Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it
Huawei wants your AI data centre to prop up the grid, not just drain it

“Electricity is essential for computing,” said Zhou Jianjun, who runs global marketing, sales and services at Huawei Digital Power. “Today, in the AI era, the startup, shutdown, and load fluctuations of a large AIDC campus can all impact grid operation…

Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine
Huawei’s answer to Nvidia isn’t a faster chip, it’s a much bigger machine

AI “may well be the final technological revolution in human history,” Huawei rotating chairman David Wang told Huawei Connect 2026 in Shanghai. His opening keynote ran under the title Advancing the Agentic World, Building a Solid Silicon Foundation. Hu…

Agentic commerce is loosening the grocery aisle’s grip on the shopper
Agentic commerce is loosening the grocery aisle’s grip on the shopper

Grocery shopping has become a strange paradox of modern retail, where consumers can order dinner from their phones, receive groceries at their doors, and have previous baskets saved for instant repurchase. Yet the basic chore of deciding what to buy ap…

‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest
‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest

OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two lette…

The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs

From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.

Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in the fight over human creativity
Australia’s AI music decision opens a new front in the fight over human creativity

Wholly AI-generated songs are no longer accepted in Australia. This August, ABC News reported that the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) stripped machine-made tracks from its official charts last month, ruling that an AI recording can on…

The detrimental cost of scaling too fast
The detrimental cost of scaling too fast

AI has crossed a decisive threshold in the enterprise. McKinsey’s 2026 global survey found that 44% of organizations now report scaling AI across the enterprise, up from 38% a year earlier, with the figure reaching 54% among companies generating at lea…

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satellite fleet with Mistral
Loft Orbital and Marlan Space plan $1bn AI satellite fleet with Mistral

Loft Orbital and Marlan Space have announced a $1bn programme to grow their AI-equipped satellite constellation from 10 satellites to 50, with Mistral supplying the AI models on board. The two companies set out the plan in a press release on 9 Septembe…

Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini
Sergey Brin is back at Google, working on Gemini

Sergey Brin holds no executive title at Google. He has nonetheless become increasingly influential over Gemini, the company’s flagship AI model, Business Insider reported, citing eight current and former employees. The Google cofounder works from a con…

DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model
DeepSeek launches V4.1-Flash and retires V4-Pro, its flagship model

DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Thursday. It is a smaller model that the company says beats its own flagship on coding and agent tasks, at a lower price. The Hangzhou lab announced it in a thread on X and published the weights on Hugging Face under the…