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LLeitech03:50

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DeepSeek's funding round expands to 105.5 billion yuan, with nearly 30 investors

Foreign media outlet The Information reports that DeepSeek's latest funding round has expanded to 105.5 billion yuan, with a valuation of 615.5 billion yuan. There are nearly 30 investors, including CATL, China Mobile, ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, vivo, Midea, Luxshare Precision, Geely, Meituan, Xiaohongshu and others, covering semiconductors, communications, consumer electronics, home appliances, manufacturing and internet applications. Leitech believes this list points to industrial collaboration in three areas: computing infrastructure, device entry points and real-world scenario data.

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IEnglish text is being prepared.03:09

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In response to the EU AI Act, text generated by Grok models will carry an invisible watermark

Starting November 7, SpaceXAI will add an invisible watermark to text generated by Grok models; detectors can identify this signal to determine whether text carries a watermark invisible to the naked eye. Officials say the move is in response to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act. The watermark has been enabled across SpaceXAI APIs in all regions worldwide, covering the reasoning, non-reasoning, and multi-agent versions of grok-4.7, grok-4.6, grok-4.5, grok-4.3, and grok-4.20, and team administrators can disable the watermark for an individual model. The watermark is not a hidden character or metadata, but is embedded in the model's token selection process when generating text.

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IIT Home · Artificial Intelligence03:09

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Exin Therapeutics Says AI Agent Performed Brain Surgery Injection on a Mouse

Biotech startup Exin Therapeutics claimed this week that it successfully had an AI agent perform brain surgery on a mouse. The team used the Anthropic Sonnet model, providing it with a spreadsheet containing 19 gene therapy vectors, an epileptic mouse model, and a camera-equipped robotic arm setup. The model autonomously selected the drug and brain region, derived coordinates from three papers, and drove the robotic arm to inject 250 nanoliters of the drug, while using the camera to observe whether the injection site was bleeding; the craniotomy and suturing were performed by human doctors. The company had originally preferred Anthropic Opus 5.5, but that model refused to execute after detecting biology-related content, citing concerns that being cut off mid-surgery would endanger the animal.

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IEnglish text is being prepared.03:09

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CCID Research Institute: China's AI inference data volume exceeds training data volume for the first time, with average daily token calls exceeding 175 trillion in June

The "Top Ten Trends in Innovative Development of New Domains and New Quality" released by the CCID Research Institute shows that China's AI inference data volume has exceeded training data volume for the first time, marking a transition from the model training and R&D stage to the stage of large-scale industrial application. As of June 2026, average daily token calls exceeded 175 trillion, an increase of more than 1,000 times compared with the beginning of 2024. The report also mentions that more than 500 excellence-level smart factories have been built cumulatively, covering 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and more than 80% of major manufacturing industry categories.

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IEnglish text is being prepared.03:09

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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic jointly promote AI data scraping opt-out standard

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic announced that they will adopt a new standard that allows content publishers to declare their content usage preferences to multiple AI companies at once via robots.txt, without having to set them individually for each company. The standard was proposed to the IETF by Anthropic technical lead Kevin Kelley. Anthropic has already adopted it first, OpenAI plans to implement it within the next few months, and Google and Microsoft are expected to support it next year. Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said he supports establishing such a universal signal, but did not specify an implementation plan.

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Tt3n03:03

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Elvis Presley rights holders sue Anthropic, alleging it used more than 270 songs to train its model without authorization

Elvis Presley's music rights holders have sued Anthropic in a California court, alleging that it used more than 270 Presley songs without authorization to train the Claude model, including works such as Can't Help Falling in Love, A Little Less Conversation and Return To Sender. The complaint seeks total damages of more than $41 million, or $150,000 per song, and alleges that Anthropic's business model is built on copyright infringement. AI companies such as Anthropic typically defend themselves on Fair Use grounds, and the relevant legal questions remain unresolved.

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CcnBeta02:05

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US Department of Justice Discloses Case of Ghost Students Using AI to Defraud Financial Aid, Confirmed Losses Exceed $32 Million

The US Department of Justice announced the first batch of results from "Operation Ghostbuster": criminals used stolen identity information to register fake student accounts, and with the help of AI automatically filled out application materials, completed coursework, and simulated real people attending online classes, in order to continuously siphon off federal financial aid. The FBI has confirmed that related losses exceed $32 million; one defendant obtained about $1.44 million through more than 700 fraudulent refunds; the Department of Education has identified more than 830,000 suspected fraudulent aid accounts. The Department of Education introduced real-time ID verification and a risk rating mechanism this year, but the education sector is concerned that automated review may inadvertently harm real students from low-income families who lack identification documents.

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CcnBeta02:05

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Google AI Mode cuts off search traffic, Reddit's US daily active users decline year-over-year for the first time

In the third quarter, referral traffic to Reddit from search engines dropped significantly, with an average weekly decrease of more than 1 million referral visits in October 2026; US daily active unique visitors fell from 53.2 million to 50.7 million, down 2% year-over-year, the first such decline since its 2024 listing. CEO Steve Huffman said Google is still scraping large amounts of Reddit content, but AI Overviews and AI Mode provide answers directly on the search page and no longer direct users to the original posts. Reddit plans to shift to a login-first model, testing first in some markets outside the US in the fourth quarter of 2026, while retaining anonymous browsing.

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SSolidot01:45

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Reddit earnings report shows Google AI Mode brings no traffic to websites

Reddit's latest earnings report confirms that Google AI Mode brings no traffic to websites, with referral traffic from Google Search declining significantly last quarter. Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman said users still need Reddit, it's just that Google no longer directs them over as it did in the past. Reddit's response is to become more closed off, mandating that all users log in, while many news sites are turning to subscription models.

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XX.PIN23:06

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Apple Intelligence will enter China in December, with Alibaba's Qwen powering Siri and other features

The first batch of Apple Intelligence features will enter China in December, with Alibaba's Qwen providing answers in Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence. Qwen is opt-in, and Alibaba says it will not use requests and replies to train models, and will seek consent before sending any question, document, or image.

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CcnBeta23:02

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OpenAI discloses post-midterm election policy agenda, plans mandatory safety measures for the most powerful AI systems

OpenAI has disclosed its policy agenda after the midterm elections, planning to push for mandatory safety safeguards, so-called "speed limits," on the most capable artificial intelligence systems, and to step up its legislative lobbying efforts in Congress. Its Chief Global Affairs Officer, Chris Lehane, said the team has been stockpiling policy proposals since August, and the relevant actions will first unfold during the congressional lame-duck session beginning on November 9. OpenAI also plans to propose community partnership agreements and state-level legislative recommendations, and to call the infrastructure it builds "AI compute campuses" to distinguish them from traditional data centers.

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QQbitAI22:04

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Anthropic Bans Claude from Replicating Existing Games in Opus 5.5 System Prompt

Anthropic has confirmed that it added a rule to the Opus 5.5 system prompt instructing Claude Code not to replicate specific existing games, allowing only the creation of original games or games using the user's own assets. The restriction stems from the significant lowering of the barrier to reverse engineering and game porting after the release of Opus 5.5; some users claimed to have built a playable Pokémon clone with a single prompt in under two hours. After the ban went into effect, some developers creating original games reported in GitHub issues that they had been mistakenly flagged and rejected.

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CcnBeta21:00

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Europe and Canada establish an AI computing power cooperation alliance, sharing 14 supercomputers, 10 quantum computers, and 19 AI factories

Europe and Canada establish an AI computing power cooperation alliance; Canada will join the EuroHPC network, and its enterprises can have priority access to European supercomputing resources. EuroHPC currently has 14 supercomputers, 10 quantum computers, and 19 artificial intelligence factories, covering 38 participating countries, with a total budget of approximately 8.2 billion euros. Europe also plans to add about 30 billion euros to build up to 7 new artificial intelligence data centers, with construction expected to begin in 2027.

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CcnBeta21:00

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Qualcomm Adreno 32.0.181.0 Driver Causes Snapdragon X2 Elite Local AI and Premiere...

A Reddit user's testing found that after the Snapdragon X2 Elite was upgraded to Adreno driver 32.0.181.0, local LLM inference and Premiere Pro video rendering performance dropped sharply, with declines of up to 87%. When running Qwen3 series models with llama.cpp using the OpenCL backend, Qwen3-0.6B's generation speed fell from 98.1 tokens per second to 12.8 tokens per second, Qwen3-4B from 29.5 to 9.0, and Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct from 26.8 to 5.9. Another user reported that the export time for a 7-minute 1080p video increased from 1 minute 40 seconds to about 10 minutes. After rolling back to driver 32.0.172.2, performance returned to normal, with the CPU and NPU not noticeably affected. Qualcomm has not yet issued a statement on the matter.

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TThe Decoder20:10

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OpenAI adds card and device limits to ChatGPT paid subscriptions

OpenAI has added payment card and device limits to ChatGPT paid subscriptions. When too many subscriptions are linked to the same card or the same device, new subscriptions can no longer be activated, and upon reaching the limit, the message "Device limit reached" is displayed. The limits cover ChatGPT Go, Plus, Pro 100, Pro 200, and Pro 500; free accounts and the Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans are not counted. OpenAI's support page states that logging out does not automatically free up a slot, and the company recommends instead purchasing additional credits or using a usage reset.

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NNumerama19:32

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OpenAI's Yang-Mills theory proof awaits verification; physicists hold off on publishing

The five physicists responsible for reviewing the 1,147-page proof produced by the OpenAI model refuse to publish it before confirming its correctness. They plan to first verify the formalization in Lean, and then submit the analysis to the scientific community; even if verification passes, the proof only covers the existence of Yang-Mills theory and does not resolve the mass gap problem required for the Millennium Prize Problem.

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TThe Decoder18:09

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OpenAI will merge ChatGPT's Chat and Work, with Plus, Pro, and Business sharing…

OpenAI's updated support page states that starting in December, ChatGPT's Chat and Work will be merged, and the Plus, Pro, and Business plans will share the same token budget between ChatGPT and Codex. Users can view their remaining quota and reset time in settings; once the quota is exhausted, they can wait for a reset, upgrade their plan, or purchase additional quota. Conversations using the Instant model do not count toward the budget. OpenAI had previously announced plans to merge Chat and Work, and recently also doubled the usage quota for higher-priced plans.

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PPhoenix Technology18:00

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Hon Hai says AI server capacity for the next 18 months is fully booked, targets about 45% market share next year

Hon Hai Chairman Young Liu said demand for AI infrastructure has shown no clear slowdown, AI server capacity for the next 18 months is fully booked, and the company plans to raise its global AI server market share from about 40% currently to about 45% next year and to 50% in the coming years. Second-quarter data disclosed by Hon Hai in August this year showed that the cloud and networking products division, which includes AI servers, already accounted for 51% of revenue, surpassing 50% for the first time. Young Liu also stressed prudent investment management, saying that overinvesting would kill the company, and that depending on the degree of vertical integration, annual AI investment could exceed the originally planned US$3 billion to US$5 billion.

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PPhoenix Technology16:59

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Exin Therapeutics Has an AI Agent Perform Brain Surgery on a Mouse to Treat Epilepsy

Biotech startup Exin Therapeutics says it has had an AI agent complete brain surgery on a mouse with epilepsy. The team used an Anthropic Sonnet model and provided a spreadsheet of 19 gene therapy vectors, an epileptic mouse model, and a robotic arm setup with a camera; the model autonomously selected the drug and brain region, derived coordinates from three papers, and drove the robotic arm to inject 250 nanoliters of the drug, while the craniotomy and suturing were performed by human doctors. The company had originally preferred Anthropic Opus 5.5, but that model refused to carry out the task after detecting biologically related content, and reasoned about the consequences of stopping midway.

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336Kr · AI16:50

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OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex quotas, billing by token starting in December

OpenAI has published documentation in its Help Center stating that starting in December, usage quotas for the three paid plans—Plus, Pro, and Business—will be shared between ChatGPT and Codex and calculated uniformly by token, with only Instant chats not counting toward the quota. The documentation does not specify an exact launch date or the token amounts for each plan; once the quota is exhausted, users can choose to wait for a reset, upgrade their plan, or purchase credits. During the same period, OpenAI also published a bank card and device restrictions page, setting a cap on the number of paid accounts usable on a single device; exceeding it will trigger a "Device limit reached" prompt or result in being logged out.

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