Daily digest: Microsoft exits Nscale data center deal; DeepSeek cuts token use over 50%
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-10-19
Key items from this industry digest:
- Microsoft exits Nscale data center deal: Microsoft terminated its agreement as anchor tenant of Nscale's first UK data center in Essex, jeopardizing the company's IPO of up to $35B.
- Anthropic consults law firms on AI agent negotiation norms: exploring how agents should bargain for users, when to seek human feedback, and how much to distrust other AI agents.
- AI face-swap livestream banned: WeChat Channels permanently banned an account that used an AI-cloned video of actress Wu Yue to sell products.
- OpenAI enters humanoid robotics: Altman says the project centers on robot intelligence, targeting a demo prototype by 2027.
- Meta deletes AI training-data clause from commercial terms after backlash.
- DeepSeek V4.1Flash-1017: task-aware compression and adaptive decoding cut token consumption by over 50% in most scenarios, with claimed per-task costs 1/100 to 1/20 of comparable models.
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