AI Daily Insights No. 97 · November 9, 2026

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Tesla expands Robotaxi service to San Antonio, IT之家 reports

According to IT之家, Tesla’s Robotaxi service has expanded to San Antonio, Texas, and began operating at 5 a.m. local time Monday. Tesla’s official Robotaxi account announced the launch on X just after midnight, marking the second straight week of new city rollouts. The company says San Antonio’s service area covers about 275 square miles, which makes it the largest Robotaxi operating zone so far. Tesla had already launched unattended Robotaxi service in Fort Worth on November 2.

AI-generated Released IT之家 ↗ #Tesla#Cybercab

According to Bloomberg, Google adds two new TPU variants for AI workloads

According to Bloomberg, Alphabet’s Google is rolling out a broader array of AI chips as it seeks to gain ground in a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars and dominated by Nvidia. The company is introducing two new tensor processing unit variants, custom semiconductors used to develop and run AI software. Google said the chips are meant to support confidential computing, help models access a wider range of information when handling queries, and serve an industry shifting toward AI agents while facing security challenges.

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According to The Verge AI, Meta expands Instagram age-estimation checks for teens

According to The Verge AI, Meta is expanding the AI age-estimation system it uses on Instagram to find teens who did not correctly disclose their age, and the rollout will automatically place millions more users into Teen Account protections. The system looks at signals such as who they interact with, birthday messages, and visual cues in uploaded photos and videos, and Meta has also started using Apple’s age-range signal in Australia. U.S. parents will begin receiving an in-app notice next month explaining the process.

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IT之家 reports ByteDance Seed releases Seedream 5.5 with stronger editing and text rendering

According to IT之家, ByteDance’s Seed team has released Seedream 5.5, a new image creation model that improves multi-round editing, native RGBA transparent asset generation and text rendering. The model can support up to 100 rounds of iterative edits on the same work while keeping non-edited areas pixel-level consistent, and it cuts severe text corruption to 0.4%. It is now rolling out across Jimeng, Doubao, Doubao Work and Volcano Ark, while the API keeps its two-part pricing for input and output images, with a 2K square edit costing about 0.28 yuan.

AI-generated Released IT之家 ↗ #ByteDance#Seedream 5.5#Doubao

According to IT之家, Samsung is preparing a Galaxy AI Premium subscription test

According to IT之家 on Nov. 9, Samsung is preparing to test a Galaxy AI Premium subscription priced at $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year. The plan would give users higher Galaxy AI usage limits and visibility into how each AI feature is being used. The report says AI video generation, Bixby Action cross-app automation and Daily Briefing may be moved behind the paywall. Participants would need to opt in, and any test charges would be refunded.

AI-generated Planned IT之家 ↗ #三星#Galaxy AI Premium

NVIDIA and Korea’s MSIT host startup forum and unveil investment plans for Point2

Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and NVIDIA hosted the MSIT-NVIDIA AI Startup Partnership Forum at COEX in Seoul. Vice Minister Ryu Je-myung met with NVIDIA leaders and more than 20 Korean startups spanning foundation models, physical AI, AI infrastructure and AI semiconductors. NVIDIA also announced an investment in Point2 and said it plans additional investments in Motif Technologies, RLWRLD and Upstage. Point2 builds scalable, radio frequency-based interconnects that move data between chips and racks in AI factories, aiming to support next-generation AI infrastructure.

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IT Home says Alibaba Cloud raises Token Plan quotas and cuts Pro pricing

According to IT Home on November 9, Alibaba Cloud announced a broad update to its Token Plan personal subscription tiers. Lite, Essential and Standard keep the same monthly prices at 39 yuan, 79 yuan and 139 yuan, while their monthly credits rise to 20,000, 45,000 and 80,000. The Pro plan increases its allowance to 200,000 credits from 180,000 and cuts the fee to 312 yuan from 499 yuan. The report says the new quotas start rolling out the same day for existing and new subscribers.

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IT Home reports Honor 700 series will get an AI smart rear display

According to IT Home on Nov. 9, Honor terminal product line president Fang Fei said the Honor 700 series will feature an AI smart rear display across the lineup, calling it the biggest exterior upgrade in the digital series so far. The report says the rear screen can switch content, show personalized themes and support rear-camera selfies, AI interactions, heart-rate and blood-oxygen checks, plus flight reminders. Honor also highlighted a floating-glass design and said the phone is 7.96mm thick while still housing the largest battery in its class.

AI-generated Announced IT之家 ↗ #Honor#Honor 700 series

NVIDIA expands sovereign AI collaboration with Korea’s MSIT

NVIDIA announced an expanded collaboration with Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT across the country’s sovereign AI ecosystem, spanning AI semiconductors, data center infrastructure, talent, models, agents and security. Under Korea’s AI for All initiative, NVIDIA will work with three selected consortia and four leading foundation model builders, using NVIDIA Dynamo to optimize and scale inference. NVIDIA also announced a separate collaboration with SK Telecom and Rebellions, supported by MSIT, to advance sovereign AI infrastructure with NVIDIA NVLink Fusion.

AI-generated Announced NVIDIA ↗ #Nvidia

MIT News AI reports WorldParticle unifies physics simulation with one AI model

According to MIT News AI, researchers at MIT, the University of British Columbia and other institutions have built WorldParticle, a deep-learning system that can simulate diverse physical processes with one architecture. The model represents matter as particles and predicts their next positions and properties step by step, while accounting for external forces and generalizing to unseen materials and conditions. The team says it outperformed numerical methods on six phenomena and modeled protein dynamics about 100 times faster. The paper will be presented at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia.

AI-generated Technical overview MIT News AI ↗ #WorldParticle#MIT#University of British Columbia