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  1. Leiphone
    AI score48

    Inside the first batch of FDEs' survival stories: some landed ten-million-yuan deals, others were rejected at a 3,000-yuan quote

    The first batch of FDEs (Forward Deployed Engineers) has fallen into pricing chaos in the AI implementation market: a cross-border e-commerce restocking forecast project shrank from the million-yuan level to 100,000 yuan, enough only to buy 10 WorkBuddy accounts plus data interface modifications; another supply chain project for a multinational tech giant was quoted at 8 million yuan, more than ten times higher than similar projects. Entrepreneur Gao Feng was strung along more than a dozen times in two months, and one FDE turned down an order because quoting only 3,000 yuan per requirement could not cover token costs. Some software companies still use SaaS middle-platform and person-day pricing, making FDEs prone to becoming on-site outsourced staff or "freebies."

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

  2. LeiphoneProduct release
    AI score60

    Alibaba Cloud Releases Qovest, an AI Investment Research Workbench

    Alibaba Cloud has released Qovest, an AI investment research workbench for professional institutional investors. Users submit a research request in a single sentence, and it automatically queries data, collects materials, analyzes them, and generates a report; it can also continuously track research subjects at a set frequency. Qovest consolidates the results of each research session into a research space, allowing research to be carried forward; the team procures authoritative financial databases and has developed its own Agent engineering framework for financial scenarios, Harness. The official website is currently open for invitation-only testing for individual users, with subscription plans of 99 yuan or 199 yuan per month to be offered later, and an enterprise edition to be launched soon.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#RAG

  3. LeiphoneModel releases
    AI score70

    Meituan Releases LongCat-2.5 Large Model, 1.6 Trillion Parameters Trained Entirely on Domestic Compute

    On November 2, Meituan released its new-generation large model LongCat-2.5, a native multimodal model designed for long-horizon agent tasks with 1.6 trillion total parameters. The model continues the research direction of the LongCat series and was trained entirely on domestic compute, making it the largest training task completed on domestic compute to date.

    Same story · 9 reports

    #Model releases#Multimodal#Agents

  4. Leiphone
    AI score53

    Details of DeepSeek's second funding round of 105.5 billion yuan revealed, with vivo, Meituan, Xiaohongshu and others among investors

    DeepSeek's second funding round has raised 105.5 billion yuan (approximately US$15.8 billion), attracting nearly 30 investors, with state-owned capital contributing about 27%, a sharp increase from 2% in the first round. Tencent Holdings and CATL remain the two major investors; Tencent contributed 10 billion yuan in each of the two rounds, while CATL and its chairman Zeng Yuqun contributed 5 billion yuan and 10 billion yuan in the two rounds respectively. Other industrial investors also include ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, vivo, Meituan, Geely Automobile, Midea Group, Luxshare Precision, Ctrip and Xiaohongshu, among others, with some companies investing between 1 billion and 3 billion yuan each.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#Agents#DeepSeek

  5. Leiphone
    AI score49

    Hua Ying Aviation HE-1A First Production Aircraft Rolls Off the Line in Weinan, Ton-Class Commercial Unmanned Transport Aircraft Enters Mass Production

    The first production aircraft of the Hua Ying Aviation HE-1A commercial unmanned aerial transport system rolled off the assembly line at the Weinan final assembly base, marking the transition of China's ton-class commercial unmanned transport aircraft from a development model to mass production. The HE-1A has a maximum takeoff weight of 4 tons and a payload capacity of 2 tons, with cumulative signed orders of 110 aircraft; once all three production lines at the Weinan base reach full capacity, annual output will exceed 100 aircraft. The aircraft is scheduled to complete its maiden flight by the end of the year, and the company aims to obtain the type certificate before the end of 2027.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  6. Yicai
    AI score38

    Du Xiaoman CEO Zhu Guang: AI Moves Financial Services from "Tailored to Thousands" to "Tailored to Each Individual," Jointly Releases XuanYuan 4.5 Financial-Enhanced Large Model

    Du Xiaoman CEO Zhu Guang said at the Hong Kong FinTech Week that AI is moving financial services from "tailored to thousands" to "tailored to each individual," and that the biggest change in large models this year is the shift from "answering questions" to "delivering results." Du Xiaoman, together with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Generative AI Research and Development Center (HKGAI), jointly released the XuanYuan 4.5 financial-enhanced large model, which delivers results 30% better than general-purpose models in core financial scenarios such as customer acquisition, risk control, and customer management, at only 10% of the cost. Its risk control system's risk anomaly attribution plus strategy development cycle has been shortened from about two weeks to three to four days.

    Same story · 2 reports

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

  7. Yicai
    AI score50

    NRTA Cracks Down on "AI Tampering": Over 11,000 Violating Videos Cleared and More Than 30 Accounts Handled in October

    Some key online audiovisual platforms have released the results of the October special campaign against "AI tampering" videos, clearing a total of more than 11,000 violating videos and handling more than 30 violating accounts. Since February 1, the National Radio and Television Administration has shifted the governance effort into a normalized, institutionalized long-term mechanism, focusing on clearing violating videos based on classic film and television works such as the Four Great Classical Novels, historical themes, revolutionary themes, and heroic model figures, while simultaneously clearing various types of cult animations.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#Video

  8. Tencent HunyuanFirst-partyProduct release
    AI score52

    Tencent Hunyuan Releases Research Agent Hyra 2.0

    Tencent Hunyuan has released Hyra 2.0, the next-generation version of the Hunyuan Research Agent, positioned to shift from solving problems to building reusable tools, models, and workflows in order to accelerate subsequent discoveries. The official team also published its views on the next stage of AutoResearch, with the link https://t.co/u2JSslKYai.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#Reasoning

  10. Rohan Paul
    AI score50

    Hugging Face's 14-trillion-parameter Numbat confirmed to be fake

    The Hugging Face repository burner22/numbat claims to be a 14-trillion-parameter mid-training checkpoint of Anthropic's next-generation Mythos-class model, but evidence shows it is fabricated. The codename Numbat does indeed come from an unreleased model in the March 2026 Claude Code source code leak, but the uploading account was registered only a week in advance, and an independent review found that some weights were generated by a simple random number generator rather than obtained through training.

    #English text is being prepared.#Open-source ecosystem#Anthropic

  11. Saito Hardcore Hacker
    AI score49

    Bending Spoons: 94% of code written by AI, leverage ratio 2.4x

    Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari says that 94% of the company's code is written by AI, more than 90% of data analysis is handed over to AI, and customer service tickets are basically no longer answered by its own staff, while the company maintains 2.4x leverage with a self-imposed cap of 3x. The company has acquired more than fifty software companies including Airtable, AOL, and Vimeo, and has replaced their entire tooling with more than fifty tools developed in-house. He believes that no decent company should have an AI code-writing ratio below 70%.

    #Industry news#Agents

  12. Phoenix TechnologyProduct release
    AI score55

    Tencent Maps Opens Up Full Agent Capability Landscape and Releases LBSwork

    At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent Maps released and fully opened up its full Agent capability landscape, turning maps, location, travel and local services into capabilities callable by AI Agents, with the core including the MCP Server responsible for protocol integration and scenario-oriented Agent Skills. At the same time, it launched the desktop AI map workbench LBSwork, based on the same-origin Harness framework as WorkBuddy, integrating Tencent Location Services and location big data, and providing expert modules such as retail site selection, marketing insights and ride-hailing. Tencent Group Vice President Zhong Xiangping said that Tencent Maps is open to cooperation with all partners, with the goal of becoming the map foundation in the Agent era.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Product updates#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  13. Phoenix TechnologyProduct release
    AI score59

    Claude Ultra Removes 5-Hour Limit for Verified Accounts, Weekly Usage Limits Remain

    Anthropic has adjusted the usage rules for Claude's highest-tier subscription plan, Ultra. Ultra accounts that have passed system verification are no longer subject to the usage limit of one use per 5 hours, while the weekly usage cap remains in place; accounts that have not completed verification are still temporarily subject to the 5-hour limit. This adjustment coincides with a renaming of subscription plans: the former Max 5x is renamed Max, and Max 20x is renamed Ultra, with monthly fees maintained at $100 and $200 respectively. Existing subscribers are automatically verified by the system based on their account and payment history. Ultra's weekly usage remains 10 times that of the Pro plan; the weekly quota applies across different models, and Fable has a separate independent weekly usage limit.

    Same story · 12 reports

    #Product updates#Anthropic

  14. Phoenix TechOpinion
    AI score60

    AI Brings Divergence in Advertising Business: Meta Ad Revenue Grows 26%, Google Search Up Only 12%

    Meta's third-quarter ad revenue was $63.1 billion, up 26% year over year, while Google's search and related ad revenue for the same period was $63.4 billion, up 12% year over year; the 14-percentage-point growth gap is the largest margin by which Meta has led Google since 2021. Meta has introduced AI tools into its ad management system, and its Chief Financial Officer Susan Li said advertisers using the relevant tools saw conversion rates rise by nearly 5% and ad spending increase by 9%. Google, meanwhile, faces AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Claude diverting search demand, and its own AI Overviews and AI Mode have also changed how search results are presented.

    #Industry news#Google#Meta

  15. Wired AI
    AI score79

    WIRED Investigation Finds Over 400 AI Apps Concealing Sexual Abuse Deepfake Features

    A WIRED investigation found a network of more than 400 linked domains and apps that appear on the surface to be everyday tools such as pet portraits, language learning, and AI fitness coaches, but under specific conditions load web interfaces for generating explicit sexual images and videos, including templates such as "bedroom rape" and "threatening knife." After tracking thousands of explicit deepfake ads on Meta's platforms, researchers found that these links pointed to apps in Apple's and Google's app stores; one app called DiffAI had more than 100,000 downloads on the Play Store, and another 27 such apps were still listed on Google Play in September with cumulative downloads exceeding 350,000. The investigation indicates that these apps appear to be operated by Chinese developers and the Hong Kong-registered entity KeLing Technology Limited; Apple removed 19 apps after WIRED inquired, and Meta said it had taken action against the relevant advertising accounts and pages.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Safety / alignment#Image generation#Industry news

  16. AIhub
    AI score10

    AIhub November 2026 Machine Learning and AI Seminar Schedule

    AIhub has compiled a list of free online machine learning and AI seminars open from November to December 2026. The earliest session is on November 5, presented by Stephanie Gil of Harvard University. The schedule covers events from Aurelien Bibaut of Netflix on safe adaptive policy learning, the Oxford University Institute for AI Ethics, the University of Manchester, the University of Minnesota, and other institutions, as well as a December 7 lecture by Gabriel Peyré of CNRS. All events are free to attend online, and some require subscribing to a mailing list to obtain the link.

    #Industry news

  17. Cailian Press
    AI score55

    Google Energy Executive Says Space Data Centers Could Cost Up to 100 Times More Than Ground-Based Ones

    Amanda Peterson Corio, Google's head of data center energy, said at the WTF summit that the launch cost of sending computing hardware into orbit is extremely high, potentially up to 100 times the cost of ground-based construction, and noted that the real bottleneck lies in the approval process and lengthy evaluation studies required to connect projects to the grid. She mentioned that if launch costs fall to $200 per kilogram or below, the computing cost per unit of power in space could become roughly comparable to that on the ground, a threshold that may be reached around 2035. This month, Google's research team still announced a partnership with PlanetLabs to explore large-scale space data center clusters, and has already launched a small space server prototype carrying its self-developed TPU under the Suncatcher project.

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

  18. Shanghai Observer
    AI score20

    Philips debuts three major new products at its ninth CIIE appearance, including the AI-powered smart electric toothbrush

    At its ninth appearance at the CIIE, Philips debuted the AI-powered smart electric toothbrush, the Shaver 9000 Series Ultra with a customizable screen, and the Firefly portable shaver, and showcased its scalp care brush globally for the first time. The AI-powered smart electric toothbrush features a Sonicare custom AI chip that provides real-time navigation across 12 areas of the oral cavity, backed by behavioral data from more than 350,000 real users and 30.35 million brushing records. The Shaver 9000 Series Ultra with a customizable screen was developed under the leadership of the Philips China team and launched in China in just six months.

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.

  19. Shanghai Observer
    AI score11

    How can social aesthetic education resonate anew in the AI era? This interdisciplinary academic salon in Shanghai offers discussion

    On November 1, the "Science & Art · AI · Aesthetic Education" 2026 interdisciplinary academic salon, co-hosted by the Shanghai Science and Art Society and the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, was held at the Pudong Biyun Art Museum. Nearly one hundred scientists, artists, and education experts engaged in dialogue on AI issues in aesthetic education across universities, society, and youth. The salon opened with the AI human-machine co-created song "Sparks of Brilliance," with lyrics by Cai Yonglian, Vice President of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, and music composed by an algorithmic large model. Attendees believed that interdisciplinary social aesthetic education is more worth exploring with love as the core and public education as the path, allowing technology to be transformed into artistic experience for the public.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news

  20. MIT Tech ReviewOpinion
    AI score59

    The agentic web has arrived: from the Semantic Web to the agent web, how human webpages will be rewritten

    MIT Tech Review reporter Grace Huckins writes that the Semantic Web vision proposed by Berners-Lee in 2001 is becoming a reality in the form of an agent network based on large language models. Agents such as Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet have begun connecting to users' bank accounts and email inboxes, and websites such as Time have launched ads aimed at agents. The article compares two paths: letting agents operate browsers like humans, or directly interfacing with website backends through plug-ins and connectors using text and code; it also discusses changes such as Amazon banning Muse and agent traffic disrupting the attention economy.

    #English text is being prepared.#Agents#OpenAI