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Hailiang Tech's e-career project won the first prize in the HR and education track at the 2026 "Data Elements ×" Zhejiang competition, becoming the only smart education project to advance to the national finals.
Samsung releases seventh One UI 9 beta for Galaxy S26 with new AI features, August security patch.
Moderna and Merck's personalized mRNA cancer vaccine hit Phase 3 endpoints, but a projected $475,000 price tag has sparked debate about access.
Tencent Hunyuan launches open-source Hy4 preview, a 770B-parameter LLM with 1M context, ranking among top open models in real-world productivity tasks.
SK hynix broke ground on a $4bn US HBM plant; South Korea also announced AI projects, military drills, and JTBC rehabilitation.
Amap, an Alibaba Group subsidiary, unveiled ABot-Recon, a streaming 3D reconstruction model that rebuilds 10,000-frame scenes in real time using just 12 local frames and no long-range memory.
Garmin unveiled the Fenix 9 and Fenix 9 Pro on August 28, 2026, with prices starting at $1,099.99. A TechRadar columnist argues the premium pricing excludes casual users, suggesting cheaper alternatives like the Venu 4 and Vivoactive 6.
NetEase Youdao unveils OpenPods, the first Agent earphones for iPhone, integrating recording, translation and AI-powered transcription.
RayNeo iO smart glasses topped sales on JD, Tmall and Douyin at debut; 34g frame, proactive AI, price from 1,996 yuan.
BenQ unveils iScreenBar for iMac and ScreenBar Max for multi-monitor workstations, adapting its signature screen light bar to new desktop scenarios.
Nvidia has agreed to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, a deal that would place the largest open-source AI platform under Nvidia's control.
Apple TV releases the first episode of ‘Dark Matter’ season 2, a 10-episode sci-fi thriller starring Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly and Alice Braga.
In its Aug. 27 episode, 9to5Mac reported two AirPods 5 models may launch next month, Apple Maps ads have arrived, and Apple is upgrading recent Mac mini orders.
Jim Cramer says strong Nvidia and Salesforce earnings shattered bear narratives, sending shares up 8% and 22%.
FDA approved Gilead's Bixlenvo, a once-daily HIV pill combining bictegravir and lenacapavir, for suppressed patients unable to use existing single-tablet regimens.
An open-source model gateway claims no-markup routing under 2ms and uses traffic to train custom models.
Anthropic unveils Model Hardware Standard to let AI agents operate lab machines, cutting experiment setup from weeks to minutes.
More than 100 companies including OpenAI, Google and Microsoft published an open letter on Aug. 27 warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks will become far more widespread in coming months and urging collective defense.
Ring's new default encryption, TAKE, deletes its video key copies after 24 hours, limiting what it can give police under legal process.
Nvidia's strong results reignited AI stock rally; market awaits Fed's Warsh at Jackson Hole.
Hugging Face unveils Microduck, a $400 duck-shaped bipedal robot designed to make AI more approachable.
Domino CEO: AI value shifts to mission-critical workflows; 57% of firms fail to outpace spending.
Generation Lab is offering an anti-aging injection to influencers, claiming it restores youth, but it refuses to disclose the drugs and evidence is anecdotal.
Cohere has launched Parse 5, a 2.3B vision language model that converts documents to Markdown, priced at $1.50 per 1,000 pages.