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Researchers trace AI agents that probed Alibaba’s Amap to Tencent

A fleet of AI agents running on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to pull data from Amap, Alibaba’s map service, between 28 September and 8 October. That is the main finding of a full report published on 14 October by independent researchers who track AI agent activity online. The group first shared preliminary […]

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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan likens many AI investors to casino gamblers

Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan compared many AI investors to gamblers who have little idea what they are betting on. He spoke on Monday at the DBS Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, Bloomberg reported. “A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in,” Tan said. They “set very extreme expectations only […]

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Alibaba starts selling its Qwen N1 AI glasses in China from $450

Alibaba has started selling its new Qwen Glasses N1 smart glasses in China, at prices from 2,999 yuan ($450) before discounts, Bloomberg reported from a launch event in Hangzhou on Tuesday. Several Chinese outlets put the starting price slightly lower, at 2,899 yuan. With state subsidies and launch offers, buyers can pay as little as 2,218 […]

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Visa gets China’s approval to prepare a domestic card clearing business

Visa has won approval to start preparing a domestic bank card clearing business in China, the company said on Tuesday. The People’s Bank of China approved its “Application to Prepare”, which lets Visa begin formal preparations. It does not yet let Visa process domestic payments. Visa first applied to the central bank in May 2020, […]

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DeepSeek to lead seed round in $400mn robot AI start-up, Bloomberg reports

DeepSeek has agreed to lead the first funding round for Winverse AI, a start-up building AI for robots, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The seed round is worth tens of millions of dollars and would value Winverse at about $400mn after the investment. Meituan’s investment arm, Long-Z, has also committed, the people said. […]

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TikTok’s Shou Chew expects an AI science breakthrough within three years

TikTok chief executive Shou Chew expects AI to deliver a major scientific breakthrough within two to three years. He named physics, biotech, chemistry and materials science. Chew spoke on Monday at DBS Bank’s Asia Future Forward Conference in Singapore, CNBC reported. “In the next two to three years, we’re going to have a real scientific […]

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Microsoft launches a decision model built on Alibaba’s Qwen

Microsoft has released Microsoft-Decision-1, a small model that picks between fixed answer options instead of writing text. Microsoft built it on Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen3.5-9B and then post-trained it, according to the Foundry model card. Achint Srivastava, a vice president of software engineering in Microsoft’s Office of the CTO, announced the model in a blog post […]

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China agrees to curb hybrid car exports to the EU after Beijing talks

China has agreed to moderate its exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars to the EU, which EU trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said could cut them by more than half. He announced it on Friday in press remarks in Beijing, after the second round of EU-China trade and investment consultations. “It is unsustainable and it […]

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Super Micro case ‘fixer’ pleads guilty to sending AI servers to China

A former contractor charged alongside Super Micro Computer’s co-founder has pleaded guilty to helping smuggle AI servers to China, Bob Van Voris reported for Bloomberg. Ting-Wei ‘Willy’ Sun entered his plea in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday, as part of a deal with prosecutors. US authorities have described him as a ‘fixer’. A $2.5bn […]

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Uber and Pony.ai will test Chinese robotaxis in London within weeks

Pony.ai will start testing its seventh-generation robotaxis in London in the coming weeks, ahead of a service on Uber. The Chinese self-driving company announced the plan on X on Thursday. “We look forward to working with local officials, and our partners, as plans progress to begin trials for self-driving vehicles under the UK’s frontier plan,” […]

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