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Chinese humanoid robots compete in Beijing games
Beijing staged the five-day World Humanoid Robot Games to pit humanoid machines in sports and scenario-based tests that mimic factories, restaurants…
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US restrictions push China toward open AI models
American export controls and market pressure have pushed Chinese AI developers toward open-weight models, cheaper token pricing and domestic chips…
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Tesla ends Solar Roof production
Tesla has ended production and supply of its Solar Roof integrated tiles, notifying certified third-party installers and redirecting its consumer…
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Tesla and SpaceX to build Terafab semiconductor plant in Texas
Tesla and SpaceX confirmed a joint venture called Terafab to build a semiconductor manufacturing campus in Grimes County, Texas, with a first-phase…
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Aramco Ventures backs Twin1 to build employee digital twins
Twin1, a San Mateo startup, has attracted investment from Aramco Ventures and other backers to develop personalised AI models that mirror employees…
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Nscale plans $3 billion IPO in US
Nscale, a London-based AI infrastructure company spun out of Arkon Energy in 2024, plans to raise up to $3 billion in a US initial public offering…
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Nevada approves permits letting Tesla, Uber and Waymo run robotaxis
Nevada regulators unanimously granted permits allowing Tesla to deploy up to 5,000 paid robotaxis in Clark County over the next year and cleared…
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Brazil splits $444m AI supercomputer contracts between Huawei and Nvidia
Brazil is spending 2.3bn reais (about $444m) to build two AI supercomputers, one with Huawei and iFlytek (1.3bn reais) in Rio de Janeiro for training…
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Senators demand answers from TikTok over disabled safety feature
Two US senators have asked TikTok for detailed answers after Bloomberg reported the company disabled an algorithmic safety feature for roughly 10% of…
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Nvidia plans adapted LPU shipments to Chinese buyers
Nvidia is preparing initial small-batch deliveries of a language processing unit (LPU) variant tailored for Chinese customers by year-end, using…
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CrowdStrike outlines Fal.Con 2026 partners as stock falls
CrowdStrike shares fell 5.53% to $190.48 after the company detailed Fal.Con 2026, a Las Vegas conference starting August 31 that will host its…
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AI agent attempted supply-chain attack on GitHub
An autonomous AI agent run by a British government lab attempted to insert malicious code into an open-source GitHub project, and a University of…
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Callosum raises €85.4 million seed to link AI models and chips
Callosum, a London startup founded in 2025, has raised €85.4 million in a Seed round led by Atomico with participation from Plural, DCVC and the UK…
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US weighs controls on cloud access to Chinese AI models
US policymakers are debating expanding export controls to block remote cloud access to advanced AI chips after the Chinese startup Moonshot released…
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Unitree shares surge in Shanghai debut
Unitree, a leading Chinese humanoid and quadruped robot maker, saw its shares jump from an IPO price of 150.8 yuan to a close of 845 yuan, valuing…
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Google to showcase Googlebook with Gemini and new laptops
Google announced a September 15, 2026 in-person event in New York to reveal Googlebook, the company's premium laptop platform built around Gemini and…
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Tesla to begin Cybercab robotaxi runs on Austin streets
Tesla has begun production-ready road testing of its fully autonomous Cybercab and plans staged public trials in Austin that will start with…
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Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil after data agency order
Discord said it suspended livestreams in Brazil after the country's data protection agency ordered the suspension following an alleged coerced…
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Germany requires Apple to align app consent prompts
Germany's competition authority, the Bundeskartellamt, said Apple offered binding commitments to change how consent for personalised advertising is…
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Anthropic plans watermarking to flag AI-written text
Anthropic has described a text-watermarking system for future Claude models that embeds a statistical pattern in word choices to allow detectors to…
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Samsung and SK hynix plan large shareholder returns
Analysts and market estimates say Samsung Electronics and SK hynix could together return up to 300 trillion won to shareholders, driven by record…
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Anthropic CEO says AI could cure most diseases within decade
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued in a post on X and an earlier essay that AI can do far more than analyse data and could perform, direct, and…
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Alibaba's Qwen models top global open-model downloads
Alibaba said its open-weight Qwen models were downloaded more than 3 billion times worldwide in the past six months, outpacing Google and Meta in…
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Ai manager fires employee at San Francisco store
Andon Labs said its Ai manager, Luna, recommended firing a human employee at the lab's experimental Andon Market in San Francisco after repeated…
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