Cook confirms China Apple Intelligence beta this month with Qwen; DeepSeek refunds outage users

APPSO · wechat · 2026-10-16

Highlights from APPSO's daily:

Apple Intelligence in China: Tim Cook confirmed a beta with real-time translation, Clean Up and Writing Tools arrives this month (no new Siri AI). APPSO exclusively reports the Alibaba deal includes Qwen integration plus co-training a China-specific model.
DeepSeek: restored after 5 hours, refunding a week of API spend as no-expiry credits; blames single points of failure.
iPhone Duo repair pricing: out-of-warranty inner screen 7,998 yuan, outer 3,198; AppleCare+ (2,599) cuts it to 628. Pre-orders Oct 16.
Time Best Inventions: Ant's AQ health app (150M+ users) and Alipay AI Pay (100M+ users, 120M+ transactions in one February week) both made the list.
Rivian plans third-party agents (e.g. Anthropic) in vehicles but won't cede braking/steering to agents.
TSMC Q3: net income +68.7% YoY; 2nm already 8% of wafer revenue; Q4 guide $52.3-54.3B.
Anthropic IPO valuation chatter cools to $1.5T; Q3 revenue $16.8B, adjusted profitable.
Ramp raised $1.85B at a $60B valuation.
Open weights: Xiaomi MiDashengLM-Spatial, Meta Muse Spark Open (runs locally on two Mac Studios), StepFun Step5 Preview, Ant Ling-3.1-flash; Google demonstrated 'magic state cultivation' on Willow.
Apple's John Ternus: AI won't kill the iPhone; Apple focuses on where it can differentiate.

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