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  1. ElevenLabs BlogFirst-party
    AI score34

    How TELUS Digital Used ElevenAgents Outbound Calling Agents to Cut Early Churn by More Than Half

    TELUS Digital built an outbound voice agent based on ElevenAgents that proactively calls customers who have just activated home internet, resulting in a 30-day churn rate for customers who received the call that is less than half that of new customers overall. The agent can disclose its AI identity, explain the first bill, guide customers to self-service tools, and remind them of bundle discounts, and can authenticate customers during the call via SMS verification code and read real-time billing data through an API. TELUS Digital selected ElevenAgents after evaluating options from November 2025 to February 2026 against five criteria: voice expressiveness, agent framework flexibility, real-time emotional adjustment, enterprise security and compliance, and response latency.

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    #Industry news#Speech#Agents

  2. Shanghai Observer
    AI score28

    Fengyuzhu Hosts WORLD X 2026 World Model and Spatial Intelligence Forum, WorldX Forge Lab Established

    On October 30, the WORLD X 2026 World Model and Spatial Intelligence Forum hosted by Fengyuzhu was held, featuring five thematic presentations covering physical world training data, XR spatial perception and positioning, generative 3D assets, physical AI simulation, and spatial intelligence practices. At the forum, Fengyuzhu signed a strategic cooperation agreement with VAST and officially established the generative 3D and spatial intelligence laboratory WorldX Forge.

    #Industry news#Multimodal#Embodied AI

  3. Shanghai Observer
    AI score20

    Shanghai high school students and top scientists discuss the next decade: the AI group first asks how to verify

    On October 30, the 2026 World Laureates Forum · Future Scientists Conference was held at the Shanghai Lingang Center, where about 150 high school students and leading Chinese and foreign scientists discussed "the next decade of scientific breakthroughs." Students in the AI topic group tested whether model outputs could be reproduced by swapping the names in prompts and repeatedly asking the same question, and worried that as code writing and calculations are handed over to machines, people are losing their ability to check the math.

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  4. Shanghai Observer
    AI score25

    World Data Organization (WDO) Shipping and Trade Digitalization Committee Established in Shanghai

    On October 30, the World Data Organization (WDO) Shipping and Trade Digitalization Professional Committee was established in Shanghai, with Shanghai Data Group serving as the lead initiating unit and chair committee unit, and launched seven business direction working groups: blockchain, shipping services, logistics and cross-border e-commerce, fintech, bulk commodity trade, digital dual carbon, and artificial intelligence. The shipping and trade digitalization construction previously advanced by Shanghai Data Group has already launched more than 200 scenario applications including trade finance, and the Shanghai-Hong Kong cross-border chain service covers 11 provinces and cities as well as Hong Kong.

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  5. Shanghai Observer
    AI score20

    Hongqiao Subdistrict Silver-Haired Life Carnival: Exoskeleton Robots and Other Smart Elderly-Care Products Come to the Community

    Hongqiao Subdistrict in Changning District held the "15-Minute Convenient Life Market and Silver-Haired Life Carnival" on Golden City Avenue Pedestrian Street, with more than 20 elderly-care service and tech innovation enterprises setting up booths; exoskeleton robots and intelligent companion robots became popular experience items among seniors. Hongqiao Subdistrict partnered with Shanghai Tianyu Smart Elderly Care Service Co., Ltd. to create a silver-haired store pop-up booth, bringing three solutions: age-friendly renovation, smart home safety, and door-to-door home care. Products including the emotional companion robot "Xiao Yu Tongxue," the millimeter-wave radar "Wenwen Da Weishi," and the bathroom posture recognition radar "Bubu An" were on display.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  7. SenseTimeModel releases
    AI score63

    SenseTime Open-Sources the SenseNova Loop-9B-Preview Model

    SenseTime has open-sourced SenseNova Loop-9B-Preview, a 9B Looped Transformer that improves information flow and reasoning capabilities through parameter-sharing loops and mHC (Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections). The company claims it achieves 27B-level performance on complex tasks, surpassing Qwen3.5-27B on WorkBuddy Bench, RaccoonPPT Bench, and AutomationBench; mHC improves the GPQA Diamond score by 4.42 points and TeamBench by 13.34 points. The model is now available on Hugging Face and GitHub, with plans to later expand to larger models and adaptive fast/slow thinking.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Model releases#Open-source ecosystem#Reasoning

  8. Ayi AI Notes
    AI score12

    Altman on the Sorrow After ChatGPT Conquers Math Problems

    Ayi AI Notes believes that after ChatGPT's new model conquered research problems tackled by top mathematicians such as Terence Tao, Deng Yu, Peter Scholze, and Wang Hong, OpenAI CEO Altman was so excited he lost sleep for two nights, yet at dawn he fell into sorrow, because the era in which humans rely on their flesh-and-blood brains to explore truth is coming to an end. The author is inclined to believe Altman's sorrow is genuine: admitting the sense of losing control as an era ends brings no benefit in terms of pure commercial interest, and this resembles the tremor John Collison mentioned when the last batch of Irish farmers who worked with horses were erased by industrialization.

    Quoted postKiki · @Kiki9zpr

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    #English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  12. The Beijing NewsProduct release
    AI score58

    Baidu Search upgrades its AI API, with a minimum of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than DeepSeek

    At its product upgrade briefing on October 30, Baidu announced a fully upgraded Search AI API, with a promotional minimum price of 4.9 yuan per thousand calls, lower than the price of the DeepSeek search API. Baidu says the capability now covers more than 170 tool scenarios, with GUI scenario coverage on the search page increased 5-fold; it connects to over 5 billion resources and data from government affairs, livelihood services, the central bank and others, covers more than 20 industries and opens up its ecosystem. Its cost-effectiveness comes from an AI-native four-layer architecture: the engine layer self-evolves through multi-Agent collaboration, raising overall iteration efficiency by more than 80%, while the application layer supports full access via API, MCP and Skill.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Product updates#Search#Agents

  13. Phoenix Tech
    AI score55

    Foxconn Chairman Young Liu says the company aims to capture 50% of the AI server market, and capacity is fully booked

    In an interview with CNBC, Foxconn Chairman Young Liu said the company's global AI server market share is currently about 40%, is expected to rise to around 45% next year, and targets 50% in the coming years. He said Foxconn's capacity for at least the next year and a half is fully booked, with AI demand coming mainly from AI model developers and cloud service providers, while governments and enterprises have not yet fully adopted it. Foxconn also plans to expand its manufacturing footprint in the United States, initially focusing on higher-margin products such as AI server racks and data center equipment.

    Same story · 3 reports

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  14. The Rundown AI
    AI score41

    Bedrock Robotics Completes $600 Million Series C Funding at a $4.1 Billion Valuation

    Bedrock Robotics, founded by former Waymo engineers, has completed a $600 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $4.1 billion, bringing its cumulative funding to nearly $1 billion. Its autonomous excavator kit enables excavators to operate without a driver's cab, and since August it has been carrying out paid work at real construction sites in Nevada, Texas, and elsewhere. In the same period, Gravis Robotics and Eka Robotics raised $200 million and $150 million respectively, with the three autonomous excavator startups raising a combined $950 million within 10 weeks.

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  15. The Rundown AI
    AI score55

    The New York Times says Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was allegedly approached by Chinese intelligence personnel

    The New York Times reported that U.S. intelligence agencies found that Alice Huang, an executive at the Singapore data center company Megaspeed, is suspected of passing intelligence to Beijing and maintained close contact with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and that Trump was briefed about a year ago. The report said it is not yet clear what information she passed on; officials believe Huang was unaware at the time, and he also did not receive the defensive briefing usually provided to U.S. citizens targeted by spies. Megaspeed had previously been under U.S. investigation for directing Nvidia chips to China; it purchased at least $4.8 billion worth of Nvidia equipment through a sister company and remains an Nvidia cloud partner. Nvidia said Huang's meeting with her was routine business and that customers can only receive ordinary commercial information; Megaspeed said outside lawyers are investigating and cooperating with the U.S. side, and China said the relevant claims are groundless.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  16. cnBeta
    AI score40

    Apple Acquires AI Data Management Company Ascend.io to Strengthen Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

    Apple completed its transaction with AI data management company Ascend.io on June 30, 2026, obtaining the right to hire some of its employees, a non-exclusive license to its intellectual property, and at least some of its patent assets. Ascend.io's parent company, Ascension Labs, has announced that it is gradually winding down operations. The transaction is not expected to be directly reflected in Apple's consumer-facing products, and is more likely to serve the construction of its internal artificial intelligence systems.

    Same story · 2 reports

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

  17. Shanghai Observer
    AI score31

    Wuhu's computing power scale reaches 71,400 P, accounting for about 70% of Anhui Province, with a proposal to become an important growth pole of the Yangtze River Delta international science and innovation center by 2035

    At the high-level innovative city construction conference on October 28, Wuhu proposed to become an important growth pole of the Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta) international science and technology innovation center by 2035. The city has already deployed 17 data centers, with a computing power scale of 71,400 P and more than 290,000 racks, accounting for about 70% of Anhui Province. It also plans to exceed 500,000 P in intelligent computing scale by 2030 and to promote data vouchers, computing power vouchers, and model vouchers to reduce enterprises' computing costs. Wuhu also proposed to add 3,000 doctoral graduates and 500,000 university students by 2030 and to build a 10 billion yuan science and innovation fund cluster.

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  18. Shanghai Observer
    AI score13

    Xi'an man wins 5.08 million yuan in lottery using AI number-picking mini-program; Welfare Lottery Center reminds that AI cannot improve the odds of winning

    Mr. Liu of Xi'an used AI to write a number-picking mini-program, selecting 20 numbers from 80 and then manually correcting duplicate numbers, consecutive numbers and distribution; on August 28 he placed a bet on draw No. 2026230 and hit a prize of 5.08 million yuan. The Shaanxi Provincial Welfare Lottery Center reminds that AI-generated lottery numbers cannot improve the odds of winning and cannot predict draw results; this win was a chance event.

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  19. Shanghai Observer
    AI score17

    TTD: AI Reshapes the Consumer Brand Consideration Path, but "Being Presented by AI" Does Not Equal "Being Chosen"

    The Trade Desk (TTD) proposes that AI is moving brand competition forward from the purchase stage to the consumer research and consideration stage, but "being presented by AI" does not equal "being chosen by consumers." Research shows that 77% of U.S. consumers expect to use AI search more in the future, 95% of consumers will double-check AI-generated results, and 87% say they do not fully trust AI. A survey conducted by TTD in partnership with Appinio shows that for Chinese brands expanding overseas, the average Top 2 Box on the "value for money" dimension is 76%, but the combined proportion choosing them as their "preferred brand" is less than 5%.

    #Industry news#Search

  20. Shanghai Observer
    AI score38

    Ruijin Hospital Leads Establishment of Healthcare Digital Twin Alliance, Launches "50 Million Human Health Digital Twin Plan"

    The Healthcare Digital Twin Alliance (ICDT-HM) was established on October 30 at Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Led by Ruijin Hospital, it brings together domestic and overseas universities and medical institutions including Stanford University and Oxford University. The alliance simultaneously announced the "50 Million Human Health Digital Twin Plan," which will promote the integration of large-scale longitudinal population cohorts with artificial intelligence and build international consensus on data standards, cross-population validation and data governance. Ruijin Hospital has previously integrated deep whole-genome sequencing data from more than 10,000 cases with large prospective cohort studies through ChinaMAP.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.