Alibaba said at its annual Yunqi Conference that future Qwen models will scale toward 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters, while new multimodal and AI-for-chip-design efforts aim to speed development and lower costs. Leiphone reported.
Huawei released its Mate 90 series on Oct. 1 using its own LogicFolding chip, with executive director Richard Yu saying the company aims to rebuild overseas phone share as China phone and Huawei-backed vehicle sales decline.
Elon Musk and other tech leaders predict AI-powered humanoid robots will soon transform work and homes, but robotics researchers say the hardware and intelligence are far from ready.
Simplexity Robotics presented a robot that autonomously tends two CNC lathes with a 0.5 mm clearance at IROS 2026, while BASAL Intelligence, founded by Tsinghua AIR's first PhD, secured funding led by 5Y Capital for action-native embodied AI.
CCID Consulting's annual report says China's network information security market reached RMB 93.08 billion in 2025, with Qi An Xin ranking first for a seventh straight year and leading terminal security, security management platforms and security services.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to every ChatGPT tier with an Intelligent UI that builds interactive replies; paid users get GPT-6 Sol, Free and Go accounts get the less capable Luna.
Google is rolling out Pixel Connected Camera support to 11 more communication and work apps, bringing the total number of officially supported apps to 16, according to Android Authority.
Smart Launcher and Kustom Industries, the team behind the KWGT widget toolkit, are merging into a new brand called Wild Pixels, promising tighter integration between their Android products.
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Microsoft introduced a Windows update built around locally running AI agents and a new Surface Laptop Ultra it says can run models above 120 billion parameters on-device, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appearing at the launch.
An account published by the lifestyle outlet Sspai on October 8, 2026 describes a decluttering routine its author spread across roughly four months, one room at a time, with rules for deciding what stays and a principle that an object's place should follow the user's habits rather than the reverse.
Leiphone.com reports that Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng's Naive AI raised $400 million in three rounds in seven months at a $1.42 billion valuation, while Benewake expands robot lidar and MSRA veteran Zhang Lei's legacy shapes China's AI talent pool.
Tesco lifted its annual profit forecast after reporting resilient consumer confidence and higher first-half underlying profit, helped by online and premium own-label sales.
OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results resolving or substantially advancing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with many verified in Lean. The company disclosed the results in a GitHub repository, and mathematicians are still parsing them.
A survey of more than 65,000 US students found nearly half identified procrastination as the main harm to their academic work, ahead of ADHD, anxiety, depression and financial worries.
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Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models in 0.6B and 9B sizes, with MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face. The 9B model scored 92.4% on MADQA, while the 0.6B model is designed for edge query encoding.
UK drivers can now check live petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, using government Fuel Finder data, in a move aimed at increasing price transparency and competition.