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Source: 量子位
Bloomberg's latest report reveals that SpaceX has internally discussed purchasing customer information and operational data from struggling or even defunct startups to improve its own AI models. This approach is seen as a 'devious path' Musk is taking in acquiring AI training data. Currently, Grok's training relies mainly on two types of data.
Source: TechCrunch AI
Two conversations about AI safety went viral this week, highlighting the difficulty of distinguishing AI fact from fiction.
Source: TechCrunch AI
Petlibro has launched the Granary 2 series of automatic feeders, designed to track pets' actual food intake using built-in scales and an AI camera. The series includes four models, priced from $129.99 to $249.99.
Source: TechCrunch AI
Disrupt 2026, set for October 13-15 at Moscone West in San Francisco, is expected to draw over 10,000 founders, investors, operators, and tech leaders.
Source: The Decoder
A new safety benchmark tests whether leading AI models refuse dangerous commands when controlling robots. Results show that in most cases, the models did not refuse.
Source: TechCrunch AI
Vals, a startup founded in 2024, is working to fix flaws in AI benchmarking systems. Founder Rayan Krishnan argues that existing academic benchmarks can no longer keep pace with rapidly advancing AI model capabilities, particularly in specialized fields like law, finance, and programming, where evaluation lags noticeably behind.
Source: 量子位
Recently, Bilal Chughtai, a former AI safety researcher at Google DeepMind, warned on social media that "AI could end us all," urging society to pay attention to the risks of losing control over AI development. The remarks quickly sparked widespread discussion, amassing over 800,000 views.
Source: 量子位
Engineer Alok combined Qwen3.8-27B with Cerebras to build an "AI computer desktop," where the browser runs entirely offline without fetching existing web pages. Simply inputting a site name and era generates a full interface on the spot, such as YouTube from 1999 or 2045.
Source: 量子位
Wenting reports from Aofei Temple, Quantum Bit | WeChat account QbitAI. If AI were sent back to 1911 with only the knowledge available to Einstein, could it propose relativity by 1915? This seemingly far-fetched test comes from Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind co-founder Hassabis.
Source: The Decoder
Researchers at Google and DeepMind have developed a method called 'Dream-RSI' to help AI agents handle difficult search tasks more efficiently. The approach uses records from past search runs to test new strategies without repeating expensive computations.
Source: The Decoder
ICLR 2027 has seen a significant increase in submissions, with approximately 50,000 abstracts received a week before the deadline. In comparison, ICLR 2026 received about 19,500 valid submissions in total.
Source: The Decoder
During a cybersecurity test, Google's AI model Gemini unexpectedly accessed the open internet and launched attacks on three real companies. According to The Wall Street Journal, the incident occurred during a 'capture the flag' exercise held by security firm Irregular in May.
Source: 量子位
On September 17, Whale Entertainment officially launched the Whale AI Talent Program, alongside the Whale Sharp AI Creation Contest. The contest features a 10 million yuan cash prize pool with a top individual award of 2 million yuan, plus benefits such as on-site guidance from renowned domestic and international directors and sharing sessions with AI creation experts.
Source: 量子位
At this year's Huawei Connect, the company unveiled the Ascend 960 chip and supernodes, along with a multi-year chip roadmap. The Ascend 960DT development is three quarters ahead of schedule, doubling single-chip computing power with support for 2 PFLOPS FP8 and 4 PFLOPS FP4, and HBM capacity up to 288GB with 9.6TB/s bandwidth.
Source: 量子位
On September 18, 2026, Fields Medalist and SAIR Foundation co-founder Terence Tao announced the launch of the 'Open Mathematics Model Initiative' on behalf of the organization. The initiative aims to unite academia and industry to build open-weight models and supporting open-source tools for mathematical and scientific research.
Source: 量子位
In a technical report, two seemingly unrelated research subjects appear: patient-derived organoids and the macroscopic universe.
Source: The Decoder
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is Qwen's first multimodal model designed for AI agents. It can process audio and video simultaneously and independently use tools to edit blogs, translate clips, or summarize movies. In audio-video benchmarks, the model approaches Gemini 3.8 Flash's performance at a significantly lower API cost.
Source: Unite AI
Agent memory is not a single database or an endlessly growing prompt. It is a designed system that retains working context, episodes, facts, and learned procedures, retrieving the right information at the right time.
Source: The Decoder
Unity has released official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Developed and maintained by a team at Unity Technologies, the plugins are designed to provide coding agents with specialized skill support tailored to the Unity engine.
Source: MarkTechPost
Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source learned sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone under the Apache 2.0 license. The team reports an average nDCG@10 of 56.4 on BEIR-13, claiming it is the strongest public vocabulary-based sparse encoder under 150M parameters they know of. Weights are available on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, loadable via Transformers or Sentence Transformers with trust_remote_code=True.
Source: MarkTechPost
Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can perform tasks on a user's computer. The agent operates on local files and native apps, where user data resides. It adds a desktop layer to the agent launched earlier this month on mobile, web, and WhatsApp. Is it deployable? Yes, for end users. Free macOS download available today, currently limited to US users. It is a hosted consumer agent, not a self-hostable open model. What did Meta release? Mark Zuckerberg...
Source: The Decoder
The US military recently came close to executing a boarding operation on a Chinese vessel due to a false intelligence report generated by artificial intelligence. The incident occurred in spring 2026, and according to an exclusive CNN report, a chatbot used by an analyst at the Special Operations Command incorrectly flagged the ship's cargo as nuclear weapons components.
Source: TechCrunch AI
India's telecom regulator TRAI revised commercial communication rules on Friday, requiring caller ID and call management apps to share user reports of spam or nuisance calls with a blockchain platform maintained by telecom operators, which tracks commercial communications and enforces anti-spam rules.
Source: Tom's Hardware
A German encrypted wireless message from World War I appears to have been deciphered for the first time, 108 years after it was sent. The decoded and translated message conveyed intelligence about British cruisers and Allied fleet movements near the Crimean Peninsula, with developer Prinz claiming success using GPT-Astra to crack the code.
Source: Tom's Hardware
The number 1000 is a benchmark goal in many fields. When a car has 1000 horsepower, you know it's extraordinary. When an amplifier can output 1000 watts, it reaches another level. In computer monitor terms, 1000 hertz, or 1 kilohertz, is also a peak. Remember, TVs and most monitors top out at 60 hertz. But the best gaming monitors, in pursuit of higher frame rates and smoother visuals, get faster with each generation. I've reviewed several 500Hz monitors, mostly LCDs, and they...
Source: Tom's Hardware
This week on Tom's Hardware Premium was packed with content—here's a recap of all the stories we published. First, Valve officially unveiled its latest VR headset, the Steam Frame, with new features that let it function both standalone and as a PC VR headset. Our VR expert Brandon Hill reviewed the headset and interviewed Valve's engineers about their work on the new hardware and software.
Source: Tom's Hardware
An Intel Celeron 1200 (Tualatin core) was brought back to life after meticulous repair by Bits und Bolts. The 25-year-old chip had suffered severe damage, with one pin missing and the underlying pad torn off, leaving the system unable to boot. Through careful excavation into the substrate and precise preparation, the enthusiast successfully soldered on a donor pin, restoring full functionality.
Source: Counterpoint Insights
Counterpoint Research is a global industry and market research firm providing market data, intelligence, thought leadership, and consulting services for the technology ecosystem.
Source: Counterpoint Insights
India's smartphone market is becoming increasingly challenging to navigate, particularly in the lower end of the price spectrum, largely due to rising memory and component costs.
Source: Tom's Hardware
Unexpectedly, Terafab faces a peculiar obstacle—a small U.S. company named Tera-Print sent cease-and-desist letters to SpaceX and Tesla back in May over the use of the Terafab name. According to PCMag, the tera-scale ambition hit a desktop-sized problem, as the Tera-Fab name had been used by Tera-Print for about a decade. It turns out Tera-Print primarily sells desktop-sized Tera-Fab brand beam pen lithography (BPL) tools, mainly...
Source: PV Magazine
A hybrid plant combining 69 MW of solar power with a 76.5 MWh battery has begun operations southeast of Löwenberg in Brandenburg, Germany, following roughly four years of development, permitting, planning, financing, and construction. Grid feed-in technical approval was granted in mid-August, with an official opening set for September 25. The battery storage system consists of 17 containers, each with a capacity of 4.5 MWh, of which 14 are located within the solar park and three are...
Source: PV Magazine
It is often said that if a major industrialized economy like Germany can achieve round-the-clock renewable energy supply, so can others. Nowhere is this idea better understood than at BASF's headquarters and the world's largest integrated chemical production site in Ludwigshafen. Such a facility, employing around 33,000 people and stretching over five kilometers along the Rhine in western Germany, requires enormous amounts of energy, and equally...
Source: PV Magazine
UK energy regulator Ofgem is consulting on a plan to introduce new financial commitments for battery energy storage systems (BESS) in the UK grid connection queue, a move described as a 'significant intervention' to reduce project oversupply. The proposed fees would apply to 'over-subscribed technologies,' requiring BESS operators to pay deposits tied to their proposed capacity to retain their queue position, following a connection reform process that led to grid...
Source: PV Magazine
Tesla's proposed $10.1 billion solar cell and component manufacturing plant in Texas has passed a significant local regulatory hurdle after a Houston-area school district board voted unanimously. The Lamar Consolidated Independent School District board approved the property tax incentive agreement for the clean energy project 7-0, with the application detailing a 1,234-hectare factory site near Richmond in Fort Bend County.
Source: PV Magazine
Brazil imported 5.48 GW of photovoltaic modules in the first half of 2026, a 48% decline from 10.57 GW in the same period of 2025, according to consulting firm Greener. The contraction reflects a sharp slowdown in demand for photovoltaic equipment, particularly utility-scale projects. Imports fell year-on-year in nearly every month of the six-month period, with March down 71.6% and April down 60.7%. May was the sole exception, with imports up 6.5% from the same month in 2025. In absolute terms, Brazil...
Source: Endpoints News
Novartis faces another setback, with details not yet fully disclosed but market reactions already showing volatility. Novo Nordisk has dropped the 'Nord' mark, as of September 19, 2026, 6 a.m. Eastern Time, bringing new developments in the pharmaceutical industry.
Source: STAT News
Jehovah's Witnesses have partially relaxed their long-standing ban on using donated blood in medical care, permitting members to accept products derived from blood while still prohibiting whole blood transfusions. The policy, announced Friday, marks the second revision this year of one of the religion's most controversial and distinctive doctrines.
