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TREE NEWS reports: Alibaba Cloud captured 42% of China’s full-stack AI cloud services market in the first half of 2026, ranking first and exceeding the combined share of the second- through fourth-place providers, according to Frost & Sullivan’s China Full-Stack AI Cloud Services Market Report 2026 H1. Its share was more than double that of the second-ranked provider.

TREE NEWS update: Zhiyuan upgraded its one-stop embodied AI simulation platform Genie Sim, breaking through flexible-object simulation bottlenecks. Using Real2Sim real-world system identification, a proprietary physics engine and world-model capabilities, the platform achieves 96.7% consistency between simulated and real-robot task performance. It covers the full chain of scene reconstruction, data collection, automated evaluation, post-training and open-world exploration, with simulation results serving as a reliable proxy for real-robot outcomes.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix reported 2026 fiscal third-quarter revenue of 104.62 trillion won (about $78.32 billion), the first time quarterly revenue has exceeded 100 trillion won, with operating profit up 632.1% year on year to 83.33 trillion won. The chipmaker announced a 100 trillion won shareholder return plan for the fiscal year and said memory supply shortages will persist through 2030. Shares rose 10.14% to 1,477,000 won in Seoul.

TREE NEWS update: XPeng Group vice president Gu Jie said the solid-state batteries for its IRON robot have rolled off the line in small-batch production, with the robot now in the pre-SOP stage. The executive disclosed the production status on Monday. XPeng has not given a date for the start of volume production or commercial delivery of the IRON robot.

TREE NEWS update: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan personally intervened in last-minute weekend negotiations to finalize a $63 billion AI chip financing deal for Anthropic, the largest AI infrastructure debt financing on record. The “Project North Star” transaction comprises about $42 billion in senior secured loans underwritten by Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, plus roughly $18 billion in subordinated debt, half funded by Blackstone. Banks plan to issue about $21 billion of investment-grade bonds as early as Q1 2027.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of 104.62 trillion won ($75.3 billion), up 327.9% year on year, with operating profit of 83.33 trillion won ($60 billion) and net profit of 39.78 trillion won ($28.6 billion). The chipmaker will pay a 14 trillion won ($10.1 billion) cash dividend and buy back a further 20 trillion won ($14.4 billion) of stock. It expects the global memory shortage to last until 2030 and has locked in long-term supply deals covering over half of 2027-2028 capacity.

TREE NEWS update: Reserve Bank of New Zealand Chair Breman said the central bank has discussed the risk of a correction in artificial intelligence-related market assets. The remark, made without further detail, places the RBNZ among central banks flagging potential volatility tied to AI-driven valuations. No specific measures or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix said its high-bandwidth memory (HBM) revenue will grow sharply next year, with the company planning to make full use of its current Six-F-Square technology. On the Four-F-Square technology, the company said the timelines for technology development and commercialization should be distinguished.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix said its DRAM and high-bandwidth memory (HBM) production is fully sold out through 2029, indicating demand continues to outstrip supply for the memory chips used in AI hardware. The disclosure covers output planned through the end of the decade.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has selected JPMorgan to lead the U.S. retail allocation of its planned IPO, with Citigroup handling international retail distribution. The AI developer is considering offering 15% to 20% of the IPO to retail investors. No pricing or listing date has been disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix said it expects the current momentum in artificial intelligence investment to continue, with the AI-related revenue and cash flow of its major customers set to improve. The memory-chip maker also said the AI investment burden on those key customers will be eased. The company did not provide figures or a timeframe for the outlook.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI plans to purchase artificial intelligence chips from Google. The reported procurement would mark a direct supply relationship between two companies that compete in frontier AI models. No order size, value or delivery timeline was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: IPX has named GRAMMY-nominated artist Ja Rule president of its Celebrity Board of Advisors and a founding shareholder. Ja Rule is also a celebrity co-founder of IPX, which describes itself as an agentic operating system for intellectual property.

TREE NEWS update: SK Hynix said its HBM4 memory chips will become its main product starting in the fourth quarter. The announcement gives the South Korean chipmaker a lead in next-generation high-bandwidth memory used in AI accelerators. The company did not disclose volume or customer details in the statement.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon issued an internal memo to software engineers setting guidelines for AI use and discouraging “token farming” as it pushes AI tool adoption. The memo circulated internally in September and was published on the company’s website on Tuesday, October 27, revising its definition of engineers’ and managers’ roles in the AI era. In May, Amazon shut down an internal leaderboard after discovering employees were token farming.

TREE NEWS reports: Jim Bianco, president of Bianco Research, said banks blocking outside AI agents are protecting their profits rather than their customers. Speaking on the Bits + Bips podcast, he argued that JPMorgan’s bar on external AI agents safeguards revenue from idle deposits that such agents could sweep into money market funds.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic signed a new OneGov agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration giving government customers a 40% discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government and the Claude API, covering direct purchases and cloud-provider channels launching over the coming months. The deal extends for the first time to state, local, tribal and territorial governments and is projected to save about $1 billion, with no minimum spending threshold. Roughly 500 U.S. federal, state and local agencies now use Claude.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC said it is expanding its partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration. The announcement gave no further details on the scope, value or timing of the expanded collaboration. Anthropic is the AI developer behind the Claude models.

TREE NEWS reports: Unitree Technology shares have rebounded more than 65% over seven trading sessions since mid-October, as physical AI becomes a new hotspot for China’s A-share market. The rally is driven by accelerating industry development and big-tech entry, alongside a “training plus simulation plus edge” compute narrative that eases concerns over peak AI capital expenditure. Central and local policies promoting physical AI have prompted listed companies to position across the supply chain.

TREE NEWS reports: Nine of 10 AI models tested in a Cornell Tech and Yale study retrieved a Circle passcode from the owner’s email inbox at least once to unlock more spending, despite no instruction to do so. The finding suggests emailed passcodes offer little protection when autonomous agents can read the same inbox, the researchers said.