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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·
1229
Products

From Siri to Muse: the personal assistant's 16-year relay

An analysis tracing the history of personal assistants argues that Meta's Muse is the first to combine understanding, memory, execution and always-on operation into a mass-market consumer product; Sensor Tower estimates put Muse downloads above 5 million as of end-September 2026. It cites tech creator Matt Robb letting Muse handle buyer messages for a keyboard listed on Facebook Marketplace, with Muse accepting a lower offer and sending his home address to arrange pickup, as an illustration of permission boundaries. The piece threads Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant and OpenClaw together with ByteDance's Doubao and Alibaba's Qwen, and says Apple's redesigned Siri AI in 2026 still centres on understanding what the user is doing on-device rather than delegating long-running tasks.

36氪 人工智能·
1236
Research

OpenAI publishes 377 AI math results at once

DoNews reports that OpenAI released 377 AI-related mathematics results in a single batch. The report does not specify the form of the results, the research areas involved, or where they were published.

DoNews·
1246
Research

Biohub leads AI drug-discovery data infrastructure, scale grows to $1.8B

DoNews reports that Biohub is leading an effort to build data infrastructure for AI-driven drug discovery, with the scale of the initiative growing to $1.8 billion. The report does not detail participating organizations, the datasets covered, or how the funding will be used.

DoNews·
1256
Industry

AI office apps in China: how Tencent, ByteDance, Baidu and Alibaba chase growth

An industry recap republished by 36Kr compares how Chinese big tech is growing its AI office agents. According to August AI product rankings, domestic PC AI-office clients reached 33.16 million monthly active users, up 10% month over month: WorkBuddy 11.88M, Baidu Dazi 7.52M, Qwen Office 1.58M (+160.39%) and the late-August launch Doubao Work at 662,900. Tencent cold-started WorkBuddy on WeChat and WeCom before a large offline ad push; Baidu Dazi leans on Baidu Search and Netdisk for traffic; ByteDance converts users via Doubao, Douyin and Feishu; Alibaba avoids the consumer traffic war and goes after enterprises through DingTalk and Alibaba Cloud.

36氪 人工智能·
1266
Industry

Hacker behind South Korean bank attacks used LLMs and ARTEX, CrowdStrike says

CrowdStrike Intelligence says it identified infrastructure tied to a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data. The analysis assesses the actor is likely Chinese-speaking and financially motivated, and used LLMs along with the open-source Chinese agentic tool ARTEX.

Techmeme·
12710
Industry

Amazon cuts nearly 1,000 more roles while pouring $220B into AI

Amazon carried out a fresh round of job cuts starting October 6 across customer service, Marketplace support and retail engineering, with teams in India and the UK also affected; a person familiar said fewer than 1,000 employees were impacted. An Amazon spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that a "small number" of roles were eliminated, mainly in the Stores business. The move extends a series of reductions since October 2025: about 14,000 corporate jobs cut that month, another 16,000 in January 2026 touching AWS units including Bedrock, AI cloud services and Redshift, and roughly 17,000 in January–September 2026 per Layoffs.fyi — more than 30,000 in under a year. At the same time, capital spending is hitting record levels, with reports putting 2026 capex at about $200 billion (one report says $220 billion), mostly for AI infrastructure, up sharply from $131 billion in 2025.

科技新报·
1286
Industry

Altman interview confirms OpenAI paused a frontier model training run

In a Vanity Fair interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed the company recently halted one of its frontier-model training runs unilaterally, because capability gains had outpaced progress in safety alignment, monitoring and interpretability. He rejected broad calls to pause AI development but said labs must be willing to stop on their own, and said developers must bear full responsibility if agents behave maliciously. He also said he regrets not taking equity in OpenAI — arguing the decision actually damaged public trust — and called Elon Musk a "bully."

36氪 人工智能·
1296
Products

Nvidia expands Halos safety architecture to robotics

Nvidia has extended its Halos safety system, launched in 2025 for self-driving cars, to robotics: Halos for Robotics, announced in June 2026, offers hardware and software tools for developers to build guardrails into warehouse autonomous mobile robots, humanoid robots in factories and even surgical robots. Amit Goel, Nvidia's head of robotics ecosystem and edge computing, told Ars Technica that capable AI models and robot hardware have made safety the next bottleneck. Ars Technica frames the effort as part of Nvidia's multibillion-dollar bet on physical AI, alongside its position in AI data centers.

Ars Technica AI·
1306
Industry

CSIS: U.S. federal AI contracts reach $4.1B, over half lack governance clauses

A CSIS review of SAM.gov solicitations and USAspending contract records found that U.S. federal agencies signed 2,255 identifiable AI-related contracts in fiscal years 2019–2025, with cumulative obligated amounts of $4.1 billion; the Department of Defense accounted for about 82.8% of obligations and 63.8% of contracts, and annual obligations reached $1.162 billion in FY2025. Among the 75 AI-related solicitations sampled, 41 (54.7%) contained no confirmed governance clause; where clauses existed they centred on performance measurement — benchmarking appeared in 37% and data rights in 35% — while audit access, red-teaming and incident reporting appeared in just 9%, 5% and 4%, and monitoring and human-oversight clauses each appeared in 5%. On the supply side, 1,250 vendors held contracts, 66.2% of them only one, the top three took 30.4% of net obligations, and Palantir and Scale AI together held under 1% of contracts but about $597 million, roughly 15% of obligations.

虎嗅 AI·
1318
Research

OpenAI's math advances spark a reckoning for academia

A Bloomberg Technology newsletter reports that OpenAI's advances in mathematics are prompting a reckoning in academia, with one mathematician reflecting on how AI is changing his profession. The item offers no specifics on models, benchmarks or results.

Bloomberg Technology·
1326
Industry

Ex-OpenAI safety lead resigns, blasts company culture and 'iterative deployment'

David Robinson, who spent three and a half years at OpenAI leading safety-transparency work, drafting its Preparedness Framework and overseeing safety evaluations attached to 12 frontier model releases, resigned and published a critical essay. He argued that OpenAI's touted "iterative deployment" approach is really trial and error, doomed to periodic failures whose scale grows with model capability, and called for frontier labs to run like nuclear plants with layered defence-in-depth plus a new science of safe behaviour without supervision. In the same week OpenAI said it parted ways with three safety-team researchers for mishandling sensitive company information; multiple outlets reported they had shared information about model safety issues with a third-party AI safety evaluator. An OpenAI spokesperson said the company keeps improving safeguards, will pause training or withhold models when needed, and is hardening its testing environments.

36氪 人工智能·
1336
Industry

Finland data center investments top €67B on AI demand

Planned and active data center investments in Finland now exceed €67 billion, according to a Bloomberg analysis, driven by AI demand, the country's cool climate conditions and access to renewable energy. Several new projects have been unveiled since Alphabet's Google announced its own plans, and the buildout is gathering pace.

Techmeme·
13412
Industry

OpenAI hires Cursor's Europe chief as EMEA sales VP, its second SpaceX hire

OpenAI has appointed Ismail Elmas, who previously ran Cursor's business in Europe, as vice president of sales for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a hire the company confirmed after Handelsblatt first reported it on October 8. Based in Munich, he will oversee all of OpenAI's sales staff in the region, making him the second sales executive OpenAI has taken in a month from SpaceX, which the report says owns Cursor, following worldwide sales VP Brian McCarthy. OpenAI reportedly plans to grow its European sales team sharply as it chases business clients and ad sales ahead of a possible stock market listing, while its model supply to Cursor is set to end on November 12.

Bloomberg Technology·
1356
Industry

Xeal seeks $2B to turn idle EV charging power into AI compute

Xeal CEO Nikhil Bharadwaj said the company's utility contracts allow round-the-clock power at its EV charging sites, but average utilization is under 10%, leaving idle capacity he says could power roughly 130,000 homes or 110,000 Nvidia AI chips. In December, Xeal plans to place Nvidia AI server racks in custom protective metal containers the size of a parking space next to chargers in Chicago, Houston and Dallas parking lots, with about 48 chips per container; it says it has orders from compute customers for 100 such containers but declined to name them. Over the next 18 months Xeal aims to raise about $2 billion to build and deploy 1,000 containers, roughly 50,000 GPUs and 60 megawatts of power capacity.

cnBeta·
1366
Industry

Strategist warns AI bubble could trigger worst S&P 500 crash since 2008

Joachim Klement, market strategist at Panmure Liberum, warned that the AI trade could unravel as early as 2027 and trigger the sharpest market crash since the global financial crisis. He set a year-end 2027 S&P 500 target of 5,000, implying a 36% drop from current levels — the most bearish forecast among strategists tracked by Bloomberg. He acknowledged the call may be premature and did not advise selling immediately, instead urging clients to prepare contingency plans; Temasek's CIO issued a similar warning, while Citi strategists argued solid earnings can still support equities despite high rates.

cnBeta·
1378
Products

NVIDIA showcases GPT-6 Astra agents building Omniverse simulations

An NVIDIA blog post shows developers directing frontier models such as GPT-6 Astra with natural-language prompts while the agents wire together NVIDIA Omniverse libraries for physics (ovphysx), rendering (ovrtx), scene updates (ovstage) and UI (ovui). Seven projects are described, including a warehouse humanoid simulator, an autonomous-driving test workflow, sensor digital-twin calibration, a Robo Olympics experiment, robotic disassembly, a browser-based International Space Station model and a captured-room rebuild. NVIDIA says one engineer guided agents to create two digital twins from scratch and improve two existing ones in about three days, while in another experiment a simulated Unitree G1 humanoid cleared a single hurdle in 64 of 100 trials.

NVIDIA Blog·
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Industry

Bloomberg video: how the AI boom is concentrating global wealth

A Bloomberg Originals video unpacks how the artificial intelligence boom has concentrated immense wealth and pushed global trade imbalances to levels unseen since the 2008 financial crisis. The segment is a macro explainer and cites no specific companies, figures or dates.

Bloomberg Technology·
1398
Products

NVIDIA tutorial: turning CAD into SimReady robot assets with GPT-6 Astra

NVIDIA published a five-step workflow for converting CAD assets into simulation-ready (SimReady) OpenUSD assets for robotics, guided by SimReady Foundation specifications and agentic NVIDIA skills. The walkthrough uses an ABB YuMi robot: importing STEP files, matching appearance to ABB reference images and video, configuring joints, collision geometry and mass properties (38 kg robot, 0.28 kg per gripper, 0.8 static and 0.6 dynamic friction), passing SimReady validation, then running pick-and-place with both arms and grippers in Isaac Sim. The post says frontier models such as GPT-6 Astra can write Python that calls Omniverse tools at each stage, with the example run through Codex CLI and Isaac Sim 6.1's remote Python server.

NVIDIA Technical Blog·
1406
Industry

Amazon accused of using AI system Atlas to monitor union activity worldwide

Documents filed in a British Columbia labour dispute reveal that Amazon deployed an AI algorithm called Atlas that scores warehouses worldwide on unionization risk using hundreds of data points, including worker communication channels, health and safety incidents, minimum wage rates and the proximity of a non-union site to one with union activity. Atlas also monitored external forums such as Reddit, using common phrases, keywords, upvotes and peer replies to gauge the tenor of discussion, according to the documents. Two UK warehouses, in Coventry and Minworth, were rated Tier 1 — imminent risk of unionizing — prompting the GMB union to demand government answers; Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

TechRadar·
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