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TREE NEWS update: Marine embodied-intelligence company Ouka Zhihbo said on September 23 that it completed a Series C round in July 2026, led by Xigao Investment with Yuanhe Puhua and Sanyuan Capital participating. The company did not disclose the size of the round on its own, but said it has raised nearly 300 million yuan year-to-date.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic is in preliminary talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity from Stream Data Centers. The discussions, reported on Thursday, have not been finalized and no terms were disclosed. If completed, the deal would mark one of the largest known data center capacity commitments by an AI model developer.

TREE NEWS update: The AI Technology Empowering New Power Systems Forum, combined with the sixth technical seminar of the China-Brazil Electric Power Innovation Consortium, was held in Rio de Janeiro on the 21st and 22nd local time. Industry participants from China and Brazil discussed applications and cooperation in AI for power system planning and operation and for enterprise digital transformation.

TREE NEWS update: SoftBank has launched a jumbo high-yield bond offering to raise funds for artificial intelligence investments. The Japanese conglomerate is tapping the high-yield market as it continues to build out its AI portfolio. No deal size or pricing terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba will build new data centers in Finland and the Netherlands, and expand its existing data center footprint in Germany, France and the United Arab Emirates. The company did not disclose investment figures or a timeline for the buildout. The expansion extends Alibaba’s cloud infrastructure presence across Europe and the Middle East.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba Cloud unveiled AgentCore, an enterprise-grade agent platform, during its Yunqi Conference. The platform is designed to boost enterprise productivity through more native human-agent collaboration and fuller capabilities for building and governing agents. No pricing, availability date or customer names were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Microsoft plans to widen discounts on its Copilot AI assistant and roll out an artificial-intelligence “super app,” according to The Information. The move signals the company is pushing harder to drive adoption of its AI products. No pricing, timeline or product details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq rose for a fourth straight session to a record high as AI-themed trades reignited, while crude futures fell for a fifth day and London copper neared an all-time high. At Alibaba’s Yunqi conference, the company said it aims to operate more than 20GW of global data-center capacity by 2032 and unveiled its most powerful domestic AI chip, the Zhenwu V900.

TREE NEWS update: Qualcomm unveiled two new smartphone processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. The chips are the company’s latest flagship mobile platforms. No pricing, availability or performance figures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek will address the UN Security Council on AI risks this week, sharing the stage with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Amodei has spent the past year calling China’s government the biggest threat to the AI industry. The session puts the Chinese AI developer and the US safety-focused lab chief before the same Security Council audience.

TREE NEWS update: Apple began shipping its new Mac mini and Mac Studio desktops on Tuesday, marketing them to business customers as a cheaper alternative to renting data-center capacity. The pitch is local AI: companies can run models on the machines instead of paying cloud providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic per token.

TREE NEWS update: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said he agrees with AI company CEOs that the industry needs regulation. Carney made the remark without specifying which executives or rules he was referring to. The comment signals the Canadian government’s openness to oversight of artificial intelligence.

TREE NEWS update: Coinbase said on X that Coinbase for Agents now lets AI agents access stock, cryptocurrency and derivatives markets. Using its x402 payment feature, the agents can pay for market data while executing user instructions. The product extends agent-driven trading beyond crypto into equities and derivatives.

TREE NEWS update: IonQ announced it has developed and successfully tested what it calls the industry’s first end-to-end real-time quantum error correction decoder, running on a single off-the-shelf CPU. Quantum research lead and paper co-author Nicolas Delfosse said real-time decoding across hundreds of logical qubits and millions of logical operations is a significant milestone, and that running on one CPU offers a practical path to commercial-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing.

TREE NEWS update: Sui has launched GraphQL Subscriptions on its mainnet, the network announced on X, saying agentic finance requires real-time data. The feature lets developers stream live on-chain data rather than polling for updates. Sui did not give a launch date or further technical details in the post.

TREE NEWS reports: US bank, insurance and online travel stocks fell on Tuesday as investors weighed whether Meta Platforms’ personal AI agents such as Muse could disrupt businesses that rely on consumer inertia. The S&P 500 financials index dropped as much as 2.4% to its lowest since July, with JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo each down more than 2.5%, and Allstate and Charles Schwab off over 5%. Expedia fell 3.7% and Booking Holdings 3.9%, while Planet Fitness dropped as much as 11%.

TREE NEWS reports: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President Thomas Barkin said US inflation pressure is higher than his comfort level, calling AI-driven economic activity “quite hot.” Barkin added that, given AI expectations, the economy is not overheating. His remarks point to persistent price pressure even as AI-related investment drives activity.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, available immediately to Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise users in ChatGPT Work and Codex. API pricing for both models is 50% below the promotional pricing of GPT-5.6. Free and Go tier users can access GPT-6 Luna in the desktop app, while neither model is yet available in chat.

TREE NEWS reports: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is being viewed by President Donald Trump as a candidate for the role of “AI czar,” according to the material. The item gives no further detail on the scope of the position, the timing of any appointment, or whether it would be held alongside his current Treasury duties.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, its new flagship model, claiming Fable 5.1-level performance at 60% of the price. The company says the model matches Fable at a fraction of the cost, though GPT-6 Astra still beats it on two published benchmarks.