Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs
Porsche has built a battery cell whose cathode is entirely recycled from its own old packs

Porsche and the Aachen recycler cylib have produced pilot battery cells in which 100% of the cathode active material, the lithium, nickel, cobalt and manganese, came from Porsche’s own end-of-life packs. The EU Batteries Regulation will require only 6%…

Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear
Huawei’s chairman says Chinese AI can’t yet see the risks it should fear

“Maybe the type of risk from AI that they can feel, they can perceive, is something that people in China or AI model providers in China cannot,” Eric Xu said in Shanghai this week. Huawei’s rotating chairman was talking about American AI labs. His argu…

Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports
Executives from BYD, CATL and Xiaomi may join Xi’s Washington visit, Reuters reports

Xi Jinping is scheduled to be in Washington on September 24 for a state visit, and some of China’s largest manufacturers may accompany him, Reuters reported. The information on which ones is still unknown, and the trip itself has not been officially co…

Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction
Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction

Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are much more science fiction than science, and that the industry stokes them for publicity and to shape regulation. The EU AI Act alread…

Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls
Tesla’s European Megacharger rollout covers 21 sites and over 100 stalls

Tesla will install more than 100 megawatt-capable charging stalls at 21 sites in Germany, France, the UK, Sweden and Benelux to support the Semi, its Semi development head told the IAA Transportation fair in Hanover. Milence, the joint venture owned by…

Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year
Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year

Jensen Huang told reporters at King Charles III’s AI summit in Scotland that he expects to sell twice as many chips in the coming year. Nvidia’s own August guidance was 70% revenue growth, with a doubling described as what the company could reach if it…

Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor
Oversight Board orders Meta to remove a deepfake of a UK councillor

Meta’s rules on AI deepfakes are “consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content”, the Oversight Board said on 17 September. The board ordered Meta to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook. The first …

King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control
King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control

“Those in our world who value deeply our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny, or our souls,” King Charles III told AI leaders on 17 September. The King spoke at a su…

Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it
Toyota’s hydrogen pickup beats its electric one on every number except where to refuel it

Toyota has confirmed a hydrogen fuel cell Hilux for 2028, the first commercially available fuel cell mid-size pickup in Europe, targeting 400km of range, 2,500kg of towing and a five-minute refuel. Europe and the UK have 179 hydrogen stations between t…

House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI
House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI

“This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is an American issue, and it is a global issue,” House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark said on 17 September. Her party is pressing Republicans to stay in Washington and legislate on AI. Clark spoke al…