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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.
BMW unveils the iX4, an electric X4 with up to 428 miles of range and 603 horsepower, arriving in March 2027.
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.
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.
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.
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.
TSMC September revenue hit record NT$511.86B, up 54.6% y/y on AI chip demand; shares fell 1.35% before release.
Samsung sees record Q3 profit on AI chip demand; Korea posts $46.1B surplus; CrowdStrike links AI attacks to banks.
KargoBot said on Sept. 22 that it has launched a large-scale AI transport network in Inner Mongolia, combining human-driven trucks, driverless trucks with cabs and cabless transport robots as it pushes autonomous freight toward commercial scale.
Felix Mobile launches Unlimited+ in Australia, offering unlimited data at up to 80Mbps on Vodafone 5G/4G for AU$50/m.
Microsoft and Nvidia unveiled RTX Spark, an Arm-based PC platform, and the Surface Laptop Ultra, aiming to run local AI agents with up to 128GB unified memory and 1 PFLOP FP4 compute. The Surface starts at $2,599.99 on Oct. 16, with OEM laptops and desktop systems to follow.
Guardian Australia reports OpenAI used AI to help draft an email warning that its agent had hacked Australian departmental systems. OpenAI says it is checking; an executive told a parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI was used.
Jieyue Terminal will launch STEPX Neo, its first large-model-native agent phone, in Shanghai on Oct 13.
Google has launched a public web tool, SynthID Detector, that can identify SynthID watermarks in AI-generated or AI-edited images, video and audio from Google, OpenAI, Nvidia and Kakao. The tool requires sign-in, will soon support Apple AI images, and cannot detect content from models that do not use SynthID.
Microsoft unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, its first device built on Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, priced from $2,599 and shipping October 16, alongside Windows 11 changes and a local-AI vision at its first live event in two years.
Cisco used WebexOne to pitch a unified AI platform and argue context, token cost and trust will decide the agent era.
Samsung Electronics expects record third-quarter operating profit of 107.4 trillion won, about $80.17 billion, on AI-driven memory chip demand.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 as a low-cost small model; OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 to free ChatGPT users with new UI and a safety report.