Daily roundup: Zhang Yiming becomes Asia's richest, Apple weighs return to servers
APPSO · wechat · 2026-09-17
Key items from APPSO's daily roundup: Apple reportedly evaluates an M8 Ultra-based inference server (talks with Nvidia on NVLink Fusion, possible 2029 launch) and launches Reference Image sensor-level photo verification; Zhang Yiming becomes Asia's richest person at $105B+; Anthropic signs its first Australian data center deal (2.16GW); Zuckerberg opposes coordinated AI slowdown; ByteDance spins off AI drug discovery unit Anew Labs at a $1.5B valuation; Doubao 2.1 Pro upgrades multi-agent and multimodal coding; Nubia launches a Doubao-powered AI phone from 5,999 yuan.
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