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Financial_Express reports that Luda Technology Group announced the acquisition of a 55% equity stake in Asia Computing Network and Quantum Computing Technology Co., Ltd., referred to in the message as “Asia Computing.” The source identifies Luda as U.S.-listed under LUD, but does not specify its exchange or legacy business.
Financial_Express reports that Anthropic is advancing a $63 billion chip-financing transaction, including $18 billion of subordinated debt supported by its lease payments. The report does not establish that the financing has closed or that the full amount has been committed.
The worldnews Telegram channel reports that Finland launched a criminal investigation into Google’s clearing of forest for a data-center site. The supplied material consists only of a headline and does not include the underlying article.
Financial_Express reports that Karin Prien, Germany’s education and family minister, proposed a new tax on value created by artificial intelligence. The source explicitly states that there is no concrete coalition plan and that neither the tax rate nor its scope has been determined.
China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) declined 0.8 points to 49.3, returning below the expansion threshold. The National Bureau of Statistics attributed the slowdown partly to demand released before the National Day holiday and a complex international environment; production and new-order indices fell to 49.8 and 49.4, respectively, while new export orders registered 48.7.
NVIDIA presented Optics-on-Interposer (OOI) prototypes at SEMICON West 2026 in San Francisco, according to the supplied reports. The technology is described as a next-generation approach to co-packaged optics (CPO).
ChangXin Memory Technologies disclosed the validation milestone during its October 30 third-quarter earnings discussion. The reports identify this as the company’s first explicit confirmation that its sixth-generation process platform uses 4F² vertical-channel dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), following earlier presentations about the architecture at academic forums.
Shennan Circuits reported the manufacturing update during a recent institutional-investor discussion. According to the message, its Guangzhou production base continued releasing capacity and improving product-line capabilities during the third quarter of 2026.
Megmeet, identified in the source by stock code 002851, told institutional investors that its GB300-related production capacity continues to ramp and that orders are sufficient. It also said the GB300 business continues obtaining new orders, but supplied no order value, unit volume, or shipment figures.
On October 31, Zhangjiagang announced agreements for AI-compute liquid-cooling manufacturing projects with RMB 1.1 billion in total planned investment. The projects are located in the city’s Metallurgical Industrial Park in Jinfeng Town.
State Power Investment Corporation announced on October 31 that the first concrete had been poured at Haiyang Unit 5’s nuclear island. The company identifies this as the start of construction for Phase III of the Haiyang nuclear-power project.
The transmission and substation ring was formally delivered at a ceremony in Melo, the capital of Uruguay’s Cerro Largo department, on October 30. China Machinery Engineering Corporation was the project contractor, and construction began in 2021.
Shanghai Electric and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) signed the agreement on the afternoon of October 30. The announced scope connects energy-equipment activities with new-energy technologies.
Data Center Dynamics published an opinion article titled “Europe’s AI ambitions are hitting a power bottleneck” on October 31. Its supplied description states that data-center demand is surging while outdated grid infrastructure prevents Europe from making full use of renewable energy.
Beijing Space Computing Innovation Center released the platform on October 30, according to the October 31 Telegram report. The message says its core functions have been completed and that it covers computing resources across more than 40 satellites.
The three parties signed their cooperation framework agreement on October 31. It covers computing services, model technology, and intelligent applications, including plans to establish a Qwen Office Innovation Center in Wuxi.
Apple and Alibaba announced the cooperation on October 31, according to the supplied messages. The integration is intended to let users access Qwen’s text and image understanding and content-generation capabilities through Siri, Writing Tools, and Visual Intelligence.
DeepSeek’s Harness team published “Super-agent Design Exploration: Toward More Autonomous Agent Systems” on October 31. Its stated starting point is that conventional agents operate through independent sessions, leaving people responsible for coordinating multiple tasks and synchronizing context.
Telegram reports citing The Information say Meta and Chinese robotics startup Fourier developed a humanoid prototype internally codenamed Max. The reported development period was three months, and the prototype weighs approximately 106 pounds.
