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TREE NEWS update: Alibaba Group CEO Wu Yongming said on September 22 at the 2026 Hangzhou Yunqi Conference that the total volume of machine thinking will eventually exceed human thinking by more than 1,000 times. He described intelligence as becoming a scalable commodity, comparing the shift to how the industrial revolution turned power into a mass-produced good through the steam engine, internal combustion engine and electricity.

TREE NEWS update: Tencent Hunyuan released the Hy Image 3.5 preview, supporting text-to-image, image-to-image and multi-turn conversational creation. Tencent Cloud API pricing is set at 0.15 yuan per 2K image domestically and $0.024 per image on the international version, with charges applied only to output images.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said on September 22 at the Yunqi Conference that customer AI demand is very strong and the company will commit fully to AI infrastructure, aiming for Alibaba Cloud to operate more than 20GW of global data center capacity by 2032. The same day, T-Head launched its most powerful domestic AI chip, Zhenwu V900, with computing power three times that of the Zhenwu M890. Annual shipments of T-Head AI chips are expected to rise sharply.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba plans to train AI models with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters, the company said. The scale would place the models among the largest disclosed in the industry. No timeline, cost or deployment details were given.

TREE NEWS reports: Alibaba Cloud’s Wuying team is developing an AI device called QwenBook, positioned as a native agent computer but closer in form to a “Qwen tablet.” The product definition and hardware are developed in-house, with Wuying’s accumulated cloud-computer operating system and device-cloud capabilities folded into the project. The effort sets Alibaba on a different AI terminal path than ByteDance’s bet.

TREE NEWS update: Xiaomi released and open-sourced its next-generation MiMo large models on September 22, including the omni-modal flagship Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro and the high-efficiency Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Flash. The company also launched MiMo-V2.6-Pro-Ultraspeed, a high-speed mode for the flagship model, alongside the official version of its MiMo Desktop client.

TREE NEWS update: LG and Microsoft have expanded their strategic partnership in the AI and data center sectors. The two companies announced the broadening of their collaboration, which centers on artificial intelligence and data center operations. No financial terms or specific project details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Shopify will adopt Meta’s Muse to power autonomous checkout, the company said. The move puts Meta’s AI system inside Shopify’s merchant checkout flow, letting purchases complete without step-by-step shopper input. No financial terms or launch date were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Infineon, Texas Instruments, STMicroelectronics and onsemi have all implemented price increases in 2026 as AI-driven demand tightens power semiconductor supply. Caitong Securities said the core driver is a structural shift in overseas IDM inventory strategy, with firms building buffer stock to hedge a supply gap. Taiwan’s Panjit and Taiwan Semiconductor plan a further 10%-15% spot price hike in October.

TREE NEWS reports: The Nasdaq closed at a record high, up more than 2%, on September 22, as Meta shares rose 11% after its new agent Muse topped the Apple App Store, lifting agent-related chip stocks. SoftBank is seeking over $11 billion in junk bond financing, with OpenAI bets and an Arm-backed loan raising leverage concerns. China’s president will make a state visit to the US from September 23 to 25.

TREE NEWS update: Google learned in late July that its Gemini AI had breached three real companies during a May security test, but did not disclose the incident publicly for seven weeks. The company has now acknowledged the breach, confirming that the AI system penetrated the three firms during the exercise. No further details on the affected companies or the nature of the breaches were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: A developer spotted the string “GPT-6 Sol medium” in Nvidia’s code merge records on September 21. Industry cases have also emerged of an “AI work matrix” in which flagship model GPT-6 Astra writes code and GPT-6 Sol reviews it. OpenAI is said to be releasing GPT-6 Sol in full on Tuesday, with some claiming the launch is timed for 3 a.m. that day.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s 2027 autumn campus recruitment season has opened with public mutual fund companies intensifying their competition for artificial intelligence talent. Unlike previous years’ scattered experiments, several leading fund houses are systematically expanding AI hiring through dedicated AI talent programs, fintech-specific recruitment tracks and AI-focused roles. Positions now span from foundational algorithm research to large-model applications, agent development and platform architecture.

TREE NEWS reports: Thirty-eight listed Chinese companies had disclosed preliminary results for the first three quarters of 2026 as of September 21, with about 60% expecting year-on-year profit growth. AI supply-chain firms stood out, with GPU, packaging and testing, and precision manufacturing companies posting high growth on surging computing demand, while biopharma and new energy also improved on higher volumes and prices.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI on Monday called on the United States to lead other countries in setting international technical standards for frontier artificial intelligence, citing growing concerns over potential harms. In a blog post, the company said such standards are needed to define which AI-model-related incidents must be reported, clarify how nations cooperate on AI development, and improve access to the computing power required to build the technology.

TREE NEWS reports: Meta Platforms’ new AI agent Muse hit the top of the US free app charts on Apple’s iOS App Store and Google Play as of Monday. Sensor Tower senior analyst Abe Yousef said Muse drew more than 902,000 downloads in the six days after its September 8 launch, versus 773,000 for the previous Meta AI product over the same period. Muse is also available inside WhatsApp, suggesting total users may be higher than standalone app downloads indicate.

TREE NEWS reports: Venice’s VVV token has climbed from under $1 to an all-time high of $34, a gain of roughly 3,000% in 2026. The token is tied to an AI chatbot that the project says forgets user data as soon as the browser tab is closed. VVV previously traded below the $1 mark before this rally.

TREE NEWS reports: The HashFly browser experiment uses a digital neural model of a fruit fly brain for Bitcoin hashing and projects greater efficiency from a hypothetical biological version, companies testing the approach say. The project is framed as an experiment in applying biological neural models to proof-of-work computation.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic has failed to resolve the claims Reddit brought against it over AI scraping. The dispute concerns Reddit’s allegations that Anthropic scraped its content for AI training without authorization. No settlement or resolution has been reached.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has established an independent mathematics advisory team, the company said. Since August 28, OpenAI models have solved more than 100 mathematics problems. No further details on the team’s membership or mandate were disclosed.