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On Aug 31, China's first satellite-aired AI drama 'Journey to the West: The Sequel' premiered on Hunan TV prime time and Mango TV. The 60-episode, 40-min series, produced by Mango TV and Bojing Culture, was made camera-free, 100% generated by Seedance. It hit 150 million views in one week. Director Li Dongshen is a longtime documentary creator.....

Ant inclusionAI opened an AI-Transparency repo on HuggingFace, publishing training data summaries for Ling, Ring, and Ming series. Docs only, no weights or datasets; covers Ling-2.0 to 3.0, Ring-2.0 to 2.6, Ming-Omni and two 16B-A3B multimodal models, aiming to improve transparency.....

Tencent Hunyuan launches 'Tencent Hy Translate' app, available on mini-program, plugin and PC. Powered by Hy-MT2, it supports 33 languages, including 5 Chinese minority languages/dialects, with voice, photo and offline translation. Offline models can be downloaded, covering HK, Macau, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.....

At UN, OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face leaders urged stronger AI coordination and comparable standards for capability evaluation, safety testing, incident reporting. Trump administration opposed new global AI governance, saying risks don't justify limiting development or ceding regulation. Firms stressed common standards, rapid incident reporting.....

Huawei launched Xiaoyi Work, an AI assistant for office, coding and creative tasks, adapted to HarmonyOS phones, tablets and PCs. Update the app to unlock. New users get 31 days free with 1000 AI points. Features include market research, documents, PPT, data analysis, content creation and coding.....

DeepSeek's annualized revenue has surpassed $1 billion, doubling from under $500 million months ago, driven by price increases and rising developer/enterprise adoption. CEO Liang Wenfeng disclosed the figure at an investor meeting, seen as boosting market confidence.....

Google DeepMind head Kavukcuoglu said at an AI summit that Gemini 4 is coming, now in early post-training to improve reliability. Skipping 3.5 Pro, Google bets on Gemini 4, aiming to launch well before year-end and accelerating early results.....

At the 2026 Snapdragon Summit, Qualcomm and PrismML ran a 2B-parameter 1-bit quantized Bonsai vision model locally on Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1 smart glasses, enabling offline image Q&A. Built on Bonsai 1.7B, 1-bit precision cuts memory to 1/4 of 4-bit models, allowing ~4x parameters in the same memory and reducing storage and inference needs.....

Multiple sources say Moonshot AI's flagship model Kimi K3.1 is taking shape internally, with release as early as October 2026, offering Low, High, and Max reasoning levels. Tipster @MaxForAI leaked internal JSON and API responses on X, revealing a "k3d1-agent" model ID with agent mode, scenarios, and config toggles, likely an early leak.....

OpenAI adds voice agent to ChatGPT mobile: speak to draft docs and summarize emails. Pro/Plus users can create documents, emails, summarize Slack, and do advanced tasks like building sites, making slides, and using cloud browser. Free/Go users get plugins and connected apps. Voice chats offer richer text output.....

Meta unveiled AI devices at Connect, centered on personal agent Muse. Zuckerberg said the future is for everyone, expecting Muse to serve billions. Media noted Meta is combining AI, smart glasses and VR, with less metaverse talk; multiple glasses launched, camera-free version emphasizes privacy.....

Tencent launched "Hy Translation" app on Sept 24, an all-in-one translation assistant for outbound travel and business communication, available in the US, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. It supports 33 languages, 5 minority languages and dialects, with voice, photo, conversation and offline translation.....

On Sept 24, Zhiyuan's 20,000th embodied AI robot Expedition A3Ultra was delivered to Chimelong at Hengqin, just 6 months after the 10,000th. The world's first large-scale embodied AI theme park opened with over 300 robots, marking a key step for embodied AI in tourism.....

On Sept 24, Huawei launched Xiaoyi Work, a 24/7 AI assistant for HarmonyOS devices with cross-device sync. It handles research, documents, PPT, data analysis, content, and coding. Given a goal, it autonomously plans and executes tasks, with progress checks and approval at key steps.....

China's livestream e-commerce is shifting from rapid expansion to rational maturity, with annual transactions near RMB 7 trillion and online retail share over 36% in 2025. Growth slows and competition intensifies; AI is reshaping the ecosystem, delivering notable cost reduction and efficiency gains.....

Alibaba DAMO Academy and hospitals released AI model DAMO EAGLE for esophageal cancer screening. Using only non-contrast CT, it detects esophageal cancer and early lesions without invasive imaging. Validated on 80,000+ cases in 3 countries, with 90% sensitivity and 99.2% specificity; published in Nature Medicine.....

Tencent Hunyuan research examines batch size in online LLM RL. As models self-generate data and rollout/training scaling rates diverge, classical critical batch size theory needs revisiting. Covering GRPO and PPO, it gives practical guidance for efficient training on large GPU clusters.....

Moonshot AI is rumored to release Kimi K3.1 in Oct 2026, with Low/High/Max reasoning levels. Internal API leak shows 'k3d1-agent' identifiers, Agent mode, scenarios, config switches, possibly ultra-long context and multi-agent support.....

Doubao trended over rumors of downsizing its General Session team, with claims of layoffs, halving the dialogue team, and marginalization. PR head Liu Xing said reports reflect organizational restructuring with some functions split, denied layoffs, and called self-media interpretations inaccurate.....

DeepSeek released a 31-page paper unveiling DSec, a sandbox infrastructure for large-scale agent training. Submitted Sept 19, with 130+ authors; founder Liang Wenfeng is last author. DSec serves 3 million instances daily per unit.....