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TREE NEWS update: Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at a regular press briefing that all parties should jointly promote AI development that is open, inclusive, beneficial and oriented toward good. He was responding to a question about recent media reports that the United States and China will hold talks on AI safety risks in the coming weeks. Guo said China has repeatedly stated its position on artificial intelligence.

TREE NEWS update: Xpeng Robotics has completed supply-chain factory audits and designated core component suppliers, advancing its mass-production timeline. Xpeng Group held its first robotics supply-chain partner conference on the 22nd, with leading suppliers of actuators, dexterous hands, sensors and AI chips attending. Tesla’s robotics team has also recently audited Chinese suppliers, with the two sides said to share a high degree of overlap at the core-supplier level.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s ChiNext Index closed up 0.01% and the Shanghai Composite added 0.06%, while the Shenzhen Component slipped 0.05%, after all three indexes retreated from intraday highs. AI application plays led, with Xinhua Winshare Publishing hitting a third straight limit-up and Huamei Holdings and Xinhua Media each posting a second. Total turnover across the Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing exchanges reached 2.15 trillion yuan as about 3,000 stocks fell.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Commerce and State Administration for Market Regulation issued the 15th Five-Year Plan for the light industry and textile sector, calling for faster development of vertical large models and dedicated AI agents covering the full supply chain. The plan deploys online surface-defect detection, self-optimizing process parameters and predictive maintenance in appliances, furniture, food, ceramics, paper and textiles, and promotes generative AI design in footwear, apparel, home textiles and jewelry.

TREE NEWS update: Honor and Alibaba are jointly building five vertical-domain models and solutions for next-generation AI phones, Honor product line president Fang Fei said at Alibaba’s Yunqi main forum. Alibaba supplies foundation model capabilities while Honor contributes system-level capabilities and real user scenarios. The Honor Magic9 will deeply integrate the super agent model and solutions co-developed by the two companies.

TREE NEWS update: NetEase Youdao’s Ziyue Live series open-source models R2T2, a streaming speech recognition model, and T3PO, a translation model, have each reached the top of Hugging Face’s ASR and translation trending charts. The two models now rank first in their respective categories on the platform.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq Composite rose 2.26% on September 21 to close at a record 27,122.09, while AMD gained about 10% to pass a $1 trillion market capitalization for the first time. Meta rose roughly 11.4%, Intel about 12% and Arm about 17%, as Meta’s personal AI agent Muse, launched September 8, topped US app store free charts with an estimated 1.1 million installs by September 18.

TREE NEWS update: Finland’s presidential office said on the 21st that the governments of Finland, Norway and other countries, together with European Union institutions, issued a joint international initiative calling for stronger global governance and international cooperation on frontier artificial intelligence. The initiative urges that AI technology remain under human control. No further details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Finland’s presidential office said on the 21st that the governments of Finland, Norway and other countries, together with European Union institutions, issued a joint international initiative calling for stronger global governance and international cooperation on frontier artificial intelligence. The initiative urges that AI technology remain under human control.

TREE NEWS update: Salesforce said Agentforce ARR crossed $1.5 billion, up 240% year over year, with Agentforce and Data 360 combined ARR near $3.9 billion, up more than 210%. The company said Agentforce and Slack have completed 7 billion Agentic Work Units, including 3.2 billion in the second quarter alone, up 97% quarter over quarter. Salesforce also introduced Flex Credits pricing: 100,000 credits cost $500, with one standard Agent Action consuming 20 credits, about $0.10.

TREE NEWS reports: Global semiconductor revenue surpassed $425 billion in the second quarter of 2026, a new all-time high. The quarter’s revenue rose 31.4% from the prior quarter, beating the previous record 29.2% sequential growth set in the first quarter. AI demand and strong memory prices remained the main drivers, lifting first-half 2026 semiconductor revenue to $752 billion.

TREE NEWS update: The official x402 toolkit now includes Cardano tooling, letting applications and AI agents make payments in ADA and other tokens on the network. The payment middleware component has so far been tested only in a pre-production environment and is not yet running on mainnet. Coinbase created x402 in 2025 and later contributed it to a Linux Foundation-backed organization whose members include Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and AWS. Solana, XRP Ledger and several Ethereum-compatible networks already support the standard.

TREE NEWS reports: Embodied-intelligence data company Mifeng Technology has been reported to be approaching a valuation of RMB 10 billion. When asked to verify the figure, the company declined to comment. No investor names, round size or official confirmation were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s Mifeng Technology, a company in the embodied-intelligence data sector, has been reported to be approaching a valuation of RMB 10 billion, or about 10 billion yuan. When asked to verify the figure, the company declined to comment. The valuation report has not been confirmed by the company.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba chip unit T-Head unveiled its Yitian server CPU roadmap at the 2026 Hangzhou Apsara Conference, saying it will launch the Yitian 720 and Yitian 730 in 2027. The Yitian 720 promises across-the-board gains in single-core performance, core density and energy efficiency. The Yitian 730 will be the first chip built on T-Head’s fully in-house CPU microarchitecture, with single-core SPECint2017/GHz performance up to 1.4 times that of the Yitian 710.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s chip unit T-Head unveiled its Yitian server CPU roadmap at the 2026 Hangzhou Apsara Conference, saying it will launch the Yitian 720 and Yitian 730 in 2027. The Yitian 720 promises across-the-board gains in single-core performance, core density and energy efficiency, while the Yitian 730 will be the first based on T-Head’s fully in-house CPU microarchitecture, with single-core SPECint2017/GHz performance up to 1.4x that of the Yitian 710.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s Qwen brand debuted its full new AI hardware lineup at the Yunqi Conference on September 22, including the Qwen AI Glasses N1, N1 Pro and Qwen AI clip-on earbuds. The three products opened for online pre-order the same day and will go on sale on October 13. The glasses support eye tracking and iris payment.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba Cloud used its Apsara Conference to unveil what it called China’s most powerful domestic AI chip, a 10-trillion-parameter model and a 20GW data center plan. Separately, Tencent released a preview of its Hunyuan Image 3.5 model. Tencent shares jumped 6.6% and Alibaba rose nearly 3% as Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Tech Index gained 1%.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s chip unit T-Head unveiled the Zhenwu V900, a combined training-and-inference AI chip, at the 2026 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference. Alibaba said the chip delivers three times the performance of the Zhenwu M890 and is the most powerful self-developed AI chip in China, capable of training and running trillion-parameter models. Mass production and sales are scheduled for the first quarter of 2027.

TREE NEWS reports: The crypto market rose across the board on September 22, with the AI sector up 9.66% in 24 hours. Bittensor (TAO) gained 18.97%, Akedo (AKE) rose 13.63% and Fetch.ai (FET) climbed 14.01%. Bitcoin (BTC) advanced 5.31%, breaking above $87,000 intraday, while Ethereum (ETH) added 2.63% to top $2,700. MAG7.ssi rose 4.54% and MEME.ssi gained 11.08%.