#Industry news

AILenovo's TianxiCode, paired with DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash, ranked first on the SWE-bench-Live Lite leaderboard with a 71% issue resolution rate and passed official Verified review. The framework combines multi-hop retrieval, autonomous planning with multi-turn tool calling, and test-driven self-correction, and will be applied to Lenovo AI hardware products.

AIBending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari said falling software company valuations create buying opportunities as the firm aims to benefit from AI disrupting the industry. The source does not provide further details on specific deals, figures, or timelines.

AIGoldman Sachs asset allocation research head Christian Mueller-Glissmann says investors are growing skeptical about AI, questioning whether ongoing capital expenditure will translate into monetizable products. He made the remarks on Bloomberg Television.

AIMeta has released Muse, its A.I. agent app, after delaying it for months over safety concerns. According to the source, new competition pushed Mark Zuckerberg to proceed with the launch.

AIOpenAI says an internal investigation found Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni breached policies on handling sensitive information, and denies the dismissals were tied to their safety concerns. The researchers had published an open letter on Thursday saying they were fired for raising safety concerns and had acted within OpenAI's mission. OpenAI said the investigation found breaches beyond those in the letter but did not provide details.

AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model, which it says costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5. The author argues Anthropic is the only frontier model builder, though the piece also covers Nous Research's $90 million Series B and OpenAI's revenue discrepancy.

AISophos is using OpenAI's Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of its MDR cases. The source says the approach preserves human oversight.

AISophos says agents built through OpenAI Daybreak, combined with its cybersecurity expertise, cut average response time from 38 minutes to 89 seconds for cases handled by those agents. The company says the agents help its MDR team investigate threats faster and protect customers at scale while keeping human judgment central.

AIJapan's government has called for security checks after a cascade of cyberattacks hit Japanese companies over the past few weeks. The government cited AI tools lowering the barriers to large-scale hacking.

AIFirmus abandoned its attempt at one of Australia's biggest-ever initial public offerings after failing to attract global investors wary of frothy AI valuations. The Nvidia-backed data center company's withdrawal reflects growing investor skepticism toward AI-related companies.

AIOpenAI announced last month that it had produced an AI-generated proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, a result the source says is hard even for experts to parse. The source also says LLMs now tackle math problems that have stumped humans for decades, while teachers struggle to keep up with AI-completed homework.

AIJPMorgan again leads Evident Insight's ranking of the world's most AI-advanced banks, according to Evident CEO Alexandra Mousavizadeh. She says early movers are pulling ahead, and the banks investing most heavily in AI are still growing headcount even as the technology changes jobs.

AIGoogle Cloud has introduced the Gemini agent, a single cloud-hosted agent that handles Q&A, knowledge work, media creation, and coding from one prompt box and one API. It routes jobs across Gemini and Claude models today, with other private and open models planned. Governance covers per-agent identity, role-based access, audit logging, and hard per-project spend caps, but the source gives no reproducible benchmarks, pricing, or general availability date.

AIOpenAI told investors it expects $50bn in revenue this year, about $20bn less than the $70bn it had signalled last month. The gap stems partly from comparing with Anthropic, which counts revenue sold through cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI does not. The news weighed on US tech stocks, and OpenAI is in early talks to raise $30bn at a valuation of about $1.4tn.

AIOpenAI exposed a Russian and an Iranian influence operation and banned the ChatGPT accounts involved, both of which planted content in legitimate media using fake identities. The Iranian operation, "Bogus Bylines," used seven fake journalists to place nearly 100 articles about the US-Iran conflict, while the Russian "Dark Clark" operation triggered fact-checks and official denials in Ecuador and Peru. Both operations used AI mainly for internal reporting and adapting propaganda to different languages.

AIOpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast is rolling out in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work, running up to 8x faster than Sol Standard at $12/$60 per million tokens. StepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-parameter MoE model with 27B active parameters, is now on OpenRouter, and JetBrains released the open 12B MoE coding model Mellum2.1 under Apache 2.0.

AIOpenAI has made GPT-6 available to all ChatGPT free and paid users worldwide, replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA. The model integrates Astra safety improvements that strengthen safeguards against misuse in cyber, biological, and violent domains.

AIRichard Yu said more Huawei phones will adopt LogicFolding chips built under the Tau Scaling Law, though no models or timetable were given. He said the Kirin 9050 Pro's performance is 31% higher than its predecessor, and the source outlines a roadmap reaching 5.0 GHz by 2031.

AIHuawei-backed openJiuwen has open-sourced AgentOS for Enterprise under Apache 2.0 on GitHub and AtomGit, targeting multi-agent coordination, memory-based self-evolution, multi-tenant isolation and fault recovery. Huawei Connect 2026 also introduced an all-in-one appliance built on it, which the launch information says enables an end-to-end private deployment in hours.

AIAfter visiting Google, the author says the company's employee care is extremely generous, from lunch to concern for body hair, with costs unconsidered. The post claims the Chinese office even serves whole soft-shell turtles at lunch, and says Google is a better workplace than companies that subject staff to PUA.

AIShares of Chinese optical chipmakers fell for a second straight session on Friday amid fears of potential US trade curbs on next-generation optical transceivers for data centres. China's CSI 300 Index slid 1.3 per cent by midday to its lowest level since August last year, with upstream laser chip suppliers falling more steeply than downstream transceiver makers.

AIAsia's booming data-center industry faces growing political risk because billions of dollars in investment depend on a few US technology giants, Jardine Matheson's chief executive warned. He said those companies' ability to operate globally could be disrupted by Washington's increasingly unpredictable stance toward China.

AIOpenAI expects to reach or exceed $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, according to people familiar with the matter. The company's annualized revenue was roughly $50 billion at the end of September, those people said.

AIDayOne Data Centers Ltd., a Singapore-based company, has held preliminary talks with banks for weeks about a potential $500 million bond offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The discussions are taking place even as the company plans to list in the US.

AIFirmus Grid Ltd. is exploring a private funding round to raise as much as $3 billion after its planned initial public offering collapsed. The data center operator is seeking alternative financing options following the failed IPO.

AITom Watson, now a senior vice-president at Palantir, warned UK ministers against letting "mob rule" dictate public procurement, saying they could get "in a lot of trouble" if they do. The former Labour deputy leader's comments come as Prime Minister Andy Burnham faces pressure to drop Palantir from government contracts, including a £330m NHS software deal.

AIAustralian cloud-computing firm Firmus Grid scrapped its IPO, which had sought a $30 billion valuation. The company had only two operational data centers at the time.

AIOpenAI defended its decision to fire three safety researchers, Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni, saying they committed a "significant breach of trust." The company said the dismissals were not about the researchers raising safety concerns, though it agreed with the letter they sent to board members and safety committees about preserving the monitorability of frontier models.

AIOpenAI says it parted ways with researchers Jasmine, Mikita, and Tomek after an internal investigation found they violated policies on handling sensitive information. The company says the decisions were not about raising safety concerns, which it says it encourages, and that it has not terminated any employee for raising concerns. OpenAI also says it is finalizing contracts with third-party safety assessors and will announce details in the coming weeks.

AIGeekPark reports that Krinwave, a Shenzhen company, has completed a new 400 million yuan round with XVC and Sequoia China as new investors. The company says its low-frequency ultrasound captures brain structures through the skull, which conventional high-frequency devices cannot, and it aims to supply hardware and its kOS software platform to brain-computer interface and NeuroAI groups.

AIChina's tech hardware shares are falling rapidly after strong gains earlier this year, as doubts over the global AI trade make high-valuation names especially vulnerable. The selloff reflects growing valuation concerns in the sector.

AIJeremy Howard posted a sardonic remark that he was not allowed to say he is quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does. The post quotes Tomek Korbak's similar statement and his relief at being permitted to say it.

AIMusician Grimes has announced a new album titled Psy Opera, described as AI-inspired. The announcement was shared via a Pitchfork article linking to the first song from the record.

AIAsia's largest software outsourcing provider said new US curbs on visa-based immigration will not affect its hiring or business strategy. The company did not name itself in the source text, and the summary avoids adding details beyond that statement.

AISoftBank Group Corp. is seeking to raise as much as $100 billion from Gulf investors to expand its AI investments, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report did not specify the timing or terms of the proposed fundraising.