Apple HomeView debuts, Nvidia's China AI chip share falls to 34% as Huawei rises to 28%
APPSO · wechat · 2026-10-14
Key stories from this daily digest:
- Apple smart home launch: HomeView hub (A18 chip, 7-inch screen, $299), Apple TV 4K gen-4 (A19), HomePod mini 2 (S10); sleep apnea notifications arrive on mainland China Apple Watches.
- Gemini 4 Argon launches at $2/$10 per million tokens with 95% caching discount; Google reports 35% more agent code commits and zero-shot cornhole transfer to the Apollo humanoid robot.
- Chip landscape: IDC says Nvidia's China AI chip share fell to 34% in H1 (678K units, -44% YoY) while Huawei hit 28%; Huawei says its next-gen Kirin is ready, with Kirin 9050 Pro GPU +40%.
- Funding & business: Astribot raises 1B yuan at 15B yuan valuation; Applied Intuition fields $30B+ valuation offers; Tencent reportedly raising $5B in bonds for AI investment.
- Also: ByteDance forms a model safety unit; Qwen Go opens beta; MiniCPM-V4.7 runs in 3GB memory; STEP X Neo agent phone at 3,999 yuan; virtual girl group BABYQUEEN trends with an AI "pregnancy" storyline; Character.AI files for bankruptcy with a $20M Disney stalking-horse bid.
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