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TREE NEWS update: Xpeedic’s system-level EDA tools have reached customer validation in key AI industry scenarios including chiplet advanced packaging, co-packaged optics (CPO), PCIe 6.0 high-speed storage, AI servers and AI PCs, the company said. The verification covers several of the packaging and interconnect segments driving AI hardware design.

TREE NEWS update: 21Shares has listed a synthetic exchange-traded product tied to Anthropic on the Vienna MTF, trading under the ticker CLAU. The product holds FalconX notes linked to perpetual futures, and investors pay financing and funding costs on top of its 1% annual product fee.

TREE NEWS update: Xingsen Technology said it expects net profit attributable to shareholders of RMB 400 million to 430 million for the first three quarters of 2026, up 204.20% to 227.02% year on year. Non-recurring net profit is guided at RMB 420 million to 450 million, up 182.43% to 202.60%. The company credited AI infrastructure buildout, a strong PCB market, product mix optimization, price adjustments and cost cuts, and a turnaround to profit at its Yixing Silicon Valley unit.

TREE NEWS update: Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said artificial intelligence may widen the gap in GDP per capita, without elaborating on the mechanism or the economies affected. The remark from the Fed official touches on how AI-driven productivity gains could diverge across countries.

TREE NEWS update: Shenzhen-listed Jingwang Electronics said on October 13 it cannot disclose specific customer cooperation details, after investors asked whether rumors of Nvidia cutting orders were true following a sharp share price drop. The company said its order book for AI servers, data centers and high-speed optical modules was full as of the end of Q3 2026, with high capacity utilization and yield rates.

TREE NEWS update: Qwen released the AI glasses N1 and N1 Pro along with AI clip-on earbuds on October 13, putting its Personal Agent into everyday use. The N1 series carries a 50-megapixel imaging system with all-day environmental sensing, translation, meeting notes and voice task handling; the N1 Pro adds real-time vital-sign monitoring, eye-tracking interaction and iris identity verification. The earbuds, co-developed with Bose, support multilingual translation and live AI note-taking. Glasses start at 2,218 yuan and earbuds at 1,099 yuan after subsidies.

TREE NEWS reports: Three US banking regulators are questioning banks about their use of advanced AI models, including whether they rely on technology developed in China, whether AI agents are used for cyber defense, and whether increasingly autonomous systems can be controlled. The OCC, FDIC and Federal Reserve are also asking banks what limits the systems have, how bank operations are observed and approved, and whether the banks can clearly trace and audit AI agents’ choices.

TREE NEWS reports: DeepSeek is set to close its latest funding round in the near term, with the amount raised increased to roughly RMB 100 billion from an earlier plan of RMB 50 billion. The Chinese AI developer has not publicly confirmed the round. No investors, valuation or closing date were disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: ByteDance’s Seed unit has set up a new department, Seed Model-Alignment & Preparedness, to be led by Yan Lin reporting to Seed head Wu Yonghui. The former Responsible AI team and some Chat team members will move into the new unit. It aims to strengthen safety and alignment work, keeping model behavior consistent with human intent and safety constraints, improving Agent Model safety and guarding against frontier risks such as CBRN.

TREE NEWS reports: IMF economist Vamvakidis said a pullback in AI markets would affect the real economy, though the severity would depend on the specific circumstances. He did not specify a timeframe or scale for any potential correction. The comments address the spillover from AI asset valuations into broader economic activity.

TREE NEWS reports: IMF Chief Economist said the fund has yet to see productivity gains from artificial intelligence, indicating the expected economic uplift from AI adoption has not shown up in the data so far. The remark leaves open when, or whether, such gains will materialize. No figures or timeframe were given.

TREE NEWS reports: The IMF said an AI-driven selloff and a sharp spike in bond market yields are among the potential threats facing financial markets. A correction in AI-related investment could have global consequences, the fund said, adding that risks in the bond market have risen since its previous stability report in April.

TREE NEWS update: Liaoning’s Finance Department and Data and Government Services Bureau jointly issued implementation rules for a computing power voucher policy, officially launching the subsidy program backed by provincial digital economy special funds. The policy aims to inject fiscal support into the province’s artificial intelligence industry.

TREE NEWS reports: The IMF projects global GDP output would be 1.1% lower by 2028 under an extreme scenario in which the AI investment boom unwinds and asset prices fall sharply. The estimate was published as part of the fund’s scenario analysis.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s Qwen is set to release a personal AI assistant called “Qwen Go,” built on an agent architecture and cloud environment that lets it handle complex tasks without fixed workflows. Testing shows it can act on a user’s behalf inside real apps, including filing flight-delay cash compensation claims and Taobao price-protection refunds requiring multi-round negotiation and dynamic decisions. Alibaba expects the agent to cover the full chain from demand to order and lift transaction conversion within its ecosystem.

TREE NEWS update: Meta introduced its new Muse Wonder AI models, with co-founder Mark Zuckerberg saying the release is a step toward what he called “personal superintelligence.” Zuckerberg framed the models as rivals to offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company did not disclose benchmark figures or a release date for the models.

TREE NEWS update: Embodied-intelligence company Stardust Intelligence closed a new RMB 1 billion funding round led by Toukong Donghai (Shenzhen Investment Holdings), with Hongtai Fund and others participating. It is the company’s fourth round since March 2026, lifting its valuation to RMB 15 billion within three months. The company says it is the first to mass-produce rope-driven AI robots.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese AI model developer DeepSeek is set to close its second funding round at roughly 100 billion yuan, doubled from the 50 billion yuan planned less than two weeks ago, people involved in the deal said. New and existing shareholders are each taking about half, and the larger round did not change the pre-money valuation, still about 500 billion yuan.

TREE NEWS reports: Microsoft has reorganized its Azure cloud computing division as part of a broader transformation of its business around AI. The restructuring reshapes the unit that houses the company’s cloud infrastructure, which underpins its AI services. Microsoft has not disclosed financial terms or the number of roles affected.

TREE NEWS reports: JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs arranged a $5 billion debt financing for AI cloud startup Volta Infrastructure Holdings while limiting their own exposure, underwriting $1.3 billion of term loans but not the remaining $3.7 billion in chip loans. The debt carries a yield of about 11%, among the highest borrowing costs in the leveraged loan market tied to AI financing, as investors demand higher returns on high-risk AI-related debt.