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…
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…
Arm on September 8, 2026, introduced the Mali G2-Ultra NX, its first Mali GPU with dedicated neural accelerators integrated directly into the shader cores, in a newsroom post by Senior Product Manager Deyan Lazarov. The GPU is the graphics component of Arm CSS for Mobile 2, a compute platform the company announced the same day…
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…
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 announced the new memberships on September 8, 2026, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit +…
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…
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 follow as adoption widens across the organization. The Mexico City-based financial group is using the platform…