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11.032026
Company News

XZS Technology becomes an authorized Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy / CodeBuddy partner

XZS Technology has passed Tencent Cloud’s partner qualification review and been accredited as an Authorized Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy / CodeBuddy Partner at Standard-level Reseller tier, valid until 31 December 2026.

10.302026
Company News

Token Factory launches: one API key for mainstream LLMs

2026.10.30Source · Company news Token Factory (newtokenfactory.cn), the large-model access platform built in-house by Hong Kong Xiaozhushou Technology, is now live. With a single API key an enterprise can call several mainstream large models, pay by usage and receive one consolidated bill — a stable, reliable…

10.272026
Industry News

October’s turning point for agents in production: capability is no longer the bottleneck — cost and integration speed are

2026.10.27Source · Industry watch October 2026 is recorded by several industry trackers as a dividing month: three frontier labs shipped major updates within 18 days, two of them cutting API list prices by double-digit percentages, and the first credible Fortune 500 agent deployments crossed twelve months…

10.232026
Industry News

MCP is the de facto standard for agents — but the battle has moved to the gateway layer

2026.10.23Source · Industry watch The Model Context Protocol (MCP) now runs in roughly 78% of enterprise agent stacks, with more than 400 million SDK connections a month. The architecture change of 28 July — a stateless core plus two extensions, Tasks and MCP Apps — and…

10.202026
Industry News

The AI coding productivity paradox: 30% more code, no change in delivery

2026.10.20Source · Industry research Three reports published on the same day, 22 October, reach the same conclusion from different angles: AI coding agents raise both the volume of code and the review workload, but the value actually delivered does not rise in proportion. The numbers do…

10.152026
Industry News

Agent security splits into three layers, each becoming a business of its own

2026.10.15Source · Industry watch In October three companies moved at three different layers at once: runtime isolation, protocol gateway protection and automatic vulnerability repair. Locking down agents is no longer a feature — it is a category forming on its own. What each layer covers Runtime…

10.082026
Industry News

Treasury agents in production: one protocol connection cut syndicated credit processing time in half

2026.10.08Source · Case review In a joint disclosure on 8 October, commodity trader Centalion and trade-finance platform Komgo gave transaction-level figures: in the off-balance-sheet instrument (OBSI) syndicated credit business, processing time for instrument issuance fell by about 55% and for amendments by about 80%. Note that…

09.282026
Industry News

Industrial AI moves from co-pilot to autopilot: quality inspection and predictive maintenance already show ROI

2026.09.28Source · Industry watch The clearest change in industrial AI in 2026 is not stronger models but agents that start doing things: looking up maintenance manuals, matching spare parts in stock, raising work orders in the ERP and adjusting upstream equipment parameters afterwards. In two high-frequency…

09.222026
Industry News

E-commerce customer-service agents: from cost centre to profit centre

2026.09.22Source · Industry watch The keyword for e-commerce customer service in 2026 is no longer cost cutting but taking orders. In figures published by Alibaba’s AI shop assistant Dianxiaomi, merchants that adopted it saw the hand-off rate to humans fall by 45% on average, and AI-plus-human…

09.162026
Industry News

Small models on proprietary corpora: a 9B model at 98% lower cost scores near the frontier

2026.09.16Source · Industry watch HR and payroll platform Deel released two in-house models on 21 October. One is a 9B open-weights model that scored 70 on the company’s own 601-question benchmark, against 74 for the frontier model Claude Opus 5.5 — but at a median response…