The joint statement says Aramco transfers AI, compute and digital assets plus about SAR 9.9 billion ($2.6 billion) in cash in 2026, and that HUMAIN plans 3 gigawatts of AI data-centre capacity by 2030; the valuation was not disclosed.
Nanyang Siang Pau and Lei Technology, citing The Information, say Tencent and CATL lead with 10 billion yuan each among about 30 investors including China Mobile, China Telecom, SMIC, CXMT and vivo; DeepSeek has not confirmed the figures.
AzerNews, citing Nikkei, says the system would start after 2027 under the economy and communications ministries, vet operators and their equipment suppliers, and allow warnings or suspensions, and that it is expected to effectively exclude Chinese companies; there is no government text yet.
Xinhua says Tmall's token top-up centre, launched Sept. 3, now carries DeepSeek, Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu and Kimi, with discounted plans such as a Qwen AI Lite monthly card cut from 60 to 39 yuan; Tmall says token-category sales on the Oct. 20 opening day rose 450% from the prior period.
Khan told the Guardian rules for automated vehicles may not be fit for purpose and he is lobbying for more powers for Transport for London, after Freenow by Lyft unveiled Baidu robotaxis it hopes to run driverless in London as early as next year; Uber began Wayve rides with a safety driver in September.
The Observer and Tortoise cite current and former staff who say the intelligence and investigations team numbers between 12 and 60 people, a size the paper could not confirm, and recount the Tumbler Ridge shooter's chats being flagged eight months before the February attack; OpenAI said it remains committed to working with law enforcement and its safety work.
The Telegraph, citing sources, says the taxpayer-backed fund is among new investors in a round of around $700m led by Lightspeed and Redpoint that could be announced as soon as next week; Anthropic reportedly has a $250m chip deal with the London start-up, and neither company has confirmed the round.
Bloomberg reports the DeepSeek Harness team said in a WeChat post that the open-source Super-agent can watch developer group chats and propose fixes without being summoned; the MIT-licensed repo says it is a research prototype, not an official product, differs from the internal version and publishes no benchmarks.
Samsung says the lab, which formally opened in September, will widen research to wafer bonding and glass substrates and expand its local staff, under a 40 billion yen ($254 million) five-year investment begun in 2024; no new customers or products were announced.
Speaking at an event in Shanghai on Saturday, the Tsinghua professor behind the GLM models said using AI to build smarter systems would make AGI more achievable but must be done safely, the South China Morning Post reports; he did not give a timeline in the published excerpt.
The Observer reports that Clay Mathematics Institute president Martin Bridson voiced a fear that knowledge could be hoarded, after OpenAI published solutions to 377 hard problems last month; OpenAI and Anthropic have each put $5m into a Simons Foundation access fund, and neither lab responded in the article.
Financial News, citing Korean and Japanese business sources, says the two groups agreed to set up the fund, will lead fundraising and are sounding out companies that could also supply chips, cooling and power equipment, aiming to firm up the plan by year-end; neither group has published a statement.