity authentication, online login, electronic signatures, and other services more than 1.002 billion times. The daily average application volume reached more than 1.2 million times. More than 1,900 business systems in various regions and departments have achieved application docking with e - business licenses. (CCTV News)
Over the past five years, Beijing has taken the lead in formulating over 500 international standards
This morning, reporters learned from the 2026 Zhongguancun Standardization and Scientific and Technological Innovation Development Parallel Forum that over the past five years, institutions in Beijing have taken the lead in formulating over 500 international standards and over 6,000 national standards. Beijing hosts 54 secretariats of technical bodies of international standard - setting organizations (ISO and IEC), ranking first in the country. 28 group standards in fields such as new - generation information technology and blockchain have been adopted and transformed into recommended national standards for the first time. The capital has achieved fruitful phased results in standardization development. (CCTV News)
The European Parliament voted to pass the EU - US trade agreement
On March 26th local time, the plenary session of the European Parliament voted on the EU - US trade agreement, and the agreement was finally passed. On March 19th, the International Trade Committee of the European Parliament voted 29 in favor to resume the legislative approval process related to the EU - US trade agreement. The EU and the US reached a trade agreement in July 2025. The EU needs to cancel tariffs on US - made industrial products and provide preferential market access for US seafood and agricultural products in exchange for the US imposing a 15% tariff on most EU goods exported to the US. (CCTV News)