EU Reaches Milestone Agreement to Draft Global AI Regulation Framework


On Aug 14, Guangdong's first token-economy financial product, Token Loan, launched in Haizhu, Guangzhou for computing/AI SMEs. BOC Guangzhou Branch's Computing Power Token Loan bases quota on contract amount and token consumption, with credit, receivables pledge, order financing, plus guarantees/mortgages to expand.....
Microsoft announced Mico, the expressive yellow blob in Copilot voice mode, will leave chat and move to Learn Live platform for more reactive content. Launched last October, under a year ago. AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman said it aimed to give chatbot identity. First reported by GeekWire.....
MiniMax launches MiniMax-Music3, generating up to 5-min songs from lyrics and music description, outputting 32kHz 16-bit stereo WAV. It uses a hierarchical autoregressive architecture: an 8B Global LLM predicts first RVQ codebook per frame for long-range structure, initialized from Qwen3-8B.....
Qianwen Open Platform launched on Aug 10, attracting over 200 ecosystem partners in 4 days. It lets developers create and integrate AI agents into Qianwen APP, covering logistics, real estate, local services, finance, auto and more. Partners include SF Express, Swan Home, Beike, Lenovo, Cainiao and Quark Drive.....
FAW-Volkswagen's electric ID. AURA T6 opened blind orders on Aug 14, confirming integration of Volcano Engine's Doubao large model. Their smart cockpit partnership expands from fuel vehicles to pure electric models, marking a full upgrade.....