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Opera launches WebAI local model preview in Opera One

Opera has begun supporting the WebAI standard in Opera One as an optional preview, allowing websites and browser extensions to call AI models running locally in the browser for text generation and content classification. The preview supports 64-bit Windows PCs with Intel or AMD processors and Apple silicon Macs; Windows on Arm is not yet supported. Models are downloaded only after the user enables them, and permissions can be granted on a per-site basis. Opera says it already supports Google Gemma and, on compatible Macs, Apple's on-device foundation models, with models optimized for different devices to be added later.

Google opens Android Studio to third-party integration at Android Dev Summit…

At the Android Dev Summit, Google launched the Bring Your Own Agent feature for Android Studio Rabbit 2. Through the open Agent Client Protocol, developers can run more than 40 coding agents simultaneously within the IDE, including Claude Agent, Codex, and Google Antigravity, with direct access to project structure, the emulator, and Logcat. Google says that in internal tests, after agents rendered Compose previews in the terminal, they completed UI tasks 77% faster and cut token usage to as little as one-third; in an A/B test using Claude Opus 5.5, the CLI with built-in LeakCanary found and fixed memory leaks nearly twice as fast, with about 25% fewer tokens. On the on-device side, Google added an Agentic API alpha powered by Gemini Nano 4 to ML Kit, and launched the MCP-based AppFunctions API beta and the Agent-to-UI interface; it also partnered with XREAL to release the Android XR smart glasses XREAL AURA, priced at $1,099 and shipping in mid-November.

Diffusion Intelligence releases Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, a 35-billion-parameter diffusion language model

Diffusion Intelligence releases the diffusion language model Clover-35B-A3B-Preview, which uses a MoE architecture with 35 billion total parameters and about 3 billion activated per token, and supports a thinking mode. On the 49 tasks of the web Agent benchmark WindTunnel, its median execution time was 1.52 seconds, lower than the 3.21 seconds of the Jev + Mercury 2.5 combination, with success rates of 98.6% and 95.9% respectively. On code benchmarks, it scored 73.6 on SWE-bench Verified and 51.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, and the team said it will subsequently launch a multimodal version and advance on-device adaptation.

Apple unveils new iMac with M6

Apple unveiled the new iMac with the M6 chip, featuring up to a 12-core CPU and 12-core GPU (each core includes Neural Accelerators), with on-device AI performance up to 5x faster than M4 and up to 12x faster than M1. The new model uses a Dual 16-core Neural Engine, memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s, supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6 and up to 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, and comes with a 24-inch 4.5K Retina display and macOS 27. Pre-orders open October 28, with availability on November 6, in seven colors.

Apple unveils new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip

Apple unveils new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip, featuring 12-core CPU, 12-core GPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine, with battery life up to 24 hours. Compared with M5, graphics performance is up to 30% faster and on-device AI workloads such as LLM prompt processing are up to 25% faster; upgrading from M1 delivers up to 11x faster graphics and up to 13x faster AI performance. The new model comes standard with 16GB of unified memory, configurable up to 32GB, supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, with pre-orders opening October 28 and availability on November 6.

Incubated by Liu Chunbao of Jilin University and founded by a post-00s team, Lingyan Technology's bionic dexterous face completes tens of millions of yuan in financing

Hangzhou Lingyan Technology has completed a seed round and seed+ round totaling tens of millions of yuan. Investors include Yingdong Capital, Zhejiang Torch Center, Yida Capital, Plum Ventures, and Linglu Capital. The funds will be used for product iteration, core component R&D, and algorithm platform development. The company was founded by Zhao Changyi, a PhD from Jilin University, and has launched the FaceSoul Agent full-stack emotional interaction solution, which uses a cable-driven approach to achieve 32 facial degrees of freedom and features a self-developed lightweight on-device expression generation model. The company has launched four major series—Lingshu M1, Lingshu W1, Lingyun, and Lingneng—and within four months of its founding has reached cooperation or intent-to-cooperate agreements with telecom operators, cultural tourism exhibition venues, and some humanoid robot OEMs.

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology plan to add 40 key technologies to the export control catalog, with 23 in the AI field

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Science and Technology issued Announcement No. 48 of 2026, soliciting public comments on the revision of the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China. It plans to add 40 key technologies in three fields—artificial intelligence, biomedicine, and photovoltaics—of which 14 are proposed to be prohibited from export and 26 restricted from export, and simultaneously launched temporary management measures for pre-export registration. In the AI field, 23 items are proposed to be added, covering four major areas: large models, agents, computing clusters, and information processing. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce made clear that overseas localized deployment of restricted-category large models falls within the scope of technology export management, while using restricted-category large models to provide API calls, APP/webpage interaction, SaaS applications, and lightweight local on-device deployment to external parties does not fall within the scope of large-model technology export management; open source, self-built and self-operated overseas computing centers, and other such circumstances may be eligible for facilitation measures such as automatic licensing.

ModelBest EC²-Bench Study on Device-Cloud Agent Collaboration

ModelBest and Tsinghua used EC²-Bench to evaluate four device-cloud collaboration strategies on 128 executable tasks, measuring task completion, resource cost, and privacy exposure simultaneously. With on-device Qwen3.5-9B plus cloud GLM-5.3, the best collaboration score was 60.46, about 73% of the pure-cloud 82.70, at a cost of only $8.73, about 15% of the pure-cloud $56.42. Weak on-device setups suit having an external router let the cloud execute (2B model: 39.97 vs. 15.86), while strong on-device setups suit the cloud only giving suggestions (9B model: 60.46).

NVIDIA releases Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B, which can run locally on 6GB of memory

NVIDIA releases Nemotron-3.5-Bolt-E4B, which can run locally on devices with 6GB of memory, targeting on-device devices such as phones. The model is trained based on Gemma 4, supports vision, and Unsloth also provides GGUF files and a guide link. NVIDIA says it targets scenarios such as local assistants, interactive characters, and robots that can converse and call tools.

DeepSeek and MiniMax complete open-source and overseas licensing registrations; MOFCOM clarifies the scope of AI technology export management

Yuyuantantian published an article stating that since the policy was announced, DeepSeek and MiniMax have smoothly completed registration procedures and completed open-source and overseas licensed use. On October 16, MOFCOM and the Ministry of Science and Technology publicly solicited opinions on revising the Catalog of Technologies Prohibited or Restricted from Export in China, planning to add 23 AI technologies related to large models, agents, computing clusters, and information processing, while technologies that have entered the public domain through open-source, published papers, and other means are not included in the scope of management. MOFCOM stated that enterprises using restricted-category large models to provide API calls, APP or web interaction, SaaS applications, and local on-device lightweight deployment to external parties does not fall within the scope of large-model technology export management, while overseas localized deployment does fall within the scope of management, and deployment in risk-controllable situations such as overseas self-owned clouds may apply facilitation measures such as automatic licensing.

iFlytek 1024 Developer Festival Beijing Science and Technology Expo to Open, Spark X2.6 Debuts

The 2026 iFlytek Global 1024 Developer Festival Beijing Science and Technology Expo will open on October 22 at the China National Convention Center Phase II in Beijing, debuting the iFlytek Spark large model X2.6, which completed training and upgrading based on fully domestic computing power, along with on-device lightweight models and a "cloud + device" collaborative solution. The event will also showcase China's first domestic 10,000-card computing power foundation, the Feixing platform, iFlytek Spark Harness, iFlytek AIPC, and AI applications in fields such as education, healthcare, automotive, government and enterprise office, and embodied intelligence.

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A team at Tsinghua University has developed Airscope, a 1-gram wireless mesoscopic microscope, with the results published in Nature

The team led by Dai Qionghai of Tsinghua University and the team led by Dai Pu of Chinese PLA General Hospital have developed Airscope, a wireless mesoscopic microscope weighing only 1 gram. It can record neural activity in the mouse cerebral cortex within a 6-millimeter field of view at 4 to 6 micrometers single-cell resolution, and a single mouse can have more than 8,500 neurons recorded simultaneously, 25 times that of existing devices of the same type. The device uses only 4 aspheric lenses and achieves on-device compression through a 2-megapixel image sensor, enabling wireless transmission of megapixel-level images and freeing it from cable constraints. The results were published online in Nature on the 19th, and the team has used it to record cortical activity in multiple mice in a 5-square-meter natural habitat and a large maze with 32 endpoints.

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