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TREE NEWS update: CrowdStrike and Nvidia have expanded their AI agent security partnership to extend to the chip level, the companies said. The collaboration deepens integration between CrowdStrike’s security platform and Nvidia’s AI computing stack, bringing protection for AI agents down to the silicon layer. No financial terms or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun said the company plans to invest more than RMB 200 billion in hardcore technology R&D over the next five years, after spending RMB 105.5 billion in the past five years. Speaking at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference, Lei said Xiaomi’s consumer IoT platform has surpassed 1.1 billion connected devices as of the end of the second quarter, with research focused on chips, operating systems and embodied AI.

TREE NEWS update: Nio founder, chairman and CEO Li Bin said on October 21 at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference that smart driving has entered its second half, with the core benchmark being whether it truly creates value for users. He cited two essential metrics: a commercial closed loop, meaning users are willing to pay, and quantifiable safety performance verified by third parties such as insurers through real accident probability and accident ratio data.

TREE NEWS update: Changan Automobile Group General Manager Zhao Fei said at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference that the company expects to achieve mass production of L3 autonomous driving in 2027 and commercial operation of L4 autonomous driving in 2028. Zhao said vehicles will be the nearest-term, fastest-penetrating and largest-scale application of on-device physical AI.

TREE NEWS update: People’s Bank of China Deputy Governor and SAFE Administrator Zhu Hexin called for steadily deepening the “AI Plus” initiative and accelerating the release of financial data element value, speaking at the 2026 Financial Street Forum fintech conference in Beijing. Zhu said the two fintech development plans for the 14th Five-Year Plan period were fully implemented and outlined four priorities for the 15th Five-Year Plan period, including AI-finance mutual empowerment and risk control.

TREE NEWS update: Xiao Yuanqi, deputy head of China’s National Financial Regulatory Administration, said AI’s application in finance is a systemic transformation rather than a simple technology overlay and requires a sound governance framework, at the 2026 Financial Street Forum fintech conference. He called on financial institutions to strengthen independent R&D in data, models and engineering, keep humans in the loop, and bring AI governance into full-lifecycle management to ensure applications remain safe and controllable.

TREE NEWS update: Infineon has entered into a partnership with Nvidia focused on power conversion for data centers, the German chipmaker said. The collaboration centers on the power delivery systems that supply Nvidia’s data center hardware. No financial terms or timeline for the partnership were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: BitGo has launched BitGo Labs, an innovation unit tasked with designing crypto’s next breakout application, with an initial focus on the intersection of AI and crypto. The company said the AI economy needs crypto financial infrastructure. No further details on staffing, funding or timelines were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Wednesday urged Europe to adopt artificial intelligence faster, saying at the company’s GTC conference in Berlin that all end markets and industries must embrace the technology. He named automotive, financial services and healthcare as sectors that need to become AI companies. His comments come as some investors grow increasingly skeptical of the capital being poured into AI infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia announced an open protein design model, RFD4-Proteina, developed with the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. The model combines programmable protein design with search capabilities to generate and optimize protein designs from molecular inputs, design constraints and scoring objectives, for use in drug discovery, disease detection and industrial enzymes. Nvidia is also working with Siemens Healthineers’ cancer therapy business on adaptive radiotherapy using agentic AI, patient-specific simulation and real-time computing.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia expanded its open-source NVIDIA Agent Toolkit, adding Agent Knowledge Foundation, an infrastructure that turns internal enterprise data into business knowledge usable by AI agents. The foundation supports information retrieval, business analysis, outcome prediction and decision optimization without requiring data migration, rebuilding existing workflows or adjusting governance mechanisms, Nvidia said.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia unveiled its Confidential Bare Metal deployment option, letting frontier AI model developers run sensitive workloads on dedicated bare-metal servers at third-party cloud providers, neoclouds and enterprise infrastructure while protecting models and data. The offering uses hardware-level isolation, cryptographic attestation and access controls to secure models and data in memory and during execution, and lets developers manage their own software stack.

TREE NEWS update: Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun said on April 21 at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing that safety has been a priority since the company’s first day making cars. He said that without safety, all intelligent performance and innovative design lose meaning, and that the next phase of intelligent connected vehicles will be defined by ecosystem strength, citing China’s complete supply chain, active AI innovation and large single market.

TREE NEWS update: China Securities Regulatory Commission Vice Chairman Liu Haoling said the regulator will explore an AI governance path suited to the realities of China’s capital market, speaking at the 2026 Financial Street Forum fintech conference. He called for a comprehensive governance system covering admission assessment, dynamic monitoring and emergency response across the full lifecycle, and for scientifically defining the boundaries of high-value application scenarios and risk tolerance levels.

TREE NEWS reports: Changying Precision’s closing price rose by a cumulative 36.43% deviation over three consecutive trading sessions from Oct. 19 to Oct. 21, 2026. The company delivered more than 1.1 million precision components for humanoid robots between January and August 2026, with order growth in the third and fourth quarters accelerating further compared with the first half.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei senior vice president and Yinwang CEO Jin Yuzhi said at the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference that autonomous driving has entered its second half and will reshape future mobility. He noted that for L3 and above, the responsible party shifts, which will raise safety requirements. The remarks were made at the industry conference and reported by Securities Times.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia expects semiconductor test capacity to double between 2026 and 2027, the company said. The projection points to a planned expansion of back-end testing capacity over the two-year period as chip demand grows. No further details on specific facilities, partners or investment figures were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia announced that Bolt, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo Cars, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and autonomous freight company Einride are advancing autonomous driving projects on its Hyperion computing platform, covering L3 and L4 autonomy and future robotaxi fleets. Volvo Cars will adopt the Hyperion platform and Alpamayo autonomous driving software stack, while Mercedes-Benz will use it to develop L3 and L4 autonomous driving capabilities.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia plans to increase its substrate production capacity over the next three years, Bloomberg reported. The expansion is aimed at boosting output of the chip component over the period. No specific investment figure or capacity target was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia will pay Taiwan’s King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) a $1.1 billion advance to reserve production capacity, the company said. The payment is a prepayment tied to securing capacity at the chip-testing and packaging contractor. No further terms of the arrangement were disclosed.