On October 12, Hangzhou High-tech Zone (Binjiang) held a media briefing, announcing that the third 2026 meeting of the ITU-T Focus Group on Embodied Intelligence Standards (October 13–16) and the first Global Embodied Intelligence Application Innovation Challenge and 2026 China Robot Competition finals (October 16–18) will be held concurrently in Binjiang. The former marks the international standards platform's first meeting outside Geneva in China, and is expected to approve two key technical specifications.
At the Greenwich Economic Forum in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Oct. 7, 2026, Galaxy Digital founder Michael Novogratz said AI is in the biggest bubble of our lifetime, but investors should still participate, arguing that AI-related stocks remain cheap on a price-to-earnings basis and that headwinds such as rising long-term yields are not enough to end the bull market. He also cited market concerns that hyperscalers' AI capital spending is expected to exceed $1 trillion in 2027 and that tech giants rely on debt financing.