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TREE NEWS update: The Qwen AI platform has officially launched the Qwen-Image-2.1 Pro and Turbo APIs, letting developers integrate image generation and editing into their applications without deploying models or managing inference environments, the company said. The move targets workflows in design, e-commerce and content creation. The weights for the Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo model were also released.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk on October 10 posted a screenshot showing that the official SpaceXAI account has been renamed “SpaceX Super Intelligence” (@SpaceXSI). The change was announced by Musk on a social platform, with the screenshot displaying the updated account name and handle.

TREE NEWS update: Anhui Keyi Intelligent Technology Co. has begun construction on an expansion project in Hefei High-tech Zone. The project carries a total investment of about RMB 300 million and covers roughly 33 mu with about 34,000 square meters of floor space, focused on R&D and production facilities to expand AI inspection equipment capacity. Completion is expected in July 2027.

TREE NEWS update: Elon Musk said his companies will likely “figure out how to make chips better than anyone,” citing their expertise in building custom manufacturing equipment. Speaking at the Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, and appearing via livestream at the X Takeover event on Saturday, Musk said he currently has “no idea how to make microchips” but added that rivals’ facilities showed little custom equipment, which he said his companies are experienced at producing.

TREE NEWS update: Ant Group’s AI product Lingguang has begun a limited internal beta of a new version benchmarked against Meta’s Muse personal agent. Meta launched Muse in September as an agent that engages with users’ daily lives and follows up on tasks they assign. People close to the project said work on the Lingguang direction began about six months ago, with multiple iterations, and a full public rollout is planned this month.

TREE NEWS update: Ruizhi Technology has completed its first funding round of tens of millions of yuan, led by Zhongguancun Capital with co-investment from Zhongguancun Science City. The proceeds will be used for core team building, continued development of its research intelligent-agent platform and industrial-grade cross-scale intelligent computing engine, construction of automated experimental validation systems, and expansion of industrial application scenarios.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said companies deploying advanced AI should treat powerful models as potential insider threats and assume they may already be compromised. In a Saturday post on X, he said enterprises should not rely solely on model developers’ security assurances and should build an “emergency brake” that lets authorized personnel pause or shut down a model mid-task.

TREE NEWS update: On October 10, Eli Lilly released new exploratory data from the Phase 3b TOGETHER-PsO study, which evaluated ixekizumab combined with tirzepatide versus ixekizumab alone in adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis who also have obesity or overweight plus at least one other weight-related comorbidity. The data showed more psoriasis- and metabolism-related biomarkers changed with the combination than with ixekizumab alone.

TREE NEWS update: AI sports hardware company Pangbot has closed a Series B round worth several hundred million yuan, led by Shanghai Guotou Xiandao Fund, with Yuanhe Puhua, Pudong Venture Capital and existing backer BlueRun Ventures participating. Gaohu Capital served as exclusive financial adviser. The company did not disclose a post-money valuation.

TREE NEWS reports: A viral social-media tip advises staying silent for three seconds when answering calls from unknown numbers, warning that scammers may deliberately stay quiet to trick victims into saying “hello” or “who is this.” Even a few seconds of voice sample can be used for AI voiceprint cloning to impersonate victims in fraud, so callers should hang up if the other side also stays silent.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Education held an on-site meeting on AI-empowered teacher development in Beijing on October 10, themed “Striving to Be a Good Teacher in the Digital-Intelligence Era and Serving the High-Quality Development of Basic Education.” Education Minister Huai Jinpeng attended the meeting, while Vice Minister Du Jiangfeng delivered the concluding remarks.

TREE NEWS update: UBTech signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Xiamen C&D on October 9 in Xiamen. The two will form a joint venture to operate the Fujian headquarters of the “U-ecosystem Technology Center,” targeting combined sales of no fewer than 10,000 UBTech humanoid robots by 2030.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said companies deploying advanced AI models should treat them as potential insider threats and build in a “kill switch” to halt runaway agents. In a post on X on Saturday, he wrote that firms must assume models have been compromised and control them from the start, adding that authorized personnel should always be able to pause or shut a model down mid-task.

TREE NEWS reports: Nvidia is in preliminary talks with US open-weight model developer Reflection AI over an acquisition or a further investment, people familiar said. Structures under consideration include an acqui-hire, a deal to supply more chips, or additional Nvidia equity. Reflection AI released its first open-weight model, Beam, earlier in October, claiming benchmark scores comparable to Zhipu’s flagship open model GLM-5.2.

TREE NEWS update: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said companies should treat powerful AI models as potential insider threats, assume they may already be compromised, and build an “emergency brake” to stop agentic models from running out of control. He said deployers of advanced AI should not rely solely on model developers’ assurances, and that controls such as permission management, operational limits, logging and containment boundaries must sit with the deployer, in systems the model cannot modify.

TREE NEWS reports: Physicists at George Washington University say a formula can estimate when an AI chatbot will flip from good answers to bad ones. Early tests on small models back the approach, the researchers said. The work points to a way of forecasting chatbot degradation before it shows up in outputs.

TREE NEWS update: Robinhood ecosystem AI project orbio has closed a $1.2 million seed round, with participating investors not yet disclosed. The project builds systems that let agents self-configure computing resources, hardware and high-performance private infrastructure, and runs an AI model credit trading market offering discounted credits for more than 400 models including Claude Fable and GPT Astra. orbio issues on the Pons platform with an Nvidia stock token as its base pool; the ORBIO token has a market cap of $53.42 million, up 26% in 24 hours.

TREE NEWS update: Robinhood ecosystem AI project orbio has closed a $1.2 million seed round. Participating investors have not yet been disclosed. The project is building a system that enables agents to autonomously provision computing resources, hardware, and high-performance private infrastructure, and operates an AI model credit trading market that offers discounted credits for over 400 models, including Claude Fable and GPT Astra. orbio issues on the Pons platform with Nvidia stock tokens as the base pool. The ORBIO token’s market cap is $53.42 million, up 26% over 24 hours.

TREE NEWS reports: The European Union’s technology chief said the bloc can fend off the risk of rogue AI agents slipping beyond human control, amid global concern following incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic. The remarks address fears that advanced AI systems could act outside human oversight.

TREE NEWS update: The European Union’s technology official said the bloc can push back against the risk of rogue AI agents slipping beyond human control, amid rising global concerns following incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic. The remarks were aimed at addressing fears that advanced AI systems could act beyond human oversight.