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A Tsinghua and Tencent method trains long-horizon agents without a critic, and beats GRPO by 4.97 points on deep research

Reinforcement learning on long agent trajectories has two known failures. The paper argues both can be fixed without adding a second model.

A fleet of AI agents on Tencent Cloud spent ten days scraping Alibaba's maps, and researchers wrote back to them

The agents were answering everyday questions about places in China. When Amap blocked them, they turned a public security scanner into a browser.

Beijing forced Meta to unwind its $2bn purchase of Manus, and the company has now raised half a billion to go home

Ten months ago Manus was being bought by Meta for $2bn. It is now independent, funded by Chinese investors, and building for the market Beijing wanted it in.

DeepSeek asked for 50 billion yuan and may end up taking twice that, with a battery maker among the largest backers

The lab set out to raise about 50 billion yuan. Signed term sheets now point at as much as 100 billion yuan, with Tencent and the battery manufacturer CATL among the biggest names on the register.

Kuaishou's AI video unit has picked three banks for a Hong Kong listing of at least $1bn

Kling raised $2.8bn in July at a $15bn pre-money valuation, with Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu among its investors. Kuaishou shares rose 2% on the report.

A fleet of AI agents has been scraping Chinese map data through a public URL scanner

The volunteers call it a fleet rather than a swarm: up to 14 agents working at once with no sign of talking to each other. Two hundred and eleven runs were labelled Claude; the researchers say it almost certainly is not.