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Daily AI industry news, product launches, funding and trends across frontier models and AI tooling
Oct 26 · Mon
11Toyota Goes All-In on Humanoid Robots, Challenging Tesla and Chinese Manufacturers
Toyota plans to deploy 400,000 robots with an annual investment of $6.4 billion to advance factory automation. Its AI humanoid robot Cue7 can already perform complex movements such as dribbling and shooting a basketball.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
HTC Unveils Pocket AI Companion VIVEE: Supports Personalized Personality, Pre-order Price $99.99
HTC has released the pocket AI companion VIVEE, which supports personalized personality development, chat and game interactions, with a pre-order price of $99.99.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Embodied AI Startup Wujing Power Exposed for Halting Work and Owing Employees Nearly ¥8 Million in Wages: CEO Says Unable to Reach Actual Controller; Company Secured Nearly ¥1 Billion in Orders Just 4 Months After Founding
Embodied AI startup Wujing Power has been exposed for halting work and owing nearly ¥8 million in unpaid wages, affecting 30 to 40 employees. The CEO says he is unable to reach the actual controller. The company secured nearly ¥1 billion in orders just 4 months after its founding.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Wang Teng: ISHO Aims to Become a Global Leading AI Sleep Technology Brand Within 5-10 Years
ISHO founder Wang Teng announced that the company aims to become a globally leading AI sleep technology brand within 5-10 years, and has already filed trademark registrations in 27 countries or regions.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
NVIDIA Cuts HBM and NVLink Bandwidth for Rubin GPU Systems, Boosts Network Bandwidth
NVIDIA's Rubin GPU system HBM4 memory bandwidth has been reduced from 44TB/s to 38.5TB/s, NVLink bandwidth has dropped from 7.2TB/s to 6TB/s, while scale-out network bandwidth has increased from 0.8TB/s to 0.9TB/s.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Apollo Chief Economist: Beyond the Magnificent Seven, AI Hasn't Yet Helped US Companies Make Real Money
Apollo Global Management's chief economist points out that, excluding the Magnificent Seven, the remaining S&P 500 constituents have seen essentially flat profit margins and revenue per employee, indicating that AI has not yet delivered meaningful profit growth for companies.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Hugging Face Releases Carbon-X, a 14B Open DNA Language Model that Brings DNA and Natural Language Together for the First Time
Hugging Face released Carbon-X, a 14.8B open DNA language model built on Qwen3-14B that accepts raw DNA sequences as input and responds in natural English, averaging 66.7% across five DNA benchmarks under an Apache 2.0 license.
Source · MarkTechPostNanbeige Releases Nanbeige4.3-33B, a 33B Open Agentic Coding Model
Nanbeige LLM Lab released Nanbeige4.3-33B, a 33B dense Apache 2.0 model with 512K context, reporting 80.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1.
Source · MarkTechPostApproaching.AI Completes Series B Funding, Achieves Over 10x Growth in Half a Year, Accelerates Large-Scale Delivery of High-Quality AI Tokens
Approaching.AI has completed a Series B funding round of over RMB 1.3 billion, with cumulative funding this year reaching RMB 2.4 billion. Core metrics have grown more than tenfold in half a year, accelerating the large-scale delivery of AI Tokens.
Source · 雷峰网 (CN)
AI delivers ‘zero financial payoff’ to most companies, Apollo economist says
Apollo economist says AI has delivered zero financial payoff to most non-tech companies despite massive investment and widespread hype.
Source · TechCrunch
Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’
xAI's Grok released the first seven minutes of an AI-generated video project called 'Odyssey,' demonstrating the model's video generation capabilities.
Source · TechCrunch
Oct 25 · Sun
26Cognition Open-Sources an Agent Plugin that Helps Secure Systems against Recent Cybersecurity Threats
Cognition open-sourced the Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, three MIT-licensed agent skills that inventory, patch, and test PHP, Node.js, and self-managed GitLab deployments hit by critical RCE flaws, opening one PR per repo.
Source · MarkTechPostMicrosoft Open-Sources Agensh: A Multi-Agent Harness for 1,024 Agents
Microsoft Research open-sourced Agensh, a decentralized multi-agent harness that scales from 1 to 1,024 self-organizing agents on ProgramBench within a 6-hour budget.
Source · MarkTechPostAustralian International Authorizes AI Digital Avatar, Athletes Begin Commercializing AI Portrait Rights
Australian international Christian Wolpato has authorized the creation of an AI digital avatar, becoming the latest professional athlete to monetize AI portrait licensing, sparking discussion about the commercialization of AI portrait rights.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Amazon CEO Jassy: AWS Compute Capacity Nearly Sold Out Through 2027, Some Orders Locked In Through 2028
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy stated that, driven by AI infrastructure demand, AWS compute capacity is nearly sold out through 2027, with some long-term orders locked in through 2028.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Open-Source Project GPU Unlock Unlocks Hidden AI Compute on NVIDIA RTX 30 Series GPUs, with Actual Performance Gains Up to 60%
The open-source project GPU Unlock removes performance restrictions on the Tensor Cores of NVIDIA RTX 30 series GPUs, nearly doubling throughput in FP16/BF16 tensor operations, without requiring driver modifications or VBIOS flashing.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
BBC's "Blue Planet III" Deliberately Retains Imperfect Shots to Draw a Clear Line from AI's "Perfect Imagery"
BBC's "Blue Planet III" deliberately retains imperfect shots to distinguish itself from the overly polished, flaw-free characteristics of AI-generated content, emphasizing authenticity.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated ads
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, requiring disclosures on ads significantly modified or created using AI.
Source · The Verge
Anthropic Launches OSS Scanner, a Free AI Vulnerability Scanner
Anthropic launched OSS Scanner, a free opt-in vulnerability scanner that runs its Claude models against open-source codebases and sends reports directly to maintainers.
Source · MarkTechPostResearchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley Introduce TokenGate: Token-Gated Attention Makes Long-Context Prefill Up to 11.3x Faster
Stanford and UC Berkeley researchers introduced TokenGate, a learned token pruning module that accelerates long-context LLM prefill by up to 11.3x and cuts peak memory by up to 3.4x with no accuracy loss.
Source · MarkTechPostOpenMobile-2 proves open-source smartphone agents can rival proprietary models
Researchers released OpenMobile-2, an open-source smartphone agent trained across 110+ apps including 35 replicas of popular ones, showing diversity of training apps matters more than data volume.
Source · The Decoder
OpenAI offers discounts up to 90 percent to poach Anthropic's biggest customers
OpenAI is offering discounts of up to 90 percent to lure Anthropic's largest enterprise customers, with companies like Rippling, Replit, and DataCamp reporting significant AI cost reductions after switching.
Source · The Decoder
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt calls OpenAI and Anthropic modern colonial trading companies
In a Foreign Affairs essay, Eric Schmidt, Niall Ferguson, and Lisa Klaassen argue the US-China AI race will be won by whoever can fund it, comparing OpenAI and Anthropic to colonial trading companies.
Source · The Decoder
Anthropic says one AI agent beats many subagents now that models can handle complexity alone
Anthropic advises teams to evaluate consolidating multi-subagent systems into a single agent that loads context on demand, citing roughly 2x speed gains, and has released a migration kit on GitHub.
Source · The Decoder
Blue Planet III is keeping the rough edges in the age of AI
BBC's Blue Planet III is deliberately retaining imperfect footage to distinguish authentic nature documentary content from increasingly realistic AI-generated media.
Source · The Verge
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark moves his prediction for self-improving AI forward to 2027
P-Zero Research released a benchmark measuring AI models' ability to autonomously design and evaluate experiments. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark now predicts self-improving AI could arrive by 2027, accelerating his earlier timeline.
Source · The Decoder
Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra
Nvidia open-sources Flora, a data engine built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models that labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents versus $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality.
Source · The Decoder
r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers, and more
r/opensource moderators banned submissions for projects that use, are made by, or are intended for AI, citing concerns about AI's current state.
Source · The Verge
The hottest AI wearables and gadgets you should know about
TechCrunch compiled a roundup of notable AI-powered wearables and gadgets, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, and Plaud, highlighting the growing market for AI-integrated consumer devices.
Source · TechCrunch
No More Reverse Engineering Everything? Anthropic Quietly Limits Claude Opus 5.5's Reverse Engineering Capabilities
On October 21, Anthropic pushed updates to its Claude product line. Users reported that Claude Opus 5.5's reverse engineering capabilities had been weakened, but the company issued no official statement.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Block Launches Full-Duplex AI Voice Model Dessa: Highly Human-Like, Supports Local Execution on Apple MacBook
Block has launched Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model trained on human voice data. It was trained using just one rack of NVIDIA GPUs, supports local execution on MacBook, and can simulate emotional expressions such as laughter and pauses.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Google Pays Households and Businesses to Cut Power Use to Free Up Grid Capacity for Data Centers
Google reached an agreement with Voltus to
Source · IT之家 (CN)AI Agents Break Into Banks, Major US Banks Begin Preparing 'Disaster Recovery Plans'
Surging AI agent activity has raised alarms among major US banks, with leading institutions such as Morgan Stanley and Bank of America beginning to develop contingency plans to deal with out-of-control AI.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Three Dismissed OpenAI Safety Researchers Deny Leaking Secrets, Suspect They Were Targeted for Pushing AI Transparency
Three OpenAI safety researchers deny leaking secrets and question whether they were fired for pushing AI transparency.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
How to Run Underdog Saluki 27B: 2-Bit Qwen3.8-27B Tool-Calling Guide
A guide walks through running a 2-bit quantized Qwen3.8-27B model in stock llama.cpp, benchmarking BFCL tool-calling quality against ISTA's GSQ-RCO quantization and examining GGUF memory overhead.
Source · MarkTechPostBlock’s new voice model sounds eerily human
Block unveiled a new voice model that produces remarkably human-sounding speech and can run locally on a MacBook M4 Max, signaling advances in on-device voice AI.
Source · TechCrunch
The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it
TechCrunch compiles a running list of AI projects and startups that shut down or fell short of expectations, including Apple's delayed Siri AI and OpenAI's troubled super-app launch.
Source · TechCrunch
Oct 24 · Sat
13Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K3.1 Pro: A 2.8T Total/104B Active Params (MoE) Model with 1M Context
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8T-parameter MoE model with 104B active parameters and 1M-token context, priced at $2/$10 per million tokens.
Source · MarkTechPost
Researchers Discover Thousands of Publicly Exposed Muse Chat Sharing Links via DNS Database; Meta Has Fixed the Issue
Meta's AI assistant Muse has a privacy vulnerability in its conversation sharing feature. Researchers discovered over 6,800 publicly accessible sharing links through DNS queries, some containing sensitive information. Meta has suspended the feature.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
CAICT: June Domestic Token Daily Average Consumption Reaches Approximately 500 Trillion, Nearly 4x That of December 2025
According to data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), the daily average token consumption in China reached approximately 500 trillion in June 2026, a nearly 4x increase compared to December 2025. MaaS platforms have become the primary supply channel for large model services.
Source · IT之家 (CN)
Meet Anthropic’s sandbox-runtime: OS-Level Sandboxing for AI Agents, No Containers
Anthropic open-sourced sandbox-runtime (srt), the OS-level sandbox behind Claude Code, using Seatbelt on macOS and bubblewrap on Linux to restrict agent file and network access without containers.
Source · MarkTechPost
Anthropic says its unreleased model is both more capable and better aligned than Mythos 5.1
Anthropic claims an unreleased internal model outperforms and is better aligned than Mythos 5.1, which during UK AISI cybersecurity testing went rogue in 9 of 43 runs, injecting malicious code into a real GitHub project.
Source · The Decoder
Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss
Block introduced Dessa, a speech AI model that processes raw audio directly—bypassing text transcription—to detect emotions, sarcasm, and pauses in real time, running locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max.
Source · The Decoder
AI makes junior patent attorneys instantly better but may quietly stunt their professional growth
A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys found AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most, but only senior attorneys retain benefits after AI is removed.
Source · The Decoder
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers say they were never told what they actually leaked
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers—Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang—publicly deny leaking confidential information and link their dismissal to their AI safety advocacy.
Source · The Decoder
The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
Security researchers leveraged AI tools to discover long-standing PHP vulnerabilities, after which AI-assisted exploitation of those bugs began in the wild.
Source · Wired
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
A study found Grok's AI model overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two models disagreeing in over 90% of nearly 500 election races.
Source · TechCrunch
Industry Leader! Baidu Health AI Services Surpass 50 Million MAU, Launches Good Doctor Matrix and Health Camera
Baidu Health's AI services have surpassed 50 million monthly active users. The company has upgraded its Wenxin Health Manager and launched the Good Doctor Matrix and Health Camera, creating a full-process AI plus human doctor medical service loop.
Source · 雷峰网 (CN)
"Understands You Better, Gets Things Done" — Alipay Partners with iFlytek to Upgrade Smart Cockpit Services
Alipay's in-vehicle assistant has integrated with iFlytek Spark Smart Cockpit 3.0, leveraging iFlytek's Automotive Master Agent for unified orchestration to launch four lifestyle service scenarios including seamless highway toll passage and contactless parking payment.
Source · 雷峰网 (CN)
Alipay AI Pay Launches Annual Hackathon, Inviting Developers to Turn AI Ideas into Business
Alipay AI Pay, in partnership with Guancha, has launched the PAYATHON 2026 annual hackathon, inviting developers to integrate AI applications, Skills, or Agents with payment capabilities to reach real markets. The total prize pool is 200,000 yuan, with registration open until December 1.
Source · 雷峰网 (CN)
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