ByteDance merges TraeWork and TraeCode into unified TRAE platform

A community IQ4_XS quant of llmfan46's uncensored Qwen3.8-27B Heretic build keeps the MTP head intact and runs on an RTX 4080 with 16GB, hitting 55-68 tok/s. 24GB and 12GB variants are also published.

China's AI drama and animation market exceeded RMB 22 billion ($3.29 billion) in the first five months of 2026, per DataEye, with full-year projections of RMB 40 billion and 138% year-on-year growth. 221,900 new AI short dramas released from January to June, 1,055 surpassing 100 million views.

Beijing-based LivSyn Robotics raised at least RMB 100 million in a Series A announced October 8, with backing from listed energy-services firm Suwen Electric Energy and an undisclosed embodied-AI strategic investor. Its RUDA platform connects robot designs to AI models, with PhiAgent converting human demo videos into training data and RoboAgent handling task execution.

Chinese smart-glasses startup NIMO raised several hundred million yuan in angel funding, with Gobi Partners among the investors. Proceeds go to new products, core tech, domestic retail expansion and overseas entry.

A Reddit user built ComfyUI custom nodes that build Krea2 prompts by picking attributes or adding a reference image. The nodes run through the text encoder, adding some time to image generation.

Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton argues in a new interview that assumptions about consciousness and the "human soul" are fundamentally flawed. He contends digital intelligence cannot simply be switched off.