10 September 2026 Weibo

Cultural : China Unicom showcased an opening performance that blended tradition with digital technology at its 2026 China Unicom Partner Conference. According to its official Weibo account, an AI digital human “descended from space onto the stage,” synchronizing in real and virtual realms with the non-heritage drumbeats of the Jingpo ethnic group, presenting a stage effect that fused traditional culture with digital technology. As a highlight of the conference cooperation and exchange zone opening ceremony, it demonstrated China Unicom’s attempt to integrate virtual digital human performances into computing power and intelligent digital application scenarios.

Entertainment : Mangguo TV (芒果TV) posted content on its official account stating that director Lee Dong-hyun, while using the platform’s AI creative tool Mangguo Lingchuang (芒果灵创) to produce the animated work “Post-Journey to the West,” discovered that detailed specifications in character design drawings significantly influence the behavioral logic of AI image-to-video generation—for example, whether the character Sun Wukong’s design drawing depicts a tail beneath the cape directly determines how the AI presents the character’s facial expressions and limb movements in generated video: a design without a tail is understood by the AI as “a monkey played by a human,” resulting in immobile facial muscles, while a design with a tail is understood as “the monkey itself,” with completely different expression logic following suit. Mangguo TV (芒果TV) indicated that this is not an issue at the prompt level, but rather reflects the model’s understanding of the character’s “underlying settings” at work, with the AI consistently and logically developing the hidden physical attributes in character designs in its subsequent outputs. This case was released as an experience summary from the AI series production process of “Post-Journey to the West.”