Morning Highlights

1. Honor releases the Honor 500 series smartphones
2. Douyin publishes the Douyin Community Legal Industry Convention
3. MediaTek announces the Dimensity Auto Cockpit chip P1 Ultra
4. Ubisoft unveils experimental game project Teammates featuring AI squadmates
5. Meta introduces the 3D scene generation AI tool WorldGen
6. Mozilla announces the first closed beta for Thunderbird Pro cloud services
7. Rumors you can take with a grain of salt

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Honor releases the Honor 500 series smartphones

On November 24, Honor released its new Honor 500 series smartphones, including the Honor 500 and Honor 500 Pro.

The Honor 500 Pro is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset and features a 6.55-inch Honor Oasis eye-protection display. It comes with an 8000mAh battery, supports 50W Honor wireless SuperCharge and 80W wired SuperCharge, and is equipped with Honor’s self-developed C1+ RF enhancement chip. The device is rated IP68, IP69, and IP69K for dust and water resistance. In terms of imaging, it includes a 200MP 1/1.4-inch main camera with optical stabilization, reaching up to CIPA 5.0 with electronic stabilization, a 12MP ultra-wide macro lens, and a 50MP 3× optical zoom telephoto lens with OIS. The Honor 500 Pro comes in four colors: Aquamarine, Starlight Pink, Moonlight Silver, and Obsidian Black. Prices range from 3,599 RMB (12GB+256GB) to 4,799 RMB (16GB+1TB).

The Honor 500 uses the Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset and also features a 6.55-inch Honor Oasis eye-protection display with an 8000mAh battery and 80W wired SuperCharge. It shares the same main camera and ultra-wide macro lens as the Pro variant, with the main camera reaching CIPA 4.5 using electronic stabilization. It is also available in four colors and is priced from 2,699 RMB (12GB+256GB) to 3,299 RMB (16GB+512GB).

Honor also launched the Honor Ear Clip Earbuds 2 Pro, offering up to 44 hours of battery life with the charging case. The earbuds are priced at 549 RMB and are eligible for national subsidies. Source

Douyin publishes the Douyin Community Legal Industry Convention

On November 24, Douyin released the Douyin Community Legal Industry Convention. The convention requires creators in the legal field to complete professional legal qualification verification before publishing specialized legal service content. Accounts that have not passed qualification verification are prohibited from posting professional legal service content. The platform bans legal content that lacks lawful basis, is false or misleading, or is deliberately sensationalized, aiming to prevent legal misinformation risks and avoid situations where users suffer rights infringement or legal liabilities due to incorrect understanding. For violating accounts, the platform may take actions such as removing offending videos, restricting or banning video and livestream permissions, revoking verification, banning the account, removing followers, limiting or removing monetization privileges, and refusing any future verification requests from the same entity. Source

MediaTek announces the Dimensity Auto Cockpit chip P1 Ultra

On November 24, MediaTek announced the launch of the Dimensity Cockpit P1 Ultra, an in-vehicle chipset built on a 4 nm process. The CPU delivers up to 175K DMIPS, and the hardware-accelerated ray-tracing GPU provides 1,800 GFLOPS of graphics performance. In addition, the P1 Ultra’s NPU supports on-device generative AI with compute power reaching 23 TOPS. The processor is based on the Armv9 architecture, integrating AI computing units and a lightweight generative AI engine. It supports 7-billion-parameter large language models, enabling the in-car execution of mainstream LLMs and AI image-generation applications such as Stable Diffusion. This enables advanced features including 3D graphical voice assistants, multi-screen interaction, and driver alertness monitoring, covering both AI-powered safety and entertainment scenarios. Highly integrated, the P1 Ultra can combine key components—such as the smart cockpit system, T-BOX, and connectivity modules—into a unified solution. It supports built-in modems, 5G T-BOX, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS). The chipset also features an HDR ISP image processor with AI noise reduction and AI-powered 3A optimizations. For multimedia performance, the Dimensity Cockpit P1 Ultra supports multi-display output from a single chip, with up to six screens operating simultaneously. Combined with MediaTek’s MiraVision display enhancement technology, it supports up to 4K 60 fps video playback and recording. The P1 Ultra comes in three versions, all equipped with an 8-core CPU + 6-core GPU, and offered in 5G, 4G, and Wi-Fi variants. Source

Ubisoft unveils experimental game project Teammates featuring AI squadmates

On November 22, Ubisoft published a blog post showcasing the first playable results of its generative AI research project. The project, named Teammates, features an AI agent called Jaspar and several AI-enhanced NPCs, marking another milestone after the Neo NPCs revealed in 2024. In this prototype, players can interact with the AI assistant Jaspar and two NPC squadmates, Pablo and Sofia. Jaspar can tag enemies and objects, provide story details, adjust game settings, or pause the game — all through voice commands. Meanwhile, the two AI-controlled squadmates respond to verbal instructions: taking cover, avoiding dangers, and coordinating attacks at the right moment based on the player’s strategic cues. Source

Meta introduces the 3D scene generation AI tool WorldGen

On November 21, the Reality Labs 3D GenAI team at Meta published a blog post announcing WorldGen, an end-to-end system capable of generating interactive, navigable 3D worlds from a single text prompt. Designed for games, simulations, and immersive social environments, WorldGen produces geometrically coherent, visually rich, and highly efficient 3D scenes.
Although still in the research phase and not yet packaged as a developer tool, WorldGen’s outputs are already compatible with major engines such as Unity and Unreal without requiring additional conversion. Source

Mozilla announces the first closed beta for Thunderbird Pro cloud services

On November 20, Mozilla revealed that its new cloud service, Thunderbird Pro, has entered a limited closed beta. Thunderbird Pro consists of three core components: Thundermail: a full-featured email module offering up to 15 email addresses, support for 3 custom domains, and 30 GB of cloud storage. Appointment: a scheduling and calendar module with deep integration of CalDAV, Zoom, and other common services, featuring a redesigned interface for a smoother planning experience. Send: a large-file transfer service with end-to-end encryption and up to 300 GB of dedicated cloud storage. Thunderbird Pro is currently being tested by core contributors within the Mozilla community. Its subscription has been priced at $9 per month. Source

Rumors you can just glance at

• Google announced on November 21 that Quick Share now works cross-platform with Apple’s AirDrop, enabling native file transfers between iPhone, iPad, macOS, and Google’s Pixel 10 series. Qualcomm also reshared the news on X, commenting that it “can’t wait” to bring AirDrop-like interoperability to Snapdragon-powered Android devices — hinting that future Qualcomm-based phones may support native file transfers with iPhones. Source
• According to leaker @chunvn8888, Samsung will integrate AI services provided by Perplexity into Bixby starting from the Galaxy S26 series. Perplexity’s models will cover complex reasoning tasks that Bixby traditionally struggles with. Source
• The Doubao Input Method for Android — powered by the Doubao speech model — has officially launched on major app stores. It supports rapid speech correction, memory of past corrections, and personalized recognition. PC and iOS versions remain in development. Source
• Tesla has rolled out FSD in South Korea, with firmware containing the feature now pushed to Model S/X vehicles — making South Korea the seventh country to receive the feature. Source
• In response to accusations made in an earlier (now revised) Malwarebytes blog post, a Google spokesperson stated that Gmail content is not used to train Gemini AI models, emphasizing that any changes to user agreements will be transparent and publicly communicated. Source
• Microsoft has released Notepad version 11.2510.6.0 to the Windows 11 Canary and Dev channels. Despite user complaints that Notepad is drifting away from its clean, minimalist roots, Microsoft has added table support and AI-powered streaming text generation to the app. Source