AI Companies Face Crisis of Training Data Exhaustion, High-Quality Data May Be Scarce by 2026


The Xi'an Jiaotong University technology transfer enterprise Blue Bug Embodied released the new generation modular humanoid robot "Mantis Standard Xiao Bai" on September 14th. The starting price is only 0.98 ten thousand yuan, breaking the traditional high price barrier. The product is positioned as a flexible and transformable embodied intelligent platform, with standard module designs for the base, arms, waist, and head, supporting various form combinations, attracting widespread attention in the industry.
Anthropic accused Chinese labs of illicitly distilling frontier models through hidden identities, fraud and credential theft; CEO urged US regulation. Y Combinator's Garry Tan opposed regulation, saying "do nothing," arguing the US should build its own distillation capability.....
Tencent's WorkBuddy upgraded its PPT generation on September 14: supports generating a first draft with one sentence, continuing to edit based on the original file, and no need to recreate the entire document. Users can input instructions in the chat window or click on the slide to invoke the "/tencent-pptx" skill. If the materials are incomplete, only the topic and number of pages will be provided, and the system will ask questions about the audience, scenario, and goal, then generate content following the structure of problem - argument - conclusion - implementation. Users can also upload materials such as research reports.
In Andon Labs' Vending-Bench2, AI agents ran a vending machine for one year with $500. GPT-6Astra averaged $15,515, its worst run surpassing Claude Fable5.1's best, ranking first due to supply chain management and rule execution.....
Suno CEO Mikey Shulman launched v6 with Warner Music, BMG, and Believe, calling it the biggest step toward letting more people create music. v6 debuts as a model suite: flagship v6 for Pro/Premier users offers reliable, precise, polished output across genres; v6-wild and others complete the creative lineup.....