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The 2nd West Bund International Technology Consumer Carnival (WTCC 2026) concluded on October 25, bringing together more than 400 leading global technology brands and nearly 100 new AI products for concentrated debuts, and for the first time organizing the exhibition around the theme "AI for a Lifetime" across eight life stages. The first Shanghai "AI + Consumption" Innovation Competition collected nearly 800 participating projects; the first prize winner in the application group, Qwen AI Glasse

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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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At the Double 11 Renewal Season launch event, Huawei introduced the Mate 90 series, Pura90 Plus, and Changxiang 100 series new phones. The Changxiang 100 standard edition 6+128G is priced starting at 1399 yuan. The entire Mate 90 series is equipped with Kirin 9050 series logic folding chips, and the Pro Max's overall performance is 31% higher than the previous generation; it is also the industry's first with four cards and three standby. The new phones will go on sale at 10:08 on October 31, 202

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At Zhiyuan's fourth Innovation Day, co-founder Peng Zhihui (Zhihui Jun) responded to the question raised by GPT-6 Astra's ability to directly control robots, arguing that regardless of whether foundation models can handle embodied capabilities across the board, body manufacturers that can scale, keep costs low, and achieve high consistency will be more advantaged. He cited data showing Zhiyuan shipped more than 5,000 units in 2025 and 9,700 units in the first half of 2026, and said that networke

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At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Intel and Tencent Cloud launched new-generation cloud instances based on Intel Xeon 6+ processors, delivering an overall performance improvement of more than 30% over the previous generation. Xeon 6+ offers up to 288 efficiency cores, and a single processor can support the stable deployment of more than 1,000 agents, while also introducing Intel TDX for hardware-level isolation. The two parties also leveraged IAA to bring 2M-page decompression

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Anthropic hiring manager Felix Reiseberg announced that the company will no longer use traditional coding interviews to evaluate candidates, citing the fact that Claude is already stronger than humans at both React challenges and assembly problems, and that truly impactful builders do not win through such tests. He advises junior engineers to pick an idea that can drive business impact, build a working prototype over the weekend, focus on just one good idea, and leverage their fresh perspective

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Liu Rui, the first director of Huawei's Xiaoyi Large Model Application Lab, proposed that AI assistants must move beyond the chat box and shift from passive response to proactive service. The conversational photo-editing technology he previously failed to get approved as a project at SenseTime has already been unveiled at the 2025 Huawei Mate 80 launch event. The lab has also launched the Aura streaming video understanding model, which supports real-time video interaction and proactive service,

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The 2026 ROBOTECH Intelligent Robot Expo opened on October 27 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center (Bao'an), where companies including AGIBOT, Unitree Robotics, UBTECH, Leju Robotics and Deep Robotics showcased humanoid, quadruped, underwater and inspection robot products and scenario solutions. On the first day, four themed forums were held concurrently—technological innovation and supply chain collaboration, industrial intelligent manufacturing upgrading, commercial service dep

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Liquid AI has released the LFM3 series of open-weight models, all branched from LFM3-1.7B-Base, covering text, vision, audio, Omni, and the d1 decision model. LFM3-1.7B-Base adopts a three-hybrid-layer architecture, is pretrained on 22T tokens, and in the mid-training stage over the final 3.5T tokens incorporates more agent trajectories and tool-calling data, with the context window extended to 256K tokens. The company says LFM3-1.7B is about 25% faster than LFM2-1.2B at an 8K context, and score

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The Meta engineering team has introduced PrivacyLib, a general-purpose privacy library that runs within clients across hundreds of data and processing systems and performs billions of checks per second. A system only needs to integrate it once, and new privacy requirements can reuse that integration as modules, without the need to reimplement them in each system. The newly added Agent Observability module can observe data access events of internal AI agents, and systems that have already integra

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Based on a recent webinar with Google Cloud, Anthropic presents a three-lever framework—control, track, prove—for managing Claude Code costs on Google Cloud and measuring return on investment. The Claude apps gateway supports setting daily/weekly/monthly spending limits by user, IdP group, or organization, alerts within the CLI when usage reaches 75% and 95%, and returns 429 once the cap is hit. On the Google Cloud side, native capabilities include per-project billing, budget alerts, Spend caps

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On October 26, 2026, Anthropic submitted an S-1 to the SEC, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT" with a target valuation of approximately $2 trillion and plans to raise up to $100 billion, with its annualized revenue run rate surpassing $65 billion. On the same day, OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, with standard API pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, half that of GPT-6.1 Sol. Meta, meanwhile, launched an equity financing of up to $95 billion to su

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Apple has released the all-new iPad mini, featuring an 8.5-inch OLED display for the first time, with a peak brightness of 1200 nits and a contrast ratio of 2,000,000:1, a body thickness of 5.4 mm, and IP67 water and dust resistance. The new device is powered by the 2nm A20 Pro, delivering up to 4.5x higher AI performance and 2.7x higher graphics performance than the previous generation, while the 512GB version is equipped with a Dual 16-core Neural Engine. Pre-orders for the product open on Oct

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At the ThunderWorld 2026 conference, ThunderSoft clearly positioned its robotics business as "robot brains + Agent AIOS," and provides complete deployment solutions in key vertical scenarios, while also releasing products such as AquaDrive AIOS 3.0, the TurboX platform, and the WiseEvolve enterprise AI operating system. Its controlled subsidiary Xiaowu Intelligence, targeting smart manufacturing and smart logistics, showcased a full-stack solution covering autonomous transport, fork-lift, embodi

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Cambricon, Biwin Storage, Shengyi Electronics, Yuanjie Technology, Lianxun Instruments and 6 other STAR Market companies collectively disclosed recent operating conditions, of which 5 come from the AI industry chain. Cambricon's revenue in the first three quarters of 2026 was 9.526 billion yuan, up 106.76% year-on-year, with net profit attributable to shareholders of 3.715 billion yuan, up 131.49% year-on-year; Yuanjie Technology's third-quarter revenue is expected to grow 264.56% to 292.60% yea

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CATL's third-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders was 21.246 billion yuan, up 14.54% year on year, below the lower bound of institutional forecasts. On October 21 its A-shares closed down 12.03%, and over two trading days they fell nearly 15% cumulatively, wiping about 140 billion yuan off its market value. This round of adjustment is weighing on valuations rather than already-realized earnings: the ChiNext Index's PE-TTM fell from about 54 times in June to about 32 times, while the S

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DeepSeek and MiniMax have completed the relevant registration procedures, fully establishing the compliance processes for the open-source release and overseas licensing of their large models. According to Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, MiniMax's technology export registration this time covers some recently released and soon-to-be-released models, spanning two major scenarios: open-source releases and overseas licensing. Previously, on October 16, the Ministry of Commerce and the

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Block has launched the full-duplex speech model Dessa, which can listen to the user's speech while speaking, and can simulate emotional expressions such as laughter, pauses, and choking up. The company says it is trained entirely on human speech data, using only a single rack of NVIDIA GPUs for training, and can run locally on MacBooks with M4 Max and higher configurations. At this stage Dessa is not open for public trial; Block is sending testing invitations to security researchers, focusing on

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Affected by rising storage prices, new PCs are expensive, and some users are turning to second-hand antique computers costing a few hundred yuan, such as builds with an E3 1230 V2, GTX 730 2GB, and 8GB DDR3 memory. These machines do not support the AVX2 instruction set or H.265 and AV1 hardware decoding, cannot be upgraded to Windows 11, and can only handle light office work, old games, and NAS tinkering. Leitech believes that future budget PCs will split into two forms: mini PCs and a combinati

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