TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic is weighing whether to build more of its own billing, fraud detection and other financial infrastructure rather than rely on external providers. The AI firm has not finalized decisions on payments, billing and tax processing—whether to develop more tools internally or continue procuring vendor solutions. One senior billing engineer role would help guide build-versus-buy choices.
TREE NEWS update: White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the jobs report data is “very strong,” providing “quite substantial” reasons for the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged. He also noted that AI data centers are creating new jobs for utilities.
TREE NEWS reports: UAE-based artificial intelligence company G42 is considering bringing in US ownership to secure its supply of AI chips. The move would likely involve American investors taking a stake in the firm, which has faced scrutiny over its ties to China. G42 aims to ensure reliable access to advanced semiconductors amid US export controls.
TREE NEWS update: Shanghai Stock Exchange issued a regulatory warning to Longban Media and its then board secretary Sun Fujun for inadequate and inconsistent disclosure of its AI video business in semi-annual and stock trading anomaly announcements. The exchange said the firm failed to specify revenue scale and impact, risking investor misdirection.
TREE NEWS update: Beijing’s commerce bureau and five other departments issued a plan to boost digital and AI-driven home-care services. It encourages housekeeping platforms to develop elderly-care and companion robots, smart wearables, and health monitors, exploring human-machine collaboration to meet care needs for the elderly and children.
TREE NEWS update: China’s Cyberspace Administration and six other departments issued a plan to promote green digitalization, proposing exploration of 800V high-voltage DC power supply architecture for computing facilities and deployment of cabinets exceeding 100kW. The plan also supports liquid cooling, waste heat recovery, and AI-driven energy efficiency management.
TREE NEWS update: Kioxia plans to deploy CXL modules designed for AI workloads to speed up NAND flash processing and substitute for some DRAM. At a recent technical briefing, the company said the modules can cut data read times to under one-tenth of conventional products, approaching DRAM performance. Replacing part of DRAM with CXL modules could double capacity and boost performance by 30%.
TREE NEWS update: Samsung Electronics has partnered with Arm to jointly develop next-generation on-device AI system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. Arm approved one-time engineering fees in late August to launch the project, with Arm providing core technology and Samsung integrating it for customized chips aimed at end customers.
TREE NEWS update: Chinese AI firm Zhipu opened an official flagship store on Tmall, sparking a 50-fold surge in brand searches within 48 hours. The launch also drove a 160% week-on-week increase in sales of AI token subscription products on Taobao and Tmall.
TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026-2028), promoting open-source entrepreneurship. It supports the national AI open-source community AtomGit and encourages AI startups to contribute open-source models, tools, and datasets, fostering an open and collaborative ecosystem.
TREE NEWS update: Rodrigo Coelho, CEO of Edge & Node and founding member of Ampersend, discussed on the Unchained podcast how Ampersend aims to make it safe to entrust money to AI agents. The conversation focused on preventing errors from AI models when managing multiple agents, highlighting the company’s approach to secure AI-agent operations.
TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026-2028), aiming to enrich data resources for AI startups. It encourages industry leaders to build high-quality datasets and open them to startups, and fosters data service firms providing consulting, governance, and labeling to cut data costs.
TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) issued the AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026-2028), proposing to leverage the China Computing Power Platform to pool and flexibly allocate computing resources, offering efficient, low-cost support for startups. The plan also calls for building edge computing facilities and optimizing resource-matching services on the China SME Service Network and the platform.
TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the AI SME Entrepreneurship Support Plan (2026-2028), aiming to lower entry barriers and trial costs for AI startups. The plan emphasizes market-led, government-guided growth, fostering innovation and ecosystem support to nurture tech and innovative SMEs, including specialized and ‘little giant’ enterprises.
TREE NEWS update: At the 2026 Zhejiang Quality Month launch and the ninth Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor quality standards conference in Hangzhou, officials released the “Yangtze River Delta G60 Cities Embodied AI Industry Quality Standards Collaborative Initiative” and the “2025 Yangtze River Delta G60 Corridor Quality Standards Evaluation Index System Research Report.” The initiative aims to unite upstream and downstream industry players to foster a collaborative quality standards governance framework and promote high-quality development of the embodied intelligence sector.
TREE NEWS update: Major US AI services, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, went down for nearly four hours on the evening of September 3. OpenAI attributed the issue to a routing error at 7:43 AM PT, affecting access to ChatGPT and Codex. Anthropic cited an infrastructure problem. Chinese firm Zhipu noted it remained online.
TREE NEWS update: Lenovo Group shares rose as much as 7% in intraday trading after the company announced a partnership with automation platform Workato to enhance its Qira AI assistant. The collaboration aims to bolster the capabilities of Lenovo’s AI-powered assistant, signaling the tech giant’s push into enterprise AI solutions.
TREE NEWS update: Nvidia’s ~$13 billion acquisition of AI platform Hugging Face has made its three French co-founders billionaires, each worth about $1.8 billion. The deal, expected to close in H1 2027, includes a six-year retention agreement. Nvidia pledged to keep Hugging Face an open platform for AI models and datasets.
TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s Qianwen Office, launched on August 3, surpassed 30 million total users within its first month, becoming one of the fastest-growing AI office products. Enterprise users account for over half of the user base, highlighting Alibaba’s strength in the enterprise market.
TREE NEWS update: On September 3, HUMAIN, an AI company under Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), launched its first Arabic large language model, HUMAIN M3. Built on Chinese AI firm MiniMax’s open-source flagship MiniMax M3, it was post-trained on over 1 trillion Arabic tokens. The model is now available for research preview via the HUMAIN Node platform.