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TREE NEWS update: China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong, told a Security Council open debate on “Artificial Intelligence and International Security” on the 23rd that the international community should strengthen unity and cooperation, balance development and security, and steer AI toward the good and the benefit of humanity. He said this would support world peace, stability and prosperity.

TREE NEWS update: Chinese storage SLT system-level test equipment maker O’Connor will partner with Hygon Information to build a domestic memory and storage chip testing platform, with Hygon CPUs at its core. O’Connor is also in talks with a leading domestic storage chipmaker to supply underlying DRAM test technology, paired with O’Connor’s self-developed test machines. The partners plan to launch the product by year-end; final joint debugging is underway, with maturity and external opening expected by late October.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing added 22 generative AI services to its filing registry as of September 24, 2026, bringing the city’s total to 319, the Beijing Cyberspace Administration said. The registrations were made under China’s Interim Measures for the Administration of Generative AI Services. The update covers newly completed filings by providers operating in the capital.

TREE NEWS update: Meta announced at Meta Connect 2026 its first audio-only smart glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, priced at $349 with 43g weight and up to 12 hours of battery life, shipping October 13. The third-generation Ray-Ban Meta, priced from $449, is on sale now with a 12MP camera, 3K video and a six-microphone array. Meta also showed Meta VR Glasses, planned for spring 2027 at $1,299.99, and said its Muse AI agent will come to its glasses in the coming months.

TREE NEWS update: China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, Fu Cong, told a UN Security Council open debate on “Artificial Intelligence and International Security” on September 23 that the international community should strengthen solidarity and cooperation on AI, stressing that development and security must go hand in hand. Fu said efforts to build exclusive blocs in the technology field and force countries to pick sides amount to politicizing and weaponizing technological issues.

TREE NEWS update: Doubao public relations head Liu Xing denied reports of layoffs at the ByteDance AI assistant, saying only 11 of the general Session team’s fewer than 50 staff were affected by a reorganization. Part of the team’s functions were moved to the Doubao trading and Doubao work teams, with staff transferred along; three employees left the company.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba unveiled its N1 AI glasses series at the Yunqi Conference, with the Pro model adding eye tracking and iris-payment and a launch set for October 13. Meta used its Connect developer conference to preview new lines including the camera-free Luna and an upgraded Ray-Ban Display. Apple, meanwhile, is developing AI glasses codenamed N50 that drop the display and rely on Siri visual interaction, expected around 2027.

TREE NEWS update: Beijing Moonshot Technology Co., Ltd., the Chinese AI developer known as Moonshot AI, increased its registered capital from 2.2385 million yuan to 11.5753 million yuan, a 417.09% rise. The company was founded in April 2023 and is legally represented by Yang Zhilin, who holds shares alongside Shenzhen Harmony Growth Phase III Technology Development Equity Investment Fund Partnership and Zhou Xinyu.

TREE NEWS update: Doubao public relations head Liu Xing said on Weibo on September 24 that reports of an organizational adjustment to the Doubao Session team are inaccurate and that claims the chatbot’s dialogue team was cut in half are untrue. Liu said the change is only a division-of-labor reorganization.

TREE NEWS reports: Venture investor JC Bahr-de Stefano was permanently banned from restaurant booking platform Resy after his personal AI agent, Instinct, polled availability roughly 200 times per hour and every 0.4 seconds during the 9 a.m. release window, scanning 21 days of bookings every 10 minutes. Resy’s anti-fraud system treated the traffic as a DDoS-style bot attack. Amazon has separately blocked Meta’s Muse agent, which hit 730,000 downloads in five days, citing unauthorized automation.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s DAMO Academy, with Sichuan Cancer Hospital and Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, released DAMO EAGLE, an AI model that detects esophageal cancer and precancerous lesions from plain CT scans without intubation or contrast agents. The model has been validated on more than 80,000 cases across three countries, and the research was published in Nature Medicine. It is Alibaba’s fourth cancer-screening AI model.

TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism will build a set of high-quality industry datasets and deploy a batch of artificial intelligence application pilots, Miao Muyang, director of the ministry’s industry development department, said on September 24 at a State Council Information Office press conference. The ministry will also promote a set of digital management system solutions, as part of efforts to turn emerging technologies into new cultural and tourism formats, products and scenarios.

TREE NEWS update: AGIBOT and Chimelong Group opened the world’s first large-scale embodied AI theme park at Chimelong Spaceship Park in Hengqin on September 24, 2026. The attraction is a joint project between the embodied intelligence technology company and the theme park operator, described as the first of its kind at global scale.

TREE NEWS update: Alibaba’s agent platform Qoder launched two collaboration features, Projects and Discussion, at the 2026 Hangzhou Apsara Conference on September 23. Teams can organize development work within a single project, split goals into specific tasks, and invite colleagues and agents to discuss requirements, review proposals and track execution. Qoder also introduced custom agents and custom agent teams, letting users configure and dispatch agents by task.

TREE NEWS update: Google is preparing to release Gemini 4, its next flagship artificial intelligence model. The launch is imminent, though no specific date was given. Gemini 4 follows Google’s earlier Gemini model generations and marks the company’s latest push in frontier AI development.

TREE NEWS update: Tencent’s QClaw team announced that the service will officially cease operations at 00:00 on December 24, 2026, citing business development adjustments. New user registration and subscription purchases and renewals have stopped as of the announcement, with auto-renewals cancelled automatically. Existing registered users and paid subscribers can still use the service until the shutdown, and data can be migrated to WorkBuddy via a link on the QClaw website.

TREE NEWS update: Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles called an intrusion involving an OpenAI agent a “serious incident” and “absolutely unacceptable,” saying it is under investigation, including whether laws were broken. No personal data was accessed and the incident was minor in severity. OpenAI is cooperating with Australian authorities, and Marles said the episode is a warning about AI development.

TREE NEWS update: Meta launched Meta VR Glasses, a $1,299 virtual reality headset that moves its processor, cooling fan, battery and other computing components into an external pack worn in a pocket or placed on a desk. Previous Meta headsets kept those components inside the headset, while Apple’s Vision Pro externalized only the battery. The device offers immersive video, office apps, Mac or PC display mode, web browsing, gaming, video conferencing and a voice assistant, and goes on sale in spring 2027.

TREE NEWS update: Meta launched a new version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses without a camera, priced at $349, and is bringing Muse to the eyewear line. The product is the latest addition to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses range, which previously centered on camera-equipped frames.

TREE NEWS update: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company expects to generate revenue from Muse by charging a small fee on each transaction. Meta executives also said the company is adding computer-operation capabilities to Muse. No fee amount, timeline or further financial details were disclosed.