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Tencent's self-developed large model Hunyuan 2.0 (Tencent HY2.0) has been officially released. At the same time, DeepSeek V3.2 is gradually integrated into Tencent's ecosystem. Currently, these two models have been launched first in Tencent's AI-native applications such as Yuanbao and ima. Tencent Cloud has also simultaneously opened up related model APIs and platform services. The newly released Tencent HY2.0 adopts a Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture, with a total parameter count of up to 4

The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into Meta, questioning its new WhatsApp Business API policy that only allows its own Meta AI to access, banning third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT, and涉嫌 abusing its market dominance. The new policy prohibits third-party AI chatbots from accessing the API starting October 2025, and services integrated before January 15, 2026 must exit, with unclear exemptions.

NVIDIA and HKU launched the 8-billion-parameter Orchestrator model, which coordinates tools and LLMs to solve complex tasks efficiently. It outperforms benchmarks in tool usage with lower costs and adapts to user preferences. Trained via the ToolOrchestra RL framework, it enhances small models' coordination skills.....

On December 3, the 2025 Global Top 500 Unicorn Companies Conference was held in Laoshan District, Qingdao. The conference released the '2025 Global Top 500 Unicorn Companies Report', with evaluation criteria including a valuation of over 7 billion yuan, unique technology, and business models. The report shows that the total valuation of global unicorn companies in 2025 reached 3.914 trillion yuan, achieving growth compared to last year.

The Japanese government is advancing an AI initiative aimed at early identification of adolescents with suicidal tendencies and providing psychological support to address the issue of adolescent suicide. This effort comes amid increasing discussions about the negative impacts of AI, particularly following recent lawsuits against OpenAI over AI tools that may induce suicide among teenagers, sparking widespread public concern about the risks of AI applications.

Gaode Map's 'AI Parking Radar' uses spatial intelligence and AI vision to provide real-time, minute-level updates on street parking availability, easing parking anxiety with lane-level navigation views. Currently available in Beijing, covering tens of thousands of spots, it extends navigation apps into parking services.....

A 31-year-old podcaster faces charges for cyberstalking and interstate threats, potentially resulting in 70 years in prison and a $3.5 million fine. He expressed a desire for a 'wife' and extreme anger toward women on social media, referring to ChatGPT as his 'best friend,' highlighting AI's negative role in the case.....

OpenAI launches GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a programming model with enhanced performance at the same price as GPT-5. It features 'agentic' coding and runs in contexts over a million tokens via compression, ideal for complex tasks, drawing developer attention.....

Volc Engine launches Doubao Speech Recognition Model 2.0, significantly enhancing inference capabilities and supporting multilingual and visual information recognition. The model is based on a 2 billion parameter audio encoder, optimized for complex scenarios, improving the accuracy of recognizing proper nouns, names, places, and polyphones.

A US judge ruled that OpenAI must provide millions of anonymized chat records to news organizations such as the New York Times to support a copyright lawsuit. The judge believed these records are crucial to the case and would not violate user privacy.

Alibaba launched the 'Chasing Stars AI' picture book smart agent on International Volunteer Day, landing on Qwen APP. This smart agent was jointly developed by Alibaba volunteers and Moba Community developers, specifically designed for children with autism, offering emotional companionship and personalized reading experiences. The 2.0 version adds a 'Generate a Picture Book in One Sentence' feature, allowing users to input a story idea, and the AI will automatically generate picture book content suitable for the developmental characteristics of children with autism.

Norton launches the world's first free secure AI native browser, "Norton Neo", aimed at addressing online security challenges brought by the rapid development of AI technology, providing users with a smarter and more trustworthy browsing experience.

Microsoft open-sources the real-time speech model VibeVoice-Realtime-0.5B, which offers extremely low latency and near-human voice performance. The model takes an average of only 300 milliseconds from text input to voice output, far less than traditional TTS models (1-3 seconds), achieving almost zero latency real-time speech synthesis.

Shengshu Technology launches the 'Vidu Q2 Image Creation Suite', integrating three main functions: reference-based image generation, text-to-image generation, and image editing. The new version exceeded 500,000 uses on its first day of release, indicating strong user demand. Vidu Q2 enhances image generation control, allowing precise specification of position, action, and composition in the image, and outputs 4K quality. The new image editing features include local retouching and material replacement, performing excellently in international evaluations.

Kuaishou's Kling AI launches Avatar2.0, enabling users to create up to 5-minute singing videos from a photo and music. The model enhances digital human expressiveness with natural facial and body movements, moving beyond stiff lip-syncing, marking a shift from static to dynamic AI content creation.....

Meta plans to cut the budget for its metaverse division next year, with the reduction possibly reaching 30%, which may affect the Quest headsets and the Horizon Worlds project. The company had previously invested billions of dollars, but recent strategic adjustments indicate that its investment in the metaverse may slow down.

Cross-border venture capital firm Nexus Venture Partners has completed the fundraising of its $700 million eighth fund, continuing the size of the previous one. Over the next three years, half of the funds will be invested in AI infrastructure and the agent track, while the other half will continue to focus on Indian local consumer, logistics, and digital infrastructure sectors. The firm maintains a 'small fund' strategy, fundraising every 2.5-3 years, with the first check amounting to around $1 million, focusing on early-stage investments from seed to Series A.

The Chicago Tribune sues AI company Perplexity, accusing it of unauthorized scraping of news content, bypassing paywalls, and directly generating results at the level of the original text. The newspaper's lawyers had inquired about content usage, and Perplexity responded that it did not use the articles for model training, but acknowledged possible non-literal factual references.

AI data service provider Micro1 achieved revenue exceeding $100 million in one year, with a valuation of $500 million, becoming the fastest-growing AI supply chain company. The company transformed from a recruitment tool into an "AI Expert Cloud" platform, managing thousands of interdisciplinary experts, and its founder is only 24 years old.

Alibaba Cloud's 'XiYan-SQL' AI agent tops global SQL diagnostic benchmark BIRD-CRITIC, surpassing top teams and setting new industry records.....