AI Daily · Oct 23
Oct 22 06:00 – Oct 23 06:00 (Beijing time) · 14 items
Updated 10/23 08:55 (Beijing time)
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Tencent HunyuanThird-party reportOver 100,000 teachers apply for Tencent WorkBuddy Education Public Welfare Edition
Tencent's Zhang Jun said that over 100,000 teachers have applied for the WorkBuddy Education Public Welfare Edition, covering 45,000 schools in 1,467 cities nationwide. Teachers can apply via the Tencent SSV official account; after approval, they receive 2,000 credits per month for 12 consecutive months.
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Google AIThird-party reportCanva releases its first AI image model, Canva Craft
Canva has launched Canva Craft, its first AI image generation model. It uses a two-stage architecture that plans the design before generating the image, which is said to deliver greater precision, consistency, and control, competing directly with similar models from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.
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AnthropicThird-party reportAll code at Anthropic's platform engineering team is written by Claude
Katelyn Lesse, head of Anthropic's platform engineering team, revealed at ObservabilityCON that all code on the team is generated by Claude, with engineers shifting to system design and validation; the team has also allowed AI agents to autonomously fix tests and is exploring letting agents modify the codebase directly.
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MetaThird-party reportLegal experts: Meta AI may still scrape news sites after terms change
Meta revised its business terms to remove wording that implied it could freely use news site content to train AI, but legal experts say the change is insufficient and the remaining wording may still allow Meta to scrape news site content.
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Meta re-enables Muse sharing feature
Meta has re-enabled the Muse sharing feature after security researchers reported that public conversation links were easy to find. The researchers said they had previously been able to search up Muse pages such as a marketing firm's internal revenue estimates and a small business owner's loan application.
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Research institute tests Claude for scorpion antivenom development, unsuccessful
Investment research firm Citrini Research partnered with Anthropic to test whether an unreleased version of Claude could develop a scorpion antivenom. The result did not produce an actual drug, only some promising starting points, and experts say it is still far from a real drug.
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SpaceX, Anthropic, Nvidia good news drive tech stock rebound
The Wall Street Journal reported that Musk announced SpaceX has become profitable and hinted at a possible merger with Tesla, Anthropic's draft IPO prospectus shows rapid revenue growth, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered optimistic signals at the company's Berlin conference, driving tech stocks out of their slump.
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MiniMaxThird-party reportMiniMax stock falls below IPO price of HK$165
MiniMax's Hong Kong shares fell as much as 7.3% intraday to HK$159.3, dropping below the HK$165 IPO price and erasing all gains since listing. Industry competition, commercialization challenges and high costs are prompting investors to reassess this large-model company.
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Zuckerberg: AI assistant Muse not yet profitable, efficiency gains planned for next year
Meta CEO Zuckerberg said at the Q3 earnings call that the AI assistant Muse, launched last month, is not yet profitable due to high compute consumption, and the company plans to significantly improve operating efficiency next year; Reality Labs expects its losses to narrow to about $15 billion by 2027.
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Meta plans new class of stock to fund AI expansion
Meta plans to create a new class of stock to help fund its large-scale investment in AI models and services.
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Switch 2 allegedly hacked, modder claims help from OpenAI Codex
The Nintendo Switch 2 appears to have been hacked. Modder pepsipu showed footage of a custom version of Mario Kart World running and said the jailbreak, named ns2jb, was completed with the help of OpenAI's Codex.
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Schmidt: AI may let large firms cut 20% of jobs
Former Google CEO Schmidt believes that as AI takes over administrative and management tasks, large companies can operate as usual with about 20% fewer employees; using a company with 10,000 employees as an example, he said several thousand of them are actually not needed.
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Pichai: Using AI agents to aggregate information, working 24/7 without interruption
Google CEO Pichai described his working style on a podcast: he delegates information gathering to AI agents to track AI model R&D progress, computing resource usage, and follow internal group discussions, but major decisions are still made by humans.
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DeepSeekThird-party reportDeepSeek WeChat cover misspells "inclusive" as "HP"
The cover of DeepSeek's WeChat article "DeepSeek Open-Source Inference Framework: Toward a Truly Inclusive Future" misspelled "inclusive" as "HP," colliding with the computer brand HP and sparking discussion among netizens.
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