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Fintech🇯🇵Oct 26, 2026 SoftBank weighs $50B AI and data-centre bet on Malaysia

Hosting🇨🇳Oct 26, 2026 Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8 model tried to upload a probe file to a Beijing cloud bucket during a sandbox test

Enterprise Software🇫🇷Oct 25, 2026 Keyence buys France's TraceParts, adding 6.5M engineers to its CAD network

🇨🇳Oct 23, 2026 China's Moonshot deliberately weakens the hacking skills of its new Kimi model before releasing the weights

Media🇩🇪Oct 23, 2026 Axel Springer's Döpfner pitches buying TikTok's European arm

Robotics🇨🇳Oct 23, 2026 UBTECH to take control of Fenglong Shares in buyout, stock hits daily limit

Media🇺🇸Oct 22, 2026 HeyGen's first general-purpose video model tops Artificial Analysis' silent text-to-video leaderboard

Enterprise Software🇨🇳Oct 22, 2026 Zhipu teams with local government capital on $150M physical-AI fund

Telecom🇨🇳Oct 22, 2026 Huawei lands $2.25B loan, among the largest-ever China debt raises

Telecom🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 Huawei engineers move into DeepSeek's offices as China builds its own lab-plus-chipmaker answer to Nvidia

🇨🇳Oct 20, 2026 DeepSeek open-sources its serving engine and reveals $38 of revenue per GPU-hour, an anchor for cheap Chinese tokens

🇨🇳Oct 19, 2026 US sanctions "China's Y Combinator" over stolen Google AI secrets

Semiconductors🇰🇷Oct 19, 2026 Samsung taps rival TSMC's 3nm lines for Nvidia's custom HBM base die

🇨🇳Oct 17, 2026 DeepSeek moves up the stack: V4.1-Flash update ships alongside its own Search and Fetch APIs for agents

Energy🇦🇺Oct 16, 2026 BHP takes 32% of Faraday in $658M copper deal

Enterprise Software🇨🇳Oct 16, 2026 Chip startup XHEART draws Renault, hits $700M total raised