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Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, an open-weights model for on-device agents, on October 13. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture that activates only 2B of its 24B total parameters per token. The company says it is the largest and final model in the LFM2.5 family.
At a Busan International Film Festival forum, Chinese director Jia Zhangke introduced a film featuring his own AI double and said he has made three AI short films over the past two years. He argued AI's arrival cannot be stopped and that creators need to make things with the technology themselves to understand it.
New York stocks saw a decline led by AI-related names, with the Nasdaq dropping roughly 1.25 to 1.5 percent. According to the Associated Press, the sell-off was a correction concentrated in AI and tech rather than a broad market crash. The Dow slipped only 0.09 percent.
On October 15 local time, US markets opened to mixed index moves amid AI stock selling pressure and the release of September producer price data. The PPI rise marked the largest increase in 4 years and 12 months. Still, the indices avoided a sharp directional reversal and stayed mixed intraday.
Bond-related unease at AI infrastructure firm CoreWeave spread into a chain crash of semiconductor shares in November 2025. Even with Nvidia reporting trading revenue of USD 6.72 billion, up 41.2 percent, Asian markets showed near-panic selling. Authorities and corporate earnings data indicate the plunge was psychological rather than driven by fundamentals.
The Financial Services Commission held an emergency market review at 2:30 p.m. on October 15, chaired by Vice Chairman Lee Eok-won, with the Financial Supervisory Service and Korea Exchange. It assessed that the market overreacted in terms of the speed of the fall and supply-demand dynamics. The panel said circuit breakers could be considered if needed.
Mizuho Bank, one of Japan's three megabanks, is pursuing a personnel policy to transition sales and office staff into AI development roles, selecting around 100 first in the near term with thousands more a long-term goal. The report cautions that this is not a confirmed large-scale restructuring but a longer-term aspiration requiring careful interpretation.
Microsoft has publicly announced completion of pretraining for MAI-Base-2, a model built on 2.8 trillion parameters with 80 billion active parameters. Post-training is still in progress. The company has not yet disclosed commercial release timing or pricing.
The survival game Enshrouded, which spent two years in early access, released its 1.0 version on October 15, 2026 for Steam PC and PS5 simultaneously. According to the announcement, a PS5 Pro-exclusive mode offers 60fps using PSSR 2.0.
Perplexity has released its in-house AI agent sandbox platform as open source. This is the company's second agent-related technology published to a public repository, following the security tool Numbat in July.