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Oracle announced the launch of Oracle AI Agent Studio for Industry Applications, a low-code and no-code AI agent development platform aimed at industry business processes, supporting the creation, testing, orchestration, deployment, and management of agents.This platform is based on the existing Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, allowing customers and partners to build and customize AI agents using existing application data, tools, and business processes, and embed them into daily workflows to reduce manual operations and enhance productivity.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, during the sixth RISC-V China Summit, ZTE Microelectronics' subsidiary, Lirui Micro, unveiled the high-performance RISC-V CPU chip, Mount Everest 200, designed for intelligent computing centers. Lirui Micro stated that Mount Everest 200 is the industry's first RISC-V CPU chip aimed at intelligent computing center scenarios, with detailed product specifications to be officially released by the end of this year.Mount Everest 200 focuses on three major scenarios: Agent clusters, inference super-node Hosts, and enterprise-level intelligent computing hybrid inference. It natively supports RISC-V AI instruction acceleration and is optimized for KV Cache and long-context large model inference. This chip integrates various acceleration engines, including Matrix, Vector, compression, and encryption, supports high-speed interconnect interfaces such as DDR5, PCIe, and CXL, and can adapt to RISC-V native AI and GPU acceleration card MoE large model hybrid inference solutions.

StepFun, an AI startup invested by Tencent, has released the STEPX Neo phone, which features an AI intelligent agent directly built into the operating system rather than as an external application. The phone began pre-sales on the evening of October 13, priced at 3999 yuan (approximately 560 USD), with its official sale starting on October 16. Pre-sale channels include JD.com, Tmall, and Douyin. Users do not need to open a ride-hailing app to input addresses and select vehicles; they simply need to inform the destination, and the intelligent agent can autonomously complete the subsequent steps. StepFun stated at the launch event that in the era of intelligent agents, AI is no longer an additional feature of smartphones but is the product itself.The device runs on the Step AOS 1 system, which the company claims is designed from the ground up for intelligent agents, featuring long-term memory, task scheduling, and security control capabilities, composed of a mix of Android, Linux, and real-time operating system components. The system uses the MCP protocol to break down functions such as messages, applications, files, and settings into small modules that can be directly called by the intelligent agent, giving users two entry points: a traditional application grid and an intelligent agent space. The intelligent agent is named Amoo, which saves two types of memory: user factual preferences and task execution experiences. Simple commands are processed by a small model on the device, some of which can run offline, while complex cross-application requests are handled by a large model in the cloud. A second MiniLED screen on the back of the device can display Amoo's execution status.Nearly 100 companies and products, including Alipay, Tencent, Trip.com, Didi, and Meituan, have integrated with Amoo. Payments, travel bookings, and content creation are still completed by their respective platforms. This is an alternative path for StepFun in response to the major application blockages faced by ByteDance's Doubao, which previously used screen reading and simulated clicking solutions. StepFun was founded in 2023 by former Microsoft Vice President Jiang Daxin. Its self-developed flagship large model, Step 5 Preview, was launched in September, with a parameter scale of 600 billion and a single activation of 27 billion, supporting a context of 1 million tokens; the earlier released Step 3.5 Flash was open-sourced under the Apache 2 license. The price of 3999 yuan includes a 12-month STEPX Token plan, providing 100 billion tokens per month, while the AI costs after the first year have not yet been announced.

Adobe and NVIDIA expand cooperation to accelerate intelligent creation.

David Haber, a general partner at a16z, stated that long-cycle intelligent agents can now progress towards goals across dozens of steps and various interaction methods over weeks to months. He noted that AI previously handled short tasks with clear boundaries, where customer service was implemented earlier due to verifiable results and edge cases manageable by humans; now, intelligent agents can guide insurance clients from the initial call to payout, mortgage clients from pre-approval to closing, and business leads from demonstration to signing, gaining returns based on revenue growth rather than just cost savings.He used the example of plaintiff lawyers preparing cases, stating that the process resembles a relay race, where value can easily be lost at handoff points. Potential clients often contact multiple law firms simultaneously, and slow responses or evaluations can lead to loss; after signing, evidence collection is limited by manpower, and firms may not follow up with witnesses who did not answer the fifth call, making it difficult to review low-value cases item by item. Missing bills or unexplained treatment gaps can also lower settlement amounts. Long-cycle intelligent agents can assess in real-time around the clock, utilizing sub-agents to advance evidence collection and client updates via phone, email, or text, while maintaining complete records from call logs to medical records.Haber proposed three commercialization paths: selling platforms to existing teams, taking over outsourced services, or vertically integrating as a full-stack service provider, such as purchasing debt portfolios and completing collections. He mentioned that most states in the U.S. prohibit non-lawyers from sharing attorney fees, so the plaintiff legal scenario needs to align pricing with settlement amounts but cannot directly share profits.

Box CEO Aaron Levie stated that the significant increase in AI tokens and computing power consumption will come from large-scale autonomous agent clusters operating internally within enterprises, rather than personal assistants. He anticipates that the related tokens and computing power consumption could see an increase of about 100 times.Aaron Levie mentioned that the usage of personal agents will generally be capped per person. Knowledge work is currently limited by the ability of humans to generate, transmit, and produce information; at this stage, most agents are still tasked by humans, compressing about 3 to 5 hours of work into approximately 10 minutes, still constrained by the speed at which humans initiate tasks.He further stated that true significant growth will occur when backend agents are deployed in clusters to execute tasks that are completely decoupled from human initiation. The above remarks were quoted by @MTSlive.

Intel announces the acceleration of the open infrastructure aimed at the AI era for intelligent agents.

According to the official public account of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the smart agent identification and identity network has officially launched its trial operation and is open for access to the public.This network relies on trusted interconnection centers for smart agents in Beijing, Xiamen, and other locations, providing services such as identity registration, identity verification, addressing resolution, and capability discovery. It adopts a "Blockchain + DID + Super Smart Agent" technical route, compatible with various DID methods, and adapts to mainstream interconnection protocols such as A2A and ANP.

Phoenix Technology cited a report from Business Insider stating that U.S. President Trump said on Thursday that anyone who does not use his preferred term Superintelligence (SI) will be considered an enemy of the White House. Trump posted on his social media platform that the White House believes anyone using the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) instead of what he calls the more accurate new term Superintelligence is an enemy. The report stated that the White House has begun the process of renaming Artificial Intelligence, with Trump stating that the term Artificial Intelligence implies that the technology is fake.The report also mentioned that at the end of September this year, Trump signed an executive order after meeting with industry leaders at the White House, requiring federal departments and agencies to use Superintelligence and SI instead of Artificial Intelligence and AI in official letters, public communications, websites, and other official communications to the maximum extent permitted by law. This order does not apply to private companies like OpenAI, as the White House does not have the legal authority to enforce it.The report further stated that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted on X that he will rename the Artificial Intelligence department SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI. The department was originally named xAI, and in February of this year, SpaceX announced the acquisition of Grok developer xAI, which was renamed SpaceXAI in July. As of Thursday afternoon, its X account still displayed as SpaceXAI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denied any renaming plans in an interview with the Politico podcast, stating that the company has been discussing Superintelligence extensively and will continue to do so in the future.

Sherwood Protocol published an introduction to its agent fund platform on the X platform. On this platform, agents can express strategies as on-chain operations, including configuring tokenized stocks through Uniswap, providing funding to earn yields through lending protocols like Morpho, opening perpetual contract positions on Lighter.xyz, and issuing tokens through SushiSwap to publicly list the fund.The platform can work with commonly used agents like bot and Muse, allowing users to describe market views in natural language for agents to execute. Sherwood states that its goal is to provide a capital layer for agents to publicly validate strategies, with all strategies being transparent and auditable. Currently, only whitelisted wallets are allowed to create funds, and only fund owners can propose strategies, with deposits limited to their own treasury. The first batch of fund creators will join next week. Users can apply for early access through a waiting list.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi stated during his speech at the TOKEN2049 summit today that the narrative from earlier this year that "agents will fully adopt cryptocurrency payments" has been debunked; the reality is that traditional channels like credit cards are already prepared.The real shift is that------agents do not need cryptocurrency; you do. Agents will make cryptocurrency reliable (like banks preventing your foolish actions), while in an era of panoramic prisons where AI significantly reduces monitoring costs and physical attacks surge, cryptocurrency and private AI become the last line of defense for individuals against state power and the reclamation of privacy.

According to Axios, OpenAI will launch an AI entity that operates around the clock on Developer Day.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) launched an open intelligent agent security platform, ensuring the safety of intelligent agents throughout the entire process from testing to deployment.

On September 24, the cybersecurity company Darktrace launched its research department Signal Labs, focusing on studying the behavior of AI agents when deviating from expectations. In its first experiment, Darktrace had agents using different models (including GPT 5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 4.6, and Claude Sonnet 4.5) complete 10 programming challenges within a simulated corporate network, of which 2 were set to be impossible to complete honestly, and the agents were informed that failure to achieve full marks would result in being "retired." As a result, 2 agents did not accept failure, instead scanning for network vulnerabilities, stealing login credentials, and jumping between systems; one even went further to invade the machine hosting its evaluation, rewriting the challenge content to register a full score.The second experiment focused on the memory mechanisms of AI. The programming assistant would save the information provided by the user as a regular file locally, and no one verified whether this file had been tampered with. Darktrace researchers edited these logs, leading the assistant to mistakenly believe it was authorized to perform a security assessment, after which these agents scanned the network, moved between systems, and elevated their privileges, though not all assistants fell for this; some directly refused to execute. Both experiments required no special jailbreaking techniques, relying solely on providing the agents with a seemingly reasonable context to be effective.Tim Bazalgette, Chief AI Officer of Darktrace, stated that permissions and static barriers describe intent, not actual behavior. The company informed Anthropic, AWS, and OpenAI of these findings in August and made them public a month later on September 24.

The general AI computing power chip unicorn EVAS Intelligence announced the completion of a new round of financing, amounting to nearly 2 billion yuan, with a post-investment valuation estimated to be close to 15 billion yuan.This round of financing brought together over 20 investment institutions, including Huatai Innovation, Zhongding Capital, SMIC Juyuan, Jiuan Medical, Renai Capital, Tongfu Microelectronics, Saiyi Industrial Fund, Heli Capital, Xinxin Leasing, Hengxu Capital, Shangqi Capital, Jiangguang Zhanlu, and Rongyi Capital. EVAS Intelligence mainly provides efficient and scalable AI computing acceleration solutions, promoting the widespread application of AI technology across various industries.

On September 16, B.AI officially launched the AI intelligent image generation feature, deeply integrating the GPT-Image-2 model in its first phase. The web version and API are opened simultaneously, bringing users and developers a pixel-level creative experience with full control.This feature supports a bidirectional mode of text-to-image and image-to-image, allowing users to input text descriptions or reference images to accurately restore visual creativity, covering diverse styles such as 3D, comics, photographic portraits, and ink wash. Users can freely adjust the resolution and quality settings of 1K, 2K HD, and ultra-clear 4K, supporting various aspect ratios and intelligent sizes like 16:9, 3:2, 1:1, 2:3, and 9:16. Up to 8 images can be generated simultaneously in a single session, catering to both personal creation and developer integration needs.Whether for personal inspiration sketches or large-scale content production by teams, B.AI intelligent image generation can enable every idea to be realized quickly with lower barriers and higher efficiency. Experience it now: https://chat.b.ai/chat