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DeepSeek has raised about ¥100 billion (US$15 billion) in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever. Investors include CATL and Tencent.
Source: Free Malaysia Today
https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2026/10/22/deepseek-raises-us-15bil-in-challenge-to-leading-us-labs
#Startups #DeepSeek #Tencent

BioWare has been shut down by Electronic Arts. Early development on the next Mass Effect is ending.
Source: Stuff South Africa
https://stuff.co.za/2026/10/22/venerable-ea-studio-bioware-has-been-shut-down/

Centre notifies telecom regulatory sandbox rules 2026 to test new technologies. Under the new rules, applicants must submit applications through the designated portal.
Source: BusinessLine
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/info-tech/centre-notifies-telecom-regulatory-sandbox-rules-2026-to-test-new-technologies/article71610352.ece
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OpenAI is partnering with Google Cloud to offer its frontier models and Codex workflows through the cloud provider's Model Garden and Marketplace.
Source: BusinessLine
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/news/openai-partners-with-google-cloud-to-offer-ai-models-codex-workflows/article71610243.ece
#AI #OpenAI #Google

Electronic Arts has laid off 400 employees and closed the RPG studio BioWare.
Source: Innovation Village
https://innovation-village.com/electronic-arts-lays-off-400-employees-and-closes-legendary-rpg-studio-bioware/
#Tech

The Korean government issued a nationwide security alert to businesses over critical vulnerabilities in PHP.
Source: The Korea Times
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/tech-science/20261022/php-security-flaws-alert-korean-government-firms?utm_source=rss
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Tesla's Megapack business is growing while it faces an AI power shortage, and its recent third-quarter 2026 earnings showed mixed results.
Source: DigiTimes Asia
https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20261022VL215/tesla-electricity-infrastructure-transportation-demand-capacity.html
#AI #Tesla

Researchers studied heterogeneous multi-team collaboration via dynamic robot allocation. A graph neural network policy was developed under centralized training and decentralized execution.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21723
#MachineLearning

A critical flaw in PHP affects more than 70% of websites and could let hackers take over them.
Source: Stuff South Africa
https://stuff.co.za/2026/10/22/a-critical-flaw-affecting-70-of-all-websites-cybersecurity-world-panicked/
#Tech

Elice, a small Korean AI neocloud company, saw its shares fall 32 percent on its Kosdaq debut and then rise nearly 30 percent the next day.
Source: The Korea Times
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/economy/20261022/little-known-korean-ai-firm-grabs-spotlight-as-wall-streets-ai-litmus-test?utm_source=rss
#AI

Meta earned $64.6 billion in the third quarter of 2026, a 26 percent increase from a year earlier. The company's spending rose 68 percent, mainly for AI technology.
Source: TechJuice
https://www.techjuice.pk/meta-is-making-more-money-than-ever-but-spending-even-more-on-ai/
#AI #Meta

The study finds that altering persona representation can raise cooperation by 75.2 points for GPT-5.2 in Prisoner's Dilemma simulations and also changes interaction targeting and network structure in echo-chamber simulations.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28981
#MachineLearning

The paper proposes a Bayesian Evolutionary Optimization framework that automatically discovers task-specific multi-agent system topologies.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29276
#MachineLearning

The paper presents MF-MAPPO, a mean-field extension of PPO for zero-sum team games that merges intra-team cooperation with inter-team competition.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21164
#MachineLearning

The paper introduces BiasGuard-D, which uses typed adversarial contracts and a three-model quorum to audit LLM-generated records.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29669
#MachineLearning

ASPIRE introduces a continual learning system that writes and refines robot control programs.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00272
#Robotics

JaxMARL-BC is a JAX-accelerated simulator that trains multi-agent reinforcement learning macro models in seconds, achieving speedups of 75 to 724 times over the reference implementation and supporting up to 200,000 learning households.
Source: arXiv cs.MA
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28907
#MachineLearning

Besi's quarterly orders beat expectations as AI data centre demand stays strong.
Source: CNA
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/besis-quarterly-orders-beat-expectations-ai-data-centre-demand-stays-strong-6481556
#AI

The United Arab Emirates is transitioning fifty percent of its government services to agentic AI.
Source: Dark Reading
https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/uae-transitions-50-government-services-agentic-ai
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Malaysia has banned civil servants from using the navigation app Waze, saying it could expose government information to misuse by the Israeli regime.
Source: Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/10/22/malaysia-bans-waze-citing-threat-of-israeli-data-misuse
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