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Doubao Adds Flight, Train, Ride-Hailing and Navigation Services Before Holiday
Doubao adds flight, train, ride-hailing and navigation services via chat ahead of China's National Day holiday.
Doubao adds flight, train, ride-hailing and navigation services via chat ahead of China's National Day holiday.
On Sept. 29, Guoxing Intelligent launched 11 special robots for high-risk scenarios in Yantai and signed supercomputing cooperation, while iQOO unveiled the iQOO16 smartphone and Pad Ultra in Shenzhen, both highlighting embodied intelligence and high-performance product applications, Leiphone reported.
Stanford's Movement Lab and Caltech have connected GPT Astra to a Unitree G1 in the HomeBody project, letting the humanoid explore a kitchen, remember object locations and execute long-horizon tasks through local skills rather than end-to-end action generation.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 with unchanged API pricing, faster generation and higher Agent benchmark scores. Lei Feng News reports the bigger shift is in Agent runtime: fewer tool calls, more batching and lower iteration counts.
On Sept. 30, DeepSeek released open-source infrastructure components for Huawei's Ascend platform, including TileLang tools, high-performance operator libraries and the DeepEP communication library, as Huawei detailed joint supernode networking and inference benchmarks.
Blaze says it has a three- to four-year Evercade roadmap and has spoken with EA, Sega and Bandai Namco about collaborations.
General Motors said it will launch its premium Buick brand in South Korea with the Electra E7 plug-in hybrid SUV, while Porsche Korea said it will launch the all-electric Cayenne Electric.
RSA announced Agent ID, an agentic identity security platform, at The AI Conference in San Francisco. It combines discovery, an inline AI/MCP gateway and governance logging as enterprises face thousands of unmanaged agents and costly shadow AI incidents.
Low-energy chip startup Efficient Computer closed a $97 million round led by TQ Ventures, its second raise this year, lifting total funding to $650 million as it ramps shipments of its dataflow processor.
TechRadar published a guide on September 30, 2026, by senior staff writer Max, advising shoppers not to pay AU$699 for premium headphones and instead consider eight discounted sets with up to 61% off.
Okta has launched an AI agent runtime gateway that sits in the path of attempted agent actions and enforces authorization at runtime, according to SiliconANGLE. Intent-based authorization is planned for 2027.
TechRadar's October 2026 reviews recap names Sonos Beam Ultra, Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 5, DJI Osmo 360 II, Garmin Fenix 9 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro among its highest-scoring new gadgets.
Counterpoint Research forecasts sub-$200 smartphone devices could fall 40% by 2030, a loss of about 230 million units, as AI data center demand drives up RAM, processor and chipset costs.
Apple has started enabling Apple Pay in India with Axis Bank as its initial banking partner, according to TechCrunch, opening the service in one of the few major markets where it was still unavailable.
OpenAI unveiled Dot, an always-on autonomous agent, and a cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay 2026. Bank of America warned Meta's Muse shows third-party AI agents could bypass Apple's ecosystem and threaten services revenue. AMD agreed to buy World Labs for $8.2 billion.
TechRadar reports Samsung's Galaxy A57 has fallen to AU$519 during Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, below its previous AU$597 low.
Consumer Reports found most car apps leak personal data to Big Tech and data brokers.
South Korea's tax revenue is estimated to reach a record 478.6 trillion won in 2026 on a semiconductor boom, the finance ministry said, as Seoul stocks opened higher on U.S. chip gains despite high Treasury yields.
OpenAI used DevDay 2026 to launch Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, cloud Codex and new API and subscription offerings, while CEO Sam Altman said an IPO would wait for stronger safety claims.
General Intuition raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation to expand synthetic video world models and test a commercial version.
Japan aims to put 10 million AI-powered robots into workplaces by 2040 as its population is projected to fall to about 112 million and age further. Startups and insurers are already preparing robots and policies for workplaces, TechRadar reported.
The U.S. government’s America.gov chatbot, built with Google and SpaceXAI, responds to Minecraft questions with a rewritten Minecraft ‘End Poem,’ TechCrunch AI reports.
Late-stage trial data show retatrutide produced average weight loss of up to 25% at 80 weeks and 30% at 104 weeks in people with obesity, with improvements in knee pain, sleep apnea and cardiometabolic measures.
AI labs are selling legal tools to law firms as courts fine lawyers over fabricated citations. Attorneys still must verify every filing.