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On October 16, B.AI announced the domestic model brand Token weekly ranking from October 9 to 15. Xiaomi model Token usage has remained steady at 2nd place for three consecutive weeks, with a month-on-month increase of 49.9%, and the platform Token usage proportion increased by 10.4 percentage points; DeepSeek continues to lead this week with a total of 1.03T Tokens; Zhipu saw a month-on-month growth of 44.3%, with the platform proportion increasing by 3.7 percentage points, ranking 3rd; Moonshot Token usage surged by 286.5% month-on-month. With multiple models competing on the same stage, real usage witnesses market changes. B.AI continues to expand model choices, helping developers flexibly access diverse AI capabilities. Welcome to log in to b.ai to explore.

The Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy teams released a notice regarding "Explanation of DeepSeek Model Service Abnormalities and Compensation Announcement." In response to the previous abnormalities in the DeepSeek model service, the team will fully refund the points consumed by affected users during the period from October 8 to 14.The announcement also offers an additional 500 points to all users of the domestic versions of WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy. Previously, DeepSeek apologized for the service system failure and announced a compensation plan, stating that the consumption amount of affected user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to 14) will be fully refunded in the form of bonus points.

DeepSeek has integrated the Harness team along with the Web, App, and Platform teams into the Product Department, responsible for all product, design, and development work of the company, led by Cui Tianyi as the head of the Product Department.DeepSeek is currently hiring product managers, product designers, and project managers, with product managers divided into two directions: AI products and Agent Harness, covering web, App, open platform, and Harness product lines. Job requirements include experience in complete delivery, experience with Agent-type products, as well as skills in prototyping, data analysis, and communication within open source communities. The work locations are Beijing and Hangzhou, with both full-time and internship positions available.

According to Bloomberg, Jeff Yan, co-founder of Hyperliquid Labs, is seeking the United States to establish rules that can protect its blockchain.He believes that the regulatory responsibilities of Hyperliquid should fall on the financial institutions operating in the market based on that blockchain, namely the application layer, rather than on the blockchain network itself. This regulatory division would allow Hyperliquid to enter Wall Street without having to bear the full compliance burden of traditional exchanges.

According to market news, Binance.US is seeking to raise $100 million to expand its cryptocurrency business.

According to Top Chinese Innovation Society reports, former head of the basic model for humanoid robots at ZhiJi Dynamics, Yu Tao, has left to start his own venture, focusing on the combination of LLM and embodied intelligence. According to relevant sources, his company's first round valuation is 70 million USD, and the second round valuation is 200 million USD, with DeepSeek and a leading top-tier fund participating in the investment.Yu Tao holds a PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China and was a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore. He previously served as a senior researcher in Tencent AI Lab's Absolute Enlightenment team, where he led the team to build the full-body tracking system LimX WBT and the motion generation system from scratch during his time at ZhiJi Dynamics. According to reports from Phoenix Technology, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has recently met with several entrepreneurs in embodied intelligence and is internally evaluating different entry methods, such as forming a team independently or investing in external startups.In August of this year, DeepSeek invested approximately 141 million RMB through a strategic placement in Yushu Technology for its IPO; previously, Bloomberg also disclosed its plan to lead the investment in the robotics company Winverse AI founded by former Tencent AI scientist Hu Han.

DeepSeek API Platform has released a notification regarding service recovery and compensation, stating that between 8:11 and 13:04 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, its service system experienced a failure, resulting in the API service being unavailable during that period. The platform apologizes for this and has stated that a comprehensive investigation and rectification regarding service stability has been initiated, with efforts to streamline and eliminate single point dependencies to prevent similar issues from occurring again.As compensation, the platform will fully refund the consumption amount of user accounts within 7 days (from October 8 to October 14) in the form of bonus credits, which will be automatically credited to the accounts. API billing deductions will first be taken from the bonus account.

OpenCode announces a limited-time free access to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Users can select DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free from the model list, with no charges for input and output tokens. The free version has a context limit of 200,000 tokens, while the paid version has a limit of 1,000,000 tokens, which is an 80% reduction, making it easier to encounter context limits when processing large code repositories or running a Coding Agent for extended periods.DeepSeek V4.1 Flash was integrated into OpenCode on September 10. On October 12, OpenCode will increase the usage quota for V4.1 Flash in the $10 Go package to a value of $80, and subsequently add an independent free tier. The official documentation confirms that this free access has a time limit, but the end date has not yet been announced, and states that the free tier service provider adheres to a zero data retention policy and will not use user content for model training.

DeepSeek's website and API services experienced partial interruptions starting from October 15 at 08:11, affecting the DeepSeek V4 Pro API, V4.1 Flash API, and conversation services. Services have now been restored, and the interruption lasted a total of 5 hours.

According to the official status page of DeepSeek, the DeepSeek website and API services experienced partial interruptions starting from October 15 at 08:11, affecting three components: DeepSeek V4 Pro API, V4.1 Flash API, and the conversation service.As of 09:08, the official status update is "Identified," indicating that the cause has been determined and repairs are being implemented. Previously, from 08:11 to 08:14, the status was displayed as "Under Investigation." Currently, the service remains in a "Complete Outage" state, and the recovery time has not been announced.

According to The Defiant, asset management company VanEck is seeking to withdraw its filing application for the Lido Staked Ethereum ETF. The proposed fund was originally planned to directly hold stETH and provide investors with exposure to Lido's liquid staking tokens through brokerage accounts.Reports indicate that the fund's registration never took effect, meaning this product failed to enter the formal issuance stage. Lido is the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, and stETH is the liquid staking token it issues, allowing users to stake ETH while maintaining asset liquidity and earning staking rewards.

The founder of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has submitted a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, requesting to overturn his fraud conviction and revoke the $11 billion forfeiture order. According to CNN, the petition was filed on September 10 local time, led by Alexandra A.E. Shapiro from the law firm Shapiro, Arato, Bach. SBF is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence.The petition raises two core legal issues: first, when can the trial court admit evidence showing whether victims suffered losses, in cases where the prosecution uses a "fraudulent inducement" theory, meaning that it is irrelevant whether the victims suffered economic losses; second, does the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allow for forfeiture or other criminal fines that destroy the defendant's future livelihood prospects? The defense argues that the trial court allowed the prosecution to imply that clients suffered massive losses while prohibiting the defense from presenting evidence that clients have been compensated, which constitutes an error.The defense claims that although FTX and Alameda faced liquidity issues at one point, they always held sufficient assets to ultimately pay back investors and clients, and clients have now been repaid with both principal and interest. In 2023, SBF was convicted of multiple counts of fraud and money laundering, and in 2024, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion. In June of this year, a panel of the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the original ruling. The Supreme Court is expected to decide later this year whether to hear the case.

CoreWeave, an AI cloud service provider supported by NVIDIA, is seeking to attract funding from insurance companies to reduce the financing costs of purchasing AI chips and building infrastructure. Co-founder Branning McBee stated that the company plans to raise funds through methods such as chip-backed loans, with financing exceeding $35 billion this year.

Cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com is applying for a license from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to seek both exchange registration and futures broker registration in order to offer derivatives and prediction market services in the United States.The aforementioned services will be aimed at retail and institutional clients, and the business planned to be launched in the United States still requires regulatory approval.

Multiple trading participants have indicated that the large model company DeepSeek will complete its latest round of financing soon, with the financing amount increasing from the previously planned 50 billion yuan to approximately 100 billion yuan. This is DeepSeek's second round of financing, and the intended financing amount has doubled in less than half a month.Among them, the intended investment amount from new and old shareholders is approximately evenly split. The doubling of the financing scale has not affected the overall valuation, and DeepSeek's pre-investment valuation remains at about 500 billion yuan. New investors in this round include Stone Creek Capital, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, CPE Yuanfeng, Legend Capital, Geely, among others, primarily consisting of industrial investors.

According to Bloomberg, AI research institution DeepSeek plans to lead the seed round financing for robotics AI startup Winverse AI, with an investment amount reaching tens of millions of dollars. Winverse AI was founded by a former top AI scientist from Tencent and is currently still in a low-profile operational stage.In addition to DeepSeek, investors such as Long-Z Investments, an investment institution under Meituan, also participated in this round of financing, bringing the company's valuation to approximately 400 million dollars. DeepSeek will utilize its over 12 billion dollars in financing funds to support this investment, betting on the rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence and robotics technology. This investment indicates that DeepSeek is further expanding from large model research and development into the field of embodied intelligence and robotics AI.

According to a report by Reuters, sources revealed that Nuvacore, a chip startup supported by Sequoia Capital, is seeking hundreds of millions in financing, with the company valued at approximately $2.5 billion.Founded just 6 months ago, Nuvacore has completed a seed round of financing led by Sequoia Capital and has not yet launched a product. The company plans to develop a new type of central processing unit (CPU) aimed at data centers. As the demand for computing power from AI applications continues to grow, the data center CPU market has attracted investor attention, with CPUs being used to coordinate AI chip tasks and run autonomous AI software agents to optimize common computing tasks for data centers and AI infrastructure.

According to Nikkei Asia, chip design software leader Synopsys is seeking to collaborate with Chinese large language model developers, planning to use the AI version of its tools to help Chinese companies develop chips faster, and stated that it will carry out related work within the scope of tightening artificial intelligence and semiconductor export controls in Washington.The report states that Synopsys expects a revenue of $11.15 billion for the fiscal year 2027, with collaborations with OpenAI and Amazon driving its artificial intelligence business. Synopsys is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and is a global leader in chip design software.

Negotiators from the United States, Ukraine, and Europe held a six-hour meeting in Miami, aiming to reach a consensus on a unified proposal to end the war in Ukraine. The goal is to reach an agreement in the coming weeks to present to Russia, seeking a breakthrough before winter. The discussions covered topics such as post-war plans for Ukraine, security guarantees, economic plans, and the path for Kyiv to join the European Union.

Tesla is downplaying the name Full Self-Driving to seek approval for its driver assistance system in Europe. Tesla has used the name "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European website, while the U.S. website still refers to it as "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)."