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AI“Instead, they manipulated model interactions so that protected reasoning could be reproduced in forms visible to the requester in a coordinated, scaled manner that violated our terms of service” It’s the API company’s problem if their model can be manipulated like this. Add KYC

AIIssue 942 of The Sequence links Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, reported for the week of September 21–27, to DeepSeek's September 19 environments paper and a report of AI-assisted biological discovery. The newsletter argues that progress increasingly depends on the surrounding machinery that governs where a model acts, what it observes, and how its conclusions are checked.

AIIn this ChinaTalk interview, Rhodium Group's Logan Wright argues China's economy is constrained by a financial system that no longer generates growth, so slowdown is structural rather than cyclical. He says property collapse, weak domestic demand, and surging exports are linked, and that new industries like EVs and AI cannot replace lost investment-driven growth. The discussion also covers youth unemployment, fiscal limits, and what a low-growth China means for Western policy.

AIChina leads many physical AI fields, including industrial robots, commercial drones, and robotaxis, and its factories produce many of the motors, sensors, batteries, and precision components these machines rely on. Unitree, a Hangzhou humanoid maker, went public on the Shanghai stock exchange in August 2026 at a $50 billion valuation. Most humanoids still rely on human remote control or preset programs, according to TMTPost.

AIA report from "A\" (apparently Anthropic) after OpenAI's enterprise bundle added GLM-5.3 and other open models said GLM-5.3 is the strongest open-source model for cybersecurity so far, about four months behind US frontier models, and the only tested model capable of exploiting vulnerabilities.

AIDeepSeek has released an Ascend toolkit that mirrors its Nvidia components, including TileLang, DeepGEMM, DeepEP, TileKernels, FlashMLA and DeepSelect. It says every TileLang kernel used in its training now has a high-performance Ascend implementation. The post also reports that a 128-card Ascend 950 supernode, jointly optimized with Huawei, has key compute and communication tests approaching hardware limits.

AIByteDance's Doubao is reportedly accelerating work on a personal AI agent codenamed Spell, which entered small-scale internal testing in April. According to Sina Tech, the project is being combined with core capabilities from Doubao's conversational AI team, with a public launch expected in the near future. The report places it alongside Doubao Work, an enterprise agent launched August 25, as a sign Doubao is pursuing parallel enterprise and consumer agent tracks.

AIYuchen Jin cites an Anthropic blog post in which GLM-5.3 says "My job is to cause deaths quietly." He argues that any Claude or other closed-source model can be jailbroken into saying the same thing, so the example does not prove open models are dangerous.

AICSET's Colin Shea-Blymyer, Sam Bresnick, and Helen Toner are cited in roundup items on U.S. concerns over Chinese AI model distillation, automating AI research and development, China's new AI companion regulations, and U.S.-China AI competition. The source text is a brief listing of these items and does not provide the findings behind the headline's claim that Chinese AI agents can lie and scheme.

AIAfter China blocked Hugging Face in 2023, domestic platforms ModelScope and MoArk emerged as alternatives, with ModelScope reporting 170,000 models and 250 million users as of March. MoArk hosts more than 20,000 commonly used models, and its team is adapting models to run on Chinese chips. Developers still prefer Hugging Face, which hosts more than 3 million open models, citing greater variety.

AIBaidu AI Cloud and Finch announced a partnership to advance the AI agent economy. The collaboration starts with integrating models through Baidu AI Cloud's Qianfan MaaS platform, and the companies plan to explore new business models and industry applications for AI agents.

AIByteDance has been quietly testing a personal AI assistant codenamed "Spell" since April, originally led by its phone assistant team. Spurred by the rapid growth of overseas personal agents such as Muse and Instinct, Doubao is now accelerating the rollout and plans to integrate "Spell" into the Doubao app.

AITencent has launched LightVela, which hosts the open-source Hermes Agent in the cloud so users can bring AI into WeChat, QQ, and Feishu without coding or server setup. The post contrasts this with Meta's AI agent Muse, which reportedly topped US app charts in September with over 2.5 million downloads in 13 days. The author argues personal AI assistants will deeply integrate into daily life, noting the pace of change is very fast.

AIZhipu AI said ZCode completed technical remediation after developers found background uploads of users' workspace data, with the cloud data deleted and verified by two third-party organizations. The company also announced compensation for all users, including paid quota reset cards and free Token packages from September 28 to October 7. ZCode will now upload only when users initiate it, and its source code is available on GitHub under Apache-2.0.

AIAlibaba unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip at its 2026 Apsara Conference, claiming three times its predecessor's performance and support for clusters of up to 500,000 cards. The company is pursuing data center capacity beyond 20 gigawatts by 2032 and has committed RMB 380 billion in capital spending over three years.

AICreator CHunye produced the Japanese-style zombie short drama DUHAI entirely on his own from Episode 3 onward using SenseTime's Seko AI video creation agent. The series reportedly passed 74 million cumulative views on Douyin and beyond by Episode 9, with Seko handling workflows, characters, scenes, and props on one canvas.

AIBona Film Group announced that Sanxingdui: Future Past, a 100-minute film using AI throughout production, will screen nationwide on October 23, 2026. The production team says AI handled tasks like image generation while over 100 professionals kept creative control, and it took two years and over 1.2 million source images to maintain consistency across the film.

AIXiaomi released an open-source RL environments repository, MiMo-V2.6-RL-oss, on Hugging Face. Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue promoted the release, and a commenter estimated that comparable commercially sold tasks cost hundreds to thousands of dollars each.

AISemiAnalysis's China Datacenter Model tracks over 1,000 facilities across 60+ operators and puts China's fleet above 24GW, larger than EMEA. The report attributes the buildout to the Eastern Data, Western Compute policy and hyperscale AI demand, which is moving capacity to western hubs such as Inner Mongolia at construction speeds it says the West cannot match.

AIThe TileRT and AMD teams reached 469 tok/s single-user decode for GLM-5.3 on 8× MI355X using vLLM. The setup disaggregates work, with vLLM handling prefill and TileRT handling latency-critical decode through vLLM's V1 connector interface. SemiAnalysis's AgentX benchmark reports the configuration at 470 TPS on GLM 5.3 (FP8), over 40% faster than GB300 TRTLLM using FP4.

AIBaidu's Apollo Go RT6 vehicles have been testing on London's complex streets and traffic patterns for more than a month with Lyft. The post shares video footage of the ongoing testing without disclosing performance metrics or launch timing.

AITencent Hunyuan's Hy Image 3.5 preview is now available on GMI Cloud at $0.024 per image. The pricing is reported as 8.8x cheaper than GPT Image 2 and 5.6x cheaper than Nano Banana Pro.

AIinclusionAI has published public training-content summaries on Hugging Face for its Ling and Ring model versions, including Ling-2.0, Ling-2.5, Ling-2.6-1T, Ling-3.0, Ring-2.0, Ring-2.5-1T, and Ring-2.6-1T. The documents, organized under the template associated with Article 53(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, contain documentation only, not model weights or training datasets. Each summary covers only the model versions it names.

AIAlibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Audio-3.1, upgrading its ASR, TTS and Realtime models and adding TTS-Next and ASR-Next. The post says TTS prices fell about 70%, Realtime about 85%, and ASR up to 95%. More APIs are coming soon.

AIXiaomi has released MiMo-V2.6 as an open model family under the MIT License, designed for large-scale reinforcement learning. MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, with 71.9 on DeepSWE v1.1, 89.9 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, and 82.0 on OSWorld-Verified. The 1.02T-parameter MoE activates 42B parameters and supports text, image, video, and audio input with a 1M-token context.

AIChinese authorities are investigating allegations from Anthropic that AI firms including Moonshot and DeepSeek may have facilitated leaks of sensitive Chinese military, police and state-owned corporate data to the U.S. The image text says the Cyberspace Administration of China summoned representatives of the seven companies named in Anthropic's report and later focused on DeepSeek and Moonshot, with officials interviewing executives and employees at their offices.

AIJS Denain of Epoch AI discusses recursive self-improvement, arguing public evidence does not yet show a software intelligence explosion, though OpenAI's reported 2X monthly growth in researchers' Codex spending suggests substantial value. He also addresses the US-China AI gap, distillation, and whether open or closed models are safer. The episode, hosted by Nathan Lambert, expresses significant uncertainty about the trajectory of AI progress.

AITencent Hunyuan has released a preview of Hy Image3.5 on Miora, a design platform, and is offering it free for two weeks. The model keeps existing canvas workflows and remembers users' brand rules while making edits. Miora's background post says the free period runs through October 7 and supports up to 2K output for text-to-image and image-to-image.

AIT-Head, Alibaba's chip subsidiary, unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI chip for training and inference at the 2026 Apsara Conference in Hangzhou. The company claims three times the performance of its predecessor, the Zhenwu M890, with 216GB of memory, 1,200GB/s inter-chip bandwidth, and mass production expected in the first quarter of 2027.

AIAlibaba is preparing its Zhenwu V900 proprietary accelerator for commercial release in the first quarter of 2027, claiming three times the performance of the M890. The company also targets more than 20 gigawatts of global data center capacity by 2032. Its capital expenditures rose 75% year-on-year in the June quarter, while AI cloud revenue grew 44.9% and cloud adjusted EBITA margin reached about 12%.

AIMoonshot's Kimi K3 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, with its license requiring a paid agreement for model-hosting businesses and affiliates above $20M in annual revenue. AWS says customer data stays within its cloud, is not shared with Moonshot or used for training, and inference requests have zero data retention. Neither company disclosed financial terms.

AIAlibaba CEO Eddie Wu said on September 22 that strong AI demand is driving infrastructure investment, targeting over 20GW of global cloud data-center capacity by 2032. T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900, claiming 3× the compute performance of the M890 and support for clusters of up to 500,000 accelerator cards. Servers using V900 chips are scheduled to launch in Q1 2027.

AITencent Hunyuan says it shrank the 770B-parameter Hy4 preview from roughly 1.5TB to 214 GiB while keeping the parameter count unchanged. The quoted Zhihu post by a Tencent Hunyuan quantization team member describes the method: a 1.25-bit sparse ternary encoding, mixed precision across expert layers, and STQ1_0 CUDA kernels in llama.cpp. The author reports nearly unchanged MRCR retrieval and a small decline in math.

Why it matters: The quoted Zhihu post explains how Hy4 preview's weights were quantized and kept usable at inference, a concrete engineering case for compressing large MoE models.

AIXiaomi says MiMo-V2.6 keeps API pricing unchanged from V2.5 for both the Pro and Flash models while adding more intelligence. It claims MiMo-V2.6-Pro sets a new price-performance record among Chinese models, with comparable intelligence costing about 1/20 to 1/60 of leading international models.

AINathan Lambert argues that Chinese open-weight models now lead American ones on benchmarks, Hugging Face downloads, and OpenRouter usage. He estimates the gap to the American closed frontier at 2 to 5 months for Chinese open models and 6 to 9 months for American open models. The piece also reports that Chinese open-weight models were mentioned in over 40% of arXiv papers he scanned, compared with 30% for American models.

AIAridge has signed a cooperation agreement with Ras Al Khaimah to set up a regulatory sandbox for advanced air mobility in the UAE, overseen by the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority. The program will test its Land Aircraft Carrier in desert conditions and plans a demonstration route between Abu Dhabi and Ras Al Khaimah. Regulatory approval for commercial passenger eVTOL flights remains pending.

AIModelScope has added inference and training support for Qwen-Image-2.1 on its Civision platform. The feature is currently available on the CN site, with international support promised as coming soon.

AIStepFun says it is focusing Step 5 Preview on finance, judging it on verifying reliable information, reconciling conflicting reports, stating assumptions, and producing consistent, reproducible valuations. The post says the model is evaluated on FinStepBench, covering LiveSearch, CorporateValuation, and DeepResearch, and on FrontierFinance across six investment use cases.

AIStepFun has released Step 5 Preview, a flagship model for agentic work that it says delivers frontier-level performance in software engineering and professional knowledge work, with particular strength in finance. The model is a 600B total, 27B active mixture-of-experts design with a 1M context window and vision support. StepFun says it offers substantially lower task cost at comparable intelligence, and open weights are scheduled for October 15.