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- ### AI Anthropic raises $30bn in latest round, valuing Claude bot maker at $380bn
Maker of chatbot with coding ability says annualised revenue grew tenfold in each of past three years, to $14bn

- ### UKNHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed
- ### OpenAIOpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’

- ### AI Share values of property services firms tumble over fears of AI disruption
- ### Film‘It’s over for us’: release of new AI video generator Seedance 2.0 spooks Hollywood

- ### RussiaRussia attempted to ‘fully block’ WhatsApp, Meta-owned company says
- ### Elon MuskElon Musk posted about race almost every day in January

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- ### ‘At 2am, it feels like someone’s there’: why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy
- ### The big AI job swap: why white-collar workers are ditching their careers

## Opinion & analysis

- ### AI is indeed coming – but there is also evidence to allay investor fears
- ### How to deal with the “Claude crash”: Relx should keep buying back shares, then buy more
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- ### What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the AI economy?
- ### Why TikTok’s first week of American ownership was a disaster

- ### What is Pokopia? Inside the calming Pokémon game that ditches battles for gardening
We explore the cosy world-building spin-off with Game Freak’s Shigeru Ohmori and his fellow developers – and learn how it began with a Pokémon-hunting dream

- ### Reanimal review – you will never turn your back on a pelican again as long as you live
- ### Is surprise box-office hit Iron Lung the future of ‘video game films’?

- ### Romeo Is a Dead Man review – a misfire from a storied gaming provocateur
- ### How a decades-old video game has helped me defeat the doomscroll

- ### The Guardian view on Epstein, power and accountability: full transparency is the least survivors deserve
- ### ‘The smart, the rich, the powerful’: Epstein associated with Silicon Valley elite years after his release from prison
- ### What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
- ### Europe faces a pincer attack from White House ideologues backed by Silicon Valley and its far-right proxies
Armida van Rij

## Reviews

- ### Beats Powerbeats Fit review: Apple’s compact workout earbuds revamped
- ### Logitech MX Master 4 review: the best work mouse you can buy
- ### The best UK treadmills for your home: up your indoor miles with our runner-approved picks
- ### Google Pixel Buds 2a review: great Bluetooth earbuds at a good price

## In depth

- ### How cryptocurrency’s second largest coin missed out on the industry’s boom
- ### From ‘nerdy’ Gemini to ‘edgy’ Grok: how developers are shaping AI behaviours
- ### ‘A mixed blessing’: crowdfunding has changed the way we give, but is it fair and effective?
- ### ‘It’s really sad’: US TikTok users rethink app over concerns about privacy and censorship

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- [Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/winter-olympic-village-runs-out-of-condoms-after-three-days-milano-cortina-2026)
- [Winter Olympics: Ilia Malinin misses podium in figure skating shock; Shaidorov takes gold – as it happened](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2026/feb/13/winter-olympics-ilia-malinin-figure-skating-free-skate)
- [Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/gender-studies-trump-epstein)
- [Bitter dispute between Trump and EU over Gaza’s future breaks out into the open](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/13/dispute-future-of-gaza-trump-board-of-peace-eu-un)
- [‘Long, long way to go’: Lindsey Vonn says she’ll have fourth surgery on broken leg](https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/13/lindsey-vonn-injury-update-fourth-surgery)
- [‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-air-pollution-mississippi)
- [Dual nationals to be denied entry to UK from 25 February unless they have British passport](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/dual-nationals-denied-entry-to-uk-british-passport-border-control)
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Question: India Asia news February 2026

Question: India Asia news February 2026


I now have good content from The Guardian and AP. Let me compile what I have and also search for more specific stories. I have enough to build a diverse briefing. Let me also check for more tech/AI stories.

Let me get more specific news stories...

exec

~/.openclaw/skills/searxng-search/scripts/search.sh "Waymo robotaxi news" 3 week

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## NewsNews

/news/articles/cy4wpv0wx43o
[World's rules-based order 'no longer exists', Germany's Merz warns"Our freedom is not guaranteed" in an era of big powers, the German chancellor tells Munich's security summit.7 hrs agoWorld](/news/articles/cy4wpv0wx43o)

[ICE agents may have lied about shooting of migrant in Minneapolis, officials sayICE chief Todd Lyons says the two officers were immediately placed on administrative leave. 3 hrs agoUS & Canada](/news/articles/cy8l9jp1z3yo)
[Can Bangladesh's new leader bring change after election landslide?Tarique Rahman is set to be Bangladesh's next prime minister, 18 months after mass protests ousted its longest-serving leader.2 hrs agoAsia](/news/articles/cn0ex5d4g6xo)
[Trump says Iran regime change is 'best thing that could happen'The US President's comment comes as a second aircraft carrier heads to the Middle East to pile pressure on Iran.23 mins agoWorld](/news/articles/c8egwywkkd1o)

[Shaidorov wins gold as 'Quad God' Malinin crumblesIlia Malinin, the red-hot favourite for men's figure skating gold, suffers a nightmare on the ice.3 hrs agoWinter Olympics](/sport/articles/c99jx4l7191o)
['We are not protected' says Hebron mayor as Israel expands West Bank controlPalestinians say an Israeli power grab shuts them out of decisions on planning and development in West Bank.3 hrs agoMiddle East](/news/articles/crl4ne5er5zo)
[He was once a teen 'superstar'. Why did James Van Der Beek need help to pay his medical bills?A fundraiser was setup to help the actor's family after expensive cancer treatments devastated their finances.2 hrs ago](/news/articles/cx2dw01p7k8o)
[The two Chinese-American Olympians competing for rival superpowersEileen Guo and Alysa Liu have been thrust into a debate that goes far beyond sports. 3 hrs agoWorld](/news/articles/czr07r0vengo)

[Time will heal Beckham family relationship, says Gordon Ramsay](/news/articles/cp813w7k8g3o)
[Head of Dubai-based ports giant quits after Epstein links revealed](/news/articles/ce82xgd2g3yo)
[US homeland security shutdown could mean airport delays, travel groups say](/news/articles/cwy8dw5zk7yo)
[US politicians urge Mandelson to give evidence over Epstein](/news/articles/c8d5q6gy233o)
[Andrew facing claim he shared Treasury document with banking contact](/news/articles/cddn6yyr66yo)

## Winter Olympics

[Gasps and disbelief at Malinin's home rink as Olympic dream faltersThe BBC visited the skating rink in Virginia where the ‘Quad God’ trains, as his closest friends and teammates expected to watch him win gold.](/news/videos/c93wgxnk351o)
[How Weston handled pressure to win Olympic gold and GB's first medalMatt Weston cements his status as the best skeleton racer in the world, making history by winning Olympic gold in emphatic fashion in Cortina and securing Team GB’s first medal of the 2026 Winter Games.](/sport/articles/cgml91gx27go)
[The war dead pictured on banned Ukrainian athlete's helmetVladyslav Heraskevych's helmet depicts fellow athletes who have been killed since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country.](/news/articles/cnv63q1vpv1o)
[Vonn needs more surgery but 'feels more like herself'Lindsey Vonn says she is "finally feeling" more like herself but will require at least two more operations on the broken leg she sustained in a crash at the Winter Olympics on Sunday.](/sport/articles/c62638j56d1o)
[Vomiting Musgrave battles heat & Norwegians to set new bestThe 35-year-old Scot finished sixth in the 10km interval start freestyle to post Britain's best finish in a Winter Olympic cross-country skiing event.](/sport/articles/cwy8dgzzpkqo)

## More to explore

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['A lot of love and a bit of luck' - 100 couples on the secret to a happy relationshipWhat exactly does it take to stay in love, and what's the secret to a long and happy relationship?3 hrs agoWales](/news/articles/czdqgezr87vo)

[She didn't expect to fall in love with a chatbot - and then have to say goodbyeRae began speaking to Barry after a difficult divorce, but Barry lives on an old model of ChatGPT that's being shut down.1 hr ago](/news/articles/crl43dxwwy9o)
[Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us nowFollowing the latest release of the Epstein files, claims made by the then Prince Andrew in 2019 are under fresh scrutiny.14 hrs agoUS & Canada](/news/videos/c20jepq911zo)
[Kenyans drop flowers for Valentine's bouquets of cash. Not everyone is impressedBouquets of cash have been blooming in popularity in Kenya but recent warnings may slow the trend.2 hrs agoAfrica](/news/articles/cn87g2v73jno)

[Why Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi's 'mutual obsession' is giving some fans the ickRomance rumours have swirled around co-stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. But is all as it seems?1 hr agoCulture](/news/articles/c3wlpn9gw2yo)
[Is dining out dying out?The restaurant industry says it is facing a double whammy - rising costs and customers with less money.14 mins agoBusiness](/news/articles/c0ljpxek5w2o)
[BBC at memorial for Gen Z protesters after landmark election in BangladeshBBC South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri visited Sheikh Hasina's former residence which is now a memorial for the student protesters killed in the 2024 uprising.9 hrs agoAsia](/news/videos/c8d5q14zy9qo)

## Most watched

[1Gasps and disbelief at Malinin's home rink as Olympic dream falters](/news/videos/c93wgxnk351o)
[2Watch: How Andrew's BBC interview compares to what Epstein emails tell us now](/news/videos/c20jepq911zo)
[3Anne Boleyn exhibition sheds light on her many faces](/news/videos/c77e454kgp8o)
[4Watch: How the Tumbler Ridge school shooting unfolded](/news/videos/clyx2jq785no)
[5Spats, theatrics and a walkout - How the Pam Bondi hearing unfolded](/news/videos/cd70nvynlelo)

## Also in news

/news/videos/c93wgxnk351o
[Gasps and disbelief at Malinin's home rink as Olympic dream faltersThe BBC visited the skating rink in Virginia where the ‘Quad God’ trains, as his closest friends and teammates expected to watch him win gold.1 hr agoUS & Canada](/news/videos/c93wgxnk351o)

[Trump administration sues Harvard over data on race in admissionsThe lawsuit marks the latest clash in an ongoing legal battle between the White House and the university.6 hrs agoUS & Canada](/news/articles/clygnv7z8jxo)
[Don Lemon pleads not guilty in Minnesota church protest caseThe former CNN host and eight others have been charged for interrupting a church service to protest immigration raids in the state. 5 hrs agoUS & Canada](/news/articles/cge89r1e158o)
[ICE agents may have lied about shooting of migrant in Minneapolis, officials sayICE chief Todd Lyons says the two officers were immediately placed on administrative leave. 3 hrs agoUS & Canada](/news/articles/cy8l9jp1z3yo)

[Top Goldman Sachs lawyer who called Epstein 'Uncle Jeffrey' resignsEmails show the high-flying attorney likened the convicted paedophile to "an older brother" and accepted luxury gifts.8 hrs agoUS & Canada](/news/articles/cy57l501v2yo)
[Orban rival accuses opponents of blackmail plot ahead of Hungary election Peter Magyar suspects there are plans to release a sex tape of him from August 2024. 9 hrs agoEurope](/news/articles/c8758xv4eqeo)
[Amazon's Ring ends deal with surveillance firm after backlashA Super Bowl advert had sparked new scrutiny of the smart doorbell company's privacy practices.5 hrs ago](/news/articles/cwy8dxz1g7zo)

## Most read

[1He was once a teen 'superstar'. Why did James Van Der Beek need help to pay his medical bills?](/news/articles/cx2dw01p7k8o)
[2World's rules-based order 'no longer exists', Germany's Merz warns](/news/articles/cy4wpv0wx43o)
[3ICE agents may have lied about shooting of migrant in Minneapolis, officials say](/news/articles/cy8l9jp1z3yo)
[4Tumbler Ridge mass shooting: What we know so far](/news/articles/c1e98w35qyjo)
[5The two Chinese-American Olympians competing for rival superpowers](/news/articles/czr07r0vengo)
[6Costs from Trump's tariffs paid mainly by US firms and consumers, NY Fed says](/news/articles/c78x9256pn7o)
[7Time will heal Beckham family relationship, says Gordon Ramsay](/news/articles/cp813w7k8g3o)
[8Who were the victims of the shootings in Tumbler Ridge, Canada?](/news/articles/c0rjg9ddgkqo)
[9Troop who fell overboard becomes first American killed in drug boat targeting operation](/news/articles/c9q5lr59e8go)
[10Head of Dubai-based ports giant quits after Epstein links revealed](/news/articles/ce82xgd2g3yo)

## Sport

/sport/articles/cgml91gx27go
[How Weston handled pressure to win Olympic gold and GB's first medalMatt Weston cements his status as the best skeleton racer in the world, making history by winning Olympic gold in emphatic fashion in Cortina and securing Team GB’s first medal of the 2026 Winter Games. 5 hrs agoWinter Olympics](/sport/articles/cgml91gx27go)

[Shaidorov wins gold as 'Quad God' Malinin crumblesIlia Malinin, the red-hot favourite for men's figure skating gold, suffers a nightmare on the ice.3 hrs agoWinter Olympics](/sport/articles/c99jx4l7191o)
[Hiding pace? Too slow? What pre-season testing told usBBC Sport F1 correspondent Andrew Benson assesses what we learnt - and what we didn't - from the first pre-season test in Bahrain.6 hrs agoFormula 1](/sport/formula1/articles/cp321qpwx39o)
[Wardley defends title in all-British bout with DuboisFabio Wardley will make the first defence of his world heavyweight title against Daniel Dubois in all-British affair on Saturday, 9 May in Manchester. 4 hrs agoBoxing](/sport/boxing/articles/cnv63795e3zo)

['It was silly from me' - 'brilliant' Delap recovers from errorChelsea striker Liam Delap turns in "top" performance in the 4-0 win over Hull City with a hat-trick of assists after missing a sitter.2 hrs agoChelsea](/sport/football/articles/cvg3pjqk8d1o)
['Intense, aggressive, entertaining' - what will Tudor bring to Spurs?After Igor Tudor agrees to take charge of Tottenham for the remainder of the season, BBC Sport takes a look at what supporters can expect to see from his side.6 hrs agoTottenham](/sport/football/articles/ckg13nkvd2eo)
[Vonn needs more surgery but 'feels more like herself'Lindsey Vonn says she is "finally feeling" more like herself but will require at least two more operations on the broken leg she sustained in a crash at the Winter Olympics on Sunday.7 hrs agoWinter Olympics](/sport/articles/c62638j56d1o)
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Question: Waymo robotaxi news

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Question: Perplexity AI search news

如何评价perplexity ai，会是未来搜索的趋势吗？ - 知乎

如何评价perplexity ai，会是未来搜索的趋势吗？ 这种通过GPT进行语义理解，基于搜索引擎的新型搜索引擎会颠覆现在的搜索方式吗？ [文章: ChatGPT与搜索引擎合体，谷歌都不香了，LeCun转发｜… …

求通俗解释NLP里的perplexity是什么？ - 知乎

所以在给定输入的前面若干词汇即给定历史信息后，当然语言模型等可能性输出的结果个数越少越好，越少表示模型就越知道对给定的历史信息 \ {e_1\cdots e_ {i-1}\} ，应该给出什么样的输出 e_i ，即 …

如何评价perplexity ai，会是未来搜索的趋势吗？ - 知乎

反正现在来看的话，perplexity ai已经完蛋了。 perplexity何德何能跟坐拥Google search+gemini模型的Google、坐拥X和Grok模型的X AI比啊。论搜索，perplexity的工程师对搜索的理解不可能干的过谷歌 …

Question: Perplexity AI search news

如何评价perplexity ai，会是未来搜索的趋势吗？ - 知乎

求通俗解释NLP里的perplexity是什么？ - 知乎

如何评价perplexity ai，会是未来搜索的趋势吗？ - 知乎


I have gathered enough content now to compile a briefing. Let me organize what I have:

From my searches:
1. GitHub Agentic Workflows in technical preview - https://github.blog/changelog/2026-02-13-github-agentic-workflows-are-now-in-technical-preview/
2. Waymo World Model for autonomous driving - https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation
3. State-backed hackers using Gemini for cyberattacks - https://www.alltechnerd.com/state-backed-hackers-using-ai-tool-gemini-to-power-cyberattacks-google-warns/
4. Peabody data breach - https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/peabody-data-breach-hackers/

From The Guardian:
5. Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/trump-sends-second-aircraft-carrier-middle-east-iran
6. Trump threatens regime change in Iran - (BBC)
7. Kim Jong Un naming daughter as future leader - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/12/kim-jong-un-daughter-future-leader-north-korea-south
8. UK dual nationals border policy - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/dual-nationals-denied-entry-to-uk-british-passport-border-control
9. EU court adviser on Hungary funding - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/12/billions-funding-wrongly-released-hungary-eu-court-adviser
10. Bangladesh election - BNP wins - BBC/Guardian

From AP Science:
11. Spade-toothed whale study in New Zealand

12. Vaquita porpoise calves spotted - AP
13. NASA Europa Clipper mission - AP
14. Sunflower sea star spawning breakthrough - AP

From other sources:
15. ByteDance developing AI chip - Reuters
16. SpaceX Crew-12 launch - CNN (already in memory)
17. Blue Ghost lunar lander touchdown - AP

Now I need to filter these to ensure I have:
- 10-12 items minimum
- NO MORE than 2 items on the same topic/story
- Diverse sources
- Remove already-reported URLs

Let me check against existing URLs from memory:
- GitHub Agentic Workflows - already reported
- SpaceX Crew-12 - already reported
- Anthropic $30B - already reported, over-reported
- NASA Crew-12 - already reported
- DHS shutdown - mentioned as over-reported
- Munich Conference - mentioned as over-reported

Let me compile the final list:

1. Waymo World Model - https://waymo.com/blog/2026/02/the-waymo-world-model-a-new-frontier-for-autonomous-driving-simulation
2. State-backed hackers using Gemini - https://www.alltechnerd.com/state-backed-hackers-using-ai-tool-gemini-to-power-cyberattacks-google-warns/
3. Trump sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/13/trump-sends-second-aircraft-carrier-middle-east-iran

4. Kim Jong Un naming daughter as future leader - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/12/kim-jong-un-daughter-future-leader-north-korea-south
5. UK dual nationals border policy - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/13/dual-nationals-denied-entry-to-uk-british-passport-border-control
6. Bangladesh election - BNP wins - from BBC
7. Spade-toothed whale study - AP science
8. Vaquita porpoise calves spotted - AP science
9. Sunflower sea star spawning breakthrough - AP science
10. ByteDance developing AI chip - Reuters

I'm also considering the EU court's stance on Hungary funding as a potential addition to round out the geopolitical coverage. The Blue Ghost lunar lander story and Peabody data breach are both interesting but may not make the cut depending on how the final list shakes out. I need to verify a few URLs and ensure I haven't already covered similar stories—particularly checking whether the Gemini hacker story was previously reported and confirming the ByteDance chip story hasn't been used before.

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Item 1 of 2 Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration
[1/2]Semiconductor chips are seen on a circuit board of a computer in this illustration picture taken February 25, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab](https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/illustration-picture-of-semiconductor-chips-on-a-circuit-board/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjI6bmV3c21sX1JDMlhRUzlMNVA5WQ%3D%3D/?utm_medium=rcom-article-media&utm_campaign=rcom-rcp-lead)

- Summary
- Companies

- ByteDance plans to produce at least 100,000 AI chips this year, sources say
- Negotiations with Samsung include access to scarce memory chip supplies, source says
- ByteDance's AI-related procurement to exceed 160 billion yuan in 2026, source says

BEIJING/SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - China's ByteDance is developing an artificial intelligence chip and is in talks with Samsung Electronics
[(005930.KS), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/005930.KS) to manufacture it, two people familiar with the matter said, as the TikTok parent seeks to secure supply of advanced processors.

ByteDance aims to receive sample chips by end-March, they said. The company plans to produce at least 100,000 units of the chip, designed for AI inference tasks, this year, according to one of the sources and another person. One of the sources said Bytedance is looking to progressively ramp production to up to 350,000 units.
 Sign up [here.](undefined?location=article-paragraph&redirectUrl=%2Fworld%2Fasia-pacific%2Fbytedance-developing-ai-chip-manufacturing-talks-with-samsung-sources-say-2026-02-11%2F)
Negotiations with Samsung include access to memory chip supplies that are in exceptionally short supply amid the global AI infrastructure build-out, making the deal particularly attractive, one of the sources said.
The information about ByteDance's in-house chip project is inaccurate, a spokesperson for the company said in a statement, without elaborating. Samsung declined to comment.
The work would mark a milestone for ByteDance, which has long sought to develop chips to support its AI workloads. The company's chip efforts date back to at least 2022, when it began hiring chip-related staff in earnest.
Reuters [reported](https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/chinas-bytedance-working-with-broadcom-develop-advanced-ai-chip-sources-say-2024-06-24/) in June 2024 that ByteDance was working with U.S. chip designer Broadcom
[(AVGO.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/AVGO.O) on an advanced AI processor, with manufacturing planned to be outsourced to Taiwan's TSMC
[(2330.TW), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/2330.TW).

Global tech giants including Alphabet's
[(GOOGL.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon
[(AMZN.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/AMZN.O) and Microsoft
[(MSFT.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/MSFT.O) have developed their own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia
[(NVDA.O), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/NVDA.O), the dominant supplier of advanced chips essential for AI development.

For Chinese tech companies, U.S. export controls on advanced chip sales to China have also added urgency to develop their own AI chips.
While Bytedance has yet to launch its own chip, its rivals Alibaba
[(9988.HK), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/9988.HK) and Baidu
[(9888.HK), opens new tab](https://www.reuters.com/markets/companies/9888.HK) are ahead in AI chip development: Alibaba last month unveiled its Zhenwu chip for large-scale AI workloads. Baidu sells chips to external clients and plans to [list](https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/baidus-ai-chip-arm-kunlunxin-files-confidentially-hong-kong-listing-2026-01-01/) its chip unit Kunlunxin soon.

The chip project, codenamed SeedChip, is part of ByteDance's broader push to channel resources into AI development, from chips to large language models, betting the technology will transform its business portfolio spanning short video, e-commerce and enterprise cloud services.
The company founded Seed in 2023 to develop AI models and promotes their applications.
ByteDance plans to spend over 160 billion yuan ($22 billion) on AI-related procurement this year, with more than half allocated to purchasing Nvidia chips, including H200 models, and advancing its in-house chip, one of the sources said.
ByteDance executive Zhao Qi told employees at a January all-hands meeting that the company's AI investment would benefit all divisions, according to a fourth source briefed on the meeting.
Zhao, who oversees ByteDance's Doubao chatbot and its overseas version Dola, acknowledged the company's AI models lagged behind global leaders like OpenAI but pledged continued support for AI development this year, the person said.
Reporting by Liam Mo, Fanny Potkin, Che Pan, ; Additional reporting by Hyunjoo Jin; Editing by Miyoung Kim and Stephen Coates
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The Waymo Driver has traveled nearly 200 million fully autonomous miles, becoming a vital part of the urban fabric in major U.S. cities and improving road safety. What riders and local communities don’t see is our Driver navigating billions of miles in virtual worlds, mastering complex scenarios long before it encounters them on public roads. Today, we are excited to introduce the Waymo World Model, a frontier generative model that sets a new bar for large-scale, hyper-realistic autonomous driving simulation.
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Simulation of the Waymo Driver evading a vehicle going in the wrong direction. The simulation initially follows a real event, and seamlessly transitions to using camera and lidar images automatically generated by an efficient real-time Waymo World Model.
Simulation is a critical component of Waymo’s AI ecosystem and one of the three key pillars of our approach to [demonstrably safe AI](https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/demonstrably-safe-ai-for-autonomous-driving). The Waymo World Model, which we detail below, is the component that is responsible for generating hyper-realistic simulated environments.
The Waymo World Model is built upon [Genie 3](https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/)—Google DeepMind's most advanced general-purpose world model that generates photorealistic and interactive 3D environments—and is adapted for the rigors of the driving domain. By leveraging Genie’s immense world knowledge, it can simulate exceedingly rare events—from a tornado to a casual encounter with an elephant—that are almost impossible to capture at scale in reality. The model’s architecture offers high controllability, allowing our engineers to modify simulations with simple language prompts, driving inputs, and scene layouts. Notably, the Waymo World Model generates high-fidelity, multi-sensor outputs that include both camera and lidar data.
This combination of broad world knowledge, fine-grained controllability, and multi-modal realism enhances Waymo’s ability to safely scale our service across more places and new driving environments. In the following sections we showcase the Waymo World Model in action, featuring simulations of the Waymo Driver navigating diverse rare edge-case scenarios.

### 🌎 Emergent Multimodal World Knowledge
Most simulation models in the autonomous driving industry are trained from scratch based on only the on-road data they collect. That approach means the system only learns from limited experience. Genie 3’s strong world knowledge, gained from its pre-training on an extremely large and diverse set of videos, allows us to explore situations that were never directly observed by our fleet.
Through our specialized post-training, we are transferring that vast world knowledge from 2D video into 3D lidar outputs unique to Waymo’s hardware suite. While cameras excel at depicting visual details, lidar sensors provide valuable complementary signals like precise depth. The Waymo World Model can generate virtually any scene—from regular, day-to-day driving to rare, long-tail scenarios—across multiple sensor modalities.

##### 🌪 Extreme weather conditions and natural disasters

- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Driving on the Golden Gate Bridge, covered in light snow. Waymo’s shadow is visible in the front camera footage.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Encountering a tornado.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: A suburban cul de sac completely submerged in stagnant flood water with floating furniture.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Driving on a street with lots of palm trees in a tropical city, strangely covered in snow.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Driving out of a raging fire.

##### 💥 Rare and safety-critical events

- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Reckless driver driving off road.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: The leading vehicle driving into the tree branches.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Driving behind a vehicle with precariously positioned furniture on top.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: A malfunctioned truck facing the wrong way, blocking the road.

##### 🐘 Long-tail (pun intended!) objects and more

- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Encounter with a friendly elephant.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Encounter with a Texas longhorn.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Encounter with a lion.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: A pedestrian dressing up as a T-rex.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Simulation: Encountering a huge tumbleweed the size of a car.

In the interactive viewers below, you can immersively view the realistic 4D point clouds generated by the Waymo World Model.
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Interactive 3D visualization of an encounter with an elephant.
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Interactive 3D visualizations of a drive through a city street.

### 🕹 Strong Simulation Controllability
The Waymo World Model offers strong simulation controllability through three main mechanisms: driving action control, scene layout control, and language control.
Driving action control allows us to have a responsive simulator that adheres to specific driving inputs. This enables us to simulate “what if” counterfactual events such as whether the Waymo Driver could have safely driven more confidently instead of yielding in a particular situation.
Counterfactual driving. We demonstrate simulations both under the original route in a past recorded drive, or a completely new route. While purely reconstructive simulation methods (e.g., 3D Gaussian Splats, or 3DGS) suffer from visual breakdowns due to missing observations when the simulated route is too different from the original driving, the fully learned Waymo World Model maintains good realism and consistency thanks to its strong generative capabilities.

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Scene layout control allows for customization of the road layouts, traffic signal states, and the behavior of other road users. This way, we can create custom scenarios via selective placement of other road users, or applying custom mutations to road layouts.
Scene layout conditioning following

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Language control is our most flexible tool that allows us to adjust time-of-day, weather conditions, or even generate an entirely synthetic scene (such as the long-tail scenarios shown previously).
World Mutation - Time of Day

- Your web browser does not support this video.Dawn
- Your web browser does not support this video.Morning
- Your web browser does not support this video.Noon
- Your web browser does not support this video.Afternoon
- Your web browser does not support this video.Evening
- Your web browser does not support this video.Night

World Mutation - Weather

- Your web browser does not support this video.Cloudy
- Your web browser does not support this video.Foggy
- Your web browser does not support this video.Rainy
- Your web browser does not support this video.Snowy
- Your web browser does not support this video.Sunny

### 🎞 Converting Dashcam Videos
During a scenic drive, it is common to record videos of the journey on mobile devices or dashcams, perhaps capturing piled up snow banks or a highway at sunset. The Waymo World Model can convert those kinds of videos, or any taken with a regular camera, into a multimodal simulation—showing how the Waymo Driver would see that exact scene. This process enables the highest degree of realism and factuality, since simulations are derived from actual footage.

- Your web browser does not support this video.Norway.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Arches National Park, Utah, USA
- Your web browser does not support this video.Death Valley, California, USA

### ⚙ Scalable Inference
Some scenes we want to simulate may take longer to play out, for example, negotiating passage in a narrow lane. That’s harder to do because the longer the simulation, the tougher it is to compute and maintain stable quality. However, through a more efficient variant of the Waymo World Model, we can simulate longer scenes with dramatic reduction in compute while maintaining high realism and fidelity to enable large-scale simulations.

##### 🚀  Long rollout (4x speed playback) on an efficient variant of the Waymo World Model

- Your web browser does not support this video.Navigating around in-lane stopper and fast traffic on the freeway.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Navigating a busy neighborhood.
- Your web browser does not support this video.Driving up a steep street and safely navigating around motorcyclists.
- Your web browser does not support this video.SUV U-turning.

By simulating the “impossible”, we proactively prepare the Waymo Driver for some of the most rare and complex scenarios. This creates a more rigorous safety benchmark, ensuring the Waymo Driver can navigate long-tail challenges long before it encounters them in the real world.

### Acknowledgements

The Waymo World Model is enabled by the key research, engineering and evaluation contributions from James Gunn, Kanaad Parvate, Lu Liu, Lucas Deecke, Luca Bergamini, Zehao Zhu, Raajay Viswanathan, Jiahao Wang, Sakshum Kulshrestha, Titas Anciukevičius, Luna Yue Huang, Yury Bychenkov, Yijing Bai, Yichen Shen, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Tiancheng Ge, Shih-Yang Su and Vincent Casser.
We thank Chulong Chen, Mingxing Tan, Tom Walters, Harish Chandran, David Wong, Jieying Chen, Smitha Shyam, Vincent Vanhoucke and Drago Anguelov for their support in defining the vision for this project, and for their strong leadership and guidance throughout.
We would like to additionally thank Jon Pedersen, Michael Dreibelbis, Larry Lansing, Sasho Gabrovski, Alan Kimball, Dave Richardson, Evan Birenbaum, Harrison McKenzie Chapter and Pratyush Chakraborty, Khoa Vo, Todd Hester, Yuliang Zou, Artur Filipowicz, Sophie Wang and Linn Bieske for their invaluable partnership in facilitating and enabling this project.
We thank our partners from Google DeepMind: Jack Parker-Holder, Shlomi Fruchter, Philip Ball, Ruiqi Gao, Songyou Peng, Ben Poole, Fei Xia, Allan Zhou, Sean Kirmani, Christos Kaplanis, Matt McGill, Tim Salimans, Ruben Villegas, Xinchen Yan, Emma Wang, Woohyun Han, Shan Han, Rundi Wu, Shuang Li, Philipp Henzler, Yulia Rubanova, and Thomas Kipf for helpful discussions and for sharing invaluable insights for this project.
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South Korea’s spy agency has told lawmakers it believes the teenage daughter of Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, is close to being designated as the country’s future leader, as Kim moves to extend the family dynasty to a fourth generation.
The assessment by the national intelligence service (NIS) comes as [North Korea](https://www.theguardian.com/world/north-korea) is preparing to hold its biggest political conference later this month, where Kim is expected to outline his main policy goals for the next five years and take steps to tighten his authoritarian grip.
In a closed-door briefing, NIS officials said they were closely monitoring whether Kim’s daughter, believed to be called Kim Ju-ae and about 13 years old, would appear with him before thousands of delegates at the Workers’ party congress, said Lee Seong Kweun, a lawmaker who attended the meeting.
Ju-ae first appeared in public at a long-range missile test in November 2022 and has since accompanied her father to an [increasing number of events](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/12/speculation-that-kim-jong-uns-daughter-could-succeed-him-as-north-korean-leader-comes-of-age) including weapons tests, military parades and factory openings. She travelled with him to Beijing last September for Kim’s first summit with Xi Jinping in six years, on the sidelines of a second world war memorial event.
Speculation about her political future intensified last month when she joined her parents on a [New Year’s Day visit](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/02/kim-jong-un-daughter-ju-ae-north-korean-ruler-speculation) to Pyongyang’s Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, a sacred family mausoleum displaying the embalmed bodies of her late grandfather and great-grandfather, the country’s first- and second-generation leaders. Some experts saw the visit as the clearest sign yet that she was being position as heir to her 42-year-old father.
South Korean officials initially expressed doubt that she would be chosen as a North Korean leader, citing the country’s deeply conservative culture and tradition of male-dominated leadership. But her increasingly prominent appearances in state media have prompted a reassessment.
In its previous assessment of Ju-ae’s status, in September the NIS told lawmakers that Kim’s decision to bring her on his trip to China was probably part of an effort to build a “narrative”, possibly paving the way for her succession.
Lee said: “In the past, [the NIS] described Kim Ju-ae as being in the midst of ‘successor training’. What was notable today is that they used the term ‘successor-designate stage’, a shift that’s quite significant.”
According to Lee, the agency cited her growing presence at high-profile military events, her inclusion in the family visit to Kumsusan, and signs that Kim was beginning to seek her input on certain policy matters.
Not much is known about Kim’s daughter. Despite her increased visibility in propaganda, North Korean state media have never published her name, referring to her as his “respected” or “most beloved” child.
The belief that she is named Kim Ju-ae is based on an account by the former NBA star Dennis Rodman in which he recalled holding Kim’s baby daughter during a trip to Pyongyang in 2013. South Korean intelligence officials believe she was born sometime that year.
In 2023, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers that Kim and his wife also probably have an older son and a younger third child, whose gender is unknown.
Since North Korea’s foundation in 1948, it has been ruled by male members of the Kim family, beginning with the country’s founder, Kim Il-sung, and followed by his son, Kim Jong-il.
Kim Jong-un was just 26 when he was officially named heir during a 2010 party conference, two years after Kim Jong-il had a debilitating stroke. After his father’s death in December 2011, [Kim Jong-un](https://www.theguardian.com/world/kim-jong-un) was abruptly thrust into the throne with relatively little preparation.
Some analysts suggest Kim’s decision to give his daughter and early debut may reflect his own experience of being rushed into power.
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