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TELUS Digital built an outbound voice agent based on ElevenAgents that proactively calls customers who have just activated home internet, resulting in a 30-day churn rate for customers who received the call that is less than half that of new customers overall. The agent can disclose its AI identity, explain the first bill, guide customers to self-service tools, and remind them of bundle discounts, and can authenticate customers during the call via SMS verification code and read real-time billing

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iFlytek Responds to Executive Compensation Questions: Chairman Liu Qingfeng and President Wu Xiaoru Voluntarily Lowered Their Annual Salaries, Actually Receiving 4.1 Million Yuan and 3 Million Yuan Respectively for 2025, With Both Seeing Their Payable Compensation Reduced by Over 20 Million Yuan. Baidu Confirms That Group Vice President and Baidu Research Deputy Director Wu Tian Has Departed, and the Wenxin Model Will Announce New Progress Publicly Next Week. The U.S. Department of Justice Has L

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Unitree Technology announced on October 28 the joint establishment of the Shanyu·Innovation Program with Sequoia China, focusing on investment in embodied intelligence, robotics applications, and upstream and downstream core technologies, and proposed five principles: understanding technology and industry, discovering early, deciding quickly, valuing people, and not causing disruption. Unitree's previously launched Yuchuang Program received more than 200 projects in just over a month, and the co

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Anthropic's revenue in the second quarter of this year was 11.555 billion US dollars, achieving an operating profit of 974 million US dollars for the first time, with about 80% of revenue coming from pay-as-you-go billing. IDC data shows that in the first half of 2026, China's public cloud MaaS market revenue reached 10.63 billion yuan, up 889.4% year on year, and its share of public cloud PaaS revenue rose from 5.2% in the second half of last year to 21.0%. Zhipu's open platform and API revenue

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On October 29, OpenAI updated the Model Spec, upgrading the model behavior guidelines around five values: being loyal to human intent, reducing harm, honesty and transparency, promoting human autonomy, and caring for others. The new version shifts the focus from what chatbots can say to how much agents can do, stipulating that agents must act within agreed autonomy boundaries, remain correctable, and cooperate with shutdown, while establishing a six-level instruction hierarchy of Root, System, D

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In the third quarter of 2026, global PC shipments fell 20.1% year on year to 62.7 million units, and smartphone shipments fell 22.0% year on year to 255.3 million units; IDC said both were the largest declines on record. The article argues that the cause is that AI servers give priority to occupying HBM, server DRAM, and enterprise SSD capacity, leading to a shortage of consumer-grade memory; the cost share of DRAM and SSDs in PCs rose from about 15% to about 40%, and smartphone memory costs ros

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Bloomberg reported on October 27 that Musk's SpaceX and Tesla are studying a potential merger through a special committee, and the combined market value would exceed $3 trillion once the deal closes. The article says the two companies already overlap on the Terafab chip project; SpaceX's AI business unit SI posted third-quarter revenue of $7.56 billion, up 830% year over year, with computing capacity of 1.7 gigawatts as of the end of September. The article also notes that SpaceX's Grok 4.7 score

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According to foreign media citing sources, DeepSeek's second funding round raised 105.5 billion yuan (equivalent to 15.8 billion US dollars), with nearly 30 investors contributing jointly, at a valuation of 615.5 billion yuan. Industrial investors include ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, Tencent, Meituan, CATL and others, each investing 1 billion to 3 billion yuan. The original article also noted that in the first funding round, investors other than the National AI Fund were required to give

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TMTPost's Physical AI Vision takes stock of the embodied intelligence sector's shift from the funding frenzy in the first half of the year to the cooling in the second half: 19 funding deals worth 4.934 billion yuan between October 1 and 15, far below the peak monthly figure of 33.98 billion yuan. The article notes that Unitree Robotics' share price fell by more than 63% at its largest drop after listing, that Yinghe Robotics' full-year 2025 revenue was only 4.33 million yuan while its peak valu

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Barbara Engels, a senior economist at the German Economic Institute, argued in an article for heise that when companies evaluate software procurement, they only count licensing, deployment, and training costs, but not the cost of exiting the vendor later, causing dependencies to form without anyone deciding to create them. She suggests breaking dependency costs into three separately accounted items: the bargaining power gained from switching capability, the risk of service interruption or supply

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Stack Overflow's new questions per month have fallen to fewer than 1,000, with only 969 in September 2026, compared with a peak of about 207,000 in March 2014. Community discussion attributes the main cause to overly strict moderation—questions are often hastily closed as duplicates, downvoted without reason, and accepted answers have not been updated for over a decade; after ChatGPT was released in November 2022, question volume halved from about 110,000 to about 50,000 within a year, which is

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At GitHub Universe 2026, held October 28–29, 2026, GitHub announced that Copilot Fusion, which integrates automatic model selection with multi-model collaboration, is now generally available. It can be used in VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, the CLI, and JetBrains IDEs, and it automatically determines which model to use and which of three execution modes—Single, Cascade, or Critique—to apply, based on three processing tiers: Standard, High, and Max. The desktop GitHub Copilot app is also beginn

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On October 29, 2026, Cursor disclosed that a maliciously tampered version 2.1.313 of the Anthropic.claude-code extension appeared in its VS Code extension Marketplace. The package was not developed by Anthropic and attempts to install a persistent SSH backdoor, affecting up to 5,000 users. This version was downloadable on that day from approximately 2:27 to 13:35 (Pacific Time). It collects host and user information, writes the attacker's SSH public key into authorized keys, and establishes a re

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The Wikimedia Foundation filed a motion on October 29, 2026, with Judge Sidney H. Stein seeking to submit an amicus curiae brief in the OpenAI copyright case; the brief's main text runs 5,831 words and states that it does not take sides with either party. The brief argues that pretraining of ChatGPT's general-purpose large language models constitutes fair use, but that its RAG feature's reproduction and use of content does not constitute fair use and should comply with license terms such as Crea

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XGIMI Jide's AI Memory Glasses G1 and AI Memory Band L1 officially went on sale on October 28. The Band L1 standard edition is priced at 599 yuan, and the Glasses G1 standard edition has a first-release price of 1,299 yuan. The two devices share the XGIMI Jide App and the same AI memory service, recording as soon as they are powered on, and can transcribe daily conversations and automatically generate meeting minutes, to-do items, and life cards. For data management, it adopts an approach of kee

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In Q3 2026, global PC shipments fell 20.1% year-on-year to 62.7 million units, and smartphone shipments fell 22.0% year-on-year to 255.3 million units; IDC called both the largest quarterly declines on record. The article attributes the cause to AI data centers preferentially consuming HBM, server DRAM, and enterprise SSD capacity, which drove consumer memory prices sharply higher, with smartphone memory costs rising about 350% in a year. Over the same period, global semiconductor market monthly

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The ROBOTECH 2026 Intelligent Robot Expo concluded on October 29. Over the three-day exhibition period, companies including AgiBot, Unitree Robotics, UBTECH, Leju Robotics, and Deep Robotics gathered to showcase humanoid, quadruped, special-purpose, and commercial service robots, as well as core components such as precision transmissions and dexterous hands. Multiple forums were held concurrently, covering topics including embodied intelligence technology innovation and supply chain collaboratio

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B2B logistics company Shadowfax reported operating revenue of ₹1,537.7 crore in Q2 FY2027, up 57% year-on-year, while net profit rose from ₹13 crore in the same period last year to ₹68 crore, an increase of more than 5x. Revenue from its hyperlocal delivery business grew 88% year-on-year to ₹341 crore, accounting for about 22% of total revenue; the company completed 271 million deliveries in the quarter. The company also launched micro-fulfillment centers for D2C brands, enabling delivery within

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A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo shows that 53% of U.S. adults do not know whether chatbot conversations are used for training, when in fact they are; only a quarter of respondents know that chat logs can be subpoenaed. Character.AI filed for bankruptcy this month and initiated a court-supervised asset sale; its LLM trained on user interactions could be sold together with user data, and the Bankruptcy Code has no specific provision governing the ownership of trained models. In a 2022 study, G

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From January to the end of October 2026, the Nikkei rose about 20%, while the S&P 500 gained only 14% over the same period. After 34 years of waiting, the Japanese stock market finally broke through its 1989 record high. AI-related companies and a series of reforms in Japan were important drivers of this rally, and Warren Buffett's multibillion-dollar investment was also one of the reasons. The article also discusses what to pay attention to when choosing hedged or unhedged products given the ye

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