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Apple Intelligence reaches China with Alibaba's Qwen

Apple Intelligence reaches China in December. Plus: Aramco's HUMAIN stake, Altman meets Samsung, and DeepSeek's coding super-agent.

Top story

Product LaunchEveryone covered this

Apple says Apple Intelligence will launch in China in December, backed by Alibaba's Qwen model.

The first batch of Apple Intelligence services arrives for Chinese iPhone users with the iOS 27.3 update in December, after an open beta for developers starting November 4, Apple said. The rollout ends two years of regulatory uncertainty in Apple's second-largest market, SCMP reports, with Alibaba's Qwen AI model powering the features.

Our take

Apple needed a local model partner to ship in China at all, which makes Qwen's role the real story.

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The rest, ranked

  1. Funding & BusinessEveryone covered this

    1. Aramco closed a 49% stake in Saudi AI firm HUMAIN, committing $2.6 billion.

    Forbes Middle East reports HUMAIN is targeting 3 GW of data center capacity.

    Full story
  2. Chips & InfraEveryone covered this

    2. Sam Altman met about 50 Samsung presidents on Saturday about memory chip supply.

    The Next Web says the talks came two days after Altman called it "quite terrible" for scarce DRAM to sit in personal computers.

    Full story
  3. Dev ToolsEveryone covered this

    3. DeepSeek's Harness team open-sourced dsh-superagent, a prototype always-on coding agent.

    It is an MIT-licensed v0.1.0 research prototype for a single GitHub repository, and DeepSeek's own simulation says it finishes tasks faster than a single-session agent.

    Full story
  4. Safety & SecurityWidely covered

    4. Chainalysis says an attacker used agentic AI techniques to reach internal systems.

    Reports say the breach partly exposed customer names and emails.

    Full story
  5. RoboticsEveryone covered this

    5. The Information reports Meta built a humanoid prototype with China's Fourier.

    The roughly 106-pound robot, known internally as Max, was built in three months, and no launch target has been set, one source says.

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By category

Top stories in each category today, ranked.

  1. Aramco Acquires 49% Stake in HUMAIN
  2. OpenAI slashes funding goal by $10B amid tech selloff: FT
  3. Anthropic IPO: 1,300% Growth, $16.3 Billion in Revenue, and an $80.7 Billion Loss. Here Are the Numbers to Watch.
  4. Nvidia's networking revenue surpasses Cisco's total revenue in Q2
  5. Intel Shares Plunge 21%: How AI Is Squeezing Its PC Chips