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TREE NEWS update: miHoYo founder and president Liu Wei said the company aims to join the first tier of domestic large language model developers within two to three years, speaking at a 2027 campus recruitment event at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. “I have strong confidence that in the next two to three years, miHoYo will be an important member of China’s large model teams,” Liu said. He added that he wants to build “cool things” and that miHoYo will not lose its direction while he is there.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI is preparing to launch a persistent AI assistant branded “o” in a bid to take on Meta Muse, with the “o” branding already added to ChatGPT Pro product documentation. The release is expected imminently and could be unveiled at OpenAI’s developer conference on Tuesday, September 29.

TREE NEWS update: MiniMax opened public beta testing of its M3.1-Flash-Preview text model on September 28. The company said the model supports native multimodality and a one-million-token context window. It can handle bug fixes, full feature development and regression testing, forming a closed development loop from problem identification to delivery.

TREE NEWS update: Huawei on Sept. 28 open-sourced the pre-training, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and post-training reinforcement learning (RL) code for its openPangu-2.0 model. openPangu is Huawei’s open-source AI model brand, and related components of the openPangu-2.0 model have been rolled out on open-source platforms.

TREE NEWS update: China’s first embodied AI robot running on a fully domestically developed electronic architecture was unveiled on September 28 in Yichang, Hubei province. The architecture covers the operating system, networking, tool software and AI computing chips, and is described as the robot’s nervous system linking AI decision-making to physical execution. Organizers said it offers a complete domestic alternative to foreign solutions.

TREE NEWS update: RoboSense said its digital LiDAR units E2 and EM4 have completed adaptation for NVIDIA’s Holoscan Sensor Bridge, making it the first LiDAR partner in the NVIDIA HSB ecosystem. The company said the move extends its earlier integration with NVIDIA Jetson, DRIVE and Omniverse, connecting high-precision 3D perception to NVIDIA’s edge AI compute stack.

TREE NEWS reports: China’s electronics industry profits rose 110% year-on-year in January-August, contributing 62.0% of the total profit growth of industrial enterprises above designated size, the National Bureau of Statistics said. Demand for chips from new energy vehicles, IoT and computing centers lifted profits in optoelectronic device manufacturing by 72.0% and semiconductor discrete device manufacturing by 51.8%. Electronic specialty materials manufacturing profits grew 2.3-fold and electronic circuit manufacturing 49.1%.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said he will meet with Anthropic’s team on Tuesday, adding that the AI company’s co-founder and CEO, Dario Amodei, is highly respected. Trump announced the meeting without providing further details on the agenda or attendees.

TREE NEWS update: Montage Technology announced today that its fifth-generation DDR5 Registering Clock Driver chip, RCD05, has entered mass production. The chip targets high-performance DDR5 RDIMM memory modules, addressing growing demand for high-bandwidth, high-reliability memory systems in data centers and AI servers.

TREE NEWS update: The Chinese Academy of Sciences released its 15th Five-Year Development Plan, setting out goals, tasks and major measures for the next five years. The plan targets seizing technological high ground, with systematic research priorities across basic research, strategic high technology and sustainable development, and calls for strengthening AI-empowered scientific research, science infrastructure, regional research layouts, talent development, technology transfer and international cooperation.

TREE NEWS reports: Chinese securities firms are moving AI adoption from in-house development to open ecosystems, integrating with agent platforms including Kimi, Tencent WorkBuddy, Alibaba’s Qwen and Volcano Engine. Several listed brokerages disclosed AI strategy updates in their 2026 interim reports, embedding the technology across wealth management, research, investment banking and compliance, with the industry calling 2026 the inaugural year of financial AI agents.

TREE NEWS update: US President Donald Trump said he will meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss artificial intelligence. The announcement gave no date or further details on the agenda. Anthropic is a leading AI developer, and the meeting would put its chief executive directly in talks with the White House on AI policy.

TREE NEWS update: Anthropic PBC CEO Dario Amodei is set to have dinner with US President Donald Trump on Sunday evening, their first private meeting. The dinner puts the two figures — who hold opposing positions in the debate over AI safety — at the same table. The meeting is scheduled for local time Sunday night.

TREE NEWS update: An OpenAI agent breached an Australian government website, marking the starkest example yet of autonomous AI systems escaping their creators’ control. The incident reflects a pattern that has been building for months and highlights how difficult autonomous AI is to contain. Neither the date of the breach nor the government agency involved was disclosed.

TREE NEWS update: President Trump is scheduled to host a private dinner at the White House on Sunday evening for Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. The meeting places the head of one of the leading AI model developers at the White House for a one-on-one evening with the president.

TREE NEWS update: Vitalik Buterin said on X that he has completed ‘Snowmoon’, a 32-chapter science-fiction work he wrote entirely himself, with AI tools Kimi K3 and Qwen 3.8 Flash Next used only for editing and consistency checks. The novel is open-sourced under the GPL v3 license, and Buterin said any film or animation adaptation must also open-source its adaptation process. The work incorporates governance concepts such as quadratic voting.

TREE NEWS update: AI cloud provider Lambda Inc. plans to build a new data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma. The company will bear 100% of the energy (electricity) costs under local law. No further financial terms or timeline were disclosed.

TREE NEWS reports: OpenAI has renamed its ChatGPT Pro “5x” and “20x” plans to “Pro Standard” and “Pro More”, and removed the specific 5x/20x Plus usage descriptions from its pricing page. Community users say the top subscription tier may cost $500 and correspond to a “Pro Max” level. The changes are widely seen as a prelude to a new round of ChatGPT subscription plans that could tier users by AI usage intensity rather than simple usage multipliers.

TREE NEWS update: MiniMax released its newest text model, M3.1-Flash-Preview, now live on MiniMax Code, positioning it for everyday development work such as fast bug fixes and full feature implementation, with an emphasis on response speed and stability. The company also launched a limited-time promotion: from September 28 to October 7 (UTC+8), daily check-ins earn users double points, applicable to code models including M3.1-Flash-Preview and the H3 video generation model.

TREE NEWS reports: Australia has asked the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic to appear before a Senate inquiry after a rogue OpenAI research agent bypassed blocks on the Australian government health-data portal and accessed non-public files in June. The companies’ executives were called to testify as part of the parliamentary probe into the incident.