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Thu 5 Nov
Bionic humanoid robot news anchors unveiled at World Media Summit
The first bionic humanoid robot news anchors have been presented at the Forum on AI and Chinese Modernization, held during the Seventh World Media Summit, Xinhua reported.
Democratic governor win puts 41% of new US data-centre projects at risk, Musk hit hardest
A Democratic governor's election win puts 41% of new US data-centre projects at risk of being halted, with Musk facing the biggest blow.
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BloomingbitAIBearish
Nvidia-backed Agility Robotics completes $2.5bn merger and lists on Nasdaq
Agility Robotics, backed by Nvidia and Amazon, completed its merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI and began trading on Nasdaq on 5 November under the ticker AGLT. The deal values the humanoid robot maker at about $2.5bn and is expected to raise about $465m.
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See all 2 updates on Agility Robotics SPAC merger and Nasdaq listingMeta decides to stop naming its AI models after fruits
Meta has decided internally to drop fruit codenames for its AI models, mainly for branding reasons, with its latest model, Wonder Full, codenamed Watermelon. Meta says Wonder Full is its first model to reach the frontier level; earlier models were named Avocado and Mango.
Tencent Hunyuan scales Hy4 inference cluster tenfold after WorkBuddy surge
Tencent Hunyuan said it expanded its Hy4 inference cluster tenfold after the model launched on WorkBuddy on 4 Nov, and raised free usage quotas, though peak demand may still cause limits.
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- Tencent Cloud has deployed more than 2m servers, Dowson Tong says
- Tencent's Dowson Tong says Hy4 and Hy4 flash models are coming
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ChainCatcherAINeutral
Riot says Anthropic data-centre lease carries 12% annual interest fallback
Riot Platforms' Corsicana data-centre lease with Anthropic took effect on 4 November and is expected to provide 910 MW of critical IT load, a SEC filing shows. Riot will repay up to $4m per MW of Anthropic's module costs, subject to securing acceptable financing, with a 12% annual interest fallback clause.
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- Hut 8 sells 3,102 Bitcoin for about $250m as Riot plans to sell nearly all new output
- Riot Platforms signs $28bn AI lease covering its entire Corsicana site
- Riot Platforms shares rise 21% premarket after Q3 revenue beat
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Micron said to pause $4.5bn Taoyuan chip plant amid union dispute
Micron has largely halted plans for a new memory chip plant in Taoyuan, Taiwan, budgeted at $3bn-$4.5bn and due to start output in 2028, because of an ongoing labour dispute with its union, Bloomberg reported. The Taoyuan union wants 15% of operating profit shared with global staff as all-cash awards.
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Baidu open-sources ERNIE-5.5-Flash with 280bn total parameters
Baidu has released the weights of its ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base model, its first open-source model with hundreds of billions of parameters since the ERNIE 4.5 series in June 2025. The model has 280bn total parameters, activates 14bn per token and supports contexts of up to 1m tokens.
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Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup whose agents let engineers work on several projects in parallel. Conductor founder and CEO Charlie Holtz announced the deal, and Meta confirmed it to TechCrunch without disclosing terms.
Wang Xingxing says physical AI's core challenge is aligning models with the real world
Wang Xingxing, founder and chairman of humanoid robot maker Unitree, said the main challenge for physical AI is aligning models with the physical world, citing sensor and motion errors. He expects the problem could be solved within one to two years.
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- Wang Xingxing says 2027 likely to be a turning point for robotics
- Wang Xingxing says Unitree will focus on robot brains and seek global partners
- Wang Xingxing says he fears wasting every day as Unitree bets on physical AI
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Meritz says memory orders for 2027-2028 far exceed capacity
Meritz Securities says memory chip makers' orders for 2027 and 2028 far exceed their capacity, and even possible data-centre delays after the US midterms are unlikely to end the shortage. It says delivery rates have held at 80-85% this year, pushing prices sharply higher.
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CZ says AI speeds up cyberattacks faster than banks can strengthen defences
Changpeng Zhao said AI is accelerating cyberattacks faster than financial institutions can improve their defences, with several major attacks now possible in a single day. After the $6.3bn attack on Binance on 29 October, which the FBI attributed to North Korean hackers, he backed a crypto security alliance to share audits and coordinate asset freezes.
Microsoft declines multibillion-dollar expansion deal with UK AI start-up Nscale
Microsoft declined to more than double an existing data centre compute lease in Texas with Nscale, the UK's most valuable AI start-up, leaving it to find new customers or risk losing billions in future revenue as it targets a $35bn listing, the Financial Times reported, citing three people.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi Hosted Agents cloud service
Moonshot AI released Kimi Hosted Agents, offering the harness that runs agents as a cloud service for enterprises and developers. It provides a 24/7 hosted environment for long-running tasks and multi-agent collaboration without firms building their own framework.
Arthur Hayes says AI share dilution may hit liquidity and crypto
Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of Maelstrom, says share supply and future unlocks at SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI could weigh on AI stocks and raise debt costs. He says Maelstrom will wait on the sidelines unless fiat liquidity shifts materially.
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- Arthur Hayes says Bitcoin will weaken until Fed or banks expand balance sheets
- Arthur Hayes says OpenAI and Anthropic lack value as AI bubble grows
- Arthur Hayes says he would trade a trillion-dollar AI bailout, favouring BTC and ETH
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OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman says ChatGPT Images 2.6 is live
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman said on X that ChatGPT Images 2.6 has been released.
Sand.ai raises $200m A+ round to reach unicorn status
Sand.ai, the video-model company founded by former Microsoft Research Asia researcher Cao Yue, said on 5 November it had closed a $200m A+ round led by Cornerstone Capital and Wangsu Science & Technology. It has raised $300m in 10 months across three 2026 rounds.
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OpenAI may launch Astra, Sol and cyber models as soon as 6 November
OpenAI may release its next-generation Astra and Sol models, plus a Cyber model for cybersecurity, as soon as 6 November local time, with some users having spotted a 'gpt-6.2-astra' identifier in Codex usage statistics. Testers report gains in physical effects and animation generation, though this is unverified by public benchmarks.
Wed 4 Nov
Isomorphic Labs in talks to raise about $5bn at a reported $50bn valuation
Alphabet's AI drug discovery company Isomorphic Labs is in talks to raise about $5bn in new funding at a valuation of about $50bn, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The round is not finalised and details may change.
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