U.S. Democrats may launch a new round of investigations targeting Elon Musk, covering issues including government fund utilization and potential conflicts of interest.

Beating AI Express, a news outlet from Dongcha, reports that DeepReinforce, an AI team founded by renowned NLP scholar Li Jiwei, has added a new 122B MoE model to the Ornith-1.5 series. The Ornith-1.5 series was first released back in August this year with three variants: 397B, 35B-A3B, and 9B; this update fills the gap for a mid-sized model. The new model’s weights are now publicly available, with versions offered for FP8, NVFP4, GGUF, and MLX. Ornith-1.5-122B uses the same architecture as Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, with a total of ~122B parameters and roughly 10B activated parameters per inference. It supports a 256K native context window, image understanding, tool calling, and inference. Official self-tests show the 122B model scored 84.5 on SWE-bench Verified (non-hack), outperforming Qwen3.8-Flash-Next’s 82.8. On CyberGym it scored 80 vs. 78, NL2Repo 51.2 vs. 45.2, and SWE-bench Pro (no-hack) 76.9 vs. 43.9. However, it still lags on Terminal-Bench 2.1 with scores of 81.2 vs. 83.4. Notably, Qwen’s official team previously scored 62.5 on SWE-bench Pro using Claude Code Harness, higher than Ornith’s 43.9 measured via OpenHands, as the two test conditions are not fully aligned.

Beating AI Insight News: The DeepSeek open-source plugin project dsh-our-free-model, which has around 32,000 stars on GitHub, has suddenly received a 20,000-character "lawyer's letter". The poster claimed to be acting on behalf of the rights holders of WorkBuddy and CodeBuddy, accusing the project of reverse-engineering Tencent’s official client, bypassing interface verification, and using free credits to access AI models. The letter demanded the developer cease relevant activities within 3 days and delete the entire repository within 7 days, warning of potential litigation and regulatory reports if not complied with. However, the project had already removed Tencent-related channels at 10:29 AM that day. At 4:21 PM, another contributor submitted a pull request (PR) attempting to bypass Tencent’s client verification by modifying request content to restore model access. Approximately 39 minutes later, the "lawyer's letter" was posted. The contributor subsequently voluntarily withdrew the PR, and the code was not merged. What’s particularly odd is that the letter lacks key details: no law firm name, handling lawyer, authorized rights holder, contact information, or official seal. The account that posted the letter was only registered on October 16. The letter also claimed the developer had submitted code to restore access just 3 minutes after removing Tencent-related channels, but public GitHub records show the PR was actually submitted nearly 6 hours later. No official confirmation from Tencent regarding the letter has been released. Numerous developers in the community have questioned its authenticity, suspecting someone is using the lawyer’s letter to exert pressure.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, in the past two hours, a whale’s short positions in both BTC and ETH were partially liquidated. The forced covering amounted to 55.19 BTC and 153.19 ETH respectively, each accounting for 20% of their respective pre-liquidation positions. The combined transaction value of the two liquidations was approximately $4.9912 million, with trading losses of around $46,500 and fees of about $1,398. After liquidation, the whale still holds nearly $20 million in short positions, with its BTC position approaching the liquidation line again. The remaining two short positions are worth around $19.8846 million, with unrealized losses of about $105,800. The address still holds 220.74 BTC short contracts, valued at roughly $18.3836 million, at an average entry price of $82,835.60, with an unrealized loss of approximately $98,300. Current BTC is trading at $83,281, just $463 away from this position’s liquidation price, meaning a price increase of around 0.56% would trigger liquidation. Meanwhile, the address still holds 612.76 ETH short contracts, worth about $1.501 million, with an average entry price of $2,437.32, an unrealized loss of around $7,462, and a liquidation price of approximately $2,615.23.

NVIDIA has announced an upgrade to its Isaac universal robot development platform, launching new humanoid robot reference frameworks, simulation workflows, and data tools to accelerate general-purpose robot development. Jensen Huang, founder and chief executive officer of NVIDIA, stated: "General-purpose robots are advancing at an astonishing pace—the 'ChatGPT moment' for robots is fast approaching. Leveraging NVIDIA Isaac, this fully open, end-to-end robot platform, we are providing developers with models, data, simulation tools, and computing systems to bring physical AI to the world’s largest industries."

Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi published an op-ed in the Financial Times, stating that during last month’s UN General Assembly, he met with multiple foreign ministers, conveying a consistent message: Iran seeks a just and honorable agreement with the U.S. To achieve this, the White House must demonstrate sincerity and a genuine willingness to fully end its acts of aggression. He added that Iran is firmly committed to peacefully resolving conflicts in a dignified way, but is also fully prepared for self-defense. Araghchi noted that Trump launched the war based on a fundamental miscalculation of Iran’s strength, and meanwhile, Iran has no confidence in the U.S. government’s claimed sincerity toward peaceful coexistence with Iran. Given that the White House has not shown willingness to reach a consensus, but instead threatens to use more violence, there is little reason to expect progress. However, as a diplomat, Araghchi said he still has an obligation to do everything possible, and will continue to pursue diplomatic means even when the hope of success is slim.

According to TradingBeats' monitoring, the largest SpaceX short holder on Hyperliquid continued to expand their bearish bet today. After accounting for intraday position covering, this whale’s net short position rose by roughly $7.2548 million, with their position size increasing 73.1% since market open. As of press time, the whale’s SPCX short positions stand at 109,793.82 contracts, worth approximately $17.5527 million, with an average entry price of $153.44, an unrealized loss of around $705,900, and a liquidation price of $207.27.