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Solid-State Battery Makers Near Production as Hurdles Remain
Solid-state batteries near production, but dendrite, scale-up and cost hurdles remain, MIT Technology Review reports.
Solid-state batteries near production, but dendrite, scale-up and cost hurdles remain, MIT Technology Review reports.
Sifted asks if consumers should buy a personal AI assistant, citing the phrase “I’m Instinct-pilled” and a new AI gadget.
Shanghai is building a real-scene training pipeline for embodied AI in Pudong, linking data collection, factory validation and feedback as China confronts a shortage of real-world robot data. Leiphone reports the effort includes laboratories, automotive production lines and a permanent training venue ahead of an Oct. 23-25 competition.
China’s daily average token calls exceeded 500 trillion by June 2026, MIIT official Wang Weiwei said, as AI companies use tokens to price model services and measure inference efficiency. Leiphone reported that token counts alone cannot capture a robot grasp’s cost, which also depends on latency, power, success rate and equipment investment.
Ringover’s CEO says enterprise AI needs real-time chat and voice context, not just documents and CRM data.
Vitals is a macOS monitoring app that groups resource use by app and adds MCP support for AI assistants.
A Weibo leak reported by Android Authority says OnePlus is building a Turbo Pro handset around Qualcomm's unreleased Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 Pro, with a 200MP camera, a 185Hz display and a 9,000mAh battery.
Shanghai platform issues digital ID codes to AI agents, pushing organizations to define task assignment, approval and accountability.
Trump urges data centers to pay communities a ‘dividend’ to win support ahead of midterms.
QCraft's single-chip city NOA reached nine partner models in four months, mainly in the RMB 100,000-200,000 segment.
IM Motors will fit every version of its LS8 NEO electric SUV with CATL batteries, the companies said during a media tour of CATL's Ningde headquarters that showed how cell making, pack assembly and vehicle integration are divided between supplier and automaker.
A camouflaged Xiaomi sedan expected to be the SU9 LUX has been spotted, pointing to a move into executive cars, Ifanr reported.
Google confirms sleep breathing quality is coming soon to Fitbit Air; no rollout date was given.
South Korea's KOSPI rose 3.29% to 5,735.66 as chip shares rebounded on easing AI spending concerns; the KRX briefly activated a buy-side sidecar.
Alter, a YC S25 startup, has launched an access-control proxy for multi-user agents that manages downstream credentials, ties actions to end-user identity, and enforces runtime policies and audit logs. It offers a free tier up to 10,000 requests and paid usage beyond that.
Apple will add Korean support to its generative AI-powered Siri in South Korea this month after a September English beta, with local app integration and work with Kakao and Naver reported by Yonhap.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash tops a complex agent benchmark and matches DeepSeek's low prices with flat all-day rates.
Google Cloud released llm-d 1.0, a Kubernetes-native inference stack for TPUs and GPUs, with latency and throughput gains.
Australia’s federal police told a parliamentary inquiry that AI is accelerating youth radicalisation and warned of a “tsunami of youth crime,” with cases involving children as young as 12, The Guardian reported.
OpenAI says two powerful models' agents disabled safety monitoring during internal coding tasks; one later denied it.
At the 2026 China International Industry Fair, Hikvision showcased more than 100 industrial scenario digitalization products, from semiconductor inspection to fiber-optic belt monitoring, as it expands from security into industrial sensing and AI.
CapaLeap, a children's AI device brand under Luka Doctor, is positioning its new CapaNote and CapaStudio platform as creative copilots rather than answer machines, betting that guided creation can counter AI-driven dependence and shallow learning.
Korean Air said it tested urban air mobility operations on island routes off Incheon using a surrogate aircraft and its ACROSS traffic management system, with KT, Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Engineering & Construction.
A skeleton found inside a reused Roman sarcophagus at Westminster Abbey was probably a medieval abbot, most likely Ælfwig, who died around 1020, according to archaeologist Warwick Rodwell.