Google Launches Cloud TPU v5p and AI Supercomputer: A Leap in AI Processing Power

Cloud TPU v5p is Google's most powerful tensor processing unit, featuring 8960 chips per pod with significant performance improvements. The AI Hypercomputer uses a collaborative system design to optimize the efficiency and productivity of AI tasks, revolutionizing supercomputer architecture. It introduces the Dynamic Workload Scheduler and traditional consumption models, supporting Cloud TPU and Nvidia GPUs, optimizing user expenditures. This innovation marks a milestone in artificial intelligence.

OpenAI announces that starting in December, ChatGPT and Codex will share usage quota; Instant chat is unaffected

OpenAI announced that starting in December, part of the usage quota for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business plans will be shared between ChatGPT and Codex, promoting the integration of Work agents into ChatGPT's main interaction interface. User conversations, coding, and agent tasks will gradually be included in unified quota management, measured in tokens; consumption depends on the model and task complexity, with complex tasks costing more; scenarios such as instant chat are also drawing attention.

Four Major AI Giants Join Forces to Set Anti-Crawling Standard: Website Owners Get a Unified Opt-Out Switch

On November 1, it was reported that OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic will jointly adopt a new standard that allows website owners to declare, in one place within their existing robots.txt, that they reject AI crawling, without having to negotiate with each company individually. The mechanism was submitted to the IETF by Anthropic's Kevin Kelley. Previously, robots.txt was only used to notify search engines; going forward, it can be used to uniformly manage AI crawlers, making it easier for content providers to refuse to have their content exploited.

Double 11: Token Is Listed as an Independent Category on E-commerce Platforms for the First Time, as AI Computing Power Begins to Be Sold to the General Public

This Double 11, Token made its debut as an independent product category on multiple e-commerce platforms. The computing power consumption previously hidden in the backend of large models has become a purchasable and comparable commodity for ordinary consumers. This means Token consumption is extending from API calls led by enterprises and developers to the mass market. Token is the computing resource consumed when users use AI services. Paying for Token means purchasing the computing power service behind it; in the past, related costs were mainly dominated by large model vendors.

xAI Grok Officially Supports Alipay and UnionPay; Mainland China Users Get 50% Off for the First Month

November 1 news: Musk's xAI (also known as SpaceXAI) flagship AI assistant Grok now fully supports China UnionPay and Alipay payments; the region options on the subscription page also allow direct selection of Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan. This expansion of payment methods did not come out of nowhere. Previously, Cursor took the lead in supporting Alipay payments on April 9, 2025, and related developments had long been foreshadowed.

Microsoft AI chief draws a red line: AI should not be conscious; if it is, everyone should pause

Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind, posted a long-form article on X on November 2, publicly drawing a forbidden zone around "AI consciousness": current models are not conscious, and humans should keep this state forever. As a top executive at the helm of Microsoft AI, the weight of his statement far exceeds the concerns of ordinary engineers; his wording advances from "not having" to "should not have," going a step further than merely describing the status quo.