Agricultural Bank of China ties Kimi membership to card spending
ABC’s fourth-quarter promotion offers eligible first-time holders two KIMI Pro monthly cards after RMB5,888 in qualifying spending.
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The October 18, 2026 brief
Chery plans UAE robotaxi agreement with Abu Dhabi’s K2
Chery says it will showcase a factory-integrated Level 4 robotaxi at its Wuhu summit, scheduled for October 19–23, alongside a planned K2 signing.
China Meteorological Administration advances Fengqing AI ensemble toward service
Fengqing Ensemble V1.0 cleared an operational review after independent tests produced an 11-day range for a key global forecast measure.
China Mobile Hong Kong tests U6GHz network in Mong Kok
The company says its 100 MHz allocation now underpins a completed flagship-store validation in Hong Kong’s upper 6 GHz radio band.
China’s TCM plan makes AI part of its health agenda
The five-year blueprint calls for high-quality TCM AI data sets, smart hospitals and diagnostic-assistance tools for grassroots providers.
Citi sees China AI listings continuing in Hong Kong
The bank points to a balanced investor base and local liquidity as 118 Hong Kong IPOs raised HK$388 billion through September.
DeepSeek adds Search and Fetch APIs to Flash update
The release retains the deepseek-flash model name and prices each retrieval endpoint at US$0.75 per 1,000 successful requests.
ModelBest co-releases PilotDeck with inspectable agent memory
ModelBest’s joint PilotDeck 2.0 release lets users separate project context, inspect saved memory, and reverse a consolidation.
Peng Cheng Laboratory starts Cloud Brain III trial operation
The Shenzhen research institute has 10,000P of domestic computing capacity online as a February municipal target calls for 16,000P by the end of October.
Purple Mountain Laboratories launches an AI-agent network with China Mobile
AXP, developed by four Chinese organizations, aims to connect AI agents across systems over deterministic networks and was unveiled in Nanjing on October 16.