Market sources: DeepSeek led a funding round in a Chinese robotics AI startup, valuing the company at about $400 mln.

Oct 12 — The inaugural Asia‑Pacific Geosciences and Remote Sensing Conference opened in Qingdao, China. Academician Guo Huadong and other experts delivered keynote and invited talks on frontier remote sensing science, Digital Earth, urban and environmental remote sensing, microwave and SAR, Earth observation systems and spatial information applications. The conference features 16 parallel sessions focused on remote‑sensing large models and AI, synthetic aperture radar and microwave remote sensing, ocean, atmospheric and hydrological remote sensing, land‑surface and ecological environment monitoring, disaster monitoring, cryosphere and polar remote sensing, urban remote sensing, remote‑sensing big data and cloud computing platforms, and applications for the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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