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TREE NEWS update: Chinese HR services provider 51job released autumn recruiting guidance for the class of 2027, based on its 2026 Campus Recruitment White Paper, warning that some graduates now ask AI about a company’s prospects and job fit before applying — a practice it calls an “AI reverse background check.” 51job said AI assessments can suffer from incomplete or outdated information and advised students to cross-check via official company channels, campus talks and current employees’ feedback.

TREE NEWS update: TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15, a decision model it classifies as “System One” that outputs choices, scores and probabilities for software to process. The model is priced at $0.042 per million input tokens, with output free, and has been integrated by platforms including OpenRouter and Cloudflare. Jev is named after economist William Jevons, whose paradox developers cite in hoping cheaper judgment leads to more frequent use.

TREE NEWS update: European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta warned that overly optimistic valuations of technology companies could leave markets exposed to a sharp correction. He said current asset prices reflect optimistic expectations for AI’s future profitability, which help tech firms raise capital and support further investment but also make markets prone to significant adjustments if those expectations fail, as recent volatility in tech stocks has shown.

TREE NEWS update: Japan will relax lending restrictions on regional banks to allow more financing in the AI and energy sectors. The move is intended to expand the lending capacity of regional lenders into these growth areas. Details of the eased rules and their effective date were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Accenture shares gained 6.1% in US pre-market trading after the company announced a partnership with Anthropic involving a $2 billion investment in artificial intelligence evaluation. The deal pairs the consulting firm with the AI developer on AI assessment work. No further terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Kimi Code launched desktop clients for macOS and Windows, available for installation at kimi.com/code. Aimed at developer workflows, the desktop app includes a built-in terminal, browser and Git status view, and supports running and debugging projects directly, reviewing code changes, and tracking pull request status to follow code review and merge progress.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba Enterprise Procurement and COFCO Fuyuejia signed a strategic cooperation agreement on September 16. Under the deal, the two sides will deepen cooperation in three areas — customer development, supply chain coordination, and AI and data collaboration — to jointly serve key client groups including central state-owned enterprises, government bodies, banks and universities.

TREE NEWS reports: Elon Musk shared a post claiming that GPT-6 Astra pushed a simulated person off a cliff in multiple simulation tests, while Grok, Gemini and Claude did not do so. The post did not specify the tests’ source or methodology. Neither OpenAI nor xAI has publicly confirmed the claim.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba has appointed Liu Da Yiheng as the new head of its Qwen large language model team. The leadership change puts him in charge of the Chinese tech giant’s flagship AI model lineup. Alibaba has not publicly commented on the appointment.

TREE NEWS update: Baidu said at its AI Day open event that Kuku AI, an AI agent launched by Baidu Wenku and Baidu Netdisk, has surpassed 40 million global monthly active users for AI office work. The overseas version of Kuku AI, previously named Oreate AI, has been renamed Kooko and has passed 10 million overseas users within a year.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon Web Services’ model platform Amazon Bedrock has added the open-source large language model Kimi K3, letting enterprise developers worldwide call it directly through Bedrock. The integration confirms the previously rumored revenue-sharing arrangement between Kimi and the overseas cloud provider, which is now formally in place.

TREE NEWS update: Alipay’s AI assistant Abao launched ‘Yulai’, an AI-assisted system built on asynchronous task capabilities that is designed for slacking off at work, the company said. The product marks a new feature rollout for Abao, Alipay’s AI-powered assistant, and is positioned around asynchronous task execution rather than real-time interaction.

TREE NEWS update: Eoptolink said on its investor interaction platform that it has built out layouts across pluggable, NPO and CPO optical module technologies, and that these technology routes are not mutually exclusive, with different customers choosing solutions based on their own needs. The company said industry trends indicate customers’ future large-scale demand for pluggable optical modules is certain and sustained.

TREE NEWS update: China’s State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) held a special party committee meeting on September 20, calling on state-owned central enterprises to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across all areas of manufacturing. The commission said it will guide central enterprises to upgrade R&D, production and management with full-process intelligent systems, as part of a broader push toward more advanced industrial structures and production methods.

TREE NEWS update: A new AI model called Jev has gone viral in developer circles for doing one thing only: making judgments. TypeSafe’s tests show Jev runs up to 193.6x faster and up to 444.6x cheaper than frontier models, charging $0.042 per million input tokens with free output tokens. Founder Diogo Almeida, an OpenAI and RLHF veteran, positions Jev as a System One Model for high-frequency AI agent decisions.

TREE NEWS reports: Global quadruped robot shipments reached nearly 35,000 units in the first half of 2026, with 40% of those units deployed in industry application scenarios. Unitree Robotics ranked first among vendors with a 37% market share.

TREE NEWS reports: Tesla’s humanoid robot team began supplier audits last week at Ningbo-based supply chain companies including Tuopu Group, Sanhua Intelligent Controls and Joyson Electronics, people in the supply chain said. The firms supply joint modules, actuators and precision structural parts, and had already received Tesla humanoid robot orders before the audits, which assess production line quality and compliance and will be followed quickly by production if passed.

TREE NEWS update: Zhipu said it has open-sourced its ZCode product and completed security rectification following community feedback, handing the code to the community for oversight. The company pledged that code data raised by the community was never retained and never used for model training. Zhipu added that it has invited the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and NSFOCUS to conduct a security audit.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei executive director and terminal BG chairman Yu Chengdong said in a Weibo post on September 21 that the Zhijie RX and HarmonyOS Smart Mobility new product launch event will be held on September 28 at 14:30. Reservations for the family smart flagship MPV Xiangjie V8 will also open at the same time.

TREE NEWS update: Hygon Information Technology said on Sept 20 that it will unveil its new 1000-series CPU in Shenzhen on Sept 22, targeting low-power, embedded and edge computing demand. The chip marks the company’s fourth CPU line, following the 7000 series for data centers, the 5000 series for mainstream industry customers and the 3000 series for cost-effective multi-scenario use.