LongCat-2.5-Preview became available on Meituan’s LongCat API Platform on September 25, according to the official LongCat API Platform change log. The date matters because TechNode published its account on September 30, five days after the platform’s version entry. The release record centers on an API offering, image understanding, and coding-oriented functions.
Britain’s Security Service has put a named Chinese research organization at the center of an unusually public warning to universities. On September 30, MI5 issued a Security Service Espionage Alert concerning the China General Technology Research Institute, or CGTRI. The issuance of that alert is an established public event.
China’s broadcasting regulator has set out a policy preference for live-action microdramas while placing new visibility and rights-protection expectations around AI-produced titles. On September 17, Wang Xiaoliang, director general of the National Radio and Television Administration’s Network Audio-visual Program Management Department, addressed the sector’s next five years at a press conference.
On September 30, ByteDance’s Doubao assistant announced support for flight-ticket booking, train-ticket purchasing, ride-hailing, and route navigation. China AI Wire characterized the release as a full rollout and said the functions are available through the chat interface.
ByteDance is reportedly testing a separate personal-assistant application connected to Doubao, a move that would give its consumer AI service a dedicated product beyond the company’s existing chat experience. TechNode reported on September 30 that the app remains in internal testing and is planned as a standalone release.
A Senate subcommittee convened on September 30 for a hearing on threats posed by rogue AI agents. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing page identifies it as an open session of the Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census.
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has gained an enterprise route into OpenAI’s Codex environment through U.S. inference provider Baseten, a development reported by TechNode on September 30. TechNode reported that customers can access the model through Codex while usage counts against existing OpenAI commitments.
A One-Million-Token Target With a 256K Opening Ant Group’s InclusionAI released Ling-3.1-Flash on September 30, presenting a large-model specification aimed at long-running AI-agent work. TechNode reported that the model has about 560 billion total parameters, with about 25 billion activated for each token.
Z.ai, the PRC-based company formerly known as Zhipu AI, released GLM-5.3 on August 14 and made its weights public two weeks later, according to NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation assessment. Its emergence in new cyber evaluations has put a finer point on what an open-weight model can do under controlled conditions.
DeepSeek’s Ascend Programming Infrastructure Release DeepSeek’s September 30 release puts programming infrastructure, rather than a new model, at the center of its work with Huawei.
