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TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia is considering a $10 billion investment in Anthropic’s planned IPO, which the AI company expects could raise as much as $100 billion and value it at about $2 trillion. If completed at that size, the offering would be a record listing. No terms have been finalized.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Friday that OpenAI and other leading AI companies may soon announce a joint agreement to slow AI development and coordinate on safety risks. Asked whether he would craft a safety plan with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Google’s Demis Hassabis, Altman told Fortune he believed it would happen but declined to pre-empt private talks. The remarks follow Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s resignation over what he called a race toward self-improving superintelligence.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei is correct in advising that the pace of artificial intelligence model development should be slowed. The comment endorses a caution position from the head of the AI safety-focused developer, which Musk leads as xAI’s founder in the same frontier-model race. No further details were given.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic CEO said the pace of improvement in artificial intelligence models must be slowed. The statement calls for deliberately curbing the speed of model advancement, without specifying a timeline or mechanism. No further details were given.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic co-founder and CEO has proposed that frontier AI companies within democratic countries coordinate to establish common safety standards. The proposal, made public on Thursday, calls for aligned safety rules among leading developers. No further details on the framework or participating companies were given.

TREE NEWS update: Skyworth Digital said on September 11 that it has formally signed a Smart Home Cooperation Agreement with Google Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. As a Google-authorized smart home partner and authorized smart home service distributor, the company will work with Google on smart home products and services, drawing on the Google Home platform and Gemini AI large model capabilities. The company did not confirm whether the cooperation covers AI glasses products.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5, a new image model it says delivers sharper detail and more precise editing. A six-category comparison against Google’s Nano Banana 2 was run to assess how the two models stack up. No independent benchmark figures or release date were disclosed in the material.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese Academy of Engineering academician Wu Hequan said at the 2026 China Computing Power Conference on Sept 12 that China could account for 30% of global computing power by 2030 under the national computing network plan. China currently holds 21% of global computing power versus 46% for the US, he said. Token consumption reached 1.4 trillion per day in March, with falling application costs driving usage.

TREE NEWS update: At the 2026 China Computing Conference, the first batch of inclusive computing power services for small and medium-sized enterprises was released. The list covers general computing, intelligent computing, large-model services and industry AI-agent applications, with containerized leasing and pay-as-you-go billing. The program is intended to broaden access to computing resources and support SME digital transformation.

TREE NEWS update: The 2026 China Computing Conference opened in Langfang, Hebei, where China activated the national computing interconnection regional node for Hebei and unveiled its national integrated computing monitoring platform, signaling a basic “one network, one chessboard, one integration” computing framework. The event also released the 2026 Comprehensive Computing Panorama Analysis, a first batch of inclusive computing service lists for SMEs, and launched the “One Network, Three Integrations” computing-finance ecosystem initiative.

TREE NEWS update: The 2026 China Computing Power Conference unveiled its “Annual Major Breakthrough Achievements,” highlighting 15 demonstrative technology results. Organizers said the achievements feature internationally advanced and domestically leading technical indicators in computing and related industries, with strong innovation and commercialization outcomes. They are expected to raise the industry’s overall technical level, foster new business formats and economic growth points, and deliver social, economic and environmental benefits.

TREE NEWS update: The 18th China International Seed Industry Expo and the 23rd National Seed Information Exchange and Product Trade Fair opened on the 12th in Hefei, Anhui Province. Academicians and experts at the event said smart breeding technology, which integrates genomics, artificial intelligence and big data analytics, is raising breeding efficiency and precision.

TREE NEWS update: Fujitsu will export its AI chips to the United States and Asia, the Japanese technology group said. The move marks an overseas push for the company’s AI semiconductor business, targeting customers in two of the world’s largest computing markets. No shipment volumes, customers or timelines were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Zhong Zhihong, chief engineer of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, outlined four recommendations to advance high-quality computing power development at the opening of the 2026 China Computing Power Conference in Langfang, Hebei on [date]. The first proposal calls for strengthening systematic planning to improve computing utilization efficiency, including building a multi-tier architecture spanning hub, regional, and edge computing facilities and enhancing the China Computing Power Platform for coordinated monitoring and efficient use of resources.

TREE NEWS update: Eoptolink said at a results briefing that its NPO product cooperation with related clients is progressing smoothly, with volume shipments expected in 2027 and scaled, large-batch supply possible in 2028. The company said the pace of ramp-up depends on market and customer demand, without specifying order volumes or client names.

TREE NEWS reports: China Telecom Research Institute’s 2026 AI infrastructure report forecasts China’s annual Token consumption will reach 1 quadrillion (10^16) in 2026 and exceed 350 quintillion by 2030. Rao Shaoyang, director of the institute’s industry and enterprise strategy research office, said the compound annual growth rate would be close to 12x. The report attributes the surge to AI’s shift from large models and computing power competition toward agent deployment and application monetization.

TREE NEWS update: China Mobile General Manager Chen Yangfan said on Sept. 12 that the carrier will keep building computing infrastructure ahead of demand, aligning its AI data centers with the national “East Data, West Computing” program and developing gigawatt-scale data parks. Total signed AIDC capacity has exceeded 7GW. The company is also expanding inference clusters, with multiple 10,000-GPU intelligent computing centers and a distributed inference network.

TREE NEWS update: China Mobile officially launched AI Trusted Computing (AITC) on September 12 at the main forum of the 2026 China Computing Power Conference. Built on Mobile Cloud’s fully domestic heterogeneous computing base, AITC combines confidential computing, domestic cryptography and information-flow privacy protection to deliver confidential computing power and confidential Tokens, covering the full lifecycle of cloud-based AI training, inference and data use for sensitive sectors such as finance, government, industry, healthcare and university research.

TREE NEWS update: China is accelerating the nationwide rollout of “compute token loans” for AI companies after the product first launched in August, with several banks unveiling related offerings at this year’s CIFTIS. ICBC’s Hu Xianwen said the bank’s “compute infrastructure loan” funds data-center construction and GPU server cluster purchases, while a separate “compute R&D loan” targets companies with heavy R&D spending and long commercialization cycles.

TREE NEWS update: The Xiongan International Computing Power Integrated Scheduling Center officially began operating at the 2026 China Computing Power Conference Xiongan Forum. The center comprises an integrated scheduling platform and an international large-model service platform. The scheduling platform already covers 8 national computing hubs, connecting 44 computing resource pools across 19 provinces with total computing power exceeding 27,000 P.