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Tencent's PR Director Zhang Jun denied the 50% layoff rumors, calling it a rumor of organizational change

The Honor 700 series phones are all equipped with the new generation of Oasis Eye Protection Screens, featuring the same telephoto zoom lens as the flagship model, providing '4K Movie-like Live Photos'

Hua Hong Information is expected to mass-produce next-generation CPUs with performance comparable to international standards.

Haihong Information is expected to mass produce a new generation of CPUs next year, with performance comparable to international standards. The company's product layout includes DCUs supporting large model training, CPUs for AI data centers, and edge computing CPUs integrated with CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs.

The 2027 version of the Aurora Alpha S5 will be launched on November 16: pre-sales start at 12.18 ten thousand yuan, standard configuration includes LiDAR.

The 2027 version of the ARCFOX Alpha S5 went on sale on November 16, with a pre-sale price starting at 121,800 yuan, equipped with a 192-line LiDAR, and featuring the Beiqi Yuanjing intelligent driving assistance system, supporting NOA navigation assistance for urban and expressway areas.

How OpenRouter Builds Self-Correcting Localization Systems

OpenRouter currently supports 8 languages including Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean, and localization features have entered Beta testing. Its system achieves self-correction by detecting changes in strings in the code daily, translating them using GPT-6.1 Sol, and then verifying through code checks and a second model. When translation fails, the system retries with the reason, recording errors as rules or test cases. The entire process runs within OpenRouter, with translation data stored in the code-side Git repository.

Zhang Yiming on ByteDance AI: as early as 2029 or 2030 to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic

Zhang Yiming recently stated at a ByteDance AI all-hands meeting that ByteDance has the capability to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic, but catching up to the cutting edge technology may not be until 2029 or 2030. The most pressing issue for ByteDance's Seed series models currently is that the scale of their pre-training dataset is still smaller than that of top-tier AI companies overseas.

TOME-Math: A mathematical proof supervisory corpus based on structured textbooks

TOME-Math transforms 2,118 university mathematics textbooks into approximately 380K structured proof supervision records, preserving chapter order, proposition-proof links, and dependency references, used for fine-tuning to improve the mathematical reasoning ability of language models by 16.7 percentage points, surpassing all three public instruction datasets. This corpus will be released to promote structured mathematical supervision research.

Microsoft's built-in photo app for Windows 11 will integrate Adobe AI editing features.

Microsoft plans to test the new Windows 11 photo app with a preview version in December, integrating AI editing features from Adobe Express to enable personalized template application and streamline the Adobe Express design process.

Foxconn's net profit for the first three quarters of 2026 was NT$187.417 billion, a year-on-year increase of 30%

SYNAPUFF has secured a multi-million seed funding round to create an interactive intelligence base for AI Native terminals.

SYNAPUFF has completed a multi-million seed funding round to develop an interactive intelligence base for AI Native terminals, enabling agents to understand context, judge interaction boundaries, and dynamically adjust behavior. The company has proposed the 'P Framework,' which uses an interaction loop of 'trial—receive response—decision,' combined with dynamic interaction models, personality strategies, and non-textual language action generation models, to form an independent interaction decision framework adaptable to different terminals.

MIT researchers have developed new technology to accelerate and enhance the credibility of AI models for climate prediction.

MIT researchers have developed a training technique that significantly reduces data volume and improves the performance and adaptability of climate simulators (AI models), enabling them to quickly simulate the impact of human activities on future climate in seconds, such as predicting temperature or sea level changes, thereby more reliably testing thousands of climate scenarios and identifying unintended consequences of regional interventions. The algorithm generates optimized synthetic climate scenario data instead of relying on future emission scenarios based on real-world trajectories, significantly shortening production time and allowing the model to accurately predict scenarios not present in the training data.

Tencent Yuanbao Search launched, striving for the default search engine entry

Claude's October website traffic reached 1.253 billion, setting a new record and helping with Anthropic's IPO

One Table Benchmark launched: a benchmark test for general table models in generation, interpolation, and prediction tasks

The One Table Benchmark tested the table generation, imputation, and prediction capabilities of 46 models on 56 datasets, finding that these tasks share conditional information but have different fidelity and target interactions. Fixed models exhibit a trade-off between utility and fidelity, while frozen base models perform outstandingly in prediction and numerical imputation, indicating that unified table models have the potential to improve classification reconstruction and joint sampling.

Guo Mingzhi talks about the Huang Renxun cheating scandal: NVIDIA might need to start planning for a successor.

Kuo Ming-chun believes Huang Renxun is crucial to NVIDIA, capable of transforming technology into products that the company invests in resources for, and driving supply chain investments. Huang Renxun seems unlikely to retire easily, and NVIDIA may need to reduce its decision-making reliance and plan for a successor.

CNET released a battery drain test of 32 phones: Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max has the best overall endurance performance

CNET tested 32 phones and found that the Apple iPhone 18 Pro Max lost 1% battery in a 45-minute stress test and consumed 6% battery in a 3-hour video test, showing the best overall battery life. iPhone Duo topped the stress test, and Pixel 11 Pro XL ranked third. The test accumulated over 120 hours, and the iPhone 18 Pro Max's victory was due to its larger battery, iOS 27 optimization, and improved energy efficiency of the A20 Pro chip.

Tencent denies 50% layoff rumors: claims it is a misinterpretation of organizational restructuring and personnel adjustments

Tencent denied the 50% layoff rumors, stating it was a misunderstanding of organizational restructuring and personnel adjustments; insiders revealed that Tencent's 28th anniversary internal meeting proposed proactive changes for the AI era, encouraging 50% of employees to focus on core business efficiency improvement, while the other 50% explore AI Native new spaces, not layoffs.