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According to reports from Beijing News and Beike Finance, Youliqi Robotics announced the completion of 500 million yuan in Pre-A round financing. Existing shareholders Xie Nuo Investment and Yonghua Investment have continuously increased their investments in multiple rounds, while new investors include Greenland Group, Keli Sensor, Huagong Venture Capital, New Scene Fuying, Hongniao Qihang Fund, and other industrial and financial investors.Youliqi focuses on the research and commercialization of embodied intelligent robots, and has currently developed replicable solutions in scenarios such as building security, hotels, supermarkets, and retail, with monthly shipments exceeding 100 units. Greenland Group will join as a strategic investor, and both parties will collaborate to promote the implementation of robot models, bodies, data, and solutions in security, hotel, and health care scenarios. Other new investors will provide support in areas such as hardware supply chain collaboration, university innovation ecosystems, and local industrial resources.

A joint venture consisting of 37 European financial institutions, Qivalis has been authorized by the Dutch Central Bank to become an electronic money institution and plans to issue a euro stablecoin within the next few months after the Dutch Central Bank reviews its white paper.The stablecoin will be backed by a 1:1 reserve and is aimed at institutional scenarios such as payments, settlements, and tokenized assets.

According to reports from Saudi Arabia's Al Arabiya television, sources revealed that the Iraqi Prime Minister proposed suggestions to end the war with Iran during a phone conversation with U.S. President Trump. Trump expressed agreement with the suggestions made by the Iraqi Prime Minister during the phone call.Trump asked the Iraqi Prime Minister to play a mediating role on the issue of Iran and requested that the Iraqi Prime Minister convey relevant suggestions aimed at ending the war to Tehran.

According to Beating AI News, Alibaba has released Qianwen Office 2.0, which adds a "Trigger Task" feature. Previously, this product could only execute tasks automatically at preset times; now it can also allow AI to start processing automatically upon receiving specific messages, approvals, or pending events.For example, after the boss sends work arrangements via DingTalk, the AI can automatically organize the requests into to-do items according to pre-set rules. Users can view the execution results and can modify or turn off the rules at any time.Tasks can be executed on local computers or in the cloud. Pure cloud tasks do not rely on the computer being powered on and can continue running even after the computer is shut down.

According to a report by Huang Xinyi from the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, at the HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit, Huawei launched its first HarmonyOS desktop computer, the Huawei Qingyun HM650 series, and simultaneously released the HarmonyOS Computer Enterprise Edition, enhancing government and enterprise terminal deployment, device management, and data security capabilities.According to on-site reports from IT Home on November 5, the 2026 HarmonyOS Office Industry Summit was held in Wuhan. Zhu Dongdong, President of Huawei's Terminal Tablet and PC Product Line, announced that the Qingyun HM650 series has achieved 100% localization certification, is equipped with the Kirin X90 chip, and has improved overall performance by 15% through software and hardware collaboration. It also debuts with the HarmonyOS Computer Enterprise Edition, supporting features such as HarmonyOS AI, Xiao Yi Work, Xiao Yi Deep Research, and Xiao Yi Smart Note. Huawei's Executive Director Yu Chengdong stated that the cumulative shipment of HarmonyOS computers has surpassed one million units.

Binance co-founder He Yi responded on the X platform regarding discussions related to the Binance security incident and internal device management, confirming that the previously circulated news about an employee being fired for downloading iQIYI on a work computer did occur at Binance.He Yi stated: "The person who was fired for downloading iQIYI on a work computer was also from Binance. We acknowledge our mistakes and take responsibility, but we cannot make the same mistake again."

In the early morning of November 4, Apple opened testing for the latest iOS developer Beta version. According to Caixin, users can directly access the text and image understanding, content generation, and other capabilities of Alibaba's artificial intelligence application Qianwen through Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence. Journalists found that users can complete basic Q&A, image-text analysis, and content generation on their iPhones, and further needs can be redirected to the Qianwen App, with conversation information automatically synchronized.Users can choose whether to enable the Qianwen integration feature. Once activated, they can log in using their Apple ID or their own Qianwen App account, and use Qianwen within Siri, visual intelligence, and writing tools. When journalists inquired about methods to improve sleep, Siri called Qianwen to provide general suggestions; for more personalized plans, users could click the Qianwen icon to jump to the Qianwen App, which analyzes influencing factors based on previous sleep records, exercise conditions, and lifestyle habits to formulate improvement plans.Visual intelligence supports the option "Ask Qianwen" to identify items or scenes in images, for example, first asking Siri about clothing brands, then jumping to the Qianwen App to find the same style on Taobao and place an order. The "Qianwen Creation" feature in the writing tool can generate content based on requirements and adjust tone and length, such as retaining the time and place in an event invitation or compressing it into a brief notification for easy forwarding. Currently, users in China who purchase iPhones that support Apple intelligence, or whose device location and Apple account country and region are both set to China, can experience related features through this developer Beta version.

According to Gelonghui, Xiao Yuanqi, Deputy Director of the China Financial Regulatory Bureau, stated at the Fifth International Financial Leaders Investment Summit hosted by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority that a large influx of capital into the technology sector and leading enterprises has raised the leverage levels in these areas, which may lead to excessive expansion.Xiao Yuanqi mentioned that the excessive concentration of capital has an crowding-out effect on traditional industries, raising the borrowing costs for these enterprises, increasing their financial burdens, weakening their ability to reinvest and expand production, and also increasing credit risks. He believes that policymakers should develop corresponding policy frameworks in advance for the AI-driven economic transformation to strengthen macroeconomic management and prevent economic and financial risks.

According to the latest rankings from QuestMobile, in September 2026, Alibaba's AI application Qianwen App reached 158 million monthly active users, a year-on-year increase of 5077%, ranking first in growth among apps with over 100 million monthly active users. In the domestic AI native app rankings, Qianwen ranks second, surpassing DeepSeek's 123 million, but still below the first place, Doubao, which has 419 million.This growth is related to Alibaba's large-scale promotion. In November last year, the Tongyi App was renamed to Qianwen. This Spring Festival, Alibaba announced an investment of 3 billion yuan to launch a free order campaign, allowing users to order milk tea and takeout through AI. The campaign link was widely shared in WeChat groups, and the system experienced delays due to increased traffic. QuestMobile data shows that on the first day of the campaign, Qianwen's daily active users rose from about 7.06 million to 58.48 million.The year-on-year growth of 5077% was also influenced by last year's low base. Based on year-on-year data, Qianwen's monthly active users were about 3.05 million in September last year. By March this year, Qianwen's monthly active users had reached 166 million, rising to 167 million in June, and then falling back to 158 million in September, a decrease of about 9 million compared to June, with a decline rate of approximately 5.4%.

According to Yicai, on the evening of November 2, Li Jiaqi's livestream featured the launch of Qianwen Office Token. Within half an hour of sales, 100,000 Qianwen Office personal membership monthly cards were sold, totaling approximately 20 trillion Tokens.Qianwen Office CEO Chen Yusen appeared in the livestream that evening to introduce the daily use scenarios of AI in office work. He stated that AI cannot replace Li Jiaqi and hopes to help fans use AI to handle trivial matters, allowing them to leave work on time, spend time with pets, and take care of family.

On November 2nd at 7:30 PM, Li Jiaqi will start selling Tokens in the Tmall Double 11 live broadcast room. Alibaba Vice President and Qianwen Office Head Chen Yusen will be present, and the live broadcast room has also announced the distribution of 200 trillion Tokens. Also appearing will be AI computers pre-installed with Qianwen Office, AI transcription cards, and desktop robots.On September 3rd, Tmall launched the Token recharge center, connecting with vendors such as Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Kimi, and MiniMax, selling monthly subscription AI packages and pay-per-use recharge services, supporting card code redemption or direct recharge.

Apple and Alibaba announced a partnership to integrate Qianwen into Apple Intelligence. Chinese users can access Qianwen's text and image understanding, content generation, and other capabilities through Siri, writing tools, and visual intelligence.These features will be available for testing starting November 4 with the latest iOS developer beta version and will be officially launched with the release of iOS 27.3 in December.

On the evening of October 27, Li Liang, Vice President of Douyin Group, responded on Weibo to media person and financial observer Qin Shuo's statement about "the Byte Time of China's Internet," calling it "extremely unrigorous and purely nonsense." Li Liang stated that no company can become the "xx time of China's Internet"; instant messaging has a relatively stable moat due to relationship chains, while short dramas and short videos belong to a fully competitive market with rapidly changing dynamics. He also mentioned that Tencent's growth rate in short dramas and short videos far exceeds that of Douyin and Hongguo, and that instant messaging, gaming, e-commerce, and music occupy a significant amount of user time. He later posted that Qin Shuo's analysis contains several fundamental common sense errors.On the 26th, Qin Shuo published an article on his public account "Qin Shuo's Circle of Friends," citing QuestMobile data from a Nomura Securities report, stating that in July 2026, Douyin surpassed WeChat for the first time among the top 50 apps in China by mobile internet usage time, accounting for 19.4%, while WeChat accounted for 18.8%; the share of Byte's apps was 40.9%, and Tencent's was 29.1%. He questioned whether, despite WeChat's daily active users still exceeding Douyin's, China's Internet is shifting from Tencent time to Byte time, and from WeChat time to "Douyin + Hongguo time." This morning, Qin Shuo posted on social media that in the relevant rankings for August 2026, Byte's share was 41.8% and Tencent's was 28.6%, a difference of 13.2 percentage points. He believes that "Byte time" is a summary of Byte's total usage time share exceeding 40%, which is "a very realistic fact," while emphasizing that the share of user time does not equate to the share of user value.On the same day, Hongguo Short Drama, a platform under ByteDance, issued a statement saying that the claims circulating online about "annual revenue approaching 40 billion yuan" and "this year's revenue reaching 42 to 45 billion yuan" are inaccurate, and that the related comparisons, calculations, and extended interpretations lack factual basis. They stated that most of the current revenue continues to be used for content creator revenue sharing, copyright guarantees, and support for high-quality content. Data from third-party institutions shows that as of July 2026, Hongguo Short Drama had 168 million daily active users, a year-on-year increase of 107%. On October 19, Liu Xing, head of public relations at Doubao, responded to the claim that "over half of the domestic computing power is used to create feel-good dramas," stating that the data is unreliable, and that for Byte, only about 10% of the company's total computing power is used for training and inference of video generation models.

On October 25, 2026, Bilibili UP Master "Brother Feng on the Run" released a video titled "A Day of Daily Settlement Experience at Majia Bridge." In the footage, street stalls display the words "Binance New User Promotion," with the relevant segment appearing around 04:08 in the video.Majia Bridge is located outside the sixth ring road in the southeast of Beijing, adjacent to the Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone, where a large daily settlement labor market has spontaneously formed. The video and related description state that APP user acquisition refers to intermediaries finding passersby to download and register the application, and sometimes they also need to complete their first use, after which cash rewards are paid to them.

According to Caixin, Hong Kong-listed company Jingwei TianDi (02477.HK) announced on the evening of October 21 that its major shareholder, Hengfeng International, sold 716 million shares in the open market at an average price of HKD 0.1494 per share, cashing out approximately HKD 107 million.The announcement showed that Hengfeng International's shareholding ratio decreased from 24.94% to 10.01%. Hengfeng International is controlled by Qian Fenglei, who holds a 78.56% stake. Jingwei TianDi was included in the Hong Kong Stock Connect in March this year.A senior financial observer in Hong Kong told Caixin that this low-price reduction and cashing out raises suspicions of ulterior motives, and it cannot be ruled out that it is related to the recent monitoring of market manipulation by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

According to CoinDesk citing The Paper, Chinese prosecutors are seeking to confiscate over 61,800 bitcoins and other assets related to a fraud case involving more than 40 billion yuan. The case revolves around Qian Zhimin, the actual controller of Tianjin Lantian Ge Rui Electronic Technology. Prosecutors stated that from 2014 to 2017, the company sold unlicensed financial products in China, raising over 40.378 billion yuan from more than 102,000 investors, resulting in nearly 20 billion yuan in losses for investors.The related funds were reportedly used to repay early investors, operate fraudulent investment projects, and purchase bitcoins, real estate, cars, and jewelry, rather than being invested in legitimate businesses. Qian Zhimin fled China in 2017 and settled in the UK. UK authorities have seized his assets, including over 61,800 bitcoins, as well as Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Bitcoin SV, Ripple, Dogecoin, cash, jewelry, and investment holdings.On October 13, the Tianjin Second Intermediate People's Court stated that it has accepted the prosecutors' application to confiscate the aforementioned assets as illegal gains and has initiated a six-month announcement period for victims and stakeholders to participate in the litigation; those who do not participate can still apply for compensation regarding the recovery of assets. Previously, the UK High Court ruled that for the over 61,000 bitcoins seized in the UK, victims claimed that Chinese law should apply rather than UK law. This ruling requires determining whether victims have property rights under Chinese law, and a hearing will be held subsequently, with some victim lawyers seeking to appeal.

According to Caixin, just four days after the High Court of England ruled that the property rights dispute over more than 60,000 bitcoins in the Qian Zhimin case is subject to Chinese law, approximately 16,000 Chinese victims participating in the UK recovery have been given the opportunity to continue challenging this ruling.The High Court of England has held another hearing, and the judge has approved the Chinese victims to appeal the legal applicability ruling made on October 12. Lawyers from both sides also discussed issues related to the litigation costs of the previous legal applicability dispute, whether the approximately 16,000 individual applicants would continue to pursue recovery, and how to withdraw, among other matters.

According to the British Daily Mail, 48-year-old Hok Seng Ling has returned £5.6 million to the UK government. He was ordered by the court to hand over the aforementioned funds after admitting to involvement in the largest money laundering case in British history, which involved £5.5 billion.Ling previously served as the butler for Qian Zhimin. Qian Zhimin orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded over 128,000 Chinese investors between 2014 and 2017, subsequently converting the proceeds into Bitcoin and fleeing to the UK. Malaysian-born Ling resides in Matlock, Derbyshire, UK, assisting the Bitcoin queen in laundering illegal proceeds and helping her evade the UK police through methods such as booking Airbnb and arranging assistance.Last November, Ling was sentenced to 4 years and 11 months in prison after admitting to money laundering-related offenses at Southwark Crown Court in London. Following this, the judge issued a confiscation order requiring him to hand over £5,603,305, most of which came from cryptocurrencies seized at the time of his arrest. The aforementioned amount has been fully recovered, along with an additional £1,990 in interest.

According to Jiemian News, the autonomous driving technology company Neolix has officially completed a new round of financing of nearly $400 million. So far, Neolix's total financing amount has exceeded 10 billion yuan, making it the leader in the unmanned delivery vehicle industry in terms of financing scale.Insiders in the investment circle revealed that Boyu Capital and the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund are the lead investors in this round of financing. Alibaba AEF NextGen Hong Kong Fund, Monolith Lisi Capital, Vertex Growth under Temasek, and GAC Capital participated in the investment, while existing shareholders such as UAE Stone Venture, Xincheng Capital, SoftBank Asia, Yizhuang Guotou, and Gao Rong Venture Capital continued to increase their holdings.The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund was established with contributions from the National Big Fund Phase III. Previously, its investment focus was concentrated on AI and computing power chips, high-bandwidth memory chips (HBM), large model algorithms, embodied intelligent robots, AI security, and other fields. It has invested in leading companies in key areas of artificial intelligence such as Kimi, DeepSeek (general large model), Muxi (AI computing power chip), Galaxy General (embodied intelligence), and Changting Technology (AI security).

According to CoinDesk, the consortium Qivalis, supported by 37 major European banks, announced that the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) has granted it an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, bringing it closer to issuing Euro-denominated electronic money tokens (EMT). The Amsterdam-based company still needs to meet the remaining requirements of the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), including publishing a white paper, in order to issue the token in the coming months.This license enables Qivalis to provide a blockchain-based method for transferring Euros for banks and payment institutions. Qivalis plans to distribute its tokens through banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and payment service providers, rather than directly to consumers. Since its establishment in September 2025, the consortium has expanded to 37 European banks, including BBVA, BNP Paribas, ING, and DZ Bank, and has chosen Fireblocks to provide digital asset infrastructure.According to MiCA regulations, EMTs are classified as stablecoins, but not all stablecoins are EMTs. EMTs are pegged to a single fiat currency and must be issued by authorized credit institutions or electronic money institutions, with holders having legal claims to them and the right to redeem them at face value at any time, and EMTs cannot pay interest.Qivalis CEO Jan-Oliver Sell stated that the currency in Europe should be carried on-chain by European rules, and Europe should have Euro-denominated on-chain settlement assets issued under European law and subject to European regulatory standards.