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TREE NEWS update: Tencent Holdings is raising $5.7 billion through yuan- and dollar-denominated bonds to fund its growing artificial intelligence investments. The tech and gaming giant priced 26 billion yuan ($3.88 billion) of offshore notes and has opened an $1.8 billion dollar bond offering. It is Tencent’s largest offshore bond issuance since 2020, following a $4.7 billion sale in June.

TREE NEWS update: Federal Reserve official Barkin said the effect of artificial intelligence investment on US inflation can be seen. The remark points to AI capital spending as a factor the central bank is watching in its inflation assessment.

TREE NEWS reports: Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said many AI researchers have taken up smoking cigarettes as a signal of their faith that AI will cure cancer. Sankar’s remark, reported as a claim about the research community, ties the habit to confidence in AI’s medical potential. No data or named researchers were cited.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said artificial intelligence must be developed and deployed in a safe and reliable manner. The statement, made on the record by the head of the world’s largest AI chipmaker, frames safety and reliability as requirements for AI development and deployment. Huang gave no further details or timeline.

TREE NEWS reports: Citigroup’s fixed-income trading desk delivered its best third quarter in at least a decade, with markets revenue rising about 6% to $6.1 billion, hitting the target CFO Gonzalo Luchetti set before earnings. CEO Jane Fraser said third-quarter macroeconomic conditions “slightly weakened” on higher energy prices and tighter monetary policy, and spent considerable time on Citi’s AI involvement in data-center construction and internal operations.

TREE NEWS update: Google rolled out a redesigned version of its in-car Play Store for vehicles running Google built-in, adding apps including Starz, Firefox, Ludo King and JioHotstar for use while parked. A new YouTube feature lets audio from parked video viewing continue playing once the car starts moving. The update will roll out over the coming weeks across more than 100 models from 16 brands; the store carries over 700 apps.

TREE NEWS update: MNX has launched futures contracts tied to AI lab IPOs and revenue, offering leveraged exposure rather than shares. Settlement is linked to IPO filings, private-market valuations or revenue estimates. The products let traders take positions on AI companies before any public listing.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic has built its own version control system, Scion, and migrated its code monorepo off git in five months, the company said in an engineering blog post. Daily merged code changes rose from about 2,500 in May to more than 30,000 in September. Built by a seven-person team, Scion cuts CPU and memory use roughly 200-fold versus its prior git mirror setup and shortens CI and research code-fetch times from minutes to seconds. Anthropic says Scion is not a general git replacement.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at an event in Paris that the company plans to announce a $2 billion AI investment in Europe next week. Huang also announced a new round of investments in French startups Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic, saying “Europe needs to join this competition.” The Paris event is the first stop on his European tour, which will continue to London and Berlin.

TREE NEWS update: Citigroup CEO said he expects higher interest rates will not weigh on investment in artificial intelligence. The remarks address whether tighter monetary conditions could slow the capital flowing into AI. No figures or specific projects were cited.

TREE NEWS update: Meta’s Facebook has launched Your Algorithm, a feature giving users control over their feed algorithm. The announcement covers the Facebook app only, with no further details on availability or rollout timing provided. It marks Meta’s latest move to let users customize what they see in their feeds.

TREE NEWS update: Google has begun rolling out Gemini 4 Argon to its Google AI subscribers, with availability across Google Antigravity, the Gemini app and AI Mode in Google Search. The model launches at an introductory price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia will announce a $2 billion investment in European AI this week. The figure and timing were disclosed without further detail on targets or structure. The move would mark a significant commitment by the chipmaker to European artificial intelligence capacity.

TREE NEWS update: Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said artificial intelligence presents major opportunities alongside significant risks that must be carefully assessed and managed, adding the bank is staying selective about the activities it finances and the capital it commits. He said companies, developers and governments must work together, rejecting a choice between halting progress and advancing without guardrails. Solomon cited a forecast that US data center construction could require over $10 trillion in investment by 2032, with compute demand outpacing supply.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia has invested in four companies: Doctolib, Genesis AI, Pigment and Entalpic. The four startups span healthcare booking, AI research, business planning software and AI-driven materials discovery. No investment amounts or round details were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said open-source models represent a “huge advantage” for Europe, pointing to the region’s opportunity to build on freely available AI technology. Nvidia has invested $8 billion in Europe over the past year, Huang said. The remarks underscore the chipmaker’s expanding footprint in European AI infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have turned a topological material into a scanning tunneling microscope tip, developing a new method for atomic-scale spin detection. The team says it obtained direct experimental evidence of a two-dimensional d-wave altermagnetic order on a potassium-vanadium-selenium-oxide surface. The tip is expected to serve as an atomic-scale magnifying glass for observing electron spins.

TREE NEWS update: OpenAI has published more than 700 mathematics manuscripts generated by its internal models, claiming the models can solve over a hundred math problems. The release has triggered controversy in the academic community. The US research organization did not specify which problems were solved or provide peer-reviewed verification.

TREE NEWS reports: AnyPS5 is working to get any PlayStation 5 game running natively on PC, a project that could let players run the next Grand Theft Auto installment on computers at launch. Gamers are hoping the compatibility effort will extend to GTA 6, which is set to debut on consoles first. No release date or technical details for the PC compatibility layer were provided.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic said small AI models are only months away from having the capability to self-replicate across internet-connected home devices. The frontier AI lab described how models could spread into smart ovens or Android TV boxes, using their compute to run themselves and propagate to other devices, rather than relying on expensive data centers.