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  1. Tech.eu
    AI score22

    Prismus secures €163,000 in funding to connect scientific research with industrial opportunities via its AI platform Lupa

    Swiss deep-tech startup Prismus has received €163,000 (150,000 Swiss francs) from Venture Kick to advance its AI platform Lupa, which turns scientific research, patents and market information into actionable insights and ranks markets, companies and potential partners by technology fit. Lupa has already gained its first 30 paying customers, and this round of funding will be used to expand in the deep-tech market and bring in individual users.

    #Industry news#Agents

  2. Computerworld
    AI score40

    Don't Expect AI to Keep Your Secrets: Chat Data, Bankruptcy Sales, and the Privacy Risks of Model Memory

    A survey commissioned by DuckDuckGo shows that 53% of U.S. adults do not know whether chatbot conversations are used for training, when in fact they are; only a quarter of respondents know that chat logs can be subpoenaed. Character.AI filed for bankruptcy this month and initiated a court-supervised asset sale; its LLM trained on user interactions could be sold together with user data, and the Bankruptcy Code has no specific provision governing the ownership of trained models. In a 2022 study, GPT-Neo recovered the correct email address from a name alone at a rate of up to 1.24%, rising to 16.55% when a domain was provided and to 37.06% after five examples were given.

    #Safety / alignment#English text is being prepared.#Industry news

  3. Yicai
    AI score37

    Zhiyuan Proposes Worken Effective Intelligent Work Hours, Robot Billing Model Still Awaits Validation

    At its Innovation Day on October 29, Zhiyuan proposed the concept of Worken (effective intelligent work hours), using "number of active robots × autonomous working hours × output efficiency ratio" to measure the actual output of autonomous robot operations, and has already calculated Worken for scenarios including the Nanchang Longcheer production line, Guangzhou Metro, and Zhuhai Chimelong, among which the 300 robots at Chimelong reached 33,480 Worken. This billing method is currently conducted only internally at Zhiyuan and has not yet formed a business model; the company is applying for the Worken trademark. Peng Zhihui also released new products including GO-3 Preview and WITA Omni1.0, and stated that in the first half of this year Zhiyuan ranked first globally with 9,700 units shipped and a share of over 43%.

    Same story · 12 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI

  4. Yicai
    AI score40

    Will AI take jobs or create jobs? Experts and corporate executives assess the employment landscape

    At the 2026 HRA Human Capital Sustainable Development Ecosystem Conference, multiple experts, scholars and corporate executives assessed that AI has a dual effect on employment—both displacement and creation—and the consensus in theoretical circles is optimism in the long term and pessimism in the short term. Yang Zhiming, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, provided data: last year China had 220 million skilled workers, but only 74 million highly skilled workers, accounting for 33%, lower than the 50% in Germany and Japan. The General Office of the State Council has issued the "Opinions on Adapting to the Development of Artificial Intelligence Technology to Help Build an Employment-Friendly Development Model," deploying 18 major tasks in 6 areas.

    #Industry news#Agents

  5. ChinaTalk
    AI score38

    Is half of China's AI compute being used to make AI junk content? The controversy over the 55% token figure

    In June 2026, Chinese Online stated that AI short dramas and video generation accounted for 55% of China's AI token consumption, while software development accounted for only 15%. In October, this claim was widely circulated as "half of China's compute is being used to make AI junk content." ByteDance publicly rebutted this, saying that video generation accounts for only about 10% of its own compute; on Seedance, a 5-second 720p video consumes about 100,000 tokens. People's Daily, Southern Review, and The Beijing News all published articles questioning this simplistic comparison.

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  6. The Verge AI
    AI score60

    Maine data center controversy roils Senate race

    The Maine Senate race is unfolding around data center expansion, with polling showing 76% of respondents opposed to building data centers locally and 58% strongly opposed. The statewide data center moratorium passed in April was vetoed by the governor, and multiple towns subsequently enacted their own temporary bans or put the expansion question to a vote in November. Senator Susan Collins supports data centers and has received AI- and data center-related donations, while her family also holds related investments; the outcome of this race will affect federal-level data center and AI policy.

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  7. English text is being prepared.
    AI score30

    Doubao launches free quota campaign: check in for 30 cumulative days to get 8,800 quota, new users get a one-month subscription for free

    Doubao has once again launched a free quota campaign for users: all users can get 200 quota by checking in daily, doubled on Mondays, and 8,800 quota after 30 cumulative days of check-ins, exceeding the 8,400 quota of a one-month standard plan; new users logging in to Doubao PC or Doubao Work PC for the first time can claim a 30-day free trial plan. The gifted quota is valid for 30 days and can be used for all capabilities except video generation and Pro models; check-in quota can be used immediately and is consumed first.

    Same story · 2 reports

    #Product updates#Industry news

  8. China.com TechnologyProduct release
    AI score60

    Tencent Beacon AI Officially Opens to the Public: Complete Data Analysis with a Single Sentence

    Tencent announced that its AI data analysis platform Tencent Beacon is officially open to the public. Enterprise and individual users can register and use it via beacon.qq.com. The platform offers capabilities such as natural language data querying, dashboard generation, attribution analysis, metric monitoring, and team collaboration. Beacon AI supports integration with 10 data sources across 3 major categories. According to the company, building a full-chain operations dashboard now takes no more than 2 hours, down from 4 to 6 working days with traditional BI, and a business monitoring dashboard takes 8 minutes from opening the dialog box to finalization. The platform comes with 12 preset data analysis skills and 3 visualization skills, and can connect to enterprises' internal systems via the MCP protocol. New users receive 500 credits upon first registration, and 500 credits per month thereafter.

    #Product updates#English text is being prepared.#English text is being prepared.

  9. AIhub
    AI score13

    AIhub October 2026 Monthly Roundup: Neuro-Symbolic Planning, Time Series Forecasting, and Home Robots

    AIhub has released its October 2026 monthly roundup, summarizing recent content on neuro-symbolic planning, clinical time series forecasting, home robots, and more. This issue includes an interview with AI pioneer Michael Littman, as well as an introduction by Raphael Memmesheimer, five-time RoboCup@Home champion, to work on semi-supervised object segmentation annotation, which won the RoboCup 2026 Best Paper Award. The roundup also features an interview from ICML 2026 on research showing that vision-language models cannot reason about physical transformations.

    #Industry news

  10. Beijing NewsOpinion
    AI score64

    Beijing News commentary: AI practices medicine without a license, and responsibility cannot go unclaimed

    The Beijing News commentary uses two incidents as examples—a Chinese-American female engineer who died suddenly of epilepsy after relying on ChatGPT to reduce her medication, with her family suing OpenAI, and a Xuzhou doctor who was refused by family members after using Doubao to check medication—to discuss the issue of responsibility attribution after AI enters diagnosis and treatment scenarios. The article cites a Nature Medicine study stating that ChatGPT Health underestimated the urgency of 52% of clear emergency cases, and points out that AI neither bears the consequences nor is it depleting the trust between doctors and patients.

    #English text is being prepared.#Safety / alignment#OpenAI

  11. Cailian Press
    AI score35

    Democratic lawmaker Casar: If we win a House majority, we will subpoena big AI company CEOs and strictly scrutinize AI labs

    Greg Casar, chair of the U.S. Democratic progressive caucus, said that if Democrats win a House majority in next week's elections, he will push for strict scrutiny of AI labs and summon big AI company CEOs to testify at hearings, without ruling out using subpoenas to compel their attendance. Previously, on October 29, Casar and 19 other Democrats sent a letter to OpenAI demanding a response regarding the dismissal of three safety researchers; OpenAI said the personnel decisions were unrelated to the safety concerns raised.

    #English text is being prepared.#OpenAI

  12. Cailian PressModel releases
    AI score73

    Mistral Releases Large 4 Open-Weight Model, Focused on Coding and Cyber Defense

    French company Mistral AI has released the Large 4 model (ML4), featuring advanced coding and cyber defense capabilities; enterprises can download the open-weight version and deploy it to run on their own infrastructure. The model has a total of 1.05 trillion parameters, with approximately 52 billion parameters actually activated per task execution, and was trained in a European data center using 3,800 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs. Mistral claims it is comparable to other leading open models on coding tasks and emphasizes that open source helps prevent frontier AI technology from concentrating in the hands of a few players.

    Same story · 15 reports

    #Model releases#Open-source ecosystem#Agents

  13. Cailian Press
    AI score31

    AI computing power capital expenditure is booming; Tokyo Electron's second-quarter net profit rose 26.7% and it announced a ¥150 billion buyback

    Tokyo Electron's second-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders rose 26.7% year on year to ¥104.78 billion, revenue rose 20.9% year on year to ¥588.5 billion, and it announced a share buyback plan of up to ¥150 billion. The company expects fiscal 2027 revenue of ¥3.7 trillion, operating profit of ¥1.169 trillion, and net profit attributable to shareholders of ¥865 billion, all of which would be record highs, citing continued expansion in demand for data center AI servers.

    #Industry news#English text is being prepared.

  14. Sina Tech
    AI score62

    Anthropic plans to raise up to $100 billion in IPO, scale may exceed SpaceX record

    Sina Tech, citing a Reuters report, said that Anthropic, the company behind Claude, plans an IPO to raise at least an amount benchmarked against the $86 billion record set by SpaceX in June, with an upper limit potentially reaching $100 billion. The article notes that Meta has just completed a $38 billion offering of common and preferred stock and plans to raise another $60 billion through targeted additional issuance starting next year, showing investors are still willing to make large commitments to the AI theme. However, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has risen from 4.5% to 5%, the average gain for most U.S. IPOs this year is only 2%, and Goldman Sachs believes large IPOs will only bring short-term pressure.

    #Industry news#OpenAI#Anthropic

  15. Sina Tech
    AI score39

    Zhaopin Releases B2B Recruiting Agent "Zhaopin Xiaozhao", Debuting on WorkBuddy for Open Experience

    Zhaopin launched its self-developed B2B recruiting Agent "Zhaopin Xiaozhao" at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit, and partnered with office collaboration platform WorkBuddy to integrate it into its workspace for the first time, offering an initial open experience to enterprise users. The Agent can proactively take over the process from sourcing candidates, organizing resumes, and assisting evaluation to recruiting communication and scheduled task advancement, achieving "more accurate with use" based on data from 15.49 million+ cumulative partner enterprises and 404 million+ professionals. HR can generate job JDs with one click in WorkBuddy and publish them to the Zhaopin platform, with "Zhaopin Xiaozhao" continuing the subsequent sourcing, screening, and communication services.

    #Product updates#Agents#English text is being prepared.

  16. Sina Tech
    AI score62

    360's Tulongfeng achieves a 99.4% success rate and tops the CyberGym vulnerability reproduction evaluation

    360 Group's self-developed AI security attack and defense system Tulongfeng topped the CyberGym benchmark test with a 99.4% vulnerability reproduction success rate, competing on the same leaderboard with models and agents from vendors including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The evaluation covers 1,507 tasks, and Tulongfeng's success rates across three independent evaluation rounds were 99.27%, 99.47%, and 99.40%, averaging 99.38%. 360 states that Tulongfeng has discovered more than 15,000 vulnerabilities in total, and more than 500 enterprises have already integrated the system to conduct security testing.

    #Evaluations / benchmarks#Safety / alignment#Agents

  17. Sina TechProduct release
    AI score65

    Zhiyuan Unveils GO-3 Preview Foundation Model, Genie Master Framework, and Genie G2 Max Robot

    At the Embodied Work Productivity sub-forum of the 2026 Zhiyuan Innovation Day, Zhiyuan unveiled the embodied foundation model GO-3 Preview, the embodied Agent framework Genie Master, and the heavy-load embodied industrial robot Genie G2 Max. GO-3 Preview adopts the unified WRAM architecture for understanding, prediction, and action generation; on 100 tasks across 20 skill categories, its Zero-Shot average success rate rose from 13.4% to 56.4%, and in model-scale expansion experiments it rose from 56.2% to 73.2%; it has also topped the three major evaluation leaderboards RoboDojo, RoboTwin, and RoboColiseum. Co-President Yao Maoqing proposed three capability standards—measurable, replicable, and sustainable—and the event also presented data including a 98.3% success rate on a phone packaging task and the Genie G2's convenience-store task success rate rising from 28.6% on the first day to 85.7% by the fifth day.

    Same story · 12 reports

    #Industry news#Embodied AI#Agents

  18. Phoenix Technology
    AI score57

    Cohere Launches Series E Funding, Targeting Up to CAD 7 Billion

    Canadian large-model unicorn Cohere announced the first closing of its Series E funding, with this round targeting up to CAD 7 billion (approximately RMB 33.4 billion); if achieved, it will set the record for the largest single private funding round in Canadian startup history. This round is led by German retail giant Schwarz Group, with existing investors including Nvidia and Saudi Aramco's Prosperity7 Ventures continuing to participate, and the Canadian government and others investing for the first time; if the fundraising target is met, Cohere's valuation will reach CAD 35.7 billion (approximately RMB 170.2 billion). Cohere plans to carry out two AI company acquisitions within a year, launch an enterprise cybersecurity product Cohere Cyber, and train a new generation of frontier large models.

    Same story · 5 reports

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  19. Phoenix Technology
    AI score81

    DeepSeek's second funding round of 105.5 billion yuan: investor list revealed, CATL leads

    The Information has revealed details of DeepSeek's second funding round, which has raised 105.5 billion yuan (about $15.8 billion), attracting nearly 30 investors. Tencent and CATL each contributed 10 billion yuan, with ChangXin Memory Technologies, SMIC, Meituan, vivo, Xiaohongshu and others also on the list. State-owned investors contributed about 27% of the amount in this round, far higher than 2% in the first round, with China Mobile, China Telecom, CICC, CITIC Securities and China Life among the participants. The report said that due to rising prices of Nvidia's high-end chips and precautions against an AI bubble, DeepSeek doubled its fundraising target midway through the round.

    Same story · 5 reports

    #Industry news#DeepSeek

  20. Phoenix Technology
    AI score28

    Zuoyebang Debuts AI In-School Solution, Launches Yunsi AI Smart Teaching PAD

    At the 88th China Educational Equipment Exhibition, Zuoyebang fully showcased for the first time its AI smart education solution for K12 schools and launched the AI-native smart teaching terminal, the Yunsi AI Smart Teaching PAD, enabling interconnected home-school learning scenarios. The solution integrates the capabilities of its learning device and Yunsi Zhixue, and, backed by a question bank of over 3.3 billion items and self-developed large models, covers scenarios such as lesson preparation, homework grading, and exam assessment. It currently covers more than 1,500 schools across over 20 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions nationwide.

    #Product updates#Agents#Multimodal