CCID Consulting's annual report says China's network information security market reached RMB 93.08 billion in 2025, with Qi An Xin ranking first for a seventh straight year and leading terminal security, security management platforms and security services.
French minister invites UK to rejoin EU ‘anytime’ as Prime Minister Andy Burnham reviews post-Brexit options.
AVEVA’s Arti Garg says industrial AI must pair autonomy with safety, governance, and human oversight in physical operations.
BMW unveils the iX4, an electric X4 with up to 428 miles of range and 603 horsepower, arriving in March 2027.
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to every ChatGPT tier with an Intelligent UI that builds interactive replies; paid users get GPT-6 Sol, Free and Go accounts get the less capable Luna.
Google is rolling out Pixel Connected Camera support to 11 more communication and work apps, bringing the total number of officially supported apps to 16, according to Android Authority.
Smart Launcher and Kustom Industries, the team behind the KWGT widget toolkit, are merging into a new brand called Wild Pixels, promising tighter integration between their Android products.
Microsoft introduced a Windows update built around locally running AI agents and a new Surface Laptop Ultra it says can run models above 120 billion parameters on-device, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appearing at the launch.
An account published by the lifestyle outlet Sspai on October 8, 2026 describes a decluttering routine its author spread across roughly four months, one room at a time, with rules for deciding what stays and a principle that an object's place should follow the user's habits rather than the reverse.
Leiphone.com reports that Tsinghua professor Dai Jifeng's Naive AI raised $400 million in three rounds in seven months at a $1.42 billion valuation, while Benewake expands robot lidar and MSRA veteran Zhang Lei's legacy shapes China's AI talent pool.
Tesco lifted its annual profit forecast after reporting resilient consumer confidence and higher first-half underlying profit, helped by online and premium own-label sales.
OpenAI says an unreleased internal model has produced 372 results resolving or substantially advancing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, with many verified in Lean. The company disclosed the results in a GitHub repository, and mathematicians are still parsing them.
South Korea's spy agency acknowledged exclusion from a June U.S.-Japan meeting on North Korean cyber threats after a report said Washington barred it.
A survey of more than 65,000 US students found nearly half identified procrastination as the main harm to their academic work, ahead of ADHD, anxiety, depression and financial worries.
Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, ColBERT-style multimodal embedding models in 0.6B and 9B sizes, with MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face. The 9B model scored 92.4% on MADQA, while the 0.6B model is designed for edge query encoding.
TSMC September revenue hit record NT$511.86B, up 54.6% y/y on AI chip demand; shares fell 1.35% before release.
UK drivers can now check live petrol and diesel prices on Google Maps, using government Fuel Finder data, in a move aimed at increasing price transparency and competition.
Samsung sees record Q3 profit on AI chip demand; Korea posts $46.1B surplus; CrowdStrike links AI attacks to banks.
Huawei and Nvidia target KV cache storage; Ruqi builds real-world data infrastructure for physical AI, Leiphone reported.
CAIR released CARES 4.0, a multimodal clinical agent system, at the fourth CREATE Symposium in Hong Kong, where clinicians, hospital leaders, researchers and investors discussed medical AI's path into clinical workflows and commercialization.
IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh awarded its best paper to LT-Mem, a long-term memory system, while humanoid tennis, tray transport and a Stanford talk on structured representations showed robotics integrating foundation models with geometry, control and memory.
US venture deal value reached a record $515.8 billion in the first nine months of 2026, lifted by OpenAI and Anthropic mega-rounds, while exits lagged far behind, PitchBook-NVCA data show.
A study reports that 13.8% of women in Bolotana, Sardinia who reach 70 will live to 100, the world's second-highest rate after Hong Kong, marking a possible new longevity zone.
UK surgeons have performed the country’s first testicular tissue transplant on a 19-year-old who had no sperm after chemotherapy, offering potential fertility hope for boys whose treatment damages sperm-producing cells.