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99to5Mac22:19

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Two New Features in iPadOS 27.2: Siri Context Pop-up and Apple TV User Profiles

iPadOS 27.2 was released this week, adding two new features: the Siri context pop-up and Apple TV user profiles. After selecting text with a trackpad or mouse, a Siri icon appears to the left of the selection; hovering over it expands the "Ask Siri" input box and offers writing suggestions such as "Proofread," "Rewrite," and "How does this sound?"; Siri AI can also recall past conversations and draw on information from more sources, including photos in Messages, calendar attendees, voicemails, and Safari history. The Apple TV app now shows a profile selection screen at launch, updating the playback queue, watch history, and recommendations based on the selected user, while child profiles follow the content age limits that have been set.

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EEast Money22:19Opinion

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Meta, Alphabet, Amazon Q3 Earnings: AI Revenue Surges but Free Cash Flow Turns Negative Across the Board

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MMacRumors Apple Intelligence22:19

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HomePod mini 2 Now on Sale Today: A Full List of New Features

HomePod mini 2 goes on sale today, priced at $149 in the US, available in White, Midnight, and the two-tone Pink, Green, and Blue colorways. The new model upgrades to the S10 chip, Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 6, and supports four-speaker surround sound when paired with Apple TV 4K; Siri AI features will require a later software update and depend on an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence. The number of microphones has been reduced from 4 on the previous generation to 3.

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MMacRumors Apple Intelligence22:19

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Apple acquires data automation company Ascend.io

Apple this year acquired the California-based company Ascend.io, which develops technology that helps businesses automatically collect and analyze data, and which recently also launched an AI agent to help engineers manage that data. The acquisition was disclosed through a notice on the European Commission's website, and Ascend.io's website states that the company is winding down operations and preparing to embark on its next journey.

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MMacRumors Apple Intelligence22:19Product release

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Draw Things Team Launches Local Code, a Local AI Assistant for Mac

Draw Things developers have launched Local Code, an open-source AI assistant. Mac users can download models and process prompts and files locally, without uploading to the cloud. The app supports generating presentations, images, and videos, analyzing spreadsheets, handling Word and PowerPoint files, and includes a built-in browser that can browse the web on the user's behalf; with user authorization, it can read information from Mail, Messages, and Notes and modify Calendar and Photos. The app offers Qwen and DeepSeek models; Qwen 3.8 27B requires at least 16GB of memory and a download of about 10GB to 21GB, while the larger DeepSeek models require downloads of about 89GB or 376GB; local use is free, and cloud models can also be used via your own API key or prepaid credits starting at $9.99. The app previously entered public beta on September 12 and is now available as a direct Mac download; the developers say a Mac App Store version is coming soon.

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CCaixin22:19

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GPT Weekly | Apple launches new products including a touchscreen MacBook within one week; Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon…

Apple released new products in succession within one week: on October 28, it launched a MacBook Pro equipped with a PROLED XDR display and introducing touch experience for the first time; on October 27, it released a new 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac powered by the M6 chip; on October 26, it released a new iPad mini featuring an OLED screen and the A20 Pro chip. Apple said the M6 chip integrates a 12-core CPU and a 12-core GPU, with graphics performance up to 30% faster than the M5 and AI tasks up to 25% faster. This edition of GPT Weekly also mentions Google's release of its new-generation frontier model Gemini 4 Carbon and Kimi's first launch of a Pro version model.

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IEnglish text is being prepared.22:19Model releases

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Xiaomi open-sources the 0.8B-parameter OCR model Xiaomi-OCR-0, supporting Markdown and JSON output

Xiaomi has open-sourced the lightweight document understanding model Xiaomi-OCR-0, with a parameter scale of 0.8B; its weights and inference code are now available on Hugging Face and GitHub. The model is built on Qwen3.5-0.8B-Base and trained on approximately 170 million OCR and document understanding samples. A single model covers three types of tasks: document parsing, key information extraction, and OCR visual question answering, and it natively supports Markdown, LaTeX, and JSON output. Official evaluations show that it scores 96.83 on OmniDocBench v1.6, ranking second on the overall leaderboard and first among models with fewer than 1B parameters. It also provides a browser Demo, an MCP service, and an Agent Skill toolkit.

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TThe Beijing News22:18

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After 20,000 units rolled off the line, AgiBot proposes Worken and releases GO-3 Preview, aiming to achieve a robot-to-engineer ratio of 20:1

After its 20,000th robot rolled off the production line, at the 2026 AgiBot Innovation Day, AgiBot proposed Worken, a unit for measuring a robot's effective intelligent working hours, and released the heavy-duty embodied robot Genie G2 Max, the embodied foundation model GO-3 Preview, and the omni-modal interaction large model WITA-OMNI. AgiBot disclosed that in the first half of this year it shipped 9,700 robots and generated revenue of nearly 2 billion yuan, and it plans to raise the robot-to-engineer ratio from 1:1 to 10:1 by the end of this year and 20:1 next year. Peng Zhihui said that only when customers shift from asking "can it be built" to "can it be afforded to maintain" will the industry truly confront the full lifecycle of robots.

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CChina.com Technology22:18

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Intellifusion Q3 Report: R&D Investment of 513 Million Yuan, Up 73.01% Year-on-Year, Self-Developed AI Chip Layout Accelerates

Intellifusion's 2026 third-quarter report shows that in the first three quarters, operating revenue was 944 million yuan, and R&D investment was 513 million yuan, up 73.01% year-on-year, with R&D investment as a proportion of revenue further increasing. The company has recruited high-level core R&D talent around its self-developed AI chips and has secured advanced-process wafer foundry capacity in advance through prepayments; this arrangement placed a temporary strain on cash flow from operating activities during the reporting period.

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CCohere Product and Research Blog22:16First-party

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Cohere Advances CAD 4 Billion AI Investment in Canada, Will Create 1,500+ Jobs

Cohere has announced progress on its investment plan in Canada, expecting to invest more than CAD 4 billion in R&D and AI infrastructure by 2031 and create more than 1,500 jobs, of which about 1,000 will be technical roles in AI research, engineering, and product development. The plan began in 2024 and will also provide more than 250 paid student positions by 2029, along with research partnerships with the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, and others. Cohere has reached a CAD 309 million GPU cloud partnership with Bell AI Fabric to run its models on Canadian sovereign infrastructure.

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SSina Tech22:15

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Qianli Technology's revenue in the first three quarters was 7.711 billion yuan, and net profit attributable to the parent company was 76.5348 million yuan; the AI+vehicle strategy continues to be implemented

In the first three quarters of 2026, Qianli Technology's revenue was 7.711 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.00%, and net profit attributable to the parent company was 76.5348 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.65%. R&D expenses reached 1.867 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of about 310%, mainly due to Qianli Intelligent Driving being included in the consolidated financial statements starting from the fourth quarter of 2025 and the expansion of the R&D team. The expansion of export scale and the increase in gross profit margin supported the growth in net profit.

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PPhoenix Technology22:15

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Huawei Vice President Yuan Yuan: 70% of Computing Power Idle, Data Development Rate 28.4%, AI Development Requires Enhanced Storage Support Capabilities

Yuan Yuan, Vice President of Huawei and President of the Data Storage Product Line, pointed out at the 2026 Data Storage Industry Conference that the average GPU utilization rate in current intelligent computing centers is about 30%, with approximately 70% of computing power failing to generate effective value, and the development rate of enterprise-usable data resources is about 28.4%. AI development requires enhancing storage's ability to support computing power. A report released at the conference predicts that by the end of 2026, the global storage industry will exceed $1.7 trillion in scale, with growth shifting toward enterprise SSDs, AI data centers, and inference-oriented data infrastructure. Yuan Yuan proposed two paths, "All in One" and "One for All," respectively targeting the industry AI usage side and AI production side such as model vendors.

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TTechCrunch AI22:14

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DoorDash Says Third-Party AI Agents Place Only a Few Hundred Orders

On its third-quarter earnings call, DoorDash said orders from third-party AI agents such as Muse, Instinct, and Fo totaled only "a few hundred," while the company reported completing about 3 million deliveries per day in 2025. CEO Tony Xu said ordering via agents remains a fast-changing area, but should not be divorced from reality. DoorDash has also launched its own text-ordering agent in September, a CLI agent in July, and the Ask DoorDash chatbot in June, and released MCP to support enterprise catering scenarios in which orders are placed from other chatbots.

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SShanghai Observer22:13

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KPMG Releases Yangtze River Delta Intelligent Economy New Quality Leaders List: 30 AI Hard-Tech Companies Make the List, 90% Have Gone Global or Intend To

KPMG released the Yangtze River Delta Intelligent Economy New Quality Leaders list and evaluation report in Shanghai on October 30. Of nearly 100 applicant companies, 30 made the list, with over 60% focusing on two major directions: intelligent core technologies and AI+ integrated applications. 90% of the listed companies have gone global or intend to, with Southeast Asia and North America as the main destinations, and companies at the Series A stage accounting for the highest proportion. The report states that the Yangtze River Delta has formed a complete industrial ecosystem from underlying computing power and core algorithms to terminal applications and high-end equipment.

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SShanghai Observer22:13

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MetaX's revenue in the first three quarters was 2.824 billion yuan, more than doubling year-on-year, and it turned a profit

MetaX's 2026 third-quarter report shows that revenue in the first three quarters was 2.824 billion yuan, up 128.45% year-on-year; net profit attributable to shareholders was 639 million yuan, and net profit attributable to shareholders after deducting non-recurring gains and losses was 259 million yuan, turning profitable year-on-year. Third-quarter revenue was 1.5 billion yuan, exceeding the total for the first half of the year, and net profit attributable to shareholders after deducting non-recurring gains and losses was 308 million yuan, marking two consecutive quarters of non-GAAP profitability. The company said the performance growth came from the implementation of GPU orders; the Xiyun C600 went into mass production and was launched in May, and at WAIC it launched the Xijing S series super nodes and the Xisuo X300 series, while the MXMACA software stack was iterated to version 3.9.0.

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SShanghai Observer22:13

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Xuhui "AI Innovation Hub" Session 4 Explores How AI Films Can Reach Mass Entertainment

The fourth session of the Xuhui District AI Innovation Hub series was held under the theme "AI Films: From Creative Experiments to Mass Entertainment," with over a hundred film industry professionals, AI content creators, platform representatives, and cinema chain representatives gathering to discuss the technological iteration, creative workflows, and commercialization of AI films. Wu Jing, head of pan-internet sales for Kling AI in China, presented on-site the performance of Kling AI following its 4.0 upgrade. The event also launched the "Hui Mou" AI+ content project solicitation plan, with pitch sessions to be established in subsequent events of the series.

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SShanghai Observer22:13

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Agibot KuTuo Quadruped Robot's Perception-Based Motion Control and Autonomous Navigation Both Iterated

At the 2026 Agibot Innovation Day, Agibot KuTuo released the latest iterations of two core technologies for its quadruped robots, "Lingyue" and "Lingtu." The "Lingyue" all-terrain intelligent motion engine integrates reinforcement-learning motion control with perception-based motion control, achieving an "automatic transmission" capability of terrain recognition and automatic gait switching; the "Lingtu" all-domain autonomous navigation engine demonstrated VLN semantic navigation, enabling the robot to understand targets and spatial relationships in natural language. Currently, the relevant quadruped robots have been deployed in security patrol and industrial inspection scenarios.

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SShanghai Observer22:13

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Jinri Yixiu Releases ISHO Ring Smart Ring and ISHO iFlow Smart Temperature Control System

Jinri Yixiu has released two AI sleep technology products, the ISHO Ring smart ring and the ISHO iFlow smart temperature control system, and launched a sleep health AI technology system comprising a personal agent App and the ISHO physiological signal large model. The ISHO Ring is the world's first to feature the Apollo 330B Plus chip, supports on-device AI, comes with 32MB of storage and 6-10 days of battery life, and can continuously monitor 18 metrics. The ISHO iFlow is equipped with a MediaTek Genio 420 main controller and 7.2 TOPS of on-device computing power, and uses a TEC semiconductor temperature control module to achieve independent dual-zone temperature adjustment for two people.

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SShanghai Observer22:13

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D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics Reach Deep Cooperation, Launching Embodied Intelligence Education Solution with Sunrise S100 Compute Box

D-Robotics and Unitree Robotics announced a deep cooperation, using the Sunrise S100 compute box as the core compute foundation, combining Unitree's Go2 quadruped robot and R1 humanoid robot to jointly launch an embodied intelligence education solution, accompanied by 15 themed courses totaling 180 lessons, covering elementary through high school. The solution takes K12 as its first implementation scenario, with plans to expand to more scenarios such as industry in the future. The Sunrise S100 integrates CPU, BPU and MCU within a single SoC, achieving integrated compute and control.

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LLeiphone22:09

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Muda Biology's Oral LDH Inhibitor MP-5342: Starving Abnormal Immune Cells

Muda Biology and XtalPi have collaborated to develop MP-5342, the world's first oral LDH inhibitor, which "starves" abnormally activated immune cells by inhibiting the glycolysis pathway. Its safety window exceeds 600-fold, far above the industry norm of >40-fold. The drug's lead indication is inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with plans to enter Phase I clinical trials in healthy volunteers in 2027 and Phase IIa patient trials in 2028. The company is also advancing META-001-PH, a First-in-Class oral small-molecule inhibitor targeting primary hyperoxaluria.

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