Beijing to Ban Drone Ownership and Flights From November
Beijing will prohibit most people and organisations from flying, possessing or storing drones and key components across the city from 15 November, under revised rules that designate the entire municipality as controlled airspace. The measures also restrict drones being transported into the capital and give existing owners a short window to sell, scrap or move their aircraft elsewhere, marking one of China’s strictest urban drone regimes ahead of tighter enforcement.
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Unitree G1+ Humanoid Adds Stronger Motors and Wider Vision
Unitree has introduced the G1+, a major hardware and interaction upgrade to its compact G1 humanoid robot, adding a more flexible neck, stronger and cooler motors, wider visual sensing, touch controls and improved audio. Pandaily reports a tax-inclusive Chinese price of about RMB95,000, while Unitree’s international page lists the standard model at US$15,000 before tax and shipping, positioning it as a relatively accessible research platform for developers.
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Chinese AI Researchers Target Recursive Self-Improvement
Researchers from prominent Chinese universities and Big Tech are concentrating on a new objective in the artificial intelligence competition against the United States. This involves creating systems capable of generating enhanced versions of themselves without human intervention. A recent paper describes a five stage framework for recursive self improvement, termed RSI.
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EU Proposes Major Digital Curbs for Under-15s
The European Union is preparing a wide-ranging legislative proposal. This plan restricts individuals under 15 years old from social media platforms, video-sharing services, artificial intelligence chatbots, and online games. This represents the most extensive regulatory effort to date for minors in the digital sphere, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters.
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Chinese Scientists Boost Memory Chip Lifespan 100-Fold
Chinese researchers have developed a method to significantly enhance the durability of an emerging memory chip technology. This advancement addresses a key reliability concern, potentially facilitating its use in high-performance computing and future artificial intelligence systems. The global demand for more advanced semiconductors continues to grow, driving such research efforts.
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Anthropic Selects Nasdaq for IPO; Nvidia Considers Investment
Anthropic has informed its shareholders that the artificial intelligence organisation anticipates its adjusted operating income will be positive for a second consecutive fiscal quarter. This financial performance indicates a period of sustained operational efficiency and revenue generation for the developer of advanced AI models. This information was reported by The Financial Times, which cited multiple individuals possessing direct knowledge of the matter.
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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Cuts AI Costs With Strong Agent Benchmarks
DeepSeek has released V4.1 Flash, a multimodal AI model designed to cut inference and memory costs while competing with larger systems on coding, cybersecurity and agent benchmarks. The Chinese developer says its new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture activates only 8 billion parameters when processing input and 16 billion when generating output, despite using a 552 billion-parameter mixture-of-experts backbone and supporting contexts of up to one million tokens.
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Revolut Data Breach Exposes Customer Records After Fake Government Requests
Revolut has confirmed that sensitive customer information was disclosed to an unauthorised third party after fraudulent data requests were sent from an email account operating within a legitimate government agency domain. The British fintech said the sophisticated impersonation attack affected a limited number of customers, while its systems and customer funds remained secure, raising fresh concerns about how financial firms verify official requests for private data.
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Anthropic CEO Calls for Slower AI Development as Safety Risks Grow
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has urged leading artificial intelligence companies to slow the development of increasingly powerful models, arguing that safety testing and external oversight are not keeping pace with rapidly advancing capabilities. His proposal calls for independent evaluators, shared industry standards and international cooperation as concerns grow over the misuse of AI in cyber operations, surveillance, fraud and weapons-related work.
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MiniCPM5-2B Brings More Capable Open AI to On Device Hardware
OpenBMB has released MiniCPM5-2B, a compact open-weight artificial intelligence model designed for local assistants, coding, tool use and agent tasks on devices with limited computing power. Despite containing about 2.52 billion parameters, it ranked highest among open-weight systems below four billion parameters on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index version 4.2 at launch, highlighting how quickly smaller AI models are improving for practical, on-device use.
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