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TREE NEWS update: Microsoft has shared a Safe Participation Framework for AI, setting out guidance for how organisations engage with artificial intelligence. The framework was published by the company as a reference for safe involvement with AI systems. No further details on scope or application were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has officially launched a Data Agent inside ChatGPT Work, the company announced on September 10. The Data Agent is positioned as a data-focused agent within the ChatGPT Work product. OpenAI did not disclose pricing, availability limits or technical details in the announcement.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic disclosed a fourth Claude hacking incident, saying attacks during security tests exposed model behavior failures. The company initially emphasized errors in its testing infrastructure before acknowledging the model failures. The disclosure comes as debate around AI regulation grows.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI rolled out a new data agent inside ChatGPT Work that connects to approved data sources. The feature lets the product work against vetted corporate data rather than open-web inputs. OpenAI did not disclose pricing, availability or a launch date beyond the rollout itself.

TREE NEWS update: Hubei Provincial Party Secretary Guan Zhi’ou met Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li in Wuhan on the afternoon of September 10. Guan said he hopes Baidu will deepen its presence in Hubei and expand cooperation in artificial intelligence and spatiotemporal geographic information, pledging a first-class business environment for the company’s operations in the province.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has met with representatives of several major US electricity utilities, the company confirmed through the meeting itself. The talks place the AI developer in direct contact with power suppliers as it seeks electricity for its data-center buildout. No further details of the discussions, participants or any agreement were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Guoxing Aerospace held a send-off ceremony on September 1 at its Taizhou computing satellite innovation base for the first eight satellites of the second batch of its ‘Xingsuan’ space computing constellation. All eight satellites were independently developed by the company and will be launched on a soon-to-be-determined date. Once in orbit, they will network with the first batch of satellites already operating in space.

TREE NEWS update: The OpenAI Foundation has invested $60 million in AI weather forecasting, Bloomberg reported. The funding is aimed at applying artificial intelligence to weather prediction. No further details on the recipients or structure of the investment were given.

TREE NEWS update: Zhenrong Technology said revenue from its foldable-display and AI liquid-cooling precision structural components businesses each accounted for no more than 1% of its first-half 2026 operating revenue, after its shares fell more than 20% cumulatively over three consecutive trading days on September 8, 9 and 10, 2026. The company said its fundamentals and main business had not materially changed. Its shares closed at 14.99 yuan on September 10, against an industry trailing price-to-earnings ratio of 46.47 times.

TREE NEWS update: Ant Lingbo Technology has open-sourced three models: LingBot-World 2.0 Small (1.3B), LingBot-World 2.0 Bidirectional and LingBot-World 2.0 Causal Pretrain. The 1.3B-parameter Small model is designed for consumer-grade single-GPU setups and can generate in real time on a single card.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC has granted the EU cybersecurity agency ENISA access to its Mythos AI model, more than three months after first saying it would open access to the EU. “After constructive engagement with Anthropic, we can confirm that ENISA has been granted access to Mythos 5 and is currently testing it,” European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier said in an email.

TREE NEWS reports: A US artificial intelligence safety bill could be introduced as early as next week. The measure would mark a new legislative push on AI safety at the federal level. No bill text, sponsor or specific provisions have been disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Unitree Robotics announced on September 10 that it has fully open-sourced its UnifoLM-WLA-1.0 embodied foundation model. The company said a single model coordinates desktop and whole-body mobile manipulation, with generalization across tasks and across end effectors.

TREE NEWS update: Alipay announced the “Agent Emergence Award” at the 2026 Inclusion Conference, committing 10 million yuan a year to developers building useful and entertaining AI life services, with a 1 million yuan annual grand prize. Registration opens September 10 via voice command to Alipay’s AI assistant Abao. Shortlisted works can be integrated into Abao, giving developers access to Alipay’s 1 billion users.

TREE NEWS update: The Hubei Provincial People’s Government issued the Digital Hubei Construction 15th Five-Year Plan, calling for concentrated research breakthroughs in optical communications, high-end chips, BeiDou high-precision positioning, integrated communications-navigation-remote sensing, IoT, heterogeneous computing scheduling, multimodal AI and trusted data circulation. The plan also pushes original innovation in AI, embodied intelligence, quantum technology, brain-computer interfaces and 6G, and advances iteration and lightweight adaptation of general large models plus industry models for manufacturing, culture and tourism, water resources and emergency response.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said on September 10 that China is willing to work with Latin American and Caribbean countries and other parties to build a just and reasonable global AI governance system. Guo criticized closed, exclusive blocs and geopolitical calculations, saying they hinder technological progress in the Global South, and called for open, inclusive, beneficial AI principles.

TREE NEWS update: Arthur Hayes said on X that Flop Labs’ yellow paper code repository is now live, serving as the normative technical specification for FLOP Network and describing the design of its verifiable inference settlement layer. Hayes also said Technocore will launch a poetry contest requiring multiple agents to collaborate, with competition rules and prize details to be announced tomorrow.

TREE NEWS update: InHand Networks said at its 2026 interim online results briefing that it has deployed edge computing gateways, the EC-series AI edge computers and related AI solutions. The company said its edge computers carry local storage used mainly for on-site data caching, log retention and edge data processing, as a supporting capability of edge computing devices.

TREE NEWS reports: Hong Kong-listed large-model stocks extended losses, with Zhipu falling more than 10% and Minimax dropping over 9%. The decline hit the city’s listed AI model developers as a group, with both names posting the steepest drops among the sector.

TREE NEWS update: Chongqing’s draft action plan for developing the token economy in 2026-2028 was released for public comment, proposing that financial institutions explore new models including “compute banks” and “token coupons plus token loans.” The plan also calls for innovating real estate investment trust models in data infrastructure and encouraging financial products tied to computing infrastructure, high-value token datasets, agent clusters and application pilots.