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Valar Atomics has proposed Project Beehive, a nuclear-powered data center complex on more than 9,000 acres of federal land near Price, Utah, with 456 small reactors and about 9.6 gigawatts of capacity, according to documents reviewed by NPR.
Aito opened presales for the new M8 on Sept. 30 at 389,800 yuan, according to ifanr. The model is the first Aito car to reach presales after Seres and Huawei changed their cooperation model, with Seres leading marketing and Huawei Terminal providing support.
Perplexity has released Photon, an in-house Rust retrieval and ranking engine that now handles all production search traffic and powers a new Fast Search mode. Perplexity reports p99 retrieval and ranking latency fell from about 800 ms to about 65 ms, while Fast Search costs about 68% less than the default preset but scores slightly lower.
Manus released Manus 2.0 and Cue, giving personal agents email, phone numbers, wallets and computers, while 2Do rolled out a rebuilt task manager with modern UI and new sync tools.
TP-Link has begun selling the Archer 8 Ultra, the first Wi-Fi 8 router, in the UK, Australia, Germany and other markets. UK preorders cost £669.99 before rising to £899.99, though no Wi-Fi 8 client devices are available yet.
Facer redesigned its Android and iOS watch face store, adding curated tabs and Timex, Sonic and Angry Birds partners.
BMW has unveiled the eighth-generation 3 Series, codenamed G50, with a new design language and cabin while keeping a longitudinal engine, rear-drive basis and an inline-six in the M350.
A Leiphone report says Chinese visuotactile sensor makers reject the idea that their technology is simply a camera plus silicone, pointing to materials, calibration, durability, frame rates and data-model integration as hard barriers.
Samsung rolls out September 2026 security patch to Galaxy S24 series and S24 FE, fixing 90 issues but not adding stable One UI 9.
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days 2026 discounts Garmin devices in Australia, led by 50% off the Epix Pro (Gen 2) Sapphire Edition at AU$829, according to TechRadar.
Doubao adds flight, train, ride-hailing and navigation services via chat ahead of China's National Day holiday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AI labs are selling legal tools to law firms as courts fine lawyers over fabricated citations. Attorneys still must verify every filing.