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Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max update tops the global front-end coding leaderboard CodeArena with 1,691 points and a price of $5 per million tokens.
iRobot launched Roomba Max 875 Combo and Plus 678 at IFA with SealForce carpet-sealing suction; both are available now.
Pistachio acquires Hugin Cybersecurity, planning a compliance and posture management service for SMBs.
Meta's new Muse Voice Transcribe unifies streaming ASR, diarization for 20+ speakers, and endpointing in one API model, posting a 3.1% WER at $3 per 1,000 minutes.
OPPO and OpenKG have launched MobileMem, the first benchmark for evaluating on-device AI memory, to standardize testing and accelerate industry development.
Sun Peng, a former ByteDance reinforcement learning expert, joined Xingchen Intelligence on Sept. 2 to lead robot RL R&D, completing the company's full-stack Physical AI strategy.
Bairong Intelligent reported a 43% fall in H1 2026 revenue but a 52% rise in AICC revenue, with new-scenario income up 195%, as it expands outcome-based AI agents beyond finance.
Hisense launched JUOS, billed as the industry's first home-companion-level AIOS, on August 31, using a self-developed large model to deliver proactive, family-oriented AI across TVs and smart home devices.
Nvidia released DLSS 5 with neural rendering, Dyson launched the CameraJet smart toothbrush in China, and Starman Optical agreed to acquire GoPro for $285 million, among other tech news.
Pivotal CEO Ken Karklin has left the company after more than four years; Mike Ross takes over as interim chief.
Anthropic opens preview of its Model Hardware Standard for AI control of lab and industrial equipment.
Google offers Hollywood billions for AI training rights; no major studio has agreed yet.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is set to become the first major investor in a defense-tech venture proposed by Ukraine's former defense minister, focusing on battlefield robotics, drones, and AI-guided missiles.
CrowdStrike launched Falcon Guardian to police AI agents; AIR Security raised $50M for an agent firewall.
X is investigating a wave of password reset attempts against users following the launch of its payments service, X Money, with no confirmed breaches so far.
YouTube TV has fully integrated ESPN Unlimited, letting eligible subscribers watch sports and originals without switching apps.
A nonprofit plans to launch a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri by 2029 using a trajectory discovered by an AI system from the newly launched lab Physical Superintelligence, backed by $58 million in funding.
A China-linked group called Fire Ant has expanded to Cisco routers, TACACS servers and Linux hosts, using compromised routers as spy platforms, according to Sygnia.
Tineco showcased its 'The Future Cleans Itself' vision at IFA 2026, led by the Floor One Station S9 Scientist Pro with an automated base station, along with global debuts of several new floor care devices.
Samsung's One UI 9 Beta 1 brings the Galaxy S26's Horizontal Lock camera feature to the Galaxy S25, keeping video level during rotation.
Lexar has launched the PexarBolt Ultra TBT5 Dock, a 22-port Thunderbolt 5 dock with an internal M.2 SSD slot, 10GbE, and triple 4K display support, coming via Kickstarter.
According to TechRadar, OpenAI unveiled its Jalapeño chip with benchmark claims over Nvidia GB300, while its data center chief departed.
OpenClaw 2.0 introduces multiplayer collaboration, shared cloud sessions, and enterprise security, evolving the open-source AI harness into a team infrastructure platform.
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday, featuring record benchmarks, a 75% cut to cache-read prices, and a new enterprise privacy framework. The company also secured a $35B cloud deal with Lambda.