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  2. Rohan Paul
    AI score75

    Anthropic S-1 Disclosure: At Least Two-Thirds of Chip Spending Goes to R&D Rather Than Serving Customers

    Anthropic's S-1 shows that at least two-thirds of the company's chip spending goes to model training, research, and internal use of Claude, rather than serving paying customers. In the first half of 2026, compute spending was $895 million, of which only $238 million was used to serve paying customers, corresponding to revenue of $1.629 billion, retaining 85 cents per dollar of revenue, up from 12 cents a year earlier. Because most compute is purchased 12 to 18 months in advance, revenue generated per dollar of compute rose from $0.40 in Q1 2025 to $2.08 in Q2 2026.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Anthropic

  3. Aravind Srinivas
    AI score58

    Perplexity CEO relays news of Particle, a new company: focused on token efficiency optimization for open-weight models

    Aravind Srinivas relays that Particle is a new company focused on optimizing open-weight models and improving token efficiency and serving cost efficiency, and states that before Particle's launch he had already worked with Suhail's team, and that they will continue to collaborate on tools such as search and model orchestration. In the quoted tweet, Suhail announces the founding of Particle, saying that particle-1 uses about 45% fewer tokens while maintaining parity in performance, and that it is now live.

    Quoted postSuhail · @Suhail

    1/ Excited to announce our new company Particle This is our first step in a series of models focused on developers. With particle-1, we focused on token efficiency and managed to keep parity in performance while using ~45% fewer tokens. Live now: https://t.co/m5MvOwR9yE https://t.co/qAM7lFUPvG

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Open-source ecosystem#English text is being prepared.

  4. X.PIN
    AI score61

    CXMT to Start Limited Mass Production of HBM3E Within Two Months, With Yield of Only 20–30%

    ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) will start limited mass production of HBM3E within two months to ease the tight supply of AI memory in China. The cost is a yield of only 20–30%, compared with about 70% for SK Hynix; its speed is close to the older HBM3, and it lags by more than one generation, while South Korean competitors are already advancing HBM4.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  5. X.PIN
    AI score55

    Unitree Releases First Post-IPO Q3 Earnings: Revenue $99.7 Million, R&D Spending Up 250% YoY

    Unitree Robotics announced its first post-IPO Q3 earnings: revenue of $99.7 million, up 70% year-over-year; Q3 R&D spending rose 250% year-over-year, mainly directed toward embodied intelligence foundation models and computing infrastructure. The company also partnered with early investor HSG (formerly Sequoia China) to launch the "ShanYu" program to incubate early-stage robotics developers. X.PIN believes that Unitree is shifting from hardware performance toward foundational software and ecosystem building.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  6. Hacker News Trending
    AI score68

    DoorDash Announces Acquisition of Instacart for Approximately $17 Billion

    DoorDash and Instacart announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which DoorDash will acquire Instacart for $65.00 per share, representing approximately $17 billion in equity value, a 26% premium to Instacart's closing price on October 22, 2026. At least 75% of the transaction consideration will be in cash, and Instacart shareholders may elect to receive cash, DoorDash stock, or a combination of both, with DoorDash stock not exceeding 25% of the total consideration; Instacart's board of directors has unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected to close in late 2027 or the first half of 2028, subject to approval by Instacart shareholders and regulatory approvals in the United States, Canada, Israel, and other jurisdictions; a shareholder holding approximately 19% of the shares has agreed to vote in favor.

    #Industry news#Google

  7. Zhidongxi
    AI score53

    Weinan Hexin Completes Over 1 Billion Yuan C2 Round of Financing, Cumulative Financing of 3 Billion Yuan in Half a Year

    Hangzhou-based compute-in-memory AI chip company Weinan Hexin has completed an over 1 billion yuan C2 round of financing, led by Jiantou Investment, with the funds used for product development iteration and supply chain mass production stocking. Combined with the C1 round completed in September, the company raised over 2 billion yuan within two months and a cumulative 3 billion yuan in half a year. Its 3D-CIM architecture targets large model inference; all three chips for edge-side and cloud-side have been taped out, with customer sampling and the start of mass supply expected in early 2027.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

  8. 36Kr · AI
    AI score60

    Amazon releases engineer guidance document, opposing the use of Token consumption as a performance metric

    Amazon has released a guidance document for software engineers that explicitly opposes using metrics such as Token consumption and AI tool adoption rates as performance goals, arguing that this would drive up costs and increase system complexity. The document was disclosed by Vice President Terk Terkowitz and introduces the concept of the "Renaissance developer," requiring technical leaders to personally use AI in production work and explain the scenarios in which it is effective and ineffective. Previously, Microsoft Executive Vice President Jay Parikh also asked his team in August to use AI rationally and set the lower-cost GPT-5.6 as the internal default model.

    Same story · 4 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.#Agents

  9. 36Kr · AI
    AI score56

    Intel's Q3 2026 Earnings: Data Center and AI Business Revenue Up 78% Year-over-Year

    Intel announced its Q3 2026 earnings, with revenue of $16.51 billion, up 21% year-over-year, and non-GAAP net profit of $2.8 billion, up 169% year-over-year. Data Center and AI business revenue was $7.32 billion, up 78% year-over-year, with an operating margin of 41.5%, while Client Computing and Physical AI business revenue was $8.10 billion, down 5% year-over-year, affected by an industry-wide memory shortage. CFO David Zinsner indicated that Q4 non-GAAP gross margin will fall back to 38.0%, and expects overall PC shipments in 2026 to decline by about 12%.

    Same story · 7 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  10. 36Kr · AI
    AI score62

    OpenAI Doubles Pro Plan Quotas; Article Reviews Backend Token Consumption of AI Coding Tools

    OpenAI product lead Tibo announced that usage limits for the Pro 100, Pro 200, Pro 500, and Business Premium plans have all been doubled, and that the quota reduction for Pro 200 has been withdrawn; Pro 500 can get usage equivalent to 50 times that of Plus. The article notes that this falls on day 25 of OpenAI's 28-day improvement plan, and some Pro 200 users believe it merely cancels a planned reduction rather than adding new benefits. The article also reviews the hidden token consumption caused by backend sub-agent status summaries in Codex and Claude Code; an Anthropic engineer said that agent_summary, at API list prices, accounts for about 2% of total cost, and that the issue of missed prompt caching has been fixed in Claude Code 2.1.311 and later versions.

    Same story · 9 reports

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  11. Zhi Dong Xi
    AI score62

    Dowson Tong Previews That the Official Version of Hunyuan Hy4 Will Add Visual Understanding for the First Time

    Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President of Tencent Group, announced at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit that the official version of the Hunyuan large model Hy4 will be released soon. Compared with the Hy4 Preview open-sourced on August 28, it is comprehensively upgraded, strengthens long-horizon tasks and real productivity task capabilities, significantly improves chain-of-thought efficiency, and adds visual understanding for the first time; Hy4 Flash, which focuses on cost-effectiveness, will also be launched soon. Tencent also released the cross-application AI collaboration system Buddy One and Tencent Drive for the Agent era, and upgraded Agent Runtime, making systematic enhancements around context management, tool calling, secure sandboxes, observability, and evaluation. Dowson Tong also disclosed that over the past year, the number of active overseas customers of Tencent Cloud grew about threefold, and overseas AI demand achieved triple-digit growth.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Agents#Multimodal

  12. heise online
    AI score66

    GitHub Octoverse report: TypeScript remains the most-contributed-to language, over 40% of PRs drafted by agents

    GitHub said in its Octoverse report on October 28 that Pull Requests merged over the past twelve months reached 1.3 billion, averaging 3.5 million per day, three times the figure for the same period last year. More than 40% of Pull Requests begin with an agent-drafted opening, compared with 17% in March 2026; projects containing an AGENTS.md file receive eight times as many commits as projects without such a file. TypeScript and Python each have about 13 million monthly contributors, tying as the most popular languages, with JavaScript close behind at 7.4 million; platform users grew to 225 million, with Germany ranking eighth at 6.3 million.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Industry news#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  13. heise online
    AI score58

    Microsoft's first-quarter revenue reaches $92.3 billion, Azure grows 48%

    Microsoft's first quarter of fiscal year 2027 revenue reached $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, with operating income of $4.59 billion and net income of $3.66 billion growing 21% and 32% respectively. Microsoft Cloud revenue was $63.9 billion, up 30%, of which Azure grew 48%; the newly segmented "Agents and Infrastructure" division posted revenue of $76.8 billion, up 25%, while the "Devices and End-Consumer" division's revenue fell 3% to $15.5 billion, with the Windows business down 22%. Microsoft CFO Amy Hood said Copilot usage in Microsoft 365 grew 50% quarter over quarter, but did not disclose specific user numbers, only stating that the Microsoft 365 E7 package already has millions of users.

    Same story · 8 reports

    #Industry news#Microsoft#OpenAI

  14. heise online
    AI score65

    Alphabet's quarterly revenue reaches $127.6 billion; slower-than-expected search ad growth sends shares down about 9%

    Alphabet released its quarterly earnings report, with revenue up about 25% year over year to $127.6 billion, slightly below analyst expectations, while net profit fell about a quarter to nearly $26.2 billion; shares fell about 9% after the report was released. Search advertising revenue rose about 12% year over year to $63.35 billion, below analysts' expectation of about $65 billion; Google manager Philipp Schindler said ad monetization efficiency in AI Mode remains lower than in traditional search. Cloud service revenue more than doubled year over year at a scale of $3.07 billion and beat market expectations, quarterly capital expenditure rose to about $51 billion, and the company maintained its full-year infrastructure spending forecast of $195 billion to $205 billion.

    #Industry news#Google

  15. heise online
    AI score62

    Samsung's third-quarter operating profit nearly ninefold increase driven by AI memory demand

    Samsung Electronics' third-quarter operating profit rose nearly ninefold year-on-year to 107.4 trillion won (about 72 billion euros), while revenue reached 195.3 trillion won (about 132 billion euros), both setting records. The company said AI infrastructure construction is driving demand for high-performance memory, especially HBM chips, which are in short supply, and it expects semiconductor demand to continue to significantly exceed supply next year. Despite the record results, Samsung's share price fell as much as 6.2% after the earnings release.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  16. heise online
    AI score69

    JFrog found that 42 GitHub repositories were implanted with the npm worm testmetest malicious code

    The JFrog security research team found that 42 GitHub repositories were implanted with execution hooks and hidden malicious code, and classified them under the npm worm campaign testmetest. These repositories belong to 11 legitimate owners, and attackers injected code through stolen accounts or employee permissions; when users launch Claude Code, Gemini, or Cursor in a project, or open a VS Code workspace with the corresponding settings, the related configuration may execute the hidden file .github/init.js. JFrog listed 15 npm packages with at least one version judged malicious, and recommended checking affected systems, reviewing repository configurations and workflows, and revoking potentially leaked credentials; SafeDep said the worm installs a wiper that deletes the victim's home directory when the victim revokes the stolen GitHub token.

    #Safety / alignment#GitHub#Open-source ecosystem

  17. TMTPost · AGI
    AI score62

    Moore Threads' quarterly non-GAAP net profit turns positive for the first time, as domestic GPUs enter the delivery competition stage

    Moore Threads' revenue in the third quarter of 2026 was 1.552 billion yuan, up 1773.92% year on year, with non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders of 20.0724 million yuan, turning positive on a single-quarter basis for the first time, for a non-GAAP net margin of about 1.29%. Cumulative revenue for the first three quarters was 3.289 billion yuan, non-GAAP net profit attributable to shareholders remained a loss of about 131 million yuan, and net cash flow from operating activities was -3.309 billion yuan. The article also compares the performance of peers such as Cambricon, Hygon Information, and MetaX, noting that the share of inference demand is rising, and that HBM and foundry capacity remain the main constraints on the growth of domestic GPUs.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  18. heise online
    AI score60

    Schwarz Group leads Cohere's Series E funding of up to CAD 7 billion

    Cohere has completed its Series-E funding, targeting a size of up to CAD 7 billion (about EUR 4.7 billion), at a valuation of about CAD 35.7 billion (about EUR 23.9 billion), led by Schwarz Group, the parent company of Lidl and Kaufland, with participation from existing investors including the Canadian government and Nvidia. Cohere had previously merged with Heidelberg-based Aleph Alpha—in effect, Cohere acquired the latter—and Heidelberg continues to serve as a research and development base. Cohere focuses on Sovereign AI for enterprises and governments, and its technology can run in private clouds, on proprietary infrastructure, or in fully isolated environments. Schwarz Group plans to integrate Cohere models into its own STACKIT cloud.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  19. heise online
    AI score55

    Malaysian customs seize AI chip servers worth about US$12.11 million at Kuala Lumpur airport

    On October 15, Malaysian customs seized 30 servers equipped with high-performance AI chips in the free trade zone at Kuala Lumpur airport, with a cargo value of about US$12.11 million; the goods had been declared as ordinary electronic components. Authorities believe the shipment originated in one Asian country and was intended for re-export to another Asian country, and suspect that an organized smuggling network is behind it, using Malaysia as a transit point to circumvent export restrictions. No one has been arrested so far, and the companies involved have been summoned to assist with the investigation. This is the fifth case authorities have identified as linked to the network; in June, 72 AI servers were seized in the same free trade zone, and according to The Information, the total value of the related seizures is about US$24 million. In 2025, Malaysia adopted the Strategic Trade Controller directive, imposing additional controls on the export, transit and transshipment of high-performance AI chips, computer systems and electronic components.

    #English text is being prepared.#Industry news

  20. TMTPost · AGI
    AI score60

    Gemini 4 Carbon's Top Ranking Fails to Mask Disappointing Earnings: The Bill for Google's AI Gamble

    Alphabet's third-quarter revenue rose 25% year-over-year to $127.58 billion, while net profit fell 25% year-over-year to $26.17 billion, free cash flow was negative more than $9 billion, and the stock fell nearly 10% in after-hours trading. Capital expenditures of $51.4 billion were mostly directed toward AI infrastructure, and CFO Anat Ashkenazi maintained the full-year 2026 capital expenditure range of $195 billion to $205 billion unchanged. Hours before the earnings release, Google launched Gemini 4 Carbon, which topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59, but it has not yet opened a public API and is initially available only to some cybersecurity professionals.

    Same story · 34 reports

    #Industry news#Google#OpenAI