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  1. Shanghai Observer
    AI score58

    Shanghai International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition kicks off, with robots competing in real-world scenarios of inspection, quality control, retail, and elderly care

    From October 23 to 25, the 2026 Global Developer Pioneer Conference and International Embodied Intelligence Skills Competition was held at the Shanghai Zhangjiang Science Hall, with real-world tracks including substation inspection, quality inspection, supermarket retail, emergency search and rescue, and elderly care and wellness. The event collected more than 1,200 real business scenario requirements from across the country, of which inspection-related ones accounted for about one quarter, forming 9 major scenarios and 23 competition events. Compared with last year, this year's tasks shifted from standalone action demonstrations to multi-step continuous tasks; for example, the quality inspection track required completing tablet weighing, loading test tubes, operating a centrifuge, and generating an inspection report, while the supermarket track required picking, stocktaking, barcode scanning, and dynamic replenishment.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  2. Yicai
    AI score80

    Report: DeepSeek plans to raise about RMB 100 billion in a new funding round

    According to Shanghai Securities News, DeepSeek plans to raise about RMB 100 billion (about USD 15 billion) in its latest funding round, with Tencent and CATL as the largest investors in this round, and the deal is expected to be officially completed within the next few days. Sources said the fundraising target was initially RMB 50 billion and was raised through multiple rounds to about RMB 100 billion; the final amount is still not fully determined, and the funds will be used for model training, computing power construction and talent recruitment. DeepSeek, Tencent and other relevant investors have not publicly responded. Yicai reporters confirmed after cross-verification that the report is accurate, and some sources believe this funding round will pave the way for the company's planned STAR Market IPO.

    Same story · 14 reports

    #Industry news#DeepSeek

  3. Yicai
    AI score53

    AI short dramas drive stock price increases for multiple listed companies; several companies warn of commercialization realization risks

    Since October, multiple stocks involved in the short drama business, including Decai Group, Ciwen Media, Nanwei Software, H&R Century, and Duiba, have hit the daily limit up. Several companies subsequently announced that their short drama business has not yet formed large-scale revenue or has limited contribution to performance. Nanwei Software was issued a regulatory warning by the Shanghai Stock Exchange for inaccurate and incomplete information disclosure regarding AI short dramas and other matters, and its stock price fell 10.02% on October 22. A DataEye report shows that in the first half of the year, the number of domestic AI short drama users exceeded 600 million, and the full-year market size is expected to exceed 40 billion yuan. However, among approximately 221,900 new titles on Douyin, only 1,055 surpassed 100 million views, a rate of 0.47%.

    #English text is being prepared.#Industry news#Video

  4. Phoenix Technology
    AI score72

    PHP Exposed Two 14-Year-Old Vulnerabilities, GPT-5.6 Sol Participated in Discovery

    PHP has been found to contain two critical vulnerabilities rated 9.2, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. OpenAI confirmed that the security firm Calif used GPT-5.6 Sol to discover the related vulnerabilities, and Wiz Research also independently discovered and reported the issues. Vulnerability details leaked before the patch was released; an attack demonstration video mistakenly sent by the security firm Calif was circulated, and Chainguard released build images containing the fix ahead of time. The PHP Foundation stated that clues for CVE-2026-109618 first appeared in an external security audit in 2024, and that remediation was delayed due to costs such as compatibility and coordination with third-party extensions.

    #Safety / alignment#OpenAI#Google

  5. Wallstreetcn
    AI score78

    OpenAI and Google Cloud reach partnership, GPT-6 series and Codex launch on Google Cloud

    OpenAI and Google Cloud officially announce partnership: GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Luna and Codex will launch on Google Cloud; the first batch of models has opened private preview to some enterprise customers, with a general availability plan to be introduced in the coming weeks. Enterprises can call these models via the Google Cloud API and purchase them on Google Cloud Marketplace using cloud account balances, with costs consolidated into a single bill. Following Azure and AWS, OpenAI has now completed the set of the three major US cloud vendors; Microsoft remains its primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products land on Azure first.

    Same story · 13 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Google

  6. East Money
    AI score74

    Sources say DeepSeek's new funding round aims to raise about 100 billion yuan, with Tencent and CATL leading

    On October 22, market sources said that DeepSeek plans to raise about 100 billion yuan (about $15 billion) in its latest funding round, with Tencent and CATL as the largest investors in this round. The deal is expected to be officially completed within the next few days, and DeepSeek, Tencent, and other investors have not publicly responded. Sources said the fundraising target was initially 50 billion yuan and was raised multiple times to about 100 billion yuan; the final amount is still not fully determined, and the funds will continue to be used for model training, computing power construction, and talent recruitment. In June this year, DeepSeek completed its first funding round of about 51 billion yuan, of which Liang Wenfeng personally contributed about 20 billion yuan, Tencent about 10 billion yuan, and the CATL system about 5 billion yuan.

    #Industry news#DeepSeek#English text is being prepared.

  7. Fortune Tech
    AI score66

    Tesla and SpaceX in talks over a $3.5 trillion merger

    Independent directors of Tesla and SpaceX have formed a special committee to discuss a possible merger of the two companies, and Musk said the two sides have not reached any agreement on the terms of a deal. The combined entity would have a market value of about $3.5 trillion, with SpaceX at about $2 trillion and Tesla at nearly $1.5 trillion, and Musk would hold about one-third. Musk mentioned that the two sides could collaborate on AI software, chip design, robotics, connectivity technology, and the jointly built Terafab chip factory; SpaceX this week reported its first operating profit since going public, with third-quarter revenue up 161% to $14.58 billion, and AI business revenue nearly tripling from the second-quarter level to $7.56 billion, surpassing Starlink's $5.25 billion for the first time.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  8. 36Kr · AI
    AI score69

    NVIDIA at GTC Berlin Unveils Vera Rubin, DSX Pod and Open Shell

    In its keynote at GTC Berlin on October 21, NVIDIA unveiled Vera Rubin, the DSX Pod containerized AI factory, the Open Shell agent security runtime and the Agile 1S open-source humanoid robot reference platform, and announced that its cumulative investment and commitments in Europe approach $10 billion. The DSX Pod is claimed to compress the traditional data center installation cycle of up to six months down to 14 days, using 45-degree Celsius warm-water closed-loop cooling to achieve zero water usage. Open Shell is open-sourced under the Apache 2 license, and more than 100 organizations had already onboarded at launch; AI factory stacks from Dell, HPE, SUSE and others have already adopted it.

    Same story · 9 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Embodied AI

  9. 36Kr · AI
    AI score53

    Wang Xingxing's Speech at Unitree's 10th Anniversary: Urging People to Believe in AI, the Embodied Intelligence Window Narrows to 1 to 2 Years

    At the 2026 Unitree Technology World Physical AI Conference, founder Wang Xingxing used a 36-minute speech to urge people to believe in AI, saying that the information world has been completely breached by current model capabilities. He compressed the expected ChatGPT moment for embodied intelligence from the 2 to 3 years and 5 to 10 years he cited in August down to 1 to 2 years, and said that if things go fast, next year a robot will be able to tidy up an unfamiliar room on a single command. He mentioned that cumulative G1 units off the line reached about 10,000 to 20,000, that H2-X battery life increased from about 3 hours to about 8 hours, that Unitree will develop its own models while also cooperating with large-model companies at home and abroad, and that it ranks large-scale hardware manufacturing first, believing that widespread adoption requires at least an annual production of ten million units.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#Agents

  10. 36Kr · AI
    AI score65

    Which companies has the 60 billion yuan national AI fund publicly invested in?

    The 60 billion yuan national artificial intelligence industry investment fund has already invested in a batch of projects. The official list has not been disclosed; according to public information, a total of eight contributions can be verified, covering five areas: models, applications, embodied intelligence, computing power chips, and AI security. Among them, DeepSeek's first funding round received a contribution of about 980 million yuan; Kuaishou announced that the fund invested 1.4 billion yuan in the domestic entity of Kling AI for a stake of about 1.14%; Xinshiji, Galaxy General, Muxi, Chaitin Technology, and others are also among the investees. Among the eight, the amounts that can be identified total about 5.4 billion yuan, less than one-tenth of the fund's size.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#DeepSeek

  11. 36Kr · AI
    AI score52

    The Big Three of AI 3D Raise Over 8 Billion Yuan in Half a Year; Meshy's ARR Tops $100 Million

    VAST, Meshy, and Yingmou, three AI 3D companies, raised a combined total of over 8 billion yuan within half a year. Among them, Meshy completed a $400 million funding round in July 2026 at a post-money valuation of $1.5 billion, while VAST raised over 5 billion yuan cumulatively in half a year at a valuation of $2 billion. As of the end of September, Meshy's ARR exceeded $100 million, and the ARR of VAST and Yingmou also reached tens of millions of dollars. All three companies have recently been bolstering their 3D editing and Agent capabilities: Meshy released Meshy Edit to support local editing, VAST open-sourced the real-time generative renderer EdenLive, and Yingmou launched Agentic Mode.

    #Industry news#Multimodal#English text is being prepared.

  12. 36Kr · AI
    AI score78

    DeepSeek completes a new funding round of about 100 billion yuan and is preparing for a STAR Market IPO

    Multiple media outlets, citing Bloomberg, reported that DeepSeek completed a new funding round of about 100 billion yuan, with CATL and Tencent as the main investors; the round initially targeted 50 billion yuan, was later raised to 80 billion yuan, and was ultimately finalized at 100 billion yuan. The previous Series A was launched in April 2026 and closed in June, raising about 51 billion yuan at a valuation of 340 billion yuan, with Liang Wenfeng personally contributing 20 billion yuan and still holding close to 100% of voting rights. The article also mentions that DeepSeek has hired CITIC Securities to prepare for a STAR Market IPO, planning to submit its application as early as late 2026, with a valuation of 500 billion yuan after this funding round.

    Same story · 14 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  13. TMTPost · AGI
    AI score51

    17-Year-Old Researcher Chen Guangyu Leaves Moonshot AI, Rumored Destination Points to Discovery Loop

    According to Alphabet List under TMTPost, 17-year-old researcher Chen Guangyu announced in a post on October 15 that he was leaving Moonshot AI. He had previously joined as a 16-year-old intern and took part in the underlying technologies of Kimi K3, Attention Residuals and KDA compute kernel acceleration. He denied rumors that he had joined Anthropic. An anonymous account, Arfur Grok, said he had joined Discovery Loop, founded by Jeff Dean and three other former Google researchers. The company has not yet released a product and is seeking a valuation of about $50 billion; he also plans to return to Carnegie Mellon to study, and he previously interned at Tilde Research for seven weeks.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  14. TMTPost · AGI
    AI score57

    Jensen Huang Bets on AI PCs, but the Best Host for Agents Remains Disputed

    At the GTC conference in Berlin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said PCs need to be reinvented, and showcased RTX Spark, an AI PC product built through four years of secret collaboration with Microsoft. The device uses a chip design that fuses CPU and GPU, offering up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI compute. The article surveys the various ways local Agents can be hosted, including box-type products, workstations, and a virtual host model that links multiple devices into distributed compute nodes, and notes that some on-device chip practitioners say that among actual shipments of their chips designed for AI PCs, orders for edge servers and box-type products are growing faster.

    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  15. Caixin
    AI score57

    MiniMax Hong Kong shares fall below IPO price, closing at HK$160.7

    On October 22, MiniMax (00100.HK) shares fell below the IPO price of HK$165 per share, hitting an intraday low of HK$158.1 per share and closing at HK$160.7 per share, down 6.52%, corresponding to a market value of HK$56.64 billion. MiniMax listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on January 9, raising net IPO proceeds of HK$4.596 billion. Its share price had reached a high of HK$1,330 per share on March 18, and it is currently more than 88% below that high. Caixin noted that MiniMax has not released a model with a high level of intelligence for a long time, and the global technology sector has also been undergoing a significant correction recently.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Google

  16. Thurrott
    AI score65

    ChatGPT ads expand to 26 new markets, covering 89 countries

    OpenAI announced that ChatGPT ads have begun rolling out in 26 additional markets; free-tier and Go users can now see ads in 89 countries worldwide, while Plus, Pro, and Enterprise users will continue to have an ad-free experience. The new markets include Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Nigeria, South Africa, Serbia, Ukraine, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, among others. OpenAI said that more than 100,000 advertisers have already placed ads on ChatGPT, up from 20,000 in August, and it plans to test visual ads appearing within the image-generation feature on a small scale in the United States later this month.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI

  17. 9to5Mac
    AI score81

    PHP Exposed to Severe Security Vulnerabilities, Numerous Websites Proactively Taken Offline

    An AI model and a cybersecurity researcher simultaneously discovered major security vulnerabilities in PHP in mid-August; exploiting the two vulnerabilities in combination allows attackers to directly access the file system or database behind a website. Disclosure of the vulnerabilities was delayed until this week, but not all websites have installed the patches; AWS says these vulnerabilities are being "widely exploited," and the NSA recommends that unpatched websites be taken offline first. As a result, a large number of commercial and government websites have gone offline, and 9to5Mac and its sister sites say they are already protected.

    #Safety / alignment#Open-source ecosystem#English text is being prepared.

  18. MediaNama
    AI score69

    Meta pauses Muse AI conversation sharing feature after researchers find over 6,800 discoverable links

    Meta has paused the conversation sharing feature of its personal AI agent Muse, after security firm Claroc found that conversations shared via links could be found by people who did not receive the link. Claroc said Muse generated web addresses hosted under the cf.metaaiusercontent.com subdomain using the conversation title plus a random ID, and these addresses entered passive DNS databases, with a single query returning more than 6,800 shared hostnames. Most of the hundreds of pages Claroc accessed contained ordinary information, but some contained sensitive content such as confidential executive search call notes, small business loan applications, company revenue reviews and employee vacation schedules; Meta said it is reviewing the report.

    #Safety / alignment#Agents#Meta

  19. MediaNama
    AI score76

    TTP investigation: teen accounts with parental controls enabled can still download undressing AI apps from Google and Apple stores

    A Tech Transparency Project investigation using four test accounts for 13-year-old boys found that even with parental controls enabled, 135 AI apps capable of generating nude images could still be accessed on the Apple and Google app stores. Both platforms rely on developers' self-reported questionnaires to determine age ratings, causing apps with sexually explicit features to receive ratings suitable for children; as of September 28, Apple had removed 25 apps and Google had removed 6, but all the removed apps remained fully usable on the test phones.

    #Safety / alignment#Image generation#English text is being prepared.

  20. MediaNama
    AI score58

    A US court is hearing whether training AI on song lyrics constitutes fair use, while India plans to introduce compulsory licensing

    Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO sued Anthropic for training Claude on the lyrics of hundreds of songs; both sides have filed for summary judgment. Anthropic argues that the training constitutes fair use, while the publishers say users sent Claude nearly 120,000 requests to generate synthesized lyrics within six months. Two judges in the Northern District of California reached different conclusions in 2025 on whether AI training constitutes fair use, and Anthropic also faces lyrics-related lawsuits from Sony Music Publishing and Round Hill Music. MediaNama has asked Anthropic, the publishers' lawyers and IMI about whether Anthropic obtained lyric licenses from Indian rights holders, whether Claude's lyric anti-copying measures cover songs in Indian languages, and the royalty issues surrounding India's proposed licensing.

    #English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.#Anthropic