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Industry

Bloom Energy to supply SOFC on-site power for AOI's GigaLight

Bloom Energy is moving into Taiwan's AI optical-communications supply chain: Hexi Energy said it will help GigaLight, the Taiwan operating site of US optical-component maker Applied Optoelectronics (AOI), install Bloom Energy solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) on-site power generation to improve supply reliability during expansion. Hexi Energy is acting as EPC contractor for planning, design, equipment integration and construction, with the project slated for completion and operation in Q1 2027. The project has applied for a Ministry of Economic Affairs Energy Administration subsidy for stationary fuel-cell systems; eligibility and amount are still under review.

科技新报·
3024
Industry

AI office is at its 1972 moment; what's missing is human-agent delegation

36Kr republished a speculative essay by Tan Li, co-founder of Shushi Technology, arguing that today's AI office products sit roughly where enterprise software was around 1972: Tencent WorkBuddy, Alibaba's Qwen Office and ByteDance's Doubao Work compete hard, but no shared abstraction yet ties them together. He proposes "responsibility conservation" — every agent action must trace back to a human authorization and leave an auditable record — and says the endgame is a "digital employee" that delivers outcomes rather than an efficiency tool sold per seat or per token. The real bottleneck, he argues, is that authentication, authorization and audit for human-agent delegation remain unstandardized, with policy design still largely blank.

36氪 人工智能·
3036
Industry

Podcast: Musk's midterm spending and Muse logo backlash

This episode of WIRED's "Uncanny Valley" podcast discusses where Elon Musk's PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse's logo. The source offers no figures, dates or further detail beyond these topics.

WIRED AI·
3044
Industry

Zhang Qi named chairman of Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group

Microsoft announced that Dr. Zhang Qi, a corporate vice president and head of the Microsoft Asia Internet Engineering Institute, is taking over as chairman of the Microsoft Asia-Pacific R&D Group, with predecessor Dr. Wang Yongdong retiring. According to Cyzone, Zhang joined Microsoft's US headquarters in 2002 and has worked across AI, machine learning, big data and distributed computing, contributing to Microsoft 365, Copilot, Windows, Office, Azure AI, Bing and Microsoft Ads, and building teams in search advertising, big data, knowledge graphs, commercial AI and AI platforms. The report says he became a Microsoft Technical Fellow in 2018, was promoted to corporate vice president in 2021, became president of Microsoft AI Asia-Pacific in 2024 and took over the Asia Internet Engineering Institute in 2026.

创业邦 科技·
3054
Industry

Murata unit to invest ¥9bn in MLCC ceramic material line on AI demand

Nikkei reported that Okayama Murata Manufacturing, a subsidiary of Murata Manufacturing, will invest about 9 billion yen to add a production line for the ceramic materials used in MLCCs and other electronic components, with construction starting in October 2026 and output due in April 2028. The report said MLCC demand is growing rapidly, led by AI servers in data centres. Okayama Murata did not disclose how much capacity the new line will add; Murata's Izumo subsidiary completed a new MLCC plant this spring and is also strengthening raw-material supply.

科技新报·
3066
Industry

Carson Gross: programming remains a viable career even with AI tools

Simon Willison's blog quotes a short passage from Carson Gross arguing that programming is fundamentally about two things: solving problems with computers, and learning to control the complexity of those solutions. He says he struggles to imagine a future where those skills are less valuable than they are today, so programming should remain a viable career even with the advent of AI tools.

Simon Willison's Weblog·
3076
Industry

Playable Elizabeth Holmes desk simulator doubles as marketing for document-AI startup

Bo Lau, an engineer at Extend, built a detailed website that recreates Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' 2016 desk setup, letting visitors click through emails, slides, texts and documents released during her fraud trial — and even run the company's ill-fated Edison blood-testing device. The project is largely for laughs, but it also promotes a watch party for Nathan Fielder's new Holmes documentary "You Can See Everything" and Extend itself, which the article says can "parse, extract, and split your hardest documents with unmatched accuracy."

TechCrunch AI·
3084
Industry

Jensen Huang: AI is not a doomsday threat but a key tool for the energy transition

In an interview with The New York Times' Ezra Klein, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that fears and doomsday rhetoric around AI are overblown. He argued that over the next decade AI could help improve the efficiency and viability of solar, nuclear, fission, fusion and hydro power, making it a key tool for the energy transition. He also acknowledged that global fossil fuel use will "undoubtedly" rise over the next four to five years, and said he has no absolute conclusions about how AI will affect climate and industry.

科技新报·
3094
Industry

Flash-model test rerun: deliverable quality tracked the agent workspace, not the model

A 36Kr piece by Qidian Research Society revisits a Flash-model comparison in which DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and Yunzhisheng U2-Flash ran a phone-industry research report and a match-3 game inside the AI office workspace WorkBuddy, while Qwen-3.8-Flash answered from a solitary chat box on Qwen's AI platform and produced wrong 2026 phone line-ups, misjudged data and a game with frozen scoring logic. Re-running Qwen inside the same WorkBuddy environment, the article says, yielded an eight-chapter report with self-correction and a working game via a locate-bug, edit-code, recompile-and-verify loop. The author argues AI office competition is shifting from the 'model entrance' to the 'task entrance' and onward to enterprise AI infrastructure and multi-model governance.

36氪 人工智能·
3104
Industry

Taiwan cabinet passes bill lowering AI transformation investment credit threshold to NT$250,000

Taiwan's Executive Yuan approved on Oct. 8 a draft amendment to the SME Development Act, renamed the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Transformation and Upgrading Development Act, sending it to the Legislative Yuan. The draft adds a transformation-equipment investment credit with the qualifying spending threshold cut from NT$1 million to NT$250,000, covering smart machinery, AI applications, 5G, cybersecurity, and digital and net-zero investments — including software, technology and technical services, not just hardware. The R&D investment credit rate rises from 15% to 20% with broader outsourced R&D eligibility, while the Ministry of Economic Affairs plans NT$100 billion over eight years to support MSME upgrading.

iThome 台湾·
3114
Industry

AICon Beijing 2026 opens call for speaker proposals

AICon, a Chinese AI development and application conference, has opened its call for speakers for the Beijing edition on December 18–19, 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Beijing Sun Palace, with 12 tracks spanning inference infrastructure, agent engineering, agent evaluation and production reliability, agent security, AgentOps, self-evolving agents, AI product design and overseas product expansion. Zhang Ming, Jiang Peng and Zhou Jun are co-chairs, with Yang Jie, Cheng Yan, Chen Shu, Yu Yao, Liu Zhongbing and Zheng Yangfei as track producers. Submissions should be 40-minute talks grounded in real production systems, including metrics such as task success rate, cost and latency; product-pitch talks are explicitly excluded.

InfoQ 中文 AI&大模型·
3124
Products

AI glasses brand NIMO raises hundreds of millions in angel round

Bit Huanjing, the company behind smart-glasses brand NIMO, raised an angel round in the hundreds of millions of yuan from investors including Bohua Capital, Gobi Partners, Yuanhe Pu Hua and Shangshi Capital, at a reported valuation of 1.5 billion yuan; proceeds will go to R&D, retail channels and overseas expansion. The first NIMO product weighs about 29 grams and uses a 0.06-inch MicroLED microdisplay, a self-developed 0.03cc light engine and a 0.6mm holographic waveguide, with the company saying weight reaches roughly 34–36 grams with prescription lenses. NIMO reports monthly sales of several thousand units, about 150 offline stores, a partnership with listed eyewear maker Arts Optical, and plans to open an SDK.

36氪 人工智能·
3134
Industry

AI video swaps Jensen Huang into Michael Jackson's dance; Musk quips on memory prices

A Bilibili creator posting as 「王与也行」 published an AI-generated video on Oct 4 that replaces the performer in Michael Jackson's 1992 Bucharest "Dangerous" tour opener "Jam" with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang in his signature leather jacket, while the crowd is swapped for tech figures including Tim Cook, Lisa Su, Sam Altman and Elon Musk; the article says the clip has drawn over 1.42 million views on Bilibili. After it was reposted to X, Musk shared it with the comment "this is why memory prices are so expensive." Drawing on the meme, the column argues that AI data-center and model-training demand has pushed up memory-chip demand and DRAM prices, hitting even consumers upgrading RAM, and notes Jensen Huang said at a March Morgan Stanley tech conference that scarce memory supply is "great news" for NVIDIA because it had locked in key component capacity.

创业邦 科技·
3144
Open source

WordPress 7.1.3 patches 7 flaws, 3 reported by Anthropic

WordPress released version 7.1.3 on October 6, fixing seven security vulnerabilities and four program bugs. Anthropic reported three of the seven flaws, while security firms Trail of Bits and Patchstack each reported one, three independent researchers jointly submitted one, and WordPress's own security team found the last. Anthropic's findings cover a delayed-trigger injection in the WXR exporter, a denial-of-service flaw in WP_Http::make_absolute_url(), and an author-role privilege issue allowing posts to be pinned; the report says the most serious issue was a stored XSS in the comment moderation interface found by Trail of Bits' Thomas Chauchefoin.

AIbase AI新闻·
3154
Industry

Douyin report: 'Doubao hotel booking' orders up 56% MoM as AI entries drive spend

Douyin Life Services published its 2026 Mid-Autumn and National Day consumption report on October 7, saying AI interactive entry points were deeply embedded in holiday spending scenarios for the first time. It said orders placed through AI products such as "Doubao hotel booking" rose more than 56% month over month, with Chengdu, Beijing and Xi'an the top cities; overall Douyin group-buy orders grew 53% year over year, including food and beverage up over 61%, travel and hotels up 42% and hotel bookings up nearly 79%. The report also cited a 142% rise in average daily scenic-spot group-buy transactions on the "Dou Sheng Sheng" app and an 84% month-over-month rise in card-based hotel stays from the 66 Travel Card across 10 cities.

AIbase AI新闻·
3164
Industry

B.Grimm Power to build 250MW data center with overseas partner

Thai power producer B.Grimm Power Pcl plans to invest in a 250-megawatt data center project alongside a new overseas partner. The company is accelerating its expansion into the data center sector to capture surging demand for AI services, according to the report. The partner's identity, the investment amount, the site and the timeline were not disclosed.

Bloomberg Technology·
3174
Industry

Japanese ex-AV actresses and idols are out-building big-tech AI PMs with vibe coding

A commentary published by Huxiu AI argues that Japanese former adult-film performer Noa taught herself "vibe coding" with Claude Code, shipped a polished personal site and open-sourced a structured image-prompt set on GitHub, while former Juice=Juice member Miyamoto Karin built a tour fan app in about six weeks — roughly 15 working days and 60 commits — on Claude Code with Cloudflare Workers and D1; former performer Asami Mirai pivoted to AI video and app projects. The piece contrasts them with Chinese big-tech AI product managers and cites a LatePost report that Doubao has over 200 million DAU but under 1 million yuan in daily revenue against millions in daily compute cost, along with team changes on its general chat team (Doubao's PR denied layoffs, saying 11 staff were affected, three of whom left). The author argues falling technical barriers let user-savvy individuals close the gap with big platforms.

虎嗅 AI·
3184
Industry

Bessent vs. the Fed: Is AI an inflation cure or a new source of it?

US Treasury Secretary Bessent has urged the Federal Reserve to stay "open" to AI-driven productivity gains, while the article says the Fed raised the federal funds rate target range to 3.75%-4.00% in August 2026. In the commentary, author Dr. Xi Chunying argues AI's inflation effect is phased: near term, heavy capex on data centres, power, chips and talent pushes some prices up; only longer term can productivity gains lower costs. He stresses the key is not whether firms use AI but whether they lift total factor productivity and convert it into profit and cash flow.

虎嗅 AI·
3194
Industry

Foreign brokerage lifts Zhen Ding-KY target to NT$750 on AI infrastructure

A US brokerage raised its target price for PCB maker Zhen Ding-KY from NT$600 to NT$750, citing stronger pricing power in consumer products and a notable AI infrastructure build-out. The report expects third-quarter gross margin of 25.6%, rising to 26.1% in the fourth quarter, and says the company's 2027–2028 ABF substrate capacity is fully sold out with US customers now accounting for 70%. It estimates AI infrastructure at 23% of revenue today, 25% for the full year, 30% in 2027 and 45–50% in 2028, driven by NVIDIA, MediaTek, potential AI ASIC programs and Chinese AI demand, and lifts 2026–2028 EPS forecasts to NT$14.4, NT$28.3 and NT$44.4.

科技新报·
3206
Open source

OpenVids: an open-source video editor you run by chatting with AI agents

OpenVids appeared on Product Hunt as an open-source video editor that you operate by chatting with AI agents. The listing offers only that one-line description, with no details on features, supported models, or platforms.

Product Hunt·
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