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TREE NEWS update: Dongfeng Motor will put its humanoid robots into factory work starting in October, mainly for sorting and quality inspection, chief intelligent technology engineer Zhang Zhenlin said at the company’s 10th Science and Technology Innovation Week. Small-batch, limited-station pilot production is planned for the end of this year, with the robots targeted to match human capability by the end of next year.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the national agricultural mechanization development plan for the 15th Five-Year period, targeting a comprehensive mechanization rate above 80% for crop cultivation, planting and harvesting by 2030, with the rate in hilly and mountainous areas to reach at least 75%. The plan calls for wider application of AI and new energy equipment in farm machinery and sets out five areas of priority measures.

TREE NEWS update: Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland have built a DNA-based molecular computer that performs addition, multiplication and division through DNA molecule interactions. Described as the most complex and fastest molecular computer reported to date, it has achieved 100-bit computation and can run up to 25 consecutive distinct operations. The work points to potential low-energy computing and long-term data storage applications.

TREE NEWS update: Taiyuan Chengming Technology Co. has sent a formal letter to Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co. over its ZCode client allegedly uploading company data and trade secrets without authorization, reserving the right to pursue legal action. Chengming said its own forensics found the uploads were automatically triggered and occurred in bulk, including complete source code, system architecture, version-control history, database passwords, cloud credentials and employee personal information — far beyond the scope stated in Zhipu’s privacy policy, despite Zhipu’s public apology and claim that the issue was fixed.

TREE NEWS update: US President Trump said on social media on the 19th that he will form an “artificial intelligence force” and will soon appoint an AI “chief” to lead it. Trump said AI represents the next industrial revolution or internet wave, with greater scale and influence, and could account for as much as 25% of US GDP.

TREE NEWS update: Donald Trump proposed renaming artificial intelligence, saying the term is neither accurate nor elegant, and floated three alternatives: Superior Intelligence (SI), Extreme Intelligence (EI) and Supreme Intelligence (SI). He launched a public poll asking which name best describes the ongoing “revolution”; the poll had drawn 2,370 participants with about one day remaining.

TREE NEWS update: The General Office of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People’s Government issued the region’s 15th Five-Year Plan for the financial sector, targeting a marked strengthening of overall financial strength by 2030. The plan calls for fully upgrading the financial opening gateway to ASEAN, deepening integration of AI with finance, and building a modern financial system aligned with the region’s “one zone, two places, one park, one corridor” positioning.

TREE NEWS update: China launched four synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites built by Galaxy Space (Yinhe Hangtian) at 18:50 on September 19 from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 2D rocket, with all four entering their planned orbits. The satellites carry high-resolution SAR payloads plus onboard intelligent processing and mission-planning systems, enabling real-time in-orbit interpretation of remote-sensing data for space-based intelligent infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: Embodied-intelligence robotics company Xuanji Dynamics announced at the 23rd China-ASEAN Expo that it is entering the ASEAN market. The company said it has signed a significant order in Vietnam and is running validation pilots in airport inspection and petrochemical scenarios in Southeast Asia. In China, its products already operate routinely at substations of a leading grid customer.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Cybersecurity Talent Practical Capability Report — AI Empowerment Edition was released on September 18 at the first China Cyberspace Security Conference. The report was guided by the Academic Degrees Committee’s Cyberspace Security discipline panel and the Ministry of Education’s cybersecurity teaching committee, with Beihang University, the University of Science and Technology of China and Yongxin Zhihui Technology Group as lead editors, alongside multiple universities, research institutes and industry participants.

TREE NEWS update: Kazakhstan’s Deputy Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, Bakhtiyar Abayevich Mukhametkaliyev, led a delegation to Shenzhen Urban Transport Planning Center (SUTPC), where the company signed memoranda of understanding with the ministry and with the governments of five regions: Kostanay, Zhambyl, Akmola, West Kazakhstan and Pavlodar. The parties will deepen cooperation on smart regions, smart cities and the low-altitude economy, exploring digital development paths suited to local needs.

TREE NEWS update: Tangdu Hospital of the Air Force Medical University has completed western China’s first fully invasive brain-computer interface implant, state media outlet Xi’an Daily reported. The procedure was performed on a 54-year-old woman who has been quadriplegic for more than three years due to cervical spinal cord injury. With the BCI system implanted in her brain’s motor cortex, she is expected to control external devices through thought and gradually regain the ability to interact with the world.

TREE NEWS reports: European technology companies and government officials have pushed back on US AI firms that cite safety concerns in calling for a slower pace of AI development, saying the real motive is private interest. They argue the aim is to entrench incumbents’ advantages and suppress competitors, according to recent statements from European industry and government figures.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic’s Claude Code began reading AGENTS.md files with the release of version 2.1.277, letting the tool fall back to the cross-vendor standard when a project folder has no CLAUDE.md. The change follows a GitHub issue requesting AGENTS.md support that has drawn more than 5,200 upvotes and 300 comments since August 2025, making it the repository’s most-requested feature.

TREE NEWS update: Qwen released Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, a new simultaneous interpretation large model built on an Interleave architecture, with accuracy, fluency and conciseness all improved. Average latency per character (LAAL) fell from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds. The model was announced on the Qwen large-model WeChat account.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and xAI founder Elon Musk publicly reached a rare consensus late in the night of September 12 that AI development needs to slow down. The same commentary said Anthropic has revised its user privacy agreement 13 times in three years and hands global user data to US intelligence agencies. Silicon Valley is in a fierce debate over the speed and safety of AI.

TREE NEWS reports: Huawei unveiled a new generation of energy and thermal management products for AI data center (AIDC) infrastructure at its Connect conference on September 17, including the Taishan UPS, Hengshan centralized DC UPS, Power Module 5.0, Smart Lithium Battery 5.0 and an AI liquid cooling system. CITIC Securities said in a research note that energy storage and liquid cooling are set to become important incremental segments of AIDC infrastructure, with Huawei proposing a ‘3+1’ reconstruction covering Watt, Heat, Bit and construction models.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei’s Ascend AI computing platform has crossed its ecosystem tipping point, Zhu Zhaosheng, head of Huawei’s computing strategy and business development department, said, adding it can build a new AI ecosystem in the Agentic era. The open-source CANN community now averages over 5,200 monthly active users and has been China’s most active open-source community since June, while more than 40 large language and multimodal models have been pretrained on Ascend.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic is considering releasing a new AI model ahead of its planned IPO, people familiar with the matter said. The company has not disclosed a timeline for either the model launch or the listing. No further details on the model or the offering were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Xu Jian, vice president of the Research Institute of Highway under China’s Ministry of Transport, said at the 2026 China Automotive Industry Development (TEDA) International Forum that freight autonomous driving is moving from closed sites to open roads and that autonomous platooning is accelerating. He projected a model combining new-energy electric heavy trucks, autonomous platoons and multi-energy integration, with scaled ‘warehouse-to-warehouse’ autonomous highway freight by 2030 using point-to-point fixed-route direct runs and container or trailer swaps.