REDMI K100 officially launched, with the 12+256GB version priced at 2,999 yuan. It is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite processor and the D2 gaming dedicated GPU, and features a 10,000mAh Xiaomi Jinshajiang battery with 100W wired fast charging. The new phone uses a 6.83-inch 1.5K 165Hz flat display; the company says it has completed native 165-frame adaptation for over 40 games and supports 165-frame super-frame running for more than 100 games.
NVIDIA has released the Nemotron-Personas France and Belgium datasets and provided a complete post-training workflow for fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with them. The workflow includes defining behavior contracts, generating synthetic conversations with personas, fine-tuning with LoRA on NVIDIA NeMo, merging adapters, and then comparing and evaluating item by item against the base model on a frozen test set. The France dataset was built in collaboration with Pleias, and the Belgium dataset involved Pleias and KU Leuven; the Nemotron repository provides reusable steps and agent skills for data generation, training, and evaluation.
NVIDIA has released the Nemotron-Personas France and Belgium datasets and provided a complete post-training workflow for fine-tuning Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with them. The workflow includes defining behavior contracts, generating synthetic conversations with personas, fine-tuning with LoRA on NVIDIA NeMo, merging adapters, and then comparing and evaluating item by item against the base model on a frozen test set. The France dataset was built in collaboration with Pleias, and the Belgium dataset i
Liquid AI has released the LFM3 series of open-weight models, all branched from LFM3-1.7B-Base, covering text, vision, audio, Omni, and the d1 decision model. LFM3-1.7B-Base adopts a three-hybrid-layer architecture, is pretrained on 22T tokens, and in the mid-training stage over the final 3.5T tokens incorporates more agent trajectories and tool-calling data, with the context window extended to 256K tokens. The company says LFM3-1.7B is about 25% faster than LFM2-1.2B at an 8K context, and scores 38.42 versus 3.02 on WebArena-Verified; LFM3-VL-2B's average score across 62 vision benchmarks rises from 57.6 to 71.4. All models are available for download on Hugging Face, along with a single-GPU fine-tuning notebook.
Liquid AI has released the LFM3 series of open-weight models, all branched from LFM3-1.7B-Base, covering text, vision, audio, Omni, and the d1 decision model. LFM3-1.7B-Base adopts a three-hybrid-layer architecture, is pretrained on 22T tokens, and in the mid-training stage over the final 3.5T tokens incorporates more agent trajectories and tool-calling data, with the context window extended to 256K tokens. The company says LFM3-1.7B is about 25% faster than LFM2-1.2B at an 8K context, and score
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 model: over long runs, object permanence and complex physical interactions still drift, all generated content carries a SynthID watermark, and it is currently available in preview to trusted testers first.
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
Apple has unveiled the all-new MacBook Pro, bringing the PROLED XDR display and touch operation to the Mac for the first time, available in 14-inch and 16-inch models. The new display uses tandem OLED technology, reaching peak HDR and SDR brightness of 2000 nits, a contrast ratio of 10000000:1, and support for a 120Hz variable refresh rate. The new machines are powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with up to 128GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage, battery life of up to 24 hours, pre-orders opening October 28, and availability on November 6.
Apple has unveiled the all-new MacBook Pro, bringing the PROLED XDR display and touch operation to the Mac for the first time, available in 14-inch and 16-inch models. The new display uses tandem OLED technology, reaching peak HDR and SDR brightness of 2000 nits, a contrast ratio of 10000000:1, and support for a 120Hz variable refresh rate. The new machines are powered by M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, with up to 128GB of unified memory and 16TB of storage, battery life of up to 24 hours, pre-orders o
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 of 59, will first be made available to select trusted cybersecurity defenders, and is being tested by the U.S. government.
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
The Google Developers Blog showcased HappyDelivery, a multi-agent conversational commerce prototype built on LangGraph, Gemini, FastAPI, and Google Cloud, which implements the previously proposed three-layer decoupled architecture of Ingress, Memory, and Cognition. The prototype abstracts channels such as WhatsApp, RCS, Apple Messages for Business, and SMS using platform-specific signature verification and a unified message schema; in testing, the Ingress layer returned HTTP 200 in approximately 295–302ms and forwarded requests to Pub/Sub. The article also provides code examples for the state machine, deterministic financial tools, and an automated validation suite.
The Google Developers Blog showcased HappyDelivery, a multi-agent conversational commerce prototype built on LangGraph, Gemini, FastAPI, and Google Cloud, which implements the previously proposed three-layer decoupled architecture of Ingress, Memory, and Cognition. The prototype abstracts channels such as WhatsApp, RCS, Apple Messages for Business, and SMS using platform-specific signature verification and a unified message schema; in testing, the Ingress layer returned HTTP 200 in approximately
Apple has released an update for Apple Creator Studio: Final Cut Pro for Mac now includes built-in MotionVFX effects and templates, and timeline images can be edited directly in Pixelmator Pro. Logic Pro for Mac adds an intelligent assistant (beta) powered by a combination of Apple's own models and OpenAI, with Stem Splitter able to separate drum sounds; Pixelmator Pro introduces Generate Fill, which uses natural language to modify selected areas of an image. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers add an assistant (beta) that understands document context and support MCP, allowing external AI agents to read content, perform edits, and automate operations.
Apple has released an update for Apple Creator Studio: Final Cut Pro for Mac now includes built-in MotionVFX effects and templates, and timeline images can be edited directly in Pixelmator Pro. Logic Pro for Mac adds an intelligent assistant (beta) powered by a combination of Apple's own models and OpenAI, with Stem Splitter able to separate drum sounds; Pixelmator Pro introduces Generate Fill, which uses natural language to modify selected areas of an image. Keynote, Pages, and Numbers add an a
Anthropic has released the Claude for Nonprofits plugin, built together with about 30 nonprofit organizations, covering operational work such as fundraising, marketing, and hiring. More than 25,000 nonprofit organizations already use Claude, and more than 75% of them have fewer than 10 seats. Anthropic also plans to expand the Claude Corps program through a partnership with Taproot.
Apple is expected to launch the iPad mini 8 today or tomorrow, featuring a TSMC 2nm A20 Pro chip with CPU performance up to about 1.5x faster and GPU up to about 2.5x faster, along with a 32-core Neural Engine and 12GB RAM. The new model switches to an OLED display with narrower bezels, and also brings a landscape front camera, the N1 chip (Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6), a C1X or C2 modem, and IP water resistance for the first time. The current iPad mini starts at $599 in the US, and the OLED display may push up the new model's price.
Apple is expected to launch the iPad mini 8 today or tomorrow, featuring a TSMC 2nm A20 Pro chip with CPU performance up to about 1.5x faster and GPU up to about 2.5x faster, along with a 32-core Neural Engine and 12GB RAM. The new model switches to an OLED display with narrower bezels, and also brings a landscape front camera, the N1 chip (Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6), a C1X or C2 modem, and IP water resistance for the first time. The current iPad mini starts at $599 in the US, and the OLED display ma
Apple will launch its first touchscreen MacBook Pro at 1 a.m. Beijing time on October 29, with 14/16-inch models debuting OLED displays and M5 Pro/M5 Max chips, and Samsung Display as the exclusive panel supplier. Meta's capital expenditure in Q3 2026 reached $34.9 billion, exceeding operating cash flow of $32.8 billion, with free cash flow turning negative for the first time to -$2.1 billion. Anthropic quietly adjusted its Claude product line without an announcement, and Claude Opus 5.5 frequently triggers safety blocks on reverse engineering tasks.
Apple will launch its first touchscreen MacBook Pro at 1 a.m. Beijing time on October 29, with 14/16-inch models debuting OLED displays and M5 Pro/M5 Max chips, and Samsung Display as the exclusive panel supplier. Meta's capital expenditure in Q3 2026 reached $34.9 billion, exceeding operating cash flow of $32.8 billion, with free cash flow turning negative for the first time to -$2.1 billion. Anthropic quietly adjusted its Claude product line without an announcement, and Claude Opus 5.5 frequen
Peter Yang and Jake Moran recorded a 40-minute episode demonstrating how to use Claude Opus together with HyperFrames to generate videos: creating a launch video from just a few images, replicating a creator's video style, and making precise edits using keywords. He emphasized that the key lies in how the prompts are written.
Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. Investors include Yingdong Capital, Zhejiang Torch Center, Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, and algorithm platform development. The company was founded by Zhao Changyi, a PhD from Jilin University, and has launched the FaceSoul Agent full-stack emotional interaction solution, which uses a cable-driven approach to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed lightweight on-device expression generation model. The company has launched four major series—Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng—and within four months of its founding has reached cooperation or intent-to-cooperate agreements with telecom operators, cultural tourism exhibition venues, and some humanoid robot OEMs.
Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. Investors include Yingdong Capital, Zhejiang Torch Center, Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, and algorithm platform development. The company was founded by Zhao Changyi, a PhD from Jilin University, and has launched the FaceSoul Agent full-stack emotional interaction solution, which uses a cable-driven approach
Underdog Saluki 27B is a 7.9 GB quantized version of Qwen3.8-27B that, according to its developer, retains tool-calling capability at roughly 2 bits per weight and slightly outperforms the full 54 GB model on a self-built 120-task benchmark. The tutorial places Saluki side by side with ISTA-DASLab's GSQ-RCO quantized version in native llama.cpp, compares GGUF headers tensor by tensor and performs byte-level comparisons, then measures memory and speed on a single GPU, and scores both with the official BFCL checker on the same 120 tasks using strict and lenient parsing respectively.
Underdog Saluki 27B is a 7.9 GB quantized version of Qwen3.8-27B that, according to its developer, retains tool-calling capability at roughly 2 bits per weight and slightly outperforms the full 54 GB model on a self-built 120-task benchmark. The tutorial places Saluki side by side with ISTA-DASLab's GSQ-RCO quantized version in native llama.cpp, compares GGUF headers tensor by tensor and performs byte-level comparisons, then measures memory and speed on a single GPU, and scores both with the off
Cognition has released the open-source, free Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, which includes three Agent skills—fix-php-vuln, fix-node-vuln, and fix-gitlab-vuln—under the MIT license, targeting PHP2Shell, the Node.js October security release, and the self-managed GitLab vulnerability CVE-2026-110264 with a CVSS score of 10.0. The skills execute in five steps: read-only inventory, approval, target version verification, before-and-after testing, and one PR per repository. They can run in agents that read SKILL.md, such as Devin, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, and require git, shell, Docker, and image registry access; npx installation requires Node.js 22.20 or later. The original article does not publish a fix-rate benchmark; hosted runtimes, all-in-one machines, and Electron applications are only flagged and not patched.
Cognition has released the open-source, free Devin Vulnerability Fixes plugin, which includes three Agent skills—fix-php-vuln, fix-node-vuln, and fix-gitlab-vuln—under the MIT license, targeting PHP2Shell, the Node.js October security release, and the self-managed GitLab vulnerability CVE-2026-110264 with a CVSS score of 10.0. The skills execute in five steps: read-only inventory, approval, target version verification, before-and-after testing, and one PR per repository. They can run in agents t
The widely circulated claim that "AI short dramas and video generation account for 55% of domestic token consumption" is inaccurate; underlying logs cannot distinguish whether generated content belongs to short dramas or advertisements. Data from the China Netcasting Services Association shows that in the first half of 2026, platforms launched approximately 367,000 micro short dramas, of which about 270,000 were AI micro short dramas, accounting for over 74%; Douyin launched 221,900 AI dramas in the first half of the year, with only 1,055 surpassing 100 million views. The high-frequency video generation and repeated rerolling brought by AI short dramas are creating new inference demand, rather than simply crowding out existing compute for programming and scientific research.
The widely circulated claim that "AI short dramas and video generation account for 55% of domestic token consumption" is inaccurate; underlying logs cannot distinguish whether generated content belongs to short dramas or advertisements. Data from the China Netcasting Services Association shows that in the first half of 2026, platforms launched approximately 367,000 micro short dramas, of which about 270,000 were AI micro short dramas, accounting for over 74%; Douyin launched 221,900 AI dramas in
heise's best-of list names the Top 10 EKG-capable health smartwatches: the Withings Scanwatch 2 becomes the new test winner at around €262, with battery life of nearly 30 days and the ability to export a PDF health report via the Withings app. The technical champion is the Huawei Watch D3 (around €440), which in addition to a 1-channel EKG also supports inflatable-cuff blood pressure measurement; the Huawei Watch GT Runner 2 at €199 is the value champion. The list only includes models whose EKG function has CE medical device certification in Europe, and stresses that the watches only provide indications and cannot replace a doctor's visit or a 12-channel EKG.
heise's best-of list names the Top 10 EKG-capable health smartwatches: the Withings Scanwatch 2 becomes the new test winner at around €262, with battery life of nearly 30 days and the ability to export a PDF health report via the Withings app. The technical champion is the Huawei Watch D3 (around €440), which in addition to a 1-channel EKG also supports inflatable-cuff blood pressure measurement; the Huawei Watch GT Runner 2 at €199 is the value champion. The list only includes models whose EKG
The 2026 Changsha 1024 Programmer Day and AI Builders Conference opened at Changsha Intelligent Valley, with an offline attendance of over 1,500 people. CSDN officially released DevOrder, an order platform for AI developers, initially opening directions such as training data, embodied intelligence, chip operators, and FDE delivery. The conference also featured sub-forums on embodied intelligence and AI+government affairs. Shenzhen Longgang's "Longyuan" platform compressed system delivery cycles from monthly to daily, while the "Tianxin Hong" platform reduced processing steps by 75% and shortened processing time by 74.1%.
The 2026 Changsha 1024 Programmer Day and AI Builders Conference opened at Changsha Intelligent Valley, with an offline attendance of over 1,500 people. CSDN officially released DevOrder, an order platform for AI developers, initially opening directions such as training data, embodied intelligence, chip operators, and FDE delivery. The conference also featured sub-forums on embodied intelligence and AI+government affairs. Shenzhen Longgang's "Longyuan" platform compressed system delivery cycles
The Ecovacs X12S Omnicyclone's suction has been increased from 22,000 Pa on the X12 to 27,000 Pa, it uses a bagless base station, and it is priced at €1,049. New features include a cover that shields the wet mopping roller when cleaning carpets, and a heated wastewater tank in the base station. The test found that its hard-floor suction is good and its power consumption is low, but its rough navigation pushes furniture around, and its cleaning paths take detours, making it too time-consuming; the price is also clearly too high.
The Ecovacs X12S Omnicyclone's suction has been increased from 22,000 Pa on the X12 to 27,000 Pa, it uses a bagless base station, and it is priced at €1,049. New features include a cover that shields the wet mopping roller when cleaning carpets, and a heated wastewater tank in the base station. The test found that its hard-floor suction is good and its power consumption is low, but its rough navigation pushes furniture around, and its cleaning paths take detours, making it too time-consuming; th
TechCrunch rounded up several AI agents that let you converse directly via text message, including Ask Proxy, Caddy, Comma, Fambot, Folk, Instinct, and Iris. They can remember context, connect to existing apps, and complete tasks such as scheduling, bookings, and shopping on your behalf. Ask Proxy costs $1 per day for the personal version and starts at $15 per person per month for the enterprise version; Folk offers a Pro subscription at $8.33 per month; Instinct completed a $1 billion funding round in September 2026 at a $10 billion valuation and is still in private beta.
TechCrunch rounded up several AI agents that let you converse directly via text message, including Ask Proxy, Caddy, Comma, Fambot, Folk, Instinct, and Iris. They can remember context, connect to existing apps, and complete tasks such as scheduling, bookings, and shopping on your behalf. Ask Proxy costs $1 per day for the personal version and starts at $15 per person per month for the enterprise version; Folk offers a Pro subscription at $8.33 per month; Instinct completed a $1 billion funding r
