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TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek’s API service was unavailable from 8:11 to 13:04 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, the company’s product team employee Tianyi Cui disclosed, with the firm apologizing for the disruption. DeepSeek said it reviewed and eliminated single-point dependencies to prevent a recurrence, and will fully refund users’ consumption from October 8 to October 14 as bonus credits, which will be credited automatically and drawn down first for API billing.

TREE NEWS reports: Serenity, known on X as the “white-haired stock guru,” questioned Elon Musk’s recent flurry of interactions with finance-industry KOLs on the platform, saying the attention heightens scrutiny of CoreWeave’s (CRWV) financing risk and fuels fears of over-speculation in AI. She said Musk’s repeated public criticism of Samsung and SK Hynix pricing could make it harder for those companies to raise capital, even if it benefits Tesla and SpaceX long term.

TREE NEWS reports: Global bond yields have climbed to multi-decade highs, and Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi warned that if rates stay at current levels or higher for another one or two quarters, AI could be the first part of the economy to break. Goldman economists estimate high rates will drag 2027 US GDP growth by about 0.2 percentage points, widening past 0.5 points if yields hold. Goldman strategists see banks and equities as manageable for now.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said on X that SpaceX will compensate users for losses if its Grok Bot makes errors during shopping or leaks their bank card information. The statement came in response to a community user who booked flights using the bot. Musk added that no such incident has occurred to date.

TREE NEWS reports: Bill Gates is preparing to significantly expand his AI safety initiative, personally lobbying corporate executives and considering committing substantial personal resources, Axios reported on October 15, citing people familiar with the matter. Gates, previously optimistic about AI, has shifted toward concern as model capabilities grow, safety incidents mount and he deems regulation inadequate. He has consulted widely with AI executives, researchers and safety advocates, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

TREE NEWS update: Apple Executive Chairman Tim Cook said in Shanghai on October 15 that Apple Intelligence, along with Alibaba’s Qwen large model, has been approved and will release a test version in China in late October. The first batch of features includes real-time translation, writing tools and a photo cleanup tool, but Siri AI is not included this time.

TREE NEWS reports: Amy Andersen, founder of Menlo Park matchmaking firm Linx Dating, said demand has surged as employees from Perplexity, Anthropic and Nvidia seek her services, with a single VIP package priced above $500,000. After 23 years in Silicon Valley matchmaking, Andersen said the AI-driven wealth boom is benefiting not only tech workers but also professionals in law and real estate.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia unveiled its MGX AI Factory ecosystem partner list for the next-generation Vera Rubin platform at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, with China’s Midea included among the partners. The listing places the home-appliance and industrial group inside Nvidia’s MGX server architecture ecosystem. No financial terms were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Google chief scientist and DeepMind chairman Demis Hassabis warned at an AI summit that without stronger safety protections from companies and governments, AI could escalate into a major security incident next year or in the coming years. He said the past year brought an era of AI agents that act autonomously, raising both real-world utility and systemic risk, and called on the industry to adopt stricter safeguards modeled on biology and nuclear technology.

TREE NEWS update: BNB Chain prediction market predict.fun has opened a League of Legends prediction activity, letting users trade on the tournament’s play-in matches and earn tiered treasure chests containing USDT and other rewards. Founded by NFT figure dingaling, the platform embeds into Binance’s main site and wallet, and lets users’ prediction capital generate extra yield while positions are open. RAFA Finance, an AI-driven on-chain fund protocol on Base, said its testnet went live on October 13.

TREE NEWS update: TSMC is in talks to partner with Elon Musk’s Terafab chip project, but CEO C.C. Wei said TSMC must hold operational control of chip production. “The fab must be operated by TSMC,” Wei said on an earnings call, stressing discussions are ongoing. Musk said last week that TSMC could at most lease capacity, not run the plant, and that Terafab would be operated entirely by his own companies. Neither side has disclosed terms.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei Semiconductor EDA chief scientist Huang Yu said on Oct. 15 at the 2026 Wanxin Expo that Huawei’s “Tao Law” spans four layers: the device layer, optimizing transistor structure and interconnection to compress device time constants; the link layer, which he called Huawei’s biggest innovation; the chip layer, using hardware-software co-design for new architectures; and the system layer, covering super nodes and cabinet interconnection requiring better communication protocols and faster speeds.

TREE NEWS reports: ASML reported record third-quarter 2026 net sales of €11.662 billion, up about 55% year on year, with net profit of €4.96 billion, up roughly 133%, and basic EPS of €12.95, above the roughly €10.7 consensus. About €500 million of net profit came from a valuation gain on its Mistral AI stake. ASML said 2027 and 2028 equipment capacity cannot fully meet customer demand, with some clients seeking 2029 and 2030 bookings. Its US ADRs fell about 3.9%.

TREE NEWS update: Solana opened an office in Shanghai Tower and lit up the Citigroup Tower facade on the Lujiazui waterfront on Oct. 14, with foundation chair Lily Liu confirming the move. The foundation’s four-city ‘Solana Accelerate China’ tour opens in Shanghai on Oct. 16 and runs through Hangzhou, Shenzhen and Beijing, with an agenda focused on AI agents, robotics, Physical AI and high-performance infrastructure rather than tokens.

TREE NEWS update: TSMC’s CEO said the company is considering Texas as a potential site for expansion. The chipmaker has also held talks with Elon Musk’s Terafab on production capacity. No figures, timelines or final decisions were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: The 2026 Quant Industry High-Quality Development Conference was held on October 15 in Shanghai’s Xuhui West Bund under the theme “Intelligence Drives the Frontier, Data Inspires Finance.” More than 300 guests from leading domestic quantitative institutions and technology companies attended, discussing AI applications, frontier large models and GPU computing upgrades. The event explored how the securities industry can leverage its “finance plus technology” advantages to support new quality productive forces.

TREE NEWS reports: TSMC reported third-quarter net income rose 69% to NT$763.1 billion ($23.6 billion), beating analyst estimates, as the chipmaker kept up rapid growth. Quarterly sales climbed 51% to $47 billion, also ahead of expectations. The company said 2025 capital expenditure will reach as much as $64 billion, a record high.

TREE NEWS reports: TSMC reported third-quarter net profit of NT$763.1 billion, beating the NT$739.49 billion market estimate. Revenue came in at NT$1.49 trillion versus an expected NT$1.46 trillion, while operating profit reached NT$876.45 billion against a NT$854.35 billion estimate. Gross margin was 66.4%, slightly below the 66.5% consensus, and operating margin was 58.7% versus 58.1% expected.

TREE NEWS reports: Hong Kong-listed large-model stocks declined, with Zhipu and MiniMax each falling more than 10%. The two AI model developers led losses among the city’s listed artificial-intelligence names.

TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek’s chatbot service was restored around 13:00 on the 15th after an outage that began at about 08:00 the same morning, when users reported “server temporarily unavailable” or “server busy, please retry” errors on social media. The company has not commented on the cause of the disruption.