China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has published a five-year development plan for the information and communications sector that targets 9,800 eflops of intelligent computing capacity by 2030, up from a 2025 baseline of 1,590 eflops, backed by 3.8 trillion yuan in cumulative information infrastructure investment over the period. The 15th Five-Year Plan for…
For as long as banks have opened accounts, compliance has rested on a single assumption: that a real, identifiable person stands behind each one. Verify that the person at onboarding and everything downstream inherits the trust. That assumption is eroding from two directions at once. AI agents now transact on people’s behalf, and synthetic identities…
You’ve probably heard “attachment” jargon. It’s ubiquitous, because it makes so much sense. In humans, parents provide the initial lifeline to care for a child. The way that a parent interacts with a child therefore provides the blueprint for how the child, as it grows up, intuits is the best way for it to get…
Palladyne AI and FANUC America announced a strategic collaboration on September 8, 2026, pairing FANUC America’s industrial robot portfolio with Palladyne AI’s physical AI software platform for manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics applications. The companies’ announcement, issued from Palladyne AI’s Salt Lake City headquarters and distributed over Business Wire, centers on Palladyne IQ, the company’s embodied…
A Defense Department modification to its prototype agreement with OpenAI, released through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, defines the “OpenAI Mission Models” to be tested for the military as models “designed for national security use cases” that “have minimal refusal rates.” The language appears in the P00003 modification, the released agreement text, which was…
DeepSeek is recruiting about 150 senior backend and server-side engineers to upgrade, maintain, and rewrite backend systems that a company technical lead said are straining under rapid growth in users, requests, and compute-heavy agent workloads. The openings, posted across DeepSeek’s official recruitment portal in Beijing and Hangzhou, were disclosed on September 7, 2026. Tianyi Cui,…
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. The dataset was created in partnership with the UCLA Mobility Lab and its director, Professor Jiaqi…
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 milestone in the large-scale deployment of autonomous trucking and in the development of its real-world data…
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 feasible) accumulated across multiple, groaning DVD collections, the emerging scene for ‘decensored’ open-source AI models may…
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 by a European technology company, three years after its launch. Samsung Electronics led the round, joined…