Motional announced the release of nuReasoning on September 8, 2026, describing it as the world's first reasoning-centric, long-tail scenario open dataset for autonomous vehicles, and launched a companion research challenge at the European Conference on Computer Vision in Sweden....

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Inceptio Technology said its autonomous driving systems have surpassed 1 billion kilometers of commercial autonomous driving mileage. The Shanghai-based company announced the figure on September 8, 2026 in a release carried by PR Newswire, describing the total as a...

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If you're old enough to remember the warez scene of roughly 1995–2010, when vast collections of cracked software and ripped movies (bought wholesale off the street, or assembled by casual pirates once high-speed broadband made huge and high-volume downloads...

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SEMIFIVE has begun mass production of Bertha, a data center AI inference accelerator developed for fellow South Korean company HyperAccel, the custom semiconductor firm announced on September 8, 2026. The chip is manufactured on Samsung Foundry's 4nm process node...

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Mistral announced on September 8, 2026 that it has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion, which the company said is the largest equity fundraising round ever completed...

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XPeng Inc. has commissioned production lines for humanoid robots at its manufacturing facility and completed the line production of its first advanced humanoid robot, which walked off the lines autonomously, the company announced on September 7, 2026. The Guangzhou-based...

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Australian AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies and OpenAI announced a multi-year strategic partnership on September 8, 2026, under which OpenAI will contract dedicated AI compute capacity from two Firmus AI Factory sites in Malaysia. The agreement makes OpenAI an...

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The PyTorch Foundation said Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon have joined as Platinum members and Ant Group has joined as a Gold member, a grouping the organization framed around the open AI stack at its conference in Shanghai. The foundation...

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Matt Clifford is stepping down as founding chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, the UK government's high-risk research funding body, five days after taking a full-time government-affairs job at Anthropic. Clifford announced his decision on September 7,...

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Grupo Financiero Inbursa, one of Mexico's largest financial institutions, has deployed Harvey's legal AI platform across its legal team, Harvey announced on September 7, 2026. The rollout covers the group's litigation operations first, with further legal workflows scheduled to...

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Hyosung Heavy Industries said on September 7, 2026, that it is accelerating its push into the U.S. AI data center power market, combining the 22.9kV solid-state transformer it developed in 2022 with completed American production bases for ultra-high-voltage transformers...

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Foundation models are large, broadly trained models that can be adapted to many downstream tasks through prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, or additional components. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.

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Researchers from Insilico Medicine and an international group of academic collaborators have applied six independently developed proteomic aging clocks to blood samples from a Phase IIa trial of the AI-designed drug rentosertib, finding that all six models consistently predicted...

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UST, a US-based AI and technology transformation company, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Italian design and engineering firm Italdesign from the Audi Group, announced September 7, 2026. The transaction closes a deal first signed in...

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Google is partnering with Cathay Pacific to test AI-powered contrail avoidance on ultra-long-haul flights across Asia-Pacific, the company announced on September 7, 2026, reporting that early trial flights reduced the warming impact of contrails by an estimated 40%. Cathay...

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NEURA Robotics and SECO announced a strategic partnership on September 7, 2026, under which the Italian embedded-computing company will design, engineer and manufacture electronic compute modules for NEURA's cognitive robots, including the humanoid 4NE1. The companies' joint announcement, datelined...

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