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AI 新創 Tolan 估值上看 2.68 億美元，活躍用戶破 25 萬穩站 AI 情緒陪伴市場

標榜能協助使用者管理日常生活、處理人際關係與情緒並達成個人目標的 AI 陪伴應用程式 Tolan，近日宣布再獲 […]

TechNews (TW)Nov 2

Apple's stock drops on weak margin forecast in Ternus’ first earnings report: Live updates

Follow Apple Q4 2026 earnings live for revenue, EPS, iPhone sales, China performance, AI updates, holiday guidance and AAPL stock reaction.

CNBC TechnologyNov 2

Japan's Aisin develops new type of AI chip that cuts energy use 98%

Nikkei AsiaNov 2

Intel foundry push faces critical test after stock's 45% plunge in October

Intel’s turnaround now hinges on proving its foundry strategy can deliver, as customers look for signs the company will add fab capacity and catch TSMC

CNBC TechnologyNov 2

Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math (Rikiya Takehi)

Rikiya Takehi : Researchers say LLMs can be good at natively reading and writing neural network weights; GPT-6 Astra edited Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights to make it better at math — TL;DR … If you were asked to handcraft a neural network that plays Go, what would you do? If you were handed raw neural network weights …

TechmemeNov 2

Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0: A 753B Open-Weight Model for Scientific Discovery

Deep Principle has released Hydrogen-1.0, an open-weight scientific model for chemistry, materials science and life sciences. It is built by post-training Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 on domain data, laboratory records and agent discovery trajectories. For developers, it offers open weights that report a FrontierScience-Research win over GPT-6-Astra. The weights ship under the MIT License. TL;DR What is […] The post Deep Principle Releases Hydrogen-1.0: A 753B Open-Weight Model for Scientific Discovery appeared first on MarkTechPost .

MarkTechPostNov 2

DeepSeek releases a "creator mode" that allows DeepSeek Harness users to quickly create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)

Debby Wu / Bloomberg : DeepSeek releases a “creator mode” that allows DeepSeek Harness users to quickly create custom plugins, like a 3D model renderer and a video editing workbench — DeepSeek has unveiled a new option to quickly create custom plugins that help users to tackle a range of complex tasks …

TechmemeNov 2

Anthropic seeks to raise up to $3.5bn from Japanese investors in IPO

Nikkei AsiaNov 2

Hong Kong homes, AI’s rise: cartoonist Harry Harrison’s takes from October

Discover Harry’s View as our veteran cartoonist casts his satirical eye over the political, social and economic landscape.

SCMP Tech (AI)Nov 2

China’s EDA champion buys start-up to address weak link, support Huawei’s Tau Scaling Law

Empyrean Technology, China’s top provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools, plans to acquire a majority stake in a domestic start-up, reinforcing Beijing’s drive for tech self-sufficiency and bolstering support for Huawei Technologies’ semiconductor ambitions. The Beijing-based firm said in a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing on Sunday that it would acquire a 50.38 per cent stake in Easy-Logic Technology for 218.8 million yuan (US$33 million). Once completed, the start-up would be...

SCMP TechNov 2

Investigation: a network of 400+ domains and apps linked to Chinese-language developers bypasses app store reviews to generate nonconsensual deepfakes and CSAM (Matt Burgess/Wired)

Matt Burgess / Wired : Investigation: a network of 400+ domains and apps linked to Chinese-language developers bypasses app store reviews to generate nonconsensual deepfakes and CSAM — WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features …

TechmemeNov 2

China’s CXMT defends bet on risky new DRAM architecture to circumvent US chip curbs

Chinese memory chip giant ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is pressing ahead with an alternative chip architecture that US rival Micron Technology has chosen to bypass, highlighting an industry divide over how best to pack more data onto silicon under cost and geopolitical constraints. The Hefei-based company planned to send customers samples of its first server-grade dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) product built on the 4F² architecture by the end of this year, according to a summary of...

SCMP TechNov 2

How Hong Kong’s fintech strategy is progressing – and where growth still lags

Hong Kong has touted rapid progress in the first year of its five-year fintech strategy, pledging to double down on artificial intelligence and tokenisation even as many initiatives face the challenge of achieving commercial scale. Tokenisation, for instance, had moved from the sandbox “into the real world”, said Eddie Yue Wai-man, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), at the city’s annual FinTech Week conference on Monday. Hong Kong had authorised 17 tokenised public funds...

SCMP TechNov 2

Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features

WIRED uncovered some 400 apps and websites linked to Chinese-language developers that look like regular AI tools but had secret features that let users create violent AI-generated images and video.

WIRED AINov 2

財部擬修重大公建免營所稅，納 AI 算力設施營運所得

配合 AI 算力設施、勞工福利設施已納入重大公共建設範疇，財政部預告修正相關辦法，完備適用免納營利事業所得稅規 […]

TechNews (TW)Nov 2

China's self-improving AI advances towards AGI, but Z.ai founder warns of limits and risks

Z.ai co-founder Tang Jie has identified recursive self-improvement (RSI) as a critical pathway towards artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that AI systems capable of improving their own development processes could transform research while creating new risks for human oversight.

DIGITIMESNov 2

北美 AI 資料中心訂單增溫，士電 T4 新廠明年投產、變壓器產能增三成

隨著美國 AI 資料中心建設加速，帶動大型變壓器需求攀升，重電大廠士電積極擴大北美市場布局。法人指出，士電近期 […]

TechNews (TW)Nov 2

Japan can build defense edge on AI, Palantir CEO says

Nikkei AsiaNov 2

Taiwan aims to train 60,000 IC specialists by 2030

Taiwan is aggressively pursuing a core strategy of "Team Taiwan to Team Global," according to Cheng-Wen Wu, Minister of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC). Wu noted that when AI chips are manufactured in Taiwan, local tech companies are the first to understand their application scenarios and strengths—giving domestic industries a head start in integrating advanced AI into their own manufacturing processes.

DIGITIMESNov 2

YouTube 推薦內容不對味，AI 大神用 Claude Code 自建影片平台

今年加入 Anthropic 的卡帕斯（Andrej Karpathy）是 OpenAI 共同創辦人、特斯拉自 […]

TechNews (TW)Nov 2

Crypto industry confronts stark security challenges after US$6.4b Binance hack

The question of how to prevent more massive hacks – especially in the AI era – hangs over gathering of fintech leaders in Hong Kong.

SCMP Tech (AI)Nov 2

Anthropic 將在美 IPO，擬向日本募資 1,144 億元

今天公布的申報文件顯示，人工智慧（AI）公司 Anthropic 在美國首次公開發行（IPO）之際，將同步在日 […]

TechNews (TW)Nov 2

AI, geopolitics make Taiwan Thailand's third-largest trade partner in 1H26

Taiwan became Thailand's third-largest trade partner in the first half of 2026 as AI growth and geopolitical shifts accelerate Taiwanese investment in the country, Taiwan Representative to Thailand Peter Lan said. Around 200,000 Taiwanese businesspeople are now based in Thailand, with the pace accelerating under the China+1 trend.

DIGITIMESNov 2