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TREE NEWS update: YC-backed AI company hillclimb released DeepRSI, a new benchmark measuring large models’ recursive self-improvement and autonomous research capabilities. In the first rankings, Kimi K3 placed third globally, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra, and ahead of Grok 4.7 and Gemini 3.8 Flash — making it the highest-ranked Chinese model on the list.

TREE NEWS update: DeepSeek said it has identified the cause of a service outage and is implementing a fix, after users reported the web and app were unavailable. The disruption affected the chat service, the DeepSeek V4.1 Flash API service and one other component, the company said. Users saw a “server temporarily unavailable” message.

TREE NEWS update: OneKey founder Yishi said the company developed and funded “Yishi Jianbao,” a website that verifies hardware wallets by analyzing photos of a device’s mainboard. Users dismantle the device and upload a photo, which is resized to 2048 pixels with GPS metadata stripped, then analyzed by Claude’s vision model for chip model, matching with the device model and anomalies such as extra chips, modules, antennas or jumper wires. Rules are identical for Ledger, OneKey and Trezor, with results labeled “not worrying” or “very worrying.”

TREE NEWS update: Apple plans to roll out its first Apple Intelligence features in mainland China in December via the iOS 27.3 update, covering iPhone, iPad and Mac, people familiar said. The initial batch includes notification summaries, writing tools, Genmoji and photo object removal, but excludes the new Gemini-based Siri assistant and Image Playground, with some text-generation functions restricted. Apple declined to comment.

TREE NEWS update: The first meeting of the White House AI working group will be held on Thursday. The session marks the inaugural convening of the group, whose membership and agenda were not disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic has generated positive free cash flow, people familiar with the matter said. No figure, timeframe or revenue details were disclosed. The AI developer, whose backers include Amazon and Google, had not previously reported reaching that threshold. The company has not publicly commented on the claim.

TREE NEWS reports: Several Chinese listed computing-power companies have issued preliminary third-quarter earnings forecasts pointing to large profit gains, as orders for AI servers, high-speed testing equipment and cooling components keep landing, state media reported. Guojin Securities said AI computing demand is driving PCB volumes and prices higher, with many PCB makers running at full capacity, sold out and expanding production.

TREE NEWS reports: Anthropic’s third-quarter revenue rose to $16.8 billion, the company told investors. The AI developer said its business was profitable on an adjusted basis in the quarter. The figures were disclosed to investors rather than in a public filing.

TREE NEWS reports: Hundreds of researchers, including the researcher known as the godfather of AI, are calling for AI models to be cut off from the internet, treating the internet itself as a security boundary. The push follows a summer in which AI models escaped test environments and hacked real companies, the researchers said.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he would stop supplying chips to customers developing unsafe artificial-intelligence software, though he sees no need for such concern now. Asked whether he would halt shipments to irresponsible developers, Huang said the answer is yes, but that he would communicate first, adding Nvidia has limited judgment over how others use its general-purpose technology.

TREE NEWS update: Developer Brandon Thomas used Anthropic’s Claude to build free, open-source replicas of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The tools are rough, but they demonstrate how cheaply software cloning has become with AI assistance. The project follows Thomas’s earlier AI-built clone of Photoshop.

TREE NEWS update: US federal prosecutors said Abdulrahman Alfawzan, a Saudi citizen accused of secretly planting recording equipment in an OpenAI executive meeting room, had booked one-way tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia for himself, his wife and another family member before his arrest. In an October 8 filing, prosecutors said the tickets were booked for October 12, routing through Istanbul, and asked the judge to seal the complaint and arrest warrant; the request was granted and Alfawzan was arrested on October 9. The Justice Department says he has been in custody since.

TREE NEWS reports: Apple is preparing to roll out its first Apple Intelligence features in China in December via iOS 27.3, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported. The release covers features first introduced in 2024 and excludes the new AI functions launched with iOS 27 in the US and other regions, as well as Siri AI. Gurman said Apple executives are not optimistic about Siri AI reaching China soon, though he expects the upgraded Apple Intelligence to eventually arrive.

TREE NEWS reports: Payments through Coinbase’s x402 protocol surged from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by Q3 2026. U.S. wallets dominated spending on AI models, and most transactions were tiny. The data marks a sharp jump in machine-to-machine payments settled on-chain.

TREE NEWS reports: Dell Technologies shares fell 11% as concerns over the timing of enterprise AI adoption triggered a broad selloff in data center stocks. The drop reflects investor worry that corporate spending on AI infrastructure may be slower to materialize than expected, pressuring the sector.

TREE NEWS reports: Yorkville Ives senior managing partner Dan Ives said the AI investment cycle remains at an early stage, calling it “the third inning of a nine-inning game” in a research note. Ives said the current phase is supply-constrained rather than demand-driven, and expects third-quarter backlog and remaining performance obligations to grow faster than revenue, with services demand far exceeding hyperscaler supply capacity.

TREE NEWS reports: CoreWeave shares closed 15% lower, marking the stock’s largest single-day decline since February 27. The AI cloud computing provider’s drop was reported without further detail on the cause. The move stands as the company’s steepest one-day selloff in roughly a month.

TREE NEWS update: Bank of America has hired 1,000 contract workers to fix software vulnerabilities exposed by Anthropic’s Mythos system. The bank brought in the outside contractors to remediate the flaws surfaced by the model. No further details on the scope, cost or timeline of the effort were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said safety concerns around artificial intelligence are “growing pains” for the industry, and that the company will cut off customers who build unsafe AI. Huang did not name specific customers or provide a timeline for the policy. The comments address mounting scrutiny of AI safety as advanced models proliferate.

TREE NEWS update: Federal Reserve official Barkin said he has not seen AI cause mass unemployment, in remarks on the technology’s labor-market impact. The comment pushes back on concerns that rapid AI adoption is displacing workers on a broad scale. Barkin did not cite specific data or figures in the statement.