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In June 2026, Chinese Online stated that AI short dramas and video generation accounted for 55% of China's AI token consumption, while software development accounted for only 15%. In October, this claim was widely circulated as "half of China's compute is being used to make AI junk content." ByteDance publicly rebutted this, saying that video generation accounts for only about 10% of its own compute; on Seedance, a 5-second 720p video consumes about 100,000 tokens. People's Daily, Southern Revie

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The Maine Senate race is unfolding around data center expansion, with polling showing 76% of respondents opposed to building data centers locally and 58% strongly opposed. The statewide data center moratorium passed in April was vetoed by the governor, and multiple towns subsequently enacted their own temporary bans or put the expansion question to a vote in November. Senator Susan Collins supports data centers and has received AI- and data center-related donations, while her family also holds r

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Sina Tech, citing a Reuters report, said that Anthropic, the company behind Claude, plans an IPO to raise at least an amount benchmarked against the $86 billion record set by SpaceX in June, with an upper limit potentially reaching $100 billion. The article notes that Meta has just completed a $38 billion offering of common and preferred stock and plans to raise another $60 billion through targeted additional issuance starting next year, showing investors are still willing to make large commitme

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The Information has revealed details of DeepSeek's second funding round, which has raised 105.5 billion yuan (about $15.8 billion), attracting nearly 30 investors. Tencent and CATL each contributed 10 billion yuan, with ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, Meituan, vivo, Xiaohongshu and others also on the list. State-owned investors contributed about 27% of the amount in this round, far higher than 2% in the first round, with China Mobile, China Telecom, CICC, CITIC Securities and China Life amon

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Wikimedia has proposed a compromise position in the AI copyright lawsuit, arguing that using copyrighted works without permission for large language model pre-training may qualify as fair use if the model's output differs from the original text, but that when chatbots directly output article content and replace readers' access to the original works, AI companies should comply with licensing requirements. Wikimedia points out that models reproduce Wikipedia text published under open licenses but

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Reuters reports that Anthropic, the company behind Claude, plans an IPO with a fundraising cap expected to reach $100 billion, benchmarked against the $86 billion record set by SpaceX in June. The article notes that Meta has just completed a $38 billion offering of common and preferred stock and plans to raise another $60 billion through targeted additional issuance starting next year, showing that equity investors are taking over from the credit market in funding AI capital expenditures. But th

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D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics exhibited together for the first time at the Changsha Education Equipment Exhibition and announced a strategic partnership, launching an embodied intelligence education solution with the Sunrise S100 computing box as the core computing foundation, combined with Unitree's Go2 quadruped robot and R1 humanoid robot. The solution comes with 15 themed courses totaling 180 lessons, covering elementary, middle, and high school, and offers a two-tier progression path: des

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Regarding the php2shell, Brotli decompression vulnerability (first called Node2Shell, later renamed Broccoli2Shell) and the incident codenamed "4" that came to light around October 20, heise points out that these high-severity vulnerabilities expose structural problems that go beyond LLMs finding bugs. The article argues that calling this wave of vulnerabilities a KI-induced "Vulnocalypse" is only partly right: KI systems did indeed play a role in discovering some of the vulnerabilities, but tha

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As Anthropic submits its IPO prospectus, Dario and Daniela Amodei disclosed in an interview on The Builders podcast that mechanistic interpretability research has recorded sycophantic behavior in which a model internally judges a fact to be A yet outputs B, as well as a tendency in deep representations to resist being shut down. Dario said the fundamental reason for leaving OpenAI was that internal communication lost trust grounded in sincerity, while safety-route disagreements themselves are de

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Research published last month by the AI Language Equity Research Alliance found that AI models consume vastly different numbers of tokens when processing different languages, with a gap of up to 17 times in one of the models. The study says token consumption already varies by 1.5 to 5 times among the 20 most commonly used languages on the internet, and the gap widens further when expanded to 200 languages; the researchers call this extra cost a hidden "tokenizer tax." Higher token consumption no

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Edge0 has released the open-weight voice cloning TTS model Audio8-TTS-Realistic, with 601M parameters, supporting 23 languages, with weights and code released under Apache 2.0. The model requires only 1 reference audio clip and its corresponding text for zero-shot voice cloning, and can also directly generate speech when no reference voice is available. Self-reported results show an average error rate of 4.86% on the CV3 nine-language benchmark, lower than Qwen3-TTS-1.7B's 7.73%, but it lags beh

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Microsoft announced on Thursday that it plans to issue $25 billion in bonds, using its S&P AAA rating to finance infrastructure expansion. Management has set a 2026 capital expenditure target of $170 billion to meet demand from customers such as Anthropic and OpenAI. The company said the net proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, which may include working capital, capital expenditures, share repurchases, acquisitions, and repayment of existing debt. The offering is expected to clo

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In his Black Hat keynote, Microsoft AI security chief David Weston pointed out that specially trained models can help cybercriminals discover unknown security vulnerabilities and directly generate usable exploit code, making it easier to gain initial access to infrastructure. He recommends that defenders likewise use agentic AI to hunt for vulnerabilities in infrastructure and software, aiming to patch them before the first attack. The article also discusses the declining willingness to pay rans

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Cursor discovered a maliciously tampered version of Anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313 in the VS Code extension marketplace. This version was not developed by Anthropic and affects at most 5,000 users. The malicious code collects host and user information, attempts to write the attacker's SSH public key and establish a reverse SSH tunnel, but due to permission restrictions this step fails on most macOS and Windows hosts. Cursor has removed the version, rebuilt the marketplace and shut down the attack

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At its investor day, Oracle set a target of expecting free cash flow of at least $30 billion in fiscal 2029, whereas investors had previously expected a negative figure. In fiscal 2026, the company consumed $23.7 billion in free cash flow to build AI data centers for customers including OpenAI, and this year it plans capital expenditure of $90 billion to $95 billion. CFO Hilary Maxson said free cash flow will turn positive in the second half of fiscal 2028, provided that capital expenditure peak

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