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AI
Grok Imagine’s Odyssey Episode 1 Is Out: Seven Minutes of AI Homer, and the Year-End Movie Clock Is Ticking
Grok Imagine has released the first episode of its AI-made Odyssey series, a 7-minute, 12-second film made with Wonder Studios and director Dev Walker. It's the first installment of the full-length adaptation Elon Musk promised by the end of 2026, and reviewers say the usual AI-video tells are still there.
AI
Alibaba’s Map Team Built a Humanoid Brain From 500 Hours of People Doing Chores
Amap and Alibaba's Token Hub have released λ0, a whole-body humanoid model trained mainly on 500 hours of first-person video and motion data from people doing everyday tasks. The team says it runs zero-shot on a Unitree G1 with a 62.5% success rate, though nobody has reproduced it yet.
AI
Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro Ranks Fourth in the World, and Its Weights Go Public by Nov. 4
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model with a 1M-token context that Artificial Analysis ranks fourth on its Intelligence Index. Weights are due by Nov. 4, prices are 33% lower, and Moonshot says it deliberately cut its hacking skills.
Japan
Shigeru Miyamoto Gets Japan’s Order of Culture, and Has the Best Take Yet on AI and Making Things
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto is the first person from video games to receive Japan's Order of Culture. At his Kyoto press conference he split creative work into "making" and "doing the work," and said AI will push everyone to think about what making really means.
AI
Four Robot Ducks Stole Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin Keynote, Mostly by Not Listening
Four of Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics' $399 Microduck robots joined Jensen Huang on stage at GTC Berlin, sitting, standing and mostly napping on cue. The sold-out robot was NVIDIA's demo for agent-driven robot training on Isaac Sim and RTX Spark.
AI
Grok Bot Can Now Use Your Phone’s Calendar, Reminders and Contacts, and Sign In With 1Password
Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, Messages, Location and Home on iOS and Android, with a separate Allow for each. A new 1Password integration also lets it sign in to approved accounts without seeing the password.
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EV Industry
BYD’s Q3 Profit Jumps 28% as Overseas Sales Do the Heavy Lifting
BYD's third-quarter net profit rose 28.08% to 10.02 billion yuan (about $1.50 billion) on revenue up 13.59%, while nine-month profit still fell 4.24%. Overseas sales are up 92.66% this year, and Japan's RACCO kei EV is part of that push.
Starlink
FCC Votes to Put 482 MHz More on the Table for Satellite-to-Phone Service, and Starlink Mobile Is Listening
The FCC adopted a proposal to open an extra 482 MHz of licensed spectrum to direct-to-device service and drop region-wide lease rules, a potential win for SpaceX's Starlink Mobile. AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile want two 5G bands left out.
Tesla
Tesla Model Y Sets Green NCAP’s Lowest-Ever Life-Cycle Emissions Mark, and Tesla Showed Its Homework
Green NCAP gave the Berlin-built Model Y RWD five stars and 93%, with life-cycle emissions of 95 g CO2-eq/km, the lowest it has ever published. Tesla's verified factory and battery data made the difference.
Stock Watch
Alphabet Has Its Worst Day Ever, and Tesla Barely Blinks at $403
Alphabet sank 12.64% to $283.82, its worst day as a public company, and the Nasdaq lost 1.38%. Tesla slipped just 0.23% to $403.30, Mobileye fell 9.21%, Ford and GM rallied, and Advantest led Tokyo up 6.01%.
Japan
Toyota Develops a Smaller Next-Gen Hybrid So One Platform Can Be an EV, PHEV or Hybrid
Toyota's new 1.5-liter four-cylinder hybrid is small enough to fit a BEV-first multi-pathway platform, letting one body be an EV, PHEV or hybrid with 15%+ better fuel economy.

