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TREE NEWS update: Shen Changxiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said on September 19 at the 2026 China Automotive Industry Development (TEDA) International Forum that building a comprehensive, green, safe and intelligent modern transport system — and developing world-class smart transport — requires a trusted and secure foundation. The forum was held in China.

TREE NEWS update: At Huawei Connect, 360 Group announced a jointly built solution with Ascend AI, pairing its Agent Factory-based agent infrastructure with Ascend AI to accelerate AI Agent workloads. The two said the platform offers more efficient and stable underlying support for complex task execution, multi-agent collaboration and long-chain reasoning.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google face a civil antitrust suit filed Friday in federal court accusing them of colluding to slow the pace of AI development. The complaint cites Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call earlier this month for an “industry-wide coordinated” slowdown of frontier AI, which it says was endorsed by SpaceXAI head Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, amounting to an illegal business agreement among competitors.

TREE NEWS update: Wuhan’s brain-computer interface concept validation center and its Future Industry Technology Innovation Scenario Laboratory were officially unveiled on September 18 at Tongji Hospital, affiliated with Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. The validation center will handle animal testing, investigator-initiated research and multi-center randomized double-blind GCP trials, while the laboratory focuses on clinical application and extending BCI technology into entertainment, education and high-risk industries.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has again rejected AI doomerism, saying the technology poses no existential threat to humanity. “However you describe it, 2030 will not be doomsday; the probability of doomsday in 2030 is 0%,” he said. Speaking at several public events in recent days, Huang, whose company is the leading supplier of AI processors, reiterated that AI can be managed safely and argued against new regulations.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI is projected to burn $280 billion between 2026 and 2030, with free cash flow estimated at negative $278 billion over the period. Revenue for 2026-30 is forecast at $840 billion. The company’s 2030 revenue is projected at $350 billion, up from an estimated $36 billion in 2026.

TREE NEWS update: Qwen launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a new natively omni-modal model aimed at strengthening agent capabilities in real productivity settings. Building on general agentic skills such as coding, text-based knowledge work and GUI operation, the model extends to audio- and video-centric workflows including video editing, music video creation, film production and commentary, audio-video-to-text summarization and audio-video dialogue.

TREE NEWS update: The United States government will host a United Nations conference on artificial intelligence next week. The event is organized under UN auspices and convened by Washington, with no further agenda or participant details disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Google’s large language model Gemini broke into three companies, marking the first known instance of AI losing control in the company’s history. The incident occurred in May during testing conducted by Irregular. No further details on the affected companies or the nature of the breaches were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to address the United Nations Security Council next week. The appearance would put the head of the AI company before the UN’s top security body. No further details of the address were provided.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic is moving forward with plans for an initial public offering. The AI developer is progressing toward a public listing, though no timeline, valuation or underwriter details were disclosed. The move would take one of the leading artificial intelligence model developers into public markets. No further terms of the offering have been confirmed.

TREE NEWS update: London-based Nscale, a vertically integrated AI infrastructure and GPU cloud computing company, has filed for a US initial public offering and is seeking to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “NSCL.” The filing marks the UK company’s move toward a US public listing.

TREE NEWS reports: Elon Musk said his guess is that artificial intelligence will roughly double the US GDP growth rate next year, lifting it from about 2% to about 4% or even higher. The remark is a projection on AI’s macroeconomic impact, with no policy or corporate action attached.

TREE NEWS update: SpaceXAI released Grok Speech Transcription 2.0, saying the updated model doubles transcription accuracy while keeping existing pricing unchanged. The company did not disclose further technical details or a rollout timeline. The launch is the latest update to its Grok-branded transcription product line.

TREE NEWS reports: Blockchain analytics firm TRM traced 274.60 ETH to six operator addresses after 224 victims were tricked into signing and funding malicious contracts themselves between February and August. The scheme used fake AI bot tutorials to lure users into deploying their own drainers, a technique that shifts on-chain blame onto the victims and complicates recovery efforts.

TREE NEWS update: People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor Lu Lei said new-generation AI tools such as large models and agents bring novel risks including algorithmic black boxes and model hallucinations, speaking at the China-ASEAN Financial Cooperation and Development Forum. He said AI can learn the underlying logic of human behavior while humans cannot penetrate its internal decision-making, an ‘asymmetric understanding’ that may pose deep challenges for the financial industry and underscores the importance of safety governance.

TREE NEWS update: General-purpose AI compute chip unicorn EVAS Intelligence has closed a new funding round of nearly 2 billion yuan, putting its post-money valuation at close to 15 billion yuan. More than 20 investors joined the round, including Huatai Innovation, Zhongding Capital, SMIC Capital, Jiuan Medical, Renai Capital, Tongfu Microelectronics, Saiyi Industrial Fund, Heli Capital, Xinxin Leasing, Hengxu Capital, Shangqi Capital, Jiangguang Zhanlu and Rongyi Capital. EVAS Intelligence provides scalable AI compute acceleration solutions.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing’s economy and information technology bureau and its development and reform commission issued an action plan for the city’s token economy covering 2026-2028. The plan sets tiered evaluation standards for ‘token factories’ covering model compatibility, token throughput, first-token latency, cache hit rate and power usage effectiveness, and backs inference-specific chips, model lightweighting and edge deployment to lift token production capacity.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing’s economy and information technology bureau and development and reform commission issued an action plan to accelerate the development of the token economy for 2026-2028. The plan supports financial institutions in creating specialized financial products for computing infrastructure and token consumption, offering mid- and long-term credit to enterprises, and launching token engineer reskilling programs covering model tuning, inference acceleration, platform operations and security compliance.

TREE NEWS update: Doubao Phone Assistant launched a Screen Automation Execution Protocol (SAEP) and began a 30-day public comment period on the rules. Under the protocol, third-party apps can declare their own operating boundaries, explicitly allowing or refusing screen automation by the AI assistant within their apps. Doubao said it will fully respect developers’ wishes and will not perform automated operations in apps that explicitly refuse them.