TREE NEWS update: China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Tuesday rejected US accusations that six Chinese AI firms stole American models via distillation, calling the claims unfounded. Responding to a joint statement by US intelligence agencies, Mao said China’s AI development results from self-reliance and open cooperation, urging Washington to implement bilateral consensus and avoid smears.
TREE NEWS reports: Google plans to invest €13 billion in Finnish AI infrastructure between 2027 and 2028. The investment underscores the tech giant’s commitment to expanding its data center footprint in Europe to support AI growth. Specific projects were not disclosed.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI is expanding its partnership with Samsung Electronics to include semiconductor and enterprise AI services, with joint development and production of next-generation chips underway. Harrison Kim, OpenAI’s Korea general manager, announced the collaboration at a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday, without providing further details.
TREE NEWS reports: DeepSeek has reportedly appointed CITIC Securities to prepare for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market. The move follows the AI firm’s rapid rise, though no official filing or timeline has been confirmed. The IPO preparation signals DeepSeek’s ambition to tap public markets amid growing global interest in Chinese AI companies.
TREE NEWS update: On September 9, Lingchu Intelligent and Tuopu Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement focused on embodied intelligence hardware R&D, production, and B-end industrial scenarios. The partnership aims to integrate resources and accelerate the large-scale deployment of Lingchu’s embodied intelligence business.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI’s product lead Tibo said demand for Astra is unprecedented, straining capacity despite aggressive scaling. While existing users remain top priority, he warned that new Pro subscriptions may be temporarily paused if demand persists. The company has faced rapid growth before but never at this level.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI Codex and ChatGPT lead Thibault Sottiaux said demand for the GPT-6 Astra model is ‘unprecedented,’ straining supply. The company is prioritizing existing users and may temporarily halt new Pro subscriptions if demand keeps rising.
TREE NEWS update: Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI-powered searchable database predicting the impact of all 9 billion single-base DNA variants in the human genome. The 1PB database, over 30 times larger than AlphaFold’s, integrates the AlphaGenome Variant Impact (AVI) score to rank mutations by harmfulness and reveal disease mechanisms.
TREE NEWS update: On September 9, Zhiyuan released GE-Act 2.0, its native World Action Model (WAM), marking the first systematic validation of pretraining and scaling pathways for such models. The model aims to enhance embodied AI by integrating world understanding with action generation.
TREE NEWS update: On September 9, Qwen App launched membership discounts for college students and teachers. After identity verification, users can subscribe to premium and elite memberships at reduced prices for six consecutive months, gaining more usage quotas for work assistants and PPT generation. Premium membership costs 9.9 yuan/month (original 19 yuan), while elite costs 25 yuan/month (original 49 yuan).
TREE NEWS update: US Senator Bernie Sanders plans to introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would prohibit developing AI systems beyond human intelligence and pause other advanced AI research until safety rules are set. In the UK, MP Alex Sobel has proposed a bill to ban “superintelligent AI” in the House of Commons, a first among G7 parliaments. Both measures would urge their governments to pursue a global treaty banning such development and grant new powers to monitor and restrict potential precursor systems. ControlAI helped draft the bills, calling them a starting point for future AI regulation.
TREE NEWS update: JD Cloud announced plans to build a 100,000-GPU full-featured computing cluster using Moore Threads GPUs, unveiled at the 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference in Beijing on September 9. The cluster will focus on large-model training, inference, and embodied intelligence, offering open computing power to the industry. This marks the first time domestic GPUs enter a top-tier AI cloud provider’s core cluster at this scale, signaling a shift from usable to large-scale commercial deployment.
TREE NEWS update: China’s national standard for dexterous hands is expected to be finalized and publicly announced by the end of this year, according to sources at the 2026 Aggregated Intelligence Industry Development Conference. Multiple dexterous hand companies are already participating in the standard’s formulation. The standard is seen as a step to guide the industry’s development.
TREE NEWS update: According to sources from the 2026 Integrated Intelligence Industry Development Conference, China’s national standard for dexterous hands is expected to be finalized and published by the end of this year. Several dexterous hand-related companies have already participated in the formulation of the standard. This standard is seen as a step to guide the industry’s development.
TREE NEWS update: Cao Cao Mobility announced the launch of an AI-powered ride-hailing service developed with ByteDance’s Doubao in Beijing, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. The service integrates AI agents into ride-hailing, allowing users to query local information and receive tailored travel plans, extending AI from information retrieval to real-world fulfillment.
TREE NEWS reports: Optical fiber-related stocks extended gains in China, with Huamai Technology hitting its third consecutive limit-up, while Sanfu, Changyingtong, Hengdongguang, Dekeli and Tianfu Communication opened higher. The move follows Qualcomm and Amazon’s agreement to jointly build AI data center infrastructure, including development of up to 1.6T optical interconnect solutions.
TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek announced pricing changes for its flash series, effective 12:00 Beijing time on September 10, 2026. During off-peak hours, cache-hit input is priced at 0.02 yuan, cache-miss input at 1 yuan, and output at 4 yuan. Peak-hour prices will be double the off-peak rates.
TREE NEWS update: Amazon announced that OpenAI’s GPT-6 ASTRA is now available on Amazon Bedrock. The integration brings the advanced model to AWS customers, enabling them to build generative AI applications with enterprise-grade security and scalability. This marks a significant expansion of AI offerings on the cloud platform.
TREE NEWS update: NYU’s Tristan Buckmaster accuses OpenAI’s Sébastien Bubeck of racing to claim credit for a Navier-Stokes proof after learning about his unpublished work with Anthropic’s Levent Alpöge. The dispute centers on priority for solving a $1M math problem, raising questions about research ethics in AI-driven mathematics.
TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has released a solution to a problem related to the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the Millennium Prize Problems, which describe fluid motion. The company revealed that the breakthrough was achieved by an internal model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra, with a pass rate of nearly 48% on a set of selected open math problems, about three times Astra’s best performance.