Motional Releases nuReasoning Dataset and Launches ECCV Challenge

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…

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How Long Before a Real Crackdown on AI Model Decensoring?

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…

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SEMIFIVE Starts Mass Production of HyperAccel’s Bertha AI Inference Chip

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 and marks SEMIFIVE’s first large-scale mass production project on that advanced node. Following the initial production…

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Mistral Raises €3B Series D to Expand Sovereign AI

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…

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XPENG Commissions Humanoid Robot Lines as IRON Walks Off Production

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 company described the event as a transition from research-and-development prototyping to line manufacturing for its next-generation…

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Firmus Signs OpenAI as Anchor Customer for Malaysian AI Factories

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 anchor customer of Firmus and pushes the Sydney-headquartered company’s total contracted capacity across all customers beyond…

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Matt Clifford Steps Down as ARIA Chair After Anthropic Move

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, 2026, and ARIA confirmed that he will remain in post on an interim basis, in agreement…

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