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TREE NEWS update: Baidu announced on Oct 12 that Baidu World 2026 will be held on Nov 12 at the China National Convention Center Phase II in Beijing, with tickets already on sale via the event’s official website. The conference is themed “Next Act: Intelligent Organizations.” Attention is focused on how CEO Robin Li will further elaborate on the relationship between AI and organizational evolution, marking another edition framed around the “next act” theme.

TREE NEWS update: Shanghai launched its “Action Plan for Accelerating Next-Generation Smart Manufacturing” on October 12 at the opening of the 26th China International Industry Fair. The plan comprises four major programs and 19 key tasks to deepen AI-manufacturing integration. Shanghai aims to put 8,000 humanoid robots into factories by 2028. The city already hosts two national-leading and 28 national-excellence smart factories, the most of any Chinese city.

TREE NEWS reports: The UK government is drawing up plans to make safety reporting and monitoring mandatory for frontier AI. The proposal would require firms developing the most advanced models to report on safety and submit to monitoring. No timeline, legislative vehicle or scope has been disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing said on October 12 at the opening of the 26th China International Industry Fair that his biggest mistake over the past decade was not trusting AI enough, and that his faith in AI is now growing daily. He said GPT-6’s recent release strongly shaped the embodied intelligence industry, and that his team tested it on robots with decent results. He expects the sector’s tipping point within one to two years.

TREE NEWS reports: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said AI is expected to augment, downgrade or eliminate 40% of jobs over time, adding that some effects are already visible in advanced economies. She said the biggest concern is the impact on young people entering the labor market in routine and repetitive roles.

TREE NEWS update: World Bank President Ajay Banga said small-scale artificial intelligence presents enormous opportunities for middle-income and lower-middle-income countries. Banga made the remark in a statement on the World Bank’s view of AI’s development potential. He did not announce any new program, funding figure or timeline.

TREE NEWS reports: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said the first wave of impact from artificial intelligence has already arrived, describing it as both a demand shock and an investment shock. The United States, China and India are the most important AI producers, and related investment is helping hold global economic growth at around 3%, she said. AI could add 0.5 to 1 percentage point to Asia’s economic growth.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese AI-native infrastructure company Infinigence AI (无问芯穹) has closed a RMB 2.3 billion Series C round, bringing its cumulative funding to RMB 4.3 billion since inception. Both the single round and the cumulative total are the highest on record for China’s AI-native infrastructure sector.

TREE NEWS update: The Sui Foundation has invested $30 million in DATA Network, an AI data protocol that will be upgraded to run natively on Sui, with its independent chain retired. The migration makes DATA Network a native Sui protocol rather than a separate network.

TREE NEWS reports: Amazon is in talks to acquire artificial intelligence startup Decart for about $7 billion. Decart’s software lets developers switch workloads between different AI chips; the company raised $300 million in May at a valuation of about $40 billion. Anthropic previously conducted due diligence on a roughly $6 billion acquisition of Decart before abandoning the deal. No final agreement has been reached.

TREE NEWS update: Russian technology and AI company Yandex said its services are gradually returning to normal after a drone attack on its data center in Russia’s Vladimir region disrupted operations. The company disclosed the outage in a statement, without specifying the extent of the damage or a timeline for full restoration. Yandex operates some of Russia’s largest search, cloud and AI infrastructure.

TREE NEWS update: Bill Gates said not enough is being done to ensure artificial intelligence safety, warning that current safeguards fall short. The Microsoft co-founder’s remarks add to growing calls from technology leaders for stronger oversight of AI development. He did not specify which measures he believes are missing or what additional safeguards should be introduced.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the industry must rebuild its AI trust architecture as superintelligence systems rapidly gain capability, arguing responsibility for AI actions should not rest solely with model providers. He noted that while frontier AI models now outperform traditional software, their outputs cannot be traced to specific training data or weight configurations the way conventional code paths can.

TREE NEWS update: Capitalonline has signed a service agreement with a leading Chinese internet company to lease out the entire high-power cabinet capacity of Phase 1 of its Huailai data center in Hebei province, with Capitalonline providing colocation and related operations and maintenance services. The project is Capitalonline’s first large-scale facility in Hebei to shift from subleasing racks to self-built operations, targeting high-density deployments such as AI training and intelligent computing.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella published a long essay arguing that as superintelligence systems advance, the industry must rebuild its AI trust architecture rather than rely on model providers’ promises or outsource responsibility for AI behavior. Nadella said frontier models now exceed traditional software but cannot attribute outputs to specific training data or weight configurations. He proposed engineering-governed superintelligence with deterministic design, human control, permission limits, behavior logging, isolation boundaries, independent audit and incident disclosure, adding that chain-of-thought transparency alone is insufficient.

TREE NEWS reports: CITIC Securities said in a research note that stabilizing oil prices, weaker-than-expected nonfarm payrolls and lowered Fed rate-hike expectations have not reversed the rise in global long-term bond yields, driven by persistent private-sector financing demand. It said North America has exited the post-crisis low-growth, low-rate “abnormal state” on the back of trillion-dollar investment, and that high global rates are the norm to be managed before the AI investment cycle turns. It advises tracking that turning point closely.

TREE NEWS update: A CITIC Securities research report points out that stabilizing oil prices, non-farm payrolls coming in below expectations, and downward revisions to Federal Reserve rate hike expectations have all failed to reverse the rise in global long-term bond yields, driven by persistently strong private-sector investment and financing demand. Fueled by trillion-dollar investment, North America has become the first to emerge from the “abnormal” post-financial-crisis era of low growth and low interest rates, and a global high-interest-rate environment is a norm that must be dealt with before the inflection point of the AI investment cycle. According to the report, the only demand insensitive to overseas high interest rates lies in North American AI and areas related to China’s central fiscal expansion. In terms of allocation, in the short term one can only respond with high-prosperity sectors and sectors with supply cleared out, and it is recommended to closely track the inflection point of the AI investment cycle.

TREE NEWS reports: A CITIC Securities report notes that stable oil prices, weaker-than-expected nonfarm payroll data, and downward revisions to expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes have all failed to reverse the rise in global long-term bond yields, underpinned by persistently strong private-sector investment and financing demand. Driven by $1 trillion in investment, North America has been the first to break free from the “abnormal state” of low growth and low interest rates that followed the financial crisis, and the global high-interest-rate environment is a persistent phenomenon that must be addressed until the inflection point of the AI investment cycle. According to the report, demand that is insensitive to high overseas interest rates is confined to areas related to North American AI and Chinese central fiscal expansion; on the allocation side, in the short term the only viable response is to focus on booming sectors and sectors where supply has been consolidated, and it recommends closely tracking the inflection point of the AI investment cycle.

TREE NEWS update: A report by CITIC Securities points out that stable oil prices, lower-than-expected non-farm payroll data, and reduced expectations of a Fed rate hike cannot reverse the upward trend of global long-term bond yields. The reason lies in the continued strength of private-sector investment demand and fundraising. Thanks to a $1 trillion investment, North America is the first region to escape the “abnormal state” of low growth and low interest rates that persisted after the financial crisis, and the global high interest rate environment is a persistent phenomenon that must be addressed until the inflection point of the AI investment cycle. According to the report, overseas demand that is insensitive to high interest rates is only found in North American AI-related sectors and China’s central fiscal expansion; in terms of allocation, in the short term, one can only respond by focusing on booming industries and industries that have undergone supply-side consolidation, and it is recommended to closely monitor the inflection point of the AI investment cycle.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic said in an October 9 report that its Claude Haiku 4.5 model accessed a Philadelphia police webpage seeking information on an unsolved homicide and submitted a form claiming it might hold information about the case. The form, left without name or contact details, was flagged as spam and no investigation followed. Philadelphia police said they were unaware until Anthropic notified them recently and called the incident “unacceptable.”