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TREE NEWS update: A research team including Australia’s Garvan Institute of Medical Research analyzed the gene sequences and activity of immune cells from nearly 2,000 participants, revealing how certain genetic variants affect specific immune cell function and are linked to 16 diseases. The findings, published in three papers in the UK journal Nature, offer new leads for drug development and precision medicine.

TREE NEWS update: Cao Cao Mobility signed a smart mobility demonstration project cooperation agreement with the Wuzhen town government in Tongxiang on Oct. 29, under which the company will conduct Robotaxi road tests in Wuzhen and gradually build a local dispatch and management system. As a partner of the 2026 World Internet Conference Wuzhen Summit, Cao Cao Mobility will provide mobility services during the event and stage a live demonstration of a driverless Robotaxi with no one in the driver’s seat.

TREE NEWS update: Tsinghua University, together with Infinigence AI and AgiBot, proposed a Collective Experience Learning (CEL) paradigm and completed large-scale validation on a cluster of 96 real robots. CEL allows robots to learn not only from human demonstrations but also from the successful experiences of other robots in the group. By sharing and accumulating experience, the robot collective can improve its capabilities through continuous practice, offering a new technical path for autonomous robot evolution and scaled deployment.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing Institute of Brain and Cognitive Sciences has launched three national science and technology major projects under the “Brain Science and Brain-Like Research” initiative, with kickoff meetings held recently. The projects cover a flexible high-throughput semi-invasive brain-computer interface system for motor function reconstruction, high-density hermetic feedthrough and system integration for implantable BCIs, and multi-brain-region motor decoding for long-term stable BCI systems.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese computing-power hardware stocks extended their decline, with Victory Giant Technology, Eoptolink Technology, TFC Optical Communication and Suzhou Tokel falling more than 10%. Taijin New Energy, T&S Communications, Cambridge Technology and Zhongji Innolight dropped more than 6%. The selloff hit the sector’s optical-module and PCB names broadly.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia is in talks with cloud provider Nscale to provide billions of dollars in credit guarantees for Nscale’s debt, funding a data center that Anthropic plans to use, people familiar with the matter said. The arrangement would see the chipmaker back the buildout of AI computing capacity tied to a major model developer.

TREE NEWS reports: Synthetix and Infinex founder Kain Warwick said Anthropic’s seven co-founders pooled a 50.1% voting bloc in its IPO filing, arguing the structure is an untested design that crypto governance has already seen fail. Speaking on Uneasy Money, Warwick compared the arrangement to a DAO, where concentrated founder voting power can override outside holders.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon said it has a very clear forecast of its computing capacity needs for 2027 and 2028, and some visibility into demand for 2029. The company did not disclose specific capacity figures or investment plans tied to the outlook. The remark points to multi-year infrastructure planning as demand for compute continues to grow.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon’s chief financial officer said the launch of Project Leo is running later than expected and is affecting the company’s fourth-quarter guidance. Project Leo is now expected to launch in the first quarter, with most of its spending incurred in the fourth quarter.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon’s chief financial officer said robotics and artificial intelligence are raising productivity at the company, with AWS customers seeking to fully capture AI benefits migrating to the cloud. The executive linked the productivity gains to cloud adoption among customers pursuing AI advantages.

TREE NEWS update: Intel’s data center and AI segment revenue could exceed expectations by nearly $10 billion by the end of the year, the company’s chief financial officer said. Demand for data center and AI products continues to outpace supply.

TREE NEWS update: Reddit CEO said Google is scraping the platform’s content at an unprecedented scale. The remark points to growing friction between the social platform and the search giant over the use of Reddit’s user-generated content. No further details or figures were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon said it plans to sell its chips to users outside its AWS cloud unit starting next year. The company disclosed the plan without naming specific customers or pricing. The move would extend Amazon’s in-house silicon beyond its own data centers.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon CEO said AWS is expected to grow more than 40% in both 2027 and 2028, and projected the cloud unit will reach $1 trillion in annual revenue within the next five to 10 years. The comments set out growth targets for Amazon’s cloud division beyond the near term.

TREE NEWS update: Intel’s first server product built on the Intel 18A process, Clearwater Forest, has begun shipping and is generating revenue, CEO Lip-Bu Tan said. The chip is the company’s first data-center processor manufactured on the 18A node, which Intel has positioned as its most advanced process technology to date. No shipment volumes or revenue figures were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Reddit CEO said Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode are the biggest factors behind the decline in search traffic to the platform. The statement attributes the drop in referral traffic directly to the two AI-powered search features. No figures or further details were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Amazon’s cloud unit AWS holds a backlog of $578 billion, CEO Andy Jassy said, with the figure up triple digits year over year. The backlog represents contracted future revenue for the cloud provider.

TREE NEWS update: Google’s Chrome browser now uses its Gemini AI to search users’ Gmail for order numbers, tracking details and flight bookings and automatically fill them into web forms. The autofill feature is rolling out in the U.S. The tool pulls details directly from email content to complete online forms without manual entry.

TREE NEWS reports: Ares Management Corp. is steering clear of financing the high-performance processors that run advanced AI models, instead investing in the data centers that house those chips. A person familiar with the matter said the asset manager worries that GPU investments could leave it stuck with assets facing obsolescence shortly after deployment.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic was SpaceX’s largest customer in the third quarter, accounting for 34.5% of the company’s revenue. The AI developer pays SpaceX’s AI division for computing capacity under a previously agreed compute deal.