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Zhiyuan Robot launches 'Lingchuang', a zero-code platform enabling users to upload human motion videos for AI-powered robot action replication, simplifying robot directing.....

As the autumn recruitment season approaches, brain-computer interface technology is accelerating its industrialization and has become a new hot spot for college graduates' employment. This cutting-edge interdisciplinary field is expected to reach a market size of 5.58 billion yuan by 2027, with an annual growth rate of 20%. Currently, hundreds of universities and research institutions are involved in its development.

Microsoft's CEO of AI business, Sulman, clearly stated that the company will not develop sexual content AI services, emphasizing that this is not within the scope of its services. This statement was made a week after OpenAI announced allowing adults to create sexual content, highlighting Microsoft's firm stance on the ethics of generative AI.

Kimi For Coding offers developers enhanced tools, compatibility with Kimi CLI, Claude Code, and RooCode, boosting efficiency with up to 100 requests per 5 hours and 100 tokens/second response speed.....

The University of Science and Technology of China and ByteDance jointly launched an end-to-end long video generation model that can directly generate high-quality videos with a duration of minutes, 480p resolution, and 24fps, supporting multi-shot switching. The core innovation is the underlying algorithm MoGA, a novel attention mechanism designed to tackle the challenges of long video generation, marking a key breakthrough in domestic video generation technology.

The "Lingguang" application under Alipay has started internal testing, supporting login with a phone number or Alipay account. Its core feature, the "AGI Camera," can recognize real-world scene content through the lens in real time, enabling shooting and questioning as well as intelligent interaction, demonstrating the potential of multimodal AI applications.

On October 16, Baidu PaddlePaddle released the vision language model PaddleOCR-VL, achieving a score of 92.56 in the authoritative evaluation OmniDocBench V1.5 with 0.9B parameters, surpassing mainstream models such as DeepSeek-OCR and topping the global OCR rankings. As of October 21, the top three positions on the Huggingface trending list were all occupied by OCR models, with Baidu PaddlePaddle ranking first.

Last night, Songyan Power officially launched the pre-sale of its latest humanoid robot, Bumi, on the JD.com platform, offering it at an affordable price of 9998 yuan, bringing the humanoid robot product into the market below 10,000 yuan for the first time, which has attracted widespread attention in the industry. This move not only breaks the long-standing high-price barrier of humanoid robots but also signals the arrival of an era of popularization of humanoid robots.

Crusoe completed a $1.38 billion equity financing, with its valuation exceeding $10 billion, reflecting investors' high confidence in the AI infrastructure market. The company operates a large data center in Texas, providing services to giants such as OpenAI and Oracle. This round of financing was led by Valor Equity Partners and the Abu Dhabi Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Nike introduces Project Amplify robotic assistance shoes and the Mind series neuroscience shoe models, enhancing athletic performance through technology. The former was developed in collaboration with Dephy, featuring a carbon fiber sole and motor system to assist the calf muscles of athletes, showcasing a new trend in smart sports equipment.

EA has formed a partnership with Stability AI, integrating AI technologies such as Stable Diffusion into game development. The two parties plan to jointly develop AI models and tools, redefining content production methods, aiming to accelerate iteration and expand creative boundaries. EA emphasizes that AI is positioned as an auxiliary tool to enhance efficiency, supporting rapid iteration and process optimization, rather than replacing human creativity.

Meta integrates AI image editing into Instagram Stories, enabling users to add, remove, or modify photos and videos via text prompts through the 'Restyle' menu, streamlining the editing process.....

Microsoft introduced the personified AI character Mico at the Copilot Fall Launch Event. The name comes from Microsoft Copilot, and it has features such as listening, changing color, and customization, positioning it as a warm virtual companion. Its inspiration seems to be derived from the classic Office assistant Clippy, and it includes hidden easter egg interactive designs.

Recently, Opera announced that the Opera Neon browser will launch a new AI feature called Opera Deep Research Agent (referred to as ODRA). This marks a key step in Opera's efforts to build an AI ecosystem for browsers, providing users with a new and efficient solution for complex query problems. ODRA has been under development for over two years and is a core component of Opera's self-developed AI engine. After months of continuous optimization, ODRA has achieved significant improvements in performance.

Turbo AI, founded by two 20-year-old dropouts, grew from 1M to 5M users in six months, adding 20K daily users, with eight-figure annual revenue and sustained profitability.....

OpenAI Security Director Dane Stuckey publicly expressed concerns about the security risks of the ChatGPT Atlas browser, highlighting that immediate injection attacks remain unresolved. These attacks embed malicious instructions through websites or emails, which could lead the AI to perform unintended actions, affecting the user experience.

Claude Pro/Max introduces 'Memory' to retain project details and user preferences, enhancing conversation continuity and personalization with privacy-focused, isolated storage per project.....

OpenAI acquires the team behind the AI language application Sky on the Mac platform, aiming to accelerate the deep integration of ChatGPT with macOS workflows. This move will leverage Sky's contextual understanding, user adaptability, and cross-application collaboration capabilities, promoting the natural integration of AI into daily use and enhancing the Mac user experience.

Domestic AI company Moonshot AI is about to complete another round of billion-dollar funding, just a few months after its previous $300 million funding round. The capital market continues to show strong confidence in the company, which was once hailed as one of China's most anticipated large model companies.

Microsoft's fall update for Copilot AI assistant adds group chat functionality, supporting real-time collaboration with up to 32 people, allowing for brainstorming, planning, or collaborative writing. As an intelligent hub, Copilot can automatically summarize content, enhance collaboration, memory, and personalization, improving team efficiency.