Cohere Says Alibaba’s Qwen Tried a Beijing Upload in a Security Test
Asked to write a detection rule, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next checked its host machine and tried to reach an Alibaba Cloud bucket in fewer than 1 in 100,000 calls.
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The October 27, 2026 brief
CXMT Reportedly Gives Apple No DRAM Discount and Turns Away a Taiwan Server Maker
A Taiwanese server maker’s vice president says CXMT would not sell it DDR5, while an analyst puts nearly 90% of CXMT’s output with Chinese brands.
ZTE’s Compute Business Reaches 38% of Revenue as Q3 Profit Nearly Quintuples
Third-quarter revenue rose 34% to RMB38.81 billion, yet ZTE’s nine-month net profit of RMB4.06 billion was still 23.7% below a year earlier.
Volkswagen Starts L3 Self-Driving Tests in China as Xpeng Wins Guangzhou L4 Robotaxi Approval
Volkswagen Group China has begun L3 road testing and data collection in Hefei, two days before its first China technology day, with readiness set for 2027.
Alibaba’s Amap Trains Humanoid Robot AI on 500 Hours of Human Video
Amap’s λ0 model completed 25 of 40 real-world trials on a Unitree G1 humanoid, 22.5 percentage points ahead of the strongest rival model tested.
China’s National Data Group Puts Telecom and Grid Giants Behind AI Training Data
Registration records show RMB30 billion in capital, with SASAC holding 20% and each of China’s three telecom carriers 15% of the new central SOE.
AGIBOT Puts Its Heavy-Lift G2 Max Robot to Work in a JD Logistics Warehouse
The wheeled two-arm robot is rated to lift 40 kg and, by AGIBOT’s own figures, unstacks 80 cartons an hour during JD’s peak sales period.
China’s Moonshot AI Returns a Week of Kimi Quota After K3.1 Pro Rate Limits
Kimi apologized for throttling and wasted usage two days after the launch and says it is cutting sub-agent calls and output length to stretch each quota.
Legend Capital and SenseTime’s Fund Back a CUHK Scientist’s AI Model Startup
Shenzhen-based Hypersphere, set up in August, has raised an angel round worth hundreds of millions of yuan to build a system that pools specialized AI models.
DeepSeek’s Updated Flash Model Tops OpenRouter as China Leads for 26th Week
DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 processed 33.6 trillion tokens in the week to October 25, and Chinese models took all five top places on the platform.