[10/29 03:00 UTC] Samsung posts a record quarterly profit of 107 trillion won on AI chips, bu…

AI News Flash for October 29, 2026 at 03:00 UTC. Topics: 1. Samsung posts a record quarterly profit of 107 trillion won on AI chips, but its shares fall about 5 percent https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsung-posts-record-profit-q3-ai-chip-boom-2026-10-29/ https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/29/samsung-electronics-third-quarter-earnings.html 2. ServiceNow shares drop nearly 20 percent after hours despite a raised AI target https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/28/servicenow-shares-drop-18-after-mixed-third-quarter-results/ https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/servicenow-shares-sink-earnings-miss-205143245.html 3. Trump declares robot and industrial machinery imports a national security threat, but orders talks instead of tariffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-28/trump-delays-robotics-machinery-tariffs-in-favor-of-more-talks https://en.fnnews.com/news/202610290648466701 4. DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly distilled OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to build their latest models https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-astra-model-becomes-top-distillation-target-chinas-ai-labs https://m.economictimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-moonshot-used-openais-gpt-6-astra-to-train-latest-models-report/articleshow/135286994.cms 5. Tencent Cloud courts Europe with Chinese open-weight models and fully on-premise cloud, and pledges more investment in Malaysia https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366652896/Tencent-eyes-European-firms-with-open-weight-models-and-sovereign-cloud https://theedgemalaysia.com/node/823737