AI Industry Development & Policy Dynamics

According to Meta, the company released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models on October 12 to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. The weaker Muse Wonder model, which will power Meta's personal AI agent Muse for subscribers, is now available through an API. The more powerful Muse Wonder Full is

Tencent (00700.HK) launched demand testing on October 13 for approximately $5 billion in U.S. dollar and offshore Yuan bonds. Initial pricing guidance for the 10-year and 20-year U.S. dollar bonds was approximately 115 and 140 bps, respectively, above U.S. Treasury yields. According to people familiar with the matter, the proceeds will be used primarily for AI-related capital expenditures, with a considerable portion allocated to chip purchases. Four-Bond Structure and Pricing Guidance The bond

According to QbitAI, a model called GLM-5.3-Highspeed has begun appearing in Zhipu AI’s coding tool, ZCode. It was first discovered in ZCode version 3.15.1. The model is being randomly rolled out to some subscribers as a gray version and is not accessible to all paid users. A user who discovered the model shared a screenshot showing a token generation speed of approximately 490 tokens per second. User-measured speed of approximately 490 tokens/s According to a user screenshot cited by QbitAI, GL

According to Microsoft's announcement on Oct. 12, its third-generation in-house AI chip, Maia 300, uses a chiplet design: the chiplets responsible for key computations use TSMC's N2P (2nm) process, while the chiplets responsible for data transfer use the lower-cost 3nm process; compute, memory controllers, and I/O functions are designed separately, and each chip is equipped with 8 HBM4 stacks, delivering peak memory bandwidth of 18.0TB per second. Chip Specifications: TSMC's N2P 2nm Process, 8 H

According to PANews, Blockaid co-founder Ido Ben-Natan stated on October 13 that on-chain security incidents have reached record highs each month since the platform published its mid-year report in August. Attackers focus on exploiting on-chain infrastructure due to its high return on investment for

According to Goldman Sachs, the bank updated its "China Select AI Portfolio" to 50 stocks on October 13, covering five layers: power, semiconductors, infrastructure, large language models, and applications. The power layer includes Weichai Power, Yingliugufen, Costin, CATL, Siyuan Electric, and

Gate News, October 13 — According to Gate market data, as of press time, OBI (OBI) is trading at $0.00051, up 29.64% over the past 24 hours. It reached a high of $0.000696 and a low of $0.000301, while 24-hour trading volume reached $136.2k. Its current market cap is approximately $764.9k. Orbofi is a factory and incubation platform for multimodal, tradable AI agents and agentic tokens, enabling anyone to create and distribute functional, tokenized AI agents in under 1 minute. Orbofi has hosted

According to ChainCatcher, citing 硬AI reports, Alibaba's Qwen is launching a Personal Agent product called Qwen Go. In user demonstration videos, the product accessed airline booking platforms to find delayed flights, negotiated with customer service and secured 70 yuan in cash compensation. It

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek led a seed round for robotics AI startup Winverse AI, valuing the company at approximately $400 million. The funding round raised tens of millions of dollars, with Meituan's investment arm Long-Z Investments also participating. The transaction has not been formally c

According to PANews, on October 13, Alibaba's Qianwen AI assistant is launching a Personal Agent called 'Qianwen Go!' designed to execute tasks such as vehicle maintenance scheduling, sports appointment booking, and shopping price comparison. The platform, which debuted last year, has already

According to IMF chief economist, artificial intelligence growth exceeded global trade growth between 2023 and 2025. Without AI, trade growth would have been significantly lower during this period.

According to ChainCatcher, Zhipu AI released GLM-Legal, a specialized legal model trained on GLM-5.3-Flash, achieving a 19.2% task pass rate on Harvey LAB's evaluation covering 24 legal practice areas, nearly triple the baseline 6.7% and outperforming Kimi K3 and Claude Fable 5. The model ranked

The International Monetary Fund raised South Korea's economic growth forecast to 3.3% in its October World Economic Outlook released on the 13th, marking a 0.7 percentage point increase from the July projection of 2.6%. The upward revision reflects strong semiconductor exports driven by artificial i

According to Bloomberg, Tencent started marketing dollar and offshore yuan bonds totaling about $5 billion on October 13, with proceeds designated for artificial intelligence investment. The 10-year and 20-year dollar bonds carry preliminary yield guidance of approximately 115 and 140 basis points a

According to CCTV Military, the Chinese PLA Air Force unveiled a dedicated smart technology section at today's airshow, the first of its kind at an Air Force exhibition booth. The section features humanoid robots, virtual digital humans, AI-powered interview systems, brain-computer interface

Meta launched two artificial intelligence models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, on Monday, calling them its most capable models to date and a step toward 'personal superintelligence.' The models introduce capabilities Meta calls Active Memory, which carries relevant information across

According to the IMF, global GDP output would decline 1.1% by 2028 under an extreme scenario involving a pullback in AI investments and a sharp drop in asset prices.

Meta AI Research announced on October 12 that Meta had launched its flagship model series, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, positioning them as the company's most powerful AI models to date. In benchmark results, Muse Wonder Full scored approximately 56 points, while Claude Opus 5.5 scored approximately 58 points. Core Technology: Active Memory Retains User Information Across Conversations According to Meta's official announcement, the Muse Wonder series' core competitive strengths stem from tw

U.S. supermarket chain Kroger CEO Greg Foran announced on October 12 that the company plans to cut approximately 3,000 corporate positions over the next three years, representing about 37% of its 8,200 total corporate positions. The savings will be reinvested in store employees. The layoff announcement came just 20 days after Kroger unveiled its AI strategy on September 22. Financial Performance Triggers Layoffs: Q2 Same-Store Sales Rose Just 0.2% Kroger’s Q2 2026 financial report showed sales o

According to Broadcom CEO Hock Tan and Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, U.S. semiconductor stocks extended their sell-off late Monday (October 12) as concerns about AI infrastructure funding intensified. Micron Technology (MU) fell 2.7%, SanDisk (SNDK) dropped 3.3%, Intel (INTC) declined 2.5%, and Advanced Mic