MILAN, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — At the A’ Design Award ceremony in Milan, PrimeBOT Q1 and T1 received Gold and Silver respectively — marking the first global recognition for the “Personal Robot” category. The PrimeBOT design team accepted the awards on behalf of the studio.

What is a Personal Robot? PrimeBOT is the first brand to define this emerging category. Unlike industrial or service robots built for specific functions, the Personal Robot is shaped around the human being — it serves, connects, and empowers individuals. It is not a machine confined to factories, but an intelligent companion that fits into a backpack, a study, and everyday life.

For people, unlike people. Both Q1 and T1 share a single philosophy: For people, unlike people. PrimeBOT moves beyond the industry’s fixation on human-like replication, rejecting synthetic faces or skin textures. Instead, it adopts a minimalist geometry and an enclosed form that conceals mechanical structures — reducing the distance technology often creates. The body uses warm-touch materials with soft curves that convey warmth and safety. At rest, it blends into home surroundings; in motion, its movements remain fluid and restrained.

Q1 and T1: two expressions of one design. Q1’s 80cm height is carefully calibrated — not too large, not too small — sitting at the intimate social distance humans naturally share. Its outer shell is open-source, supporting 3D-printed customization and swappable modules, allowing users to shape a robot that reflects their own taste. T1, the latest model, transforms from bipedal to quadrupedal mode — while maintaining the same design principles for home environments. Design becomes a two-way conversation, not a one-way statement.

PrimeBOT has initiated market development in North America and Europe. From five CES 2026 awards to Gold and Silver in Milan, the brand is engaging with users worldwide through design.

The A’ Design Award affirms PrimeBOT’s vision — not about showcasing technology, but about making machines that truly understand, serve, and accompany people.

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Four products replace menus and interfaces with conversation — bringing institutional-grade investment capabilities to individual investors everywhere AI lives

HONG KONG, July 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Longbridge Group, the AI-powered fintech company, today unveiled a new generation of AI-native* investing products, redefining how people engage with the market and rebuilding the investing experience around a single idea: investing begins with a conversation, wherever that conversation happens — in Longbridge’s own products, or inside the AI assistants used by billions of people every day. In either place, users can complete the entire investing process, making AI the true operating system of investing.

A New Era of Investing, Rebuilt Around You

For five decades, every wave of innovation, lower costs, online platforms, mobile apps made investing easier to reach, yet investors are still left piecing together watchlists, charts, screeners and research on their own. Longbridge AI removes the interface altogether: investors simply ask, and the AI helps them discover opportunities, analyse information, build a plan and review each decision in one workflow — bringing a capability once reserved for professional institutions to every investor.

“Every major shift in brokerage has made investing easier to access, whether through lower costs, online platforms or mobile devices, but access has never been the same as having an institutional investment process,” said Nowa Zhu, Group CEO and Co-Founder of Longbridge. “We envision Longbridge AI as an emerging force reshaping the investing experience. Instead of asking investors to navigate increasingly complex platforms, we believe investing should begin with a conversation via language user interface (LUI). AI becomes the underlying operating system of investing, and language becomes the interface — helping investors move from discovering opportunities to making informed decisions, not only on our platform but wherever they already talk to AI.”

Four Products, One Ecosystem

The launch introduces four connected products that together span the full investing journey, from discovering opportunities, analysing information, formulating strategy, to executing decisions and reviewing outcomes.

Longbridge App is the Group’s flagship AI-native investing application, conceived and built in Singapore. It is built around one continuous loop: Catalyst, what happened; Signal, what it means for your holdings; Plan, what to do, with a drafted order you review; and Review, what you learned. This truly brings institutional-grade capabilities to every individual investor. Investors no longer learn the app. They simply ask, in words, voice or a photo, and it takes them from what happened to what to do.

Longbridge AI is the Group’s flagship AI investing agent. Rather than waiting to answer questions, it scans the market for developments relevant to an investor’s holdings, remembers their portfolio and past decisions, and thinks one step ahead, drafting an action plan for the investor to review. The more it is used, the better it understands each investor’s preferences and decision-making style, helping investors build a more consistent and disciplined investing process. It anticipates and proposes, but every trade is executed only after the investor’s confirmation, fully upholding the Human-in-the-loop principle.

Longbridge Skill connects more than 13 investing skills, including real-time market data, fundamentals, derivatives analysis and trade order drafting, directly into the AI assistants investors already use. No new app to download, no switching platforms: investors get zero-barrier access to institutional-grade financial capabilities. It works natively with mainstream assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, as well as developer tools such as Cursor. By meeting investors inside the AI used by billions of people every day, Longbridge extends AI-native investing far beyond a single app.

Longbridge Agent Platform is the open marketplace where strategies, analysts and skills compete side by side, rather than converging on a single house view. Investors can build their own investing agent in plain words, subscribe to approaches created by others, or publish their own agent, which can be discovered and used by any AI, anywhere, opening up a breadth of investment perspectives that were once gatekept, a new era of investing rebuilt by every individual.

Bringing Institutional Investment Capabilities to Everyone

Longbridge sees this launch as the start of a longer commitment, not a single moment. The company plans to establish the Longbridge AI Lab in Singapore, dedicated to exploring best practices in investment research, risk management and human-AI collaboration, and to advancing the responsible use of AI in finance. The Lab will partner with local universities and industry leaders, and create roles that bring top-tier AI talent to the city.

Longbridge’s AI-native investing platform is designed to close the gap between institutional and retail investing by bringing market research, portfolio analysis, investment planning, trade execution and post-trade review into a single AI-native workflow. It follows a human-in-the-loop principle: the AI proposes and the investor decides. Throughout the investment process, investors remain in control of every decision, and final execution always requires their confirmation.

From Asia to the World

Conceived and built in Singapore, the Longbridge AI suite launches first in Singapore, home to a mature financial market, a robust regulatory framework and some of the world’s most active retail investors, an ideal environment for AI-native financial products. Hong Kong has long been one of the Group’s core markets, where the team has spent years serving local investor needs, while Singapore serves as a key base for the Group’s global product development. Starting from Asia, Longbridge aims to bring the AI-native investing experience to markets worldwide.

“This product is made in Singapore: designed here, built here,” said Gavin Chia, CEO of Longbridge Securities for Singapore and Southeast Asia. “For decades, the world’s great financial products came from New York and London. We believe the next generation of world-class financial products can be born in Asia and serve the world. Longbridge AI is the first step toward that vision, and a milestone for Asian innovation going global.”

The Longbridge AI products will be available to Singapore users from 15 July 2026 at https://longbridge.com/ai.

*”AI-Native” is defined as: AI that reshapes the product itself, rather than merely optimising product efficiency. Based on our research, no other listed retail broker licensed to operate in Hong Kong, Singapore or the United States currently meets this standard.

Disclaimer

The launch event is organised by Longbridge Group. The AI products unveiled are proprietary innovations developed by Longbridge Group and will be introduced progressively across the United States, Singapore, and other markets throughout Asia.

About Longbridge Group

Longbridge Group is a leading fintech company with three main business segments: Securities, Technology, and AI.

Longbridge Securities is an AI-powered online brokerage that serves global investors with optimal trading experience through building worldwide trading infrastructure and networks.
Website (Global) : http://longbridge.com LONGPORT Whale provides multi-market, multi-asset trading solutions for brokers, banks, family offices, and other institutions with trading services.
Website: https://longportwhale.com LongbridgeAI is a next-generation AI-native financial data and trading infrastructure platform built for global investors, quantitative researchers, AI agents, and developers.
Website: https://longbridge.com/ai 

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GUANGZHOU, China, July 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trusted by 30 Million, Powered by Quality. On July 16, GAC Group hosted the 30 Million Customers Appreciation Event at the GAC manufacturing plant. The event was attended by leaders from Guangdong Province, Guangzhou Municipality, and Panyu District; Fu Bingfeng, Executive Vice President and Secretary-General of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers; Feng Xingya, Chairman of GAC Group; Xia Xianqing, President of GAC Group; along with other members of the leadership team, industry partners, suppliers, dealers, domestic and overseas customer representatives, employee representatives, and media representatives.

During the ceremony, GAC’s overseas manufacturing bases were linked via live video. Its Thailand plant celebrated the roll-off of its 10,000th vehicle, a new model rolled off the line at the Indonesian plant, and the Austrian plant in Graz officially commenced mass production of the AION UT. The highlight came when the right-hand-drive GAC M8 PHEV – sold overseas as the GN8 – took the stage as the 30-millionth vehicle. Feng Xingya handed the keys to Thai customer Tony Jaa, a globally renowned action star and household name in Thailand. This moment captured not just a number, but the mutual trust and shared journey between GAC and its global users.

The 30 millionth delivery marks a major milestone in GAC’s 29-year journey. Behind this number lies the trust of tens of millions of customers, GAC’s commitment to quality and safety, its push for electrification and intelligent technology, and a reflection of China’s auto industry shift from scale to value.

GAC has long been a pioneer of China’s automotive globalization drive, expanding overseas since 2013. In the first half of 2026 alone, GAC exported over 120,000 vehicles, up 132% year-on-year. To date, GAC’s global footprint spans 110 countries and regions across five continents, with a network of over 746 sales and service outlets, 7 overseas manufacturing plants, and 9 parts warehouses. Cumulative exports have surpassed 540,000 units, and GAC’s global brand influence continues to rise.

To express its gratitude to 30 million customers worldwide, GAC has officially launched the “30 Millionth Vehicle Roll-off • Renewed Gratitude Season” campaign, with preferential offers rolling out across all regions worldwide.

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