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Industry

MAS issues AI risk guidelines holding banks accountable for third-party tools

Singapore's Monetary Authority (MAS) issued AI risk management guidelines on Oct. 7, 2026 for banks, insurers, payment providers and other regulated financial institutions, saying they cannot outsource accountability for AI risks even when outside vendors build or run the systems. Implementation is phased: Sections 3 and 4 by Oct. 7, 2027, and Sections 5 and 6 by Oct. 7, 2028. MAS expects firms to obtain sufficient assurances from AI vendors, judge whether systems suit their intended use, and consider restricting, suspending or replacing a service if risks cannot be adequately managed.

TechRepublic·
1025
Industry

Anthropic tech leads defend $2T IPO bet, warn distillation erodes frontier R&D

Anthropic has disclosed its IPO filing: 2025 revenue of nearly $4.6B (roughly 12x year over year) alongside an operating loss above $8B, plus at least $518B in long-term cloud and compute commitments — with a listing that could value it above $2T. In a podcast, technical leads Nicholas Marwell and Sholto Douglas argued distillation only copies the current frontier rather than advancing it, so rivals should not be able to reproduce costly frontier work cheaply. They also said a scenario where the US slows down while China keeps going is unacceptable, and backed open source subject to the same safety thresholds as closed models.

InfoQ 中文 AI&大模型·
10311
Industry

Italy data centre group expects €36.9B investment by 2036 on AI demand

The Italian Datacenter Association (IDA) presented 2026 market research at its Data Center Symposium in Rome on October 8 estimating that Italy's commercial data centres could attract about €36.9 billion ($41.5 billion) of investment through 2036, driven by AI and cloud demand. IT capacity in Italian commercial data centres stood at 460 megawatts in 2025 and is expected to reach roughly 2.3 gigawatts by 2031, about five times as much, with Milan and Lombardy still the core of the market while projects emerge in Piedmont, Puglia and Sardinia. The study also notes a gap between plans and construction: firms have requested grid connections of between 60 and more than 100 gigawatts, but only about 1.9 gigawatts of projects are at an advanced stage, and from 2023 to 2025 the sector spent €7.1 billion of the €10.5 billion planned, about 68%.

Bloomberg Technology·
1046
Models

ShengShu opens Vidu Q4 preview, 720p video from about ¥0.6/sec

ShengShu Technology has opened a preview of Vidu Q4, its next-generation flagship video generation model, to creators. In its hands-on test, QbitAI put 720p generation as low as roughly ¥0.09 per second, while the company's MaaS pricing is cited at about ¥0.6/sec for 720p image-to-video and ¥0.75/sec for 1080p, with a two-month limited-time discount on the SaaS side during the preview. The report says the model outputs up to 4K, generates clips up to 16 seconds, accepts as many as 15 reference images and three reference audio clips, and improves facial emotion, camera moves including FPV, and effects that interact with characters and lighting.

量子位（原生 RSS）·
10511
Industry

Goldman exec: new bankers manage AI agents from day one, middle managers in limbo

Goldman Sachs executive Kevin Sneader said young recruits now start their careers managing AI agents instead of spending years on entry-level administrative work, describing the tools as a "virtual army" they must make the most of. With agentic AI absorbing routine tasks, entry-level roles are disappearing and graduates move straight into oversight, while the outlook for existing middle managers is unclear — "we don't quite know what's going to happen to that group," Sneader said.

Bloomberg Technology·
1066
Models

Jev: TypeSafe AI's probability-only model, explained

TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth on September 15 with Jev, a model that does not produce free-form text but instead returns estimated probabilities over a fixed answer set — yes/no, multiple choice, or a rating. It went viral: the announcement drew nearly 40 million views on Twitter, over 100,000 people joined its Discord within a week, some 2,000 GitHub projects adopted it, and signups opened on September 20 were paused two days later amid overwhelming demand. Because it is faster and cheaper and its output slots directly into code patterns like if statements, Jev has spawned similar models from the likes of Cloudflare, Amazon and OpenAI.

Understanding AI·
1079
Open source

ttok 0.4 released with a --list-models command

Simon Willison released version 0.4 of ttok, his command-line token counting tool built on OpenAI's open source tiktoken library. The update fixes a Click warning, refreshes the CI setup, and adds a --list-models command for listing available models. The tool runs via uvx, so tokens can be counted with a command like cat file.txt | uvx ttok.

Simon Willison's Weblog·
1089
Research

UniPat AI's PaperBenchX benchmark: GPT-6 Astra fully reproduces only 13.98% of papers

UniPat AI released PaperBenchX, which it calls the first multidisciplinary end-to-end benchmark for reproducing published paper results: 93 reproduction tasks built from 93 papers span 12 research directions and 10 domain-native scientific environments (including Ansys HFSS, Ansys Lumerical, Meep, PySCF and ABACUS), with 3,168 expert-verified scoring items. Across the 93 tasks, the strongest tested configuration, GPT-6 Astra, achieved only a 13.98% full-reproduction rate; averaged over tested configurations, modeling and execution scored about 62% each while validation reached just 42.8%. Per-task budgets run 4–24 hours (median 7 hours), and 12 tasks are open-sourced with 81 held out.

量子位（原生 RSS）·
1096
Products

NHS South East rolls out DERM skin cancer AI that can discharge patients on its own

Skin Analytics' DERM goes live across all 18 NHS trusts in south-east England from this autumn, covering another 9 million people over three years; the company calls it the largest deployment of autonomous medical AI in NHS history. DERM analyses images of a lesion taken after a suspected skin cancer referral and, when it judges the lesion benign, lets the NHS discharge the patient at the triage stage, while higher-risk cases are sent faster to a specialist. Skin Analytics says DERM is the first and only AI certified for autonomous use under a Class III CE mark, and reports it has assessed more than 250,000 patients and found over 25,000 cancers, with its own monitoring data putting skin cancer rule-out at 99.5% and detection at about 98%.

The Next Web·
1106
Products

Nvidia-backed Upscale AI launches Token Fabric to link chips from rival vendors

Upscale AI, a Santa Clara networking startup backed by Nvidia, launched Token Fabric, a platform built on open standards such as UALink and Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking that can put GPUs, custom AI chips and network cards from different suppliers on the same network. Reuters reported the platform combines Upscale's own scale-up switch chip, SkyFabriX, with scale-out switches based on Nvidia's Spectrum-X Ethernet chips, plus SkyOS and SkyCMD software that runs and monitors the network and can flag bottlenecks and hardware needing replacement. Upscale said the first part ships in the fourth quarter with the rest rolling out through 2027, and general availability in early 2027; CEO Barun Kar told Reuters he expects revenue in the tens of millions of dollars next year, possibly reaching the low hundreds of millions.

The Next Web·
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Industry

Jensen Huang 'MJ world tour' AI meme videos flood Bilibili, spotlighting Chinese video models

Since late September, Bilibili creators have posted a wave of "Michael Jackson world tour" AI edits that swap figures such as Jensen Huang, Zhuge Liang and Mendeleev into MJ's Jam concert footage; one Huang version by creator "Wangyuyexing" had 3.33 million views as of Oct 8 and was reposted by Elon Musk, who joked it explained why memory is so expensive. The article says the workflow is simple: replace characters locally and free with ComfyUI's Wan 2.2 Animate, or use online platforms such as UPDream's template-copy feature. It cites the Artificial Analysis video-editing leaderboard as ranking Alibaba's Wan 3.0 first, ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 second and MiniMax H3 fourth, and says a 4-second clip costs as little as 0.28 yuan domestically under a promo, far below the per-clip share of Runway's subscription credits.

36氪 人工智能·
1126
Products

Zhengxing Innovation launches 24/7 Physical AI retail solution with H1 and C1 robots

At the 22nd Asia Pacific Retailers Convention and Exhibition (APRCE 2026), Zhengxing Innovation unveiled a Physical AI solution for open retail settings built around human-robot collaboration: the general-purpose bipedal humanoid H1, the wheeled-arm handling and shelf-restocking robot C1 designed for narrow aisles, and M1, a unified robot management platform handling task allocation, status monitoring and human takeover. The company says its in-house lightweight world-action model SLM-0.5 reaches 98.6% average task success on the LIBERO benchmark with 24x faster inference than mainstream approaches, and that its RLinf-based reinforcement-learning post-training system STEAM achieves 95% success on a designated-product restocking task. Commercial service is planned for 2027 via direct purchase or RaaS subscription, with joint testing alongside global retail chains.

量子位（原生 RSS）·
1136
Products

YouTube adds AI shopping exploration, Shorts series and 1,000+ games in Taiwan

At its 2026 Brandcast event in Taiwan, YouTube announced six new features: Shorts series for binge-watching mini-dramas, localized product tagging plus AI-powered shopping exploration, a "YouTube Game Corner" with more than 1,000 games playable without downloading an app, live-stream gem and limited-time gift sponsorships, and conversational upgrades to Ask YouTube and Ask Studio. YouTube says over 60 million viewers worldwide used Ask YouTube in April 2026, and the new shopping exploration lets viewers ask the AI about products that appear on screen but are never mentioned in the video. The platform is also tightening disclosure labels for synthetic content and expanding similarity detection so eligible creators can request one-click removal of unauthorized AI videos using their face or voice.

科技新报·
1146
Industry

Nvidia-backed AI drug developer Iambic files for US IPO, seeking up to $159M

Iambic Therapeutics has disclosed a prospectus for a US initial public offering of 9.375 million common shares at an expected price of $15 to $17 each, aiming to raise roughly $141 million to $159 million. Founded in 2019, the company has raised $461.8 million from technology and healthcare investors. Its major shareholders include Catalio Capital Management, Nexus Venture Partners and Coatue, as well as Nvidia and the Qatar Investment Authority's healthcare-focused investment arm.

36氪快讯·
1155
Industry

Enterprises Shift AI Spend to Open-Weight Models, Pressuring Closed-Model Pricing

Third-party data and company interviews cited in the report show US enterprises moving routine AI workloads off the priciest frontier models and onto cheaper open-weight alternatives. AlphaSense found mentions of "open-weight" or "open source" models on US earnings and investor calls in August–September were six times the year-earlier level; Vercel said open models handled 56% of tokens on its AI Gateway in August versus 7% in December; and Citi data cited by Reuters put OpenRouter's open-model token share at 65% in June, up from 34% in January. Examples include AT&T running roughly 40% of AI workloads on open models with plans to reach 70% within a year, Tinder and Harvey routing routine tasks to open models, and Cursor cutting the cost of building a browser from scratch from over $10,000 with GPT-5.5 alone to $1,339 using its own Composer model plus Anthropic Opus 4.8.

36氪 人工智能·
1166
Industry

AI retail trading agent startup Catalyst raises $30M seed led by Sequoia

Catalyst, a startup building an AI agent for retail trading, has raised a $30 million seed round led by Sequoia. According to Fortune, the company says a pilot generated hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume over two weeks — a figure that comes from the company itself and is not independently verified.

Techmeme·
11710
Industry

AI chipmaker Biren raises ~$515M in another share sale

Shanghai-based AI chipmaker Biren Technology aims to raise HK$4.04 billion (~$515 million) in a new share sale to help fund its artificial intelligence ambitions, according to a filing reported by Bloomberg. The move adds to a recent fundraising spree among Chinese AI companies. Biren's Hong Kong-listed stock is down more than 50% from a June peak but up roughly 70% year to date.

Bloomberg Technology·
1186
Industry

SoftBank, Grab and PETROS sign framework to explore AI infrastructure in Sarawak

SoftBank Group, Grab Holdings and Sarawak oil company PETROS signed a framework agreement to explore building an AI and digital infrastructure platform in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. The three will draft a phased roadmap covering AI compute, robotics and talent development: SoftBank contributes AI infrastructure and semiconductor expertise, Grab brings its Southeast Asian digital ecosystem, and PETROS leverages Sarawak's energy resources under its gas roadmap and the Kuching low-carbon hub. The pact is a framework only, with no investment amounts or timeline disclosed.

36氪快讯·
1195
Industry

Field AI raises $700M Series B

DoNews reports that Field AI has raised a $700 million Series B round. The report does not name investors or disclose the valuation, use of funds, or whether the round has closed, and no independent confirmation was included.

DoNews·
1206
Industry

Chinese gaming giants pour billions into AI, with NetEase and Tencent backing DeepSeek

A Zinc Scale article published via TMTPost says 15 major listed Chinese gaming companies took part in 72 investment deals worth over 87.2 billion yuan between 2025 and early July 2026, with only seven deals worth about 200 million yuan tied directly to games and the rest flowing mainly into AI and robotics. It reports that NetEase put in roughly 3 billion yuan and Tencent about 10 billion yuan in DeepSeek's first outside funding round in June 2026, and that 37 Interactive Entertainment booked about 1.016 billion yuan in investment income from its Zhipu stake.

钛媒体·
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