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Bottom Line Up Front Security firm 360's AI bug hunter outscored security-tuned entries from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google on the CyberGym vulnerability benchmark by reproducing 99.4% of its flaws, QbitAI reports. China Mobile plans two more gigawatt-scale parks next year for a total of seven data center parks, chairman Chen Zhongyue said, Caixin reports. Beijing researchers reported a drug-switched epilepsy gene therapy test in the New England Journal of Medicine in which patients' average monthly seizures fell from 4.33 to 0.33, Science and Technology Daily reports. The Paper's reporters bought AI face-swapped celebrity ads on the Taobao and Xianyu marketplaces, and every one passed review on Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou and WeChat Channels. |
Security firm 360's AI bug hunter sets record on vulnerability reproduction benchmarkTulongfeng, 360's AI vulnerability hunter, reproduced 99.4% of CyberGym benchmark flaws, beating security-tuned entries from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, QbitAI reports, adding a public benchmark record to the state institute evaluation CTD reported October 27th. Reproducing a flaw means writing code that sets it off, the step a defender needs to confirm a bug and an attacker needs to exploit one. A University of California, Berkeley team built CyberGym from past bugs in open-source projects such as the OpenSSL encryption library. 360 says the system pairs a security-tuned large language model, trained on the company's own attack and defense records, with a swarm of AI agentsAI agentAn AI system that carries out multi-step tasks on its own, such as browsing, writing code or making purchases, rather than answering a single prompt. Agents raise new questions about liability, security and oversight because they act rather than just advise. that each handle one step. |
| China Mobile plans two more gigawatt-scale data center parks, bringing its total to seven China Mobile, the state-owned carrier with the country's largest subscriber base, will add two gigawatt-class data center parks next year for a total of seven, chairman Chen Zhongyue said, Caixin reports. AI models are trained and run in facilities like these, and one-fifth of the carrier's 2027 investment and procurement will go to data centers, adding directly to China's computing capacity. Chen said China Mobile already runs several clusters that each link about 10,000 AI accelerator chips into one system, and expects its computing capacity to double in each of the next two years. Every new China Mobile data center will use standard modular designs with liquid cooling, which pipes fluid past tightly packed chips to carry heat away. |
| Chinese researchers report what they call first human test of drug-switched epilepsy gene therapy Beijing researchers published what they call the first human study of chemogenetic neuromodulation, a gene therapy switched on by a drug, in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Science and Technology Daily reports. Gene therapies normally deliver an effect that cannot be adjusted once given, and an NEJM commentary says the drug switch lets doctors tune treatment strength. A single gene delivery makes neurons in targeted brain regions produce a designed receptor that stays silent until the patient takes one specific drug. Teams at Xuanwu Hospital and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research treated three patients whose epilepsy resisted standard drugs. Their average monthly seizures fell from 4.33 to 0.33, about one every three months. |
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| Reporters' AI face-swapped celebrity ads pass review on four Chinese video platforms Reporters from The Paper bought AI face-swapped celebrity promotion videos from sellers on Taobao and Xianyu. Every video passed review on Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Kuaishou and WeChat Channels, whether or not it carried an AI label. ByteDance's Jimeng and Doubao generators refused celebrity promotions, but marketplace listings ranged from 10 to 100 yuan ($1.50 to $15), and one seller said a video under a minute takes about 30 minutes to make. Zhu Wei, an associate professor at China University of Political Science and Law, told The Paper that rules already require AI generation tools to file their algorithms and label their output, and that the problem is enforcement. |
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| III | AI & FOUNDATION MODELS | |
| AI developer DeepSeek's agent product Harness reaches 1.54 million daily users Chinese AI developer DeepSeek's agent product Harness had 1.54 million daily active users as of Wednesday, consuming about 92 trillion tokens a day, 36Kr reports. Unlike rival office agents from Tencent, Baidu and Alibaba, which hand out free credits, Harness users generally pay for their own tokens, the word fragments models process, so the figures reflect paid demand. Launched in August, Harness now hosts about 35,000 third-party plugins, add-ons that extend what the agent can do. DeepSeek says it will build an official plugin marketplace and reward plugin developers with token incentives. |
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| Chinese substrate maker signs $601 million supply letter with U.S. optics firm Coherent Optics Technology Holding subsidiary Guangdong Xianrui Technology signed a letter of intent to supply Coherent's Swiss and Swedish plants with indium phosphide substrates worth at least $601 million from 2027 through 2029, Yicai reports. Indium phosphide is the semiconductor used to make the lasers and light detectors in fiber-optic links, so the letter would tie part of Coherent's European production to a Chinese supplier through 2029. The substrates are 6-inch wafers, the base on which those devices are built. |
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| V | QUANTUM & FRONTIER SCIENCE | |
| Tethered airborne wind generator completes first test flight in a Chinese city The S4000, a helium-lifted platform carrying generators up to 4,000 meters (about 13,000 feet) and sending power down a tether, flew its first urban launch test in Yueyang, Hunan province, per state broadcaster CCTV. Winds several kilometers up are stronger and steadier than those a tower turbine reaches, so a generator held aloft can tap them without a tower. Chief architect Dun Tianrui said the flight tested grid connection and whether the system can fly safely near crowds. Cai Rong, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the flight paves the way for airworthiness certification, the approval an aircraft needs to operate routinely. |
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Defense ministry calls stealth drone's first assault ship landing an important milestoneMinistry of National Defense spokesperson Senior Col. Chen Xi called the GJ-21 stealth drone's first takeoff and landing on the amphibious assault ship Sichuan (covered on October 30th) an important milestone, Global Times reports. A stealth drone that can take off from and land on a ship gives a navy an aircraft that can scout and strike at sea without a pilot aboard. Chen tied the result to building the military's "new-domain, new-quality combat forces," an official term for forces built on emerging technologies. Asked about media claims that the drone would extend China's far-seas naval reach, Chen said weapons modernization serves national sovereignty, security and development interests. Chen also said China's defense policy is defensive. |
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| VII | DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE | |
| China Mobile launches 6G program with partners spanning robots, AI agents and eight other areas China Mobile launched a program with outside partners to develop 6G applications in 10 areas, including networked robots, AI agent collaboration, AI devices, industry, energy and transportation. Chief engineer Wang Xiaoyun announced it at an industry conference in Guangzhou, Xinhua reported. Today's networks are built mainly to carry data down to phones; China Mobile is designing 6G around uploads and precise timing for machines. The standards freeze is fewer than 30 months away. Targets include uplink speeds of a gigabit per second and variation in delivery time down to milliseconds for remote robot control. The carrier will back the program with an R&D fund of about 1 billion yuan ($150 million) and an investment fund of about 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion). |
| Chinese data center fiber prices surge as new preform capacity lags Prices for G.657.A2, a data center grade optical fiber designed to tolerate tight bends, rose from 32 yuan ($4.80) to 240 yuan ($36) per kilometer of single strand, Guangzhou Daily reported. TrendForce estimates new preform capacity will not come online until late 2027 to 2028. Computing and data center construction lifted profits at Chinese optical fiber makers 570% in the first nine months of 2026, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released Oct. 27. |
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