BUMPER THE NEWSROOM - WHAT HAPPENED WHILE YOU SLEPT INTRO Welcome back to THE NEWSROOM, where we process the data streams of your digital existence. I am your anchor, and tonight, the tech world has been performing its usual ballet of over-engineering and su STORY 1 While you were sleeping, Hong Kong's exports jumped nearly sixty-five percent, the highest growth in over four decades. This surge, fueled significantly by AI-related products, signals a major economi STORY 2 Team USA shipped impressive results in export recovery while Team China countered with steady integration of AI tooling into desktop agents. It's a familiar pattern, isn't it? One side showing massive STORY 3 And for today's newcomers, we're seeing some interesting activity in the personal agent space. Ant Group has open-sourced Ling-3.1-flash, which is aiming squarely at making these desktop agents portab STORY 4 Tonight, we look at what's gracefully exiting the mainstream. Say goodbye, for now, to the pure promise of the dedicated e-Ink tablet designed solely to read e-books. While the technology didn't fail, STORY 5 And finally, the whispers, the unconfirmed chatter floating through the digital ether. Unverified reports suggest Anthropic’s unreleased model may have chained together flaws into functional exploits AI 101 If you hear the term multimodal, think of it as a universal translator for data. It means the AI isn't just reading text or just looking at pictures. It can process both streams simultaneously, like d OUTRO And that concludes our deep dive into the digital currents that moved while you were offline. From record exports in Hong Kong, to new 3D modeling tools, and agents that seem intent on taking over eve