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The Verge reports that Project Blue, a planned 600-megawatt data center on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, has faced resident opposition over groundwater extraction, with the advocacy group "No Desert Data Center Coalition" chanting "not one drop of water for data." By contrast, TSMC's Phoenix campus uses about 4.75 million gallons of water per day, yet is more welcomed locally due to its 3,500-plus employees and industry spillover, and about 60% to 65% of the water at its first fab is recycle

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A survey by China Youth Daily shows that 92.0% of respondents have used AI to look up their medical conditions, and 69.7% would bring AI diagnostic and treatment suggestions to communicate with doctors. An experiment at Oxford University involving nearly 1,300 people found that when the same case was entered by a doctor, the AI recognition rate reached 94.9%, but when ordinary people described symptoms themselves, it dropped to less than 34.5%. The article also mentions AI's sycophantic tendency

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In Q2 2026, Baidu's total revenue was 31.3 billion yuan, down 4% year-over-year, and net profit attributable to shareholders was 2.319 billion yuan, down 68.33% year-over-year; on the night of the earnings report, its US shares fell 12.73%. In the previous quarter, AI-related revenue accounted for more than 50% of total revenue for the first time, surpassing advertising. The article argues that Baidu is trading high-margin advertising revenue for low-margin AI cloud revenue, and that the real ch

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At the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, Tencent announced an upgrade to the WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition open strategy, and used Buddy One to connect Tencent Docs, Tencent Meeting, Tencent Drive, and ima, sharing the same Agent foundation along with a unified account and credit pool. Dowson Tong disclosed that since its launch in March this year, WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition has been deployed in more than 50 industries, covering 50% of the Fortune 500 China companies and 60% of Chin

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Google has added file preview and editing features to Gemini, allowing users to generate, view, and modify documents directly in the chat interface without leaving the app. It supports PDF, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Slides, Markdown, TXT, and code files, and is available to all Gemini users starting today. PDF preview and editing are supported on both web and mobile, while other file types are currently supported only on web; users can edit in full screen, or select text to ask Gemini question

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Using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, MoEngage converted approximately 400 internal REST APIs distributed across private VPCs in 7 AWS Regions into permission-controlled agent tools, saving about 6 months of platform engineering effort and reducing new API onboarding from several days to a few hours. The solution requires no MCP server code from product teams, no per-integration network configuration, and involves no public endpoints anywhere in the path. MoEngage also established a principle:

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Epsilon's Agentic Platform team used Amazon Nova Act together with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser to turn intent-driven UI testing into a multi-tenant platform service layered on top of its existing Playwright regression suite. Test steps are written in natural language, executed by Nova Act over a CDP WebSocket, with per-step screenshots and pass-rate statistics, and results stored in Amazon S3. The solution provides managed temporary browser sessions, AWS IAM-based authentication, and cross-

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The UK Amazon Quick User Group held three quarterly meetups in 2026, drawing more than 150 attendees in total. The events took place at Amazon's UK office in Shoreditch, London, where attendees built custom chat agents with Amazon Quick, tried out Amazon Quick Desktop and Amazon Quick Apps, and practiced automation and research through Quick Flows, Quick Automate, and Quick Research. Customers such as Arriva UK Trains and Carsa shared their experiences implementing role-based dashboards and a un

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AWS has released the Ray Train DLC image ray:train-ml-cuda-v1.1, which comes pre-integrated with Ray 2.58.0, PyTorch 2.13.0, CUDA 13.0.2, NCCL 2.29.7, and EFA along with the AWS OFI NCCL plugin, enabling distributed training on EKS without the need to build images yourself. The example uses PyTorch FSDP to fine-tune Qwen2.5-1.5B on 8 NVIDIA L4 GPUs across two g6.12xlarge instances, with cross-node communication going directly over EFA. The image is publicly hosted on Amazon ECR Public, so nodes

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On October 28, MiniMax open-sourced MCode Stack under the MIT license, including the 17 SKILL.md skills and 5 checklists its team used to build MiniMax Code, but not the MiniMax Code source code. The skills are grouped into planning and decomposition, context and tools, long sessions and commands, review, and experiments and hotfixes, among which independent-review provides reviewers only with the diff, requirements, and test results. It can be installed into MiniMax Code by copying the skill di

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The US Department of Justice has opened an inquiry into Nvidia's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, assessing the deal's impact on AI competition, with the core focus being whether the transaction would give Nvidia control of a fundamental distribution point for AI models and software. Nvidia announced the acquisition on September 3, 2026, with consideration including approximately $11.9 billion in cash and up to $1 billion in employee retention equity incentives, and the deal is expect

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During the opening phase of the Douyin Mall Double 11 Good Products Festival, Pechoin's first-day paid GMV increased by 249% year-on-year, and Pampers' brand-day paid GMV quadrupled year-on-year, setting a new Douyin record for single-brand single-day paid sales in diapers. Bobdog used an AI material assembly line to produce over a thousand pieces of content, with first-day GMV growing 2x year-on-year and new customer scale doubling; Miaofansi's paid GMV increased 10x year-on-year. Brands genera

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Wan Bowen, a 31-year-old Chinese woman in Seattle, died after allegedly stopping her anti-epileptic drug lamotrigine on her own according to a day-by-day medication-reduction plan given by ChatGPT. Her parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court, accusing OpenAI and Altman of practicing medicine without a license and providing dangerous medical advice. The report states that in January 2026 she asked ChatGPT to reduce her dosage from 400 milligrams to 300 milligrams pe

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The 15 Skills of WorkBuddy Xingyao Shuzhi can be assembled into a daily automated investment research workbench: before the market opens, it scans announcements, news, and research reports; after the close, it runs the pattern radar; on weekends, it performs multi-indicator backtesting and performance analysis. Pattern Hunter comes with 34 built-in candlestick patterns and supports scanning of CSI 300/500/1000 constituent stocks as well as all A-shares; backtesting deducts commissions, stamp dut

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Anthropic has officially filed its IPO prospectus and could list as early as next month; the IPO may raise $100 billion. The prospectus discloses that it plans to invest up to $807 billion over the next decade in data centers, chips, and cloud computing, but its third-quarter revenue was $16.8 billion, up 45% quarter-over-quarter, a slower growth rate than the 141% in the second quarter. The New York Times said this listing will, for the first time, give the outside world an in-depth look at the

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Ant Group released Lingguang 2.0 on October 27, positioned as a personal AI assistant that can get things done, emphasizing four capabilities: remembering, advancing tasks, following up, and adjusting. It relies on the Alipay service ecosystem and, through tool connections, integrates services such as DingTalk, Feishu, email, and Mijia, forming a contrast with Meta Muse's approach of autonomous execution around goals. The article also mentions that Alipay AI Pay already supports 95% of general a

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Oracle and Google announced at Oracle AI World that Google TPU will be offered through Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Oracle says OCI is the first hyperscale cloud platform outside Google to offer Google TPU, with availability planned within the 2027 calendar year. OCI will handle power, cooling, and data center networking, supporting large model training, post-training (including dense and MoE models), as well as production inference for inference, agent, and long-context scenarios. The two

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In the heise bestenlisten Robot Vacuum Top 10 ranking, the Roborock Saros 20 Sonic was rated the test winner, featuring 36,000 Pa suction power, 4,000 vibrations/minute mopping, an ultra-slim 7.98 cm body and obstacle-climbing capability of up to 8.8 cm, currently priced at around 920 euros. The Dreame Matrix 10 Ultra ranks second; it is the first model to support automatic mop pad replacement and comes with three-compartment detergent dispensing, currently priced at 689 euros. The Ecovacs Deebo

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