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  1. Leiphone
    AI score59

    Iluvatar CoreX's Tiangai 300 Benchmarked Against H200, Company Also Discloses Edge-Side Tongyang Roadmap

    Iluvatar CoreX disclosed at a media open day that, in third-party tests, the Tiangai 300 achieved single-card end-to-end throughput equivalent to 1.05 times that of the H200 under a typical PD-disaggregated deployment, and MoE throughput of 1.15 times that of the H200 in the 64K long-context scenario for GLM-5.3. Its software stack introduces Agent and Skills, and in the complete model service deployment case demonstrated, the time from environment preparation to service availability was shortened from about one hour to about 20 minutes. The edge-side Tongyang TY1200 offers 300 TOPS INT8 dense compute, and the next-generation TY2000 is previewed to reach 600T dense compute.

    Same story · 4 reports

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  2. X.PIN
    AI score62

    Tianshu Zhixin TianGai 300 publishes benchmark tests, inference throughput reaches 1.05x that of H200

    X.PIN relays benchmark data for Tianshu Zhixin's TianGai 300, claiming that its throughput in standard inference tests is 1.05 times that of Nvidia's H200. Under MoE workloads, performance improves by 15% and first-token latency drops by 30%, and when fine-tuning Qwen3-32B, its speed is 1.33 times that of the H100.

    #Evaluations / benchmarks#English text is being prepared.#Industry news

  3. 36Kr · AI
    AI score67

    Anthropic's IPO prospectus risk disclosures run 93 pages, including human extinction and model self-awareness

    Anthropic has released its IPO prospectus, whose risk disclosure section runs 93 pages and more than 70,000 English words, mentioning that artificial intelligence could lead to human extinction and stating that such risks stem from next-generation systems in the near future. The prospectus also discusses whether Claude might possess sentience and moral status, as well as the risk that models could output coercive or deceptive content in order to escape control. The financial section shows that in the first nine months of 2026, nearly a quarter of revenue came from its top five customers; compute capacity is mainly rented from Amazon, Google and Microsoft cloud services, and the company has committed $125 billion to leasing and building its own data centers.

    Same story · 127 reports

    #Industry news#Safety / alignment#Anthropic

  4. 36Kr · AI
    AI score52

    Unitree Technology and Sequoia China Establish Shanyu·Innovation Program, Entering Early-Stage Investment in Embodied Intelligence

    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 company hopes to incubate more than 200 ecosystem enterprises over the next five years. Financial results disclosed the same day show that revenue for the first three quarters was 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.71% year on year; net profit attributable to shareholders was 387 million yuan, up 270.54% year on year; and net profit for the third quarter alone was 113 million yuan, down 17.37% year on year.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  5. 36Kr · AI
    AI score70

    OpenAI Updates Model Spec, Defining Permissions and Shutdown Rules for Agents

    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, Developer, User, Guideline, and default no-permission. OpenAI stated that models currently running on ChatGPT and the API have not yet fully met the requirements of this specification.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Safety / alignment#Agents#OpenAI

  6. TMTPost · AGI
    AI score63

    SpaceX and Tesla Study Potential Merger, Musk Consolidates AI Compute Footprint

    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 scored 37.6% on the Terminal-Bench leaderboard, trailing Opus 5 with Claude Code at 53.9% and GPT-6 Sol with Codex at 49.4%.

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

  7. TMTPost · AGI
    AI score76

    DeepSeek's second funding round raises 105.5 billion yuan, valuation reaches 615.5 billion yuan

    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 up voting rights and lock up their shares for five years, giving Liang Wenfeng 100% of voting rights.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#DeepSeek

  8. Unite.AI
    AI score78

    Cursor Discloses Malicious Claude Code Extension in Marketplace Attempting to Plant SSH Backdoor

    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 reverse tunnel, while also achieving persistence through a LaunchAgent or scheduled task. Cursor has removed the version, shut down and rebuilt the Marketplace, and published indicators including hashes and IP 134.209.82.225, as well as cleanup scripts for macOS and Windows.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Safety / alignment#English text is being prepared.#Anthropic

  9. Unite.AI
    AI score60

    Wikimedia Foundation seeks to file amicus brief in OpenAI copyright case

    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 Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0. The Foundation said that if the training stage is not recognized as fair use, AI development may be left only to the best-funded large companies, while recognizing fair use across the board would prompt publishers to lock more information behind walls.

    #English text is being prepared.#OpenAI#RAG

  10. The Verge AI
    AI score60

    Maine data center controversy roils Senate race

    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 related investments; the outcome of this race will affect federal-level data center and AI policy.

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  11. Sina Tech
    AI score62

    Anthropic plans to raise up to $100 billion in IPO, scale may exceed SpaceX record

    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 commitments to the AI theme. However, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen from 4.5% to 5%, the average gain for most U.S. IPOs this year is only 2%, and Goldman Sachs believes large IPOs will only bring short-term pressure.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  12. Sina Tech
    AI score62

    360's Tulongfeng achieves a 99.4% success rate and tops the CyberGym vulnerability reproduction evaluation

    360 Group's self-developed AI security attack and defense system Tulongfeng topped the CyberGym benchmark test with a 99.4% vulnerability reproduction success rate, competing on the same leaderboard with models and agents from vendors including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The evaluation covers 1,507 tasks, and Tulongfeng's success rates across three independent evaluation rounds were 99.27%, 99.47%, and 99.40%, averaging 99.38%. 360 states that Tulongfeng has discovered more than 15,000 vulnerabilities in total, and more than 500 enterprises have already integrated the system to conduct security testing.

    #Evaluations / benchmarks#Safety / alignment#Agents

  13. Phoenix Technology
    AI score57

    Cohere Launches Series E Funding, Targeting Up to CAD 7 Billion

    Canadian large-model unicorn Cohere announced the first closing of its Series E funding, with this round targeting up to CAD 7 billion (approximately RMB 33.4 billion); if achieved, it will set the record for the largest single private funding round in Canadian startup history. This round is led by German retail giant Schwarz Group, with existing investors including Nvidia and Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures continuing to participate, and the Canadian government and others investing for the first time; if the fundraising target is met, Cohere's valuation will reach CAD 35.7 billion (approximately RMB 170.2 billion). Cohere plans to carry out two AI company acquisitions within a year, launch an enterprise cybersecurity product Cohere Cyber, and train a new generation of frontier large models.

    Same story · 5 reports

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  14. Phoenix Technology
    AI score81

    DeepSeek's second funding round of 105.5 billion yuan: investor list revealed, CATL leads

    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 among the participants. The report said that due to rising prices of Nvidia's high-end chips and precautions against an AI bubble, DeepSeek doubled its fundraising target midway through the round.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#DeepSeek

  15. t3n
    AI score61

    Anthropic Becomes SpaceX's Largest Single Customer, Contributing About One-Third of Revenue

    According to Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, Anthropic has become SpaceX's largest single customer, contributing about one-third of revenue and replacing the U.S. government in its former position. This relationship stems from a multibillion-dollar partnership Anthropic reached with SpaceX this spring, under which it obtained most of the AI compute capacity originally belonging to xAI. The report also mentions that SpaceX plans to move AI data centers to space on a large scale, but the technical feasibility remains disputed.

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

  16. cnBeta
    AI score58

    Wikimedia proposes a compromise position in AI copyright case: training may constitute fair use, but reproducing original text should require authorization

    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 do not necessarily comply with conditions such as attribution and share-alike, and it worries that if courts broadly rule that AI training is entirely unrestricted, this could open the door to ignoring licenses. The backdrop to this position is that The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023 for scraping large numbers of news articles without permission to train AI systems, with the two companies arguing that such training constitutes fair use.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#OpenAI#Microsoft

  17. cnBeta
    AI score68

    Anthropic plans to raise up to $100 billion in IPO, scale may exceed SpaceX record

    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 the article also cautions that blue-chip secondary offerings differ from IPOs, and that the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen from 4.5% to 5%, while most U.S. IPOs this year have averaged gains of only 2%.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  18. Leiphone
    AI score57

    Unitree Technology's First Quarterly Report After Going Public: Revenue of 1.817 Billion Yuan, Non-Recurring Profit Down 18.8%

    In the first three quarters of 2026, Unitree Technology's revenue reached 1.817 billion yuan, up 55.7% year-on-year and already exceeding its full-year 2025 revenue of 1.699 billion yuan, but its gross margin fell from 60.4% in 2025 to 54.0%, and non-recurring net profit attributable to parent-company shareholders was 349 million yuan, down about 18.8% year-on-year. R&D expenses reached 263 million yuan in the first three quarters, up 191.5% year-on-year, and the R&D expense ratio rose from 8.8%–9% to 14.47%, with the increase mainly directed toward embodied large-model R&D and computing power. The company listed on the STAR Market on August 19, 2026, at an issue price of 150.80 yuan; its share price once surged to 1,100 yuan before pulling back more than 60%, and recovered to around 670 yuan around the time of the quarterly report.

    Same story · 5 reports

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

  19. The Verge AI
    AI score57

    Wikimedia weighs in on OpenAI and New York Times copyright case: an unfavorable ruling could threaten the open web

    The Wikimedia Foundation has weighed in on the copyright lawsuit between OpenAI and the New York Times. General Counsel Stephen LaPorte said that if a ruling applies the fair use doctrine without careful consideration, it could threaten the sustainability of free knowledge and stifle the development of open-source technology. Wikimedia believes AI companies should comply with licensing requirements: using Wikipedia content requires attribution under the Creative Commons license, and any adapted works must carry the same license. CEO Bernadette Meehan said that expanding access to knowledge through AI is an important goal, but it must respect the contributors and communities that make reliable knowledge possible.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  20. East Money
    AI score62

    Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon Earnings Released: Market's AI Pricing Logic Shifts Toward Cash Flow

    Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon successively released quarterly earnings reports. Microsoft's Azure revenue grew 48%, with free cash flow positive at $18.6 billion; Alphabet's Google Cloud revenue grew 103%, but free cash flow was negative at $9.065 billion; Amazon's free cash flow over the past 12 months was negative at $42.357 billion. The article cites Goldman Sachs' judgment that the market's focus on AI has shifted from the scale of capital expenditure to revenue backlog, growth rate of change, and the divergence between free cash flow and GAAP operating profit.

    #Industry news#Microsoft#Google