QbitAI reported that a Lynk & Co 10 EM-P fell nearly 100 meters off a mountain road in Sichuan on Oct. 9, leaving the driver with only minor injuries. Lynk & Co said the cabin, airbags, battery and emergency rescue system worked as designed, drawing attention to safety as the brand pushes to catch up in intelligent features.
AI-generated variety shows are gaining millions of likes and followers on Douyin. LibTV has partnered with Douyin's Future Director Support Program to offer computing power, creation tools, traffic and promotion, aiming to help creators turn viral videos into sustained series and IPs.
STEPX released STEPX Neo, its first large-model-native agent phone, in Shanghai on Oct. 13, 2026, with Step AOS 1.0, personal agent Amoo and a 3,999 yuan full-stack price.
ASML raised its full-year sales forecast and said demand for its chipmaking machines will outpace supply through 2028, while Nvidia's CEO announced $2 billion in European deals and Saudi Aramco's eastern headquarters was hit by a Houthi missile attack, according to Bloomberg.
An eight-year UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme study has found that common ivy, hogweed and bramble are the most visited flowers by pollinating insects, while hoverfly numbers have fallen by about a third.
FSC: 100,000 personal info leaks presumed at 16 financial institutions after recent hackings; sensitive financial data not leaked.
Chrome 155 for Googlebook OS now lets users install any webpage as a web app, even without an installable manifest, and is rolling out through Google Play over the next few days.
South Korea's KOSPI closed down 0.44% at 6,008.81 on Wednesday, its sixth consecutive decline, after early gains tied to New York Fed comments were erased by ASML's weaker 2026 sales outlook, according to Yonhap.
BYD has priced its new Han Dahan flagship sedan from 235,900 to 275,900 yuan, with over 1,000 km CLTC range, standard rear-wheel steering and advanced driver assistance as the automaker pushes further into the premium segment.
Samsung has increased Australian prices across its Galaxy S26 lineup by AU$100 to AU$250, but Amazon is selling the 256GB base model for AU$1,127, 32% below the revised RRP, according to TechRadar.
TechRadar calls HP Color LaserJet Enterprise 4701 fast and secure, but faults its non-touch UI and color toner cost.
MemSilicon says it has completed tape-out of MountTai 2026, a 1Gb RRAM chip using a 1T4R cell structure on a 28nm CMOS platform, with 30Mb/mm² density and sub-20ns access latency, and is now verifying the part.
SK hynix expects the performance scale of AI infrastructure to grow about 20-fold by 2030 as AI inference demand rises, an executive said at SEDEX 2026 in Seoul.
On Oct. 14, SenseTime reported an 80% dispatch-efficiency gain for Shanghai's first quantum-city agents, PHANES AI launched a full-body multimodal robot data-collection system, and openJiuwen introduced a personal knowledge space for office agents.
Chainguard launched an AI vulnerability-hunting service using Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 and new tools to secure coding agents, while APUS AI open-sourced Reflex Agent, a personal agent it says can respond up to three times faster than Claude Code and Codex.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon, a sparse MoE model with up to 1M output tokens, pricing at $2/$10 per million tokens.
Shaoshupai and Sonos have opened applications for ten readers to test the Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones together, with a CNY 699 deposit, a 16-day trial and a November 5 article deadline.
TechRadar reports TP-Link's Deco BE65, its top Wi-Fi 7 mesh pick in Australia, is discounted 31% to AU$798.50 for a three-pack, with two-pack and single-unit prices also cut.
At IROS 2026, a UPenn-MIT-Stanford team presented RAPID, reaching 83% real-world generalization from one demonstration.
Demining teams in Ukraine are testing remote-controlled excavators, drones and AI image analysis to clear landmines across what the UN calls the widest contamination since the Vietnam war, as drone-delivered munitions spread the problem faster than crews can work.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, was arrested after OpenAI found a sophisticated recording device hidden in its executive conference room, according to a CNBC report cited by Slashdot. OpenAI terminated him and said it has no indications of access to model weights, source code, or customer data.
TechRadar says Apple will bring Siri AI to older Apple TV models, but details on devices, features and timing are absent
Tencent WorkBuddy Enterprise Edition launched its Observability Center in public beta on October 13, offering real-time monitoring, session tracing and trajectory analysis to help companies manage agent cost, security, performance and quality.
Google released Gemini 4 Argon globally with a 1 million-token API limit and introductory pricing of $2 per million input tokens. Early tests show large speed and cost advantages over GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.