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At Alphabet's Q3 earnings call, Google announced it would expand ads in AI Mode to international markets and launch multi-turn conversational ads. Alphabet's quarterly revenue was $127.6 billion, up 25% year over year, but search ad revenue growth slowed from 19% in Q1 and 17% in Q2 to 12%, and the stock fell 8% after the earnings report. Google says the click-through rate on sponsored product listings in AI Mode is now comparable to organic results, and the average AI Mode query is 3 times long

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Vaibhav Srivastav, OpenAI's Head of Developer Experience and Community, said in an interview that GPT-6.1 Sol can achieve about 95% of the performance of GPT-6 Astra at only one-fifth the cost, and that he himself mainly uses Sol in his daily work. He recommends using Astra for adversarial review on new projects or unfamiliar problems, and said the Ultrafast tier targets real-time scenarios such as fraud detection and financial investigations, with speeds exceeding 300 tokens per second. He also

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OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model in the GPT-6 series positioned as an efficient model for high-throughput professional work, with strong image analysis and computer operation capabilities. The system card addendum states that under the Preparedness Framework, the model is rated Critical in the cybersecurity domain and High in the biological and chemical domains, using the same set of safeguards as GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra. On Production Benchmarks, its safety performance is on p

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Google DeepMind has released the world model Genie 4, which can generate interactive worlds in real time and, for the first time, natively generate ambient sound and character dialogue. The model builds on capabilities from the Gemini series; Gemini 3.8 Flash breaks down goals in a loop and checks frames to maintain causal coherence across multi-step events, and Gemini 4 Argon has also been used for joint simulation tasks with Gemini Robotics. The company says it remains an early experimental mo

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Google DeepMind has released Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it its strongest model, ranking first with 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 and leading on SEC-bench Pro (88.2%), ExploitGym (54.8%), and CWE-bench (71.0%). The model targets long-horizon engineering tasks; an internal team once had it run continuously for several days to investigate and fix hidden defects in a large codebase, and it rose 89 elo to 4th place (1768) on WebDev Arena. Starting this week, Carbon will f

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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, leading in four of the 9 evaluations: HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench-Science, AA-Omniscience, and AutomationBench-AA. On the Coding Agent Index, Gemini 4 Carbon (high) paired with the Antigravity CLI scores 59, trailing Claude Code paired with Claude Opus 5.5 (max, 62 points) by 3 points. The model has a 1M-token context window, supports text, image, video, and speech input, and is priced at a

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Alphabet's Q3 2026 revenue grew 25% year-over-year, with annualized revenue reaching $500 billion, and Google Cloud revenue up 103%. CEO Sundar Pichai said first-party model APIs process nearly 32 billion tokens per minute, 40% more than last quarter; the Gemini app has reached 1 billion users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google's history. A new model in the Gemini 4 series, Carbon, was also released that day; it ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score

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Google DeepMind has released Gemini 4 Carbon, calling it its strongest model, ranking first with 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0, and achieving 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro, 54.8% on ExploitGym, and 71.0% on CWE-bench. The model is aimed at long-horizon engineering tasks; an internal team once had it run continuously for several days to investigate and fix hidden defects in a large codebase, and it rose to 4th place on WebDev Arena with 1,768 points. Starting this week, Ca

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At the ThunderWorld 2026 conference, ThunderSoft clearly positioned its robotics business as "robot brains + Agent AIOS," and provides complete deployment solutions in key vertical scenarios, while also releasing products such as AquaDrive AIOS 3.0, the TurboX platform, and the WiseEvolve enterprise AI operating system. Its controlled subsidiary Xiaowu Intelligence, targeting smart manufacturing and smart logistics, showcased a full-stack solution covering autonomous transport, fork-lift, embodi

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DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed the AI model overseas registration procedures, navigating the compliance process for open-source release and overseas licensing of large models. MiniMax's technology export registration this time covers some recently released and soon-to-be-released models, spanning both open-source release and overseas licensing scenarios. Previously, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology publicly solicited opinions on October 16 regarding the re

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DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed the relevant registration procedures, fully establishing the compliance processes for the open-source release and overseas licensing of their large models. According to Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, MiniMax's technology export registration this time covers some recently released and soon-to-be-released models, spanning two major scenarios: open-source releases and overseas licensing. Previously, on October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the

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Ye Jun, former vice president of Alibaba Group, admitted candidly at the TGC Tech Growth Conference that large models are iterating too fast, and he worries that the agent platform built by his startup Shenkong Zhixu could be replaced by the next generation of models. Zhou Jie of General Atlantic pointed out that the boundary between AI-native applications and foundation model capabilities is unclear, some functions may be covered by big tech, and the technology curve and commercialization curve

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AI video generators produce temporally coherent frames from text, images, video, or control signals, while striving to maintain motion and scene consistency. The pipeline can be broken down into five steps: encoding prompts and reference materials, initializing a noisy spatiotemporal representation, jointly predicting motion and appearance, denoising or transporting the latent, and decoding, upsampling, and checking temporal consistency. The article emphasizes that the key difference from indepe

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The National Artificial Intelligence Application Pilot Base (Automotive Direction), led by China Mobile, released the first automotive industry AI foundation at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference. It manages 112.7 EFLOPS of computing power, covers four major domains—R&D, manufacturing, intelligent driving, and testing—and launches six intelligent agents, opening shared access to the entire industry starting today. Positioned as "neutral and not building cars, with fully ope

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Pet smart hardware company Orange Cat Universe recently completed a Pre-A round financing of tens of millions of yuan, with Professor Gao Bingqiang and his Gaofeng Patience Fund, Qianhai Innovation Investment, and Changlei Venture Capital continuing to add investment; the funds will be used for technological innovation, product iteration, patent system development, and global offline channel expansion. The first product, PawSwing Neo, is a powerless pure-mechanical cat bed grooming collector, pr

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The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization issued the "Shanghai Action Plan for Accelerating the High-Quality Development of AI-Empowered Industrial Services (2027-2028)," proposing that by 2028 the AI application penetration rate in the industrial services sector reach over 85%, strive to cultivate 10 digital-intelligent native unicorn enterprises, build 5 industry-level collaborative design platforms, and promote 500 high-quality enterprises to build Shanghai advanced-lev

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36Kr sorted through the product moves of eight companies—Tencent, Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, and Moonshot AI, Zhipu, MiniMax, DeepSeek—across ten AI tracks over four years, finding that competition cycles have shortened, product lifecycles have grown shorter, and renaming, integration, and shutdowns have become the norm. Tencent QClaw went from public beta on March 20 to announcing service shutdown arrangements on September 24, just 188 days, with user data to be migrated to WorkBuddy; Alibaba's

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In the first half of 2026, global humanoid robot shipments were about 19,000 units, with Chinese manufacturers' share rising to over 97%; in 2025, global shipments were about 25,000 units, with China accounting for about 52%, and global embodied intelligence financing exceeded USD 11 billion. The report notes that the industry has entered its first year of mass production and a commercialization inflection point, but the ratio of intended orders to actual deliveries is only about 10%–20%, and co

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