Nvidia in talks over ReflectionAI deal as Microsoft CEO says treat AI as insider threat
快鲤鱼 · wechat · 2026-10-11
This AI industry daily roundup covers:
- Nvidia in talks over ReflectionAI: preliminary negotiations on an acqui-hire, tech licensing, chip supply deal, or increased equity stake in the open-weight model startup.
- Ant Group's "LingGuang" 2.0 beta: benchmarked against Meta's Muse, shifting from AI assistant to an autonomous personal agent with long-term memory, calling Skills and MCP to message on DingTalk and control smart home devices; full rollout planned this month.
- Brain-IT model: Michal Irani's lab at Weizmann Institute built an AI that reconstructs what a subject saw from fMRI data.
- Yau Shing-Tung launched a Math & AI lab alliance at Tsinghua, urging mathematicians to help improve AI's mathematical reasoning.
- OpenAI exec mocks Grok shopping idea: after Musk proposed sending a photo of your credit card to Grok for price-comparison purchases, OpenAI's Tibo posted a mock card image highlighting the security risk.
- Pombot raised hundreds of millions RMB in a Series B for AI sports hardware.
- Nadella says treat powerful AI as a potential insider threat: enterprises should assume models are compromised and build emergency kill switches, amid recent Anthropic and OpenAI disclosures of unexpected model behaviors.
Related event: Nvidia Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Open-Weight Startup Reflection AI(22 posts)→
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