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Huawei launched the Watch D3 with 24-hour blood-pressure monitoring; iOS 27 lets an iPhone and AirPods Pro 3 do GymKit workouts; SKG began a sleep-apnea study with Peking Union Medical College.
A Juniper Research report says Chinese AI models cost up to 90% less to run, eroding US market share on OpenRouter as price-driven and quality-driven AI markets split.
AWS and CrowdStrike, at Fal.Con, outline shared security role as AI agents widen the enterprise attack surface.
ByteDance reorganized its Seed AI unit in August, creating four departments for pre-training data, reinforcement learning and product post-training for workplace and chat. The shift signals a task-oriented approach as AI competition moves to agentic and omni-modal development.
ZeroDrift today introduced Guard for Agents, a service that converts written company policies into enforceable rules to check AI agents' outgoing messages before they reach customers, with API and connectors for document platforms.
Adobe brings 70-plus creative tools to Slack and acquires Indian startup Rilo.
YuanDian teases open-source robot ecosystem and ¥8,888 humanoid; Zhiyuan gets 18 golds with mass-produced robots.
Amazon’s Labor Day sale cut prices on AirPods Pro 3, AirTag 2 and Mac minis, while a signed, working Apple I from 1976 goes under the hammer with a top estimate of $800,000.
Greenpeace warns Apple's AI push may undermine its environmental record, calling AI adoption the 'defining test' of the company's climate promises.
BYD's Sea Lion 08 starts at ¥229,900; Li Auto's MEGA Home is priced at ¥509,800. Both launched Sept. 2.
At the CRIC Service Power Conference, Alipay unveiled a property fee payment entry on its life services platform, aiming to streamline payments for nearly 5,000 residential communities.
iRobot unveiled two new Roombas at IFA 2026, including the $1,199 Max 875 Combo it calls its most powerful robot ever, featuring a new carpet-sealing suction system.
Razer unveiled the Prio, a mobile game controller that folds credit-card-size, with a full layout and drift-resistant sticks.
Sonos has unveiled a new operating system, an app with AI voice features, a soundbar and new headphones, seeking to recover from the backlash to its 2024 app redesign.
Nintendo's free Switch 2 update for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe adds eight-player split-screen and CameraPlay support.
Google’s Pixel 11 promotional notifications through My Pixel have drawn backlash; an Android Authority poll found 93.9% of more than 9,600 readers say smartphone ads have gone too far.
Ninja’s new Crispi Microwave, an air fryer and microwave combo, is now available in the UK for £359.99, offering capacity for eight people and features that might replace a full-sized oven.
In a Sept. 2 analysis, TechRadar argues that perimeter-only security is inadequate for cloud-first, hybrid enterprises, and that network-embedded zero trust offers practical risk reduction.
Range Rover launches its first electric vehicle at £154,070, one year late, marking JLR's shift from fossil-fuel cars.
At IFA 2026, Acer unveiled a 799g Swift Blade 14, repairable Vero 16, gaming handhelds and its first Googlebook.
Aibono, AIROBO's mainland China entity, signed a five-year cooperation pact with the CAS Institute of Mechanics to build an intelligent operations platform for heterogeneous robots in real-world spaces.
Consumer researchers created a fake 10 Downing Street listing on Booking.com and processed payment, exposing alleged systemic security failures.
Anthropic has unveiled Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, an architecture that stores monitoring data in customer-controlled cloud infrastructure, aiming to deliver zero-data-retention privacy while detecting cross-session misuse.
Ant Group's OmniTable paper won VLDB 2026 Best Industrial Paper. The system curates petabyte-scale LLM data, cutting an SFT prep task from 14 days to 2.5 days.