Beijing – November 01, 2026 -- iQIYI began filming the internet feature film "Cop in Trouble" on October 28 at its new AI Film Studio, which links live-action shooting directly to nearly 30 AI models for post-production.

Shanghai studio syncs on-set footage to NadouPro in real time

The approximately 110-square-meter facility sits inside the iQIYI Creative Center Shanghai. It offers multi-camera shooting, synchronized high-resolution video and audio recording, digital continuity logging and real-time footage review.

ABU DHABI – November 01, 2026 -- Context Labs B.V. launched the AI Distillery, a Context Engine that converts an enterprise's operational and business data into a governed, customer-owned Context Package. The package works with any frontier or open-weight model and runs inside the customer's own environment. The product is available now through the Microsoft Marketplace.

SHENZHEN – October 31, 2026 -- SKYWORTH Solar has launched Solavita, a global brand that consolidates its smart microgrid portfolio into four product lines covering residential, commercial, utility and portable applications.

SHENZHEN, China – October 31, 2026 -- A previously disclosed hydrogen-production catalyst collaboration supported by Wenge AI's ScienceOra platform reported a 38% improvement in catalyst activity and cut the design stage from several months to 30 minutes. Wenge AI (1956.HK) demonstrated the platform's catalyst design workflow at the 2026 Tencent Global Digital Ecosystem Summit.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CIQ has released Stratum Kubernetes Engine (SKE), an Apache 2.0-licensed distribution that packages the roughly ten upstream projects a Kubernetes cluster needs into one signed file for installing, joining, upgrading and maintaining clusters on Enterprise Linux.

CIQ built SKE to cut the upkeep cost that AI workloads add, since training and inference spread across many systems and capacity moves with demand. The company is the team behind Rocky Linux, Fuzzball, Warewulf and Apptainer.

Tokyo – October 31, 2026 -- NTT DATA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, Inc. has launched SPARK (Strategic Perspectives on AI Research and Knowledge), an AI-powered consulting service for knowledge workers in strategy and other business roles, with its first offering, AI Foresight & Intelligence, available from launch day.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian now traces supported AI agent sessions from prompt to impact on the endpoint, scoring every agent from 0 to 100 and blocking dangerous actions at runtime.

The product targets a blind spot in network-based monitoring. A gateway sees the conversation, and a web gateway sees an agent connect to a trusted site. Neither sees what happens inside the machine, where a hidden instruction can become a shell command or a downloaded file can run with the user's access.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has added Third-Party IOC Management to Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, letting security teams ingest, curate and manage externally sourced threat indicators in the same platform that holds their security telemetry.

Global – October 31, 2026 -- CrowdStrike has extended Falcon Adversary OverWatch managed threat hunting to AI applications and autonomous agents monitored by Falcon Guardian, and added telemetry-driven hunting for Google Cloud, bringing its coverage of the three major public clouds in line.

Berlin – October 31, 2026 -- Vertiv and NVIDIA modeled up to 30% more cumulative token output in the first 12 months at equal installed capacity. The gain comes from a combined design-and-deployment approach for AI factories, introduced at NVIDIA GTC Berlin. Polar Data Centers is applying the factory-built element to the first 41 MW phase of its multiphase AI data center at Herøya, Norway.