DJI has released the Power Auro 2000 Elite in China, starting at 4,799 yuan (~$715). The 2kWh LiFePO4 station retains over 80% capacity after 4,000 cycles, is 24% smaller and 14% lighter than the standard Power 2000, and switches to UPS mode in as little as 0.01 seconds.
Signal introduced Signal Login, letting users create an account without providing a phone number. The feature comes with a small fee, which adds some privacy limitations.
WhatsApp is testing a feature that lets users pull photos, videos, reels and stories from linked Instagram and Facebook accounts into chats and Status updates. It requires linking accounts via Accounts Center and is rolling out to select Android and iOS beta users. Media from WhatsApp is not shared back to other Meta services.
South Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy unveiled a Battery Industrial Technology Roadmap focused on sodium and solid-state batteries to regain market leadership from China. The government will fund about 400 billion won ($308 million) in R&D from 2027 to 2031, while companies plan roughly 8 trillion won ($6.15 billion) in investment by 2030.
Amazon has announced Alexa+ pricing in India at Rs 2,000 per month. After Early Access ends, Alexa+ stays free for Prime members, while Prime Lite, Prime Shopping Edition and non-Prime users can subscribe standalone or buy a Prime plan.
On August 11, 2026, Anthropic confirmed Claude will embed machine-readable watermarks in generated text. The move follows Article 50 of the EU AI Act, in force since August 2, with penalties up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover. The method is based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text.
IDC forecasts European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, growing 35% a year from 2025. Generative AI will account for 55.4% of the total, with agentic AI as the main driver. Banking is the largest spender at 12.6% of the 2026 market.
Chinese display maker BOE Technology is expanding beyond its core panel business into glass substrates for AI chip packaging. The company is betting on growing demand for advanced packaging used in AI accelerators.
Samsung Electronics is considering expanding its 4nm foundry capacity after rising demand for HBM4 base dies pushed existing lines to full utilization, Money Today reported. No decision has been announced yet.
The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office and the Justice Department's criminal division are investigating whether Binance violated U.S. sanctions on Iran by not halting certain trading on its platform. Binance, which handled $11.4 trillion in trading volume in the first half of 2026, paid $4.3 billion in a 2023 sanctions and money-laundering case.
The POCO F9 Pro and F9 Ultra have launched globally as rebadged Redmi K100 Pro and K100 Pro Max with the same chipset, display and cameras, but smaller batteries. The review highlights a smooth high-refresh display, stable 60fps in Genshin Impact and a triple camera with macro.
Funcom released Dune: Awakening on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on September 22. The console version mirrors the PC release in story arcs, quests and PvE/PvP areas, adds Performance (60 FPS) and Quality (30 FPS) modes, and arrives day one on Game Pass with Play Anywhere and cross-play.
Ubisoft is giving away For Honor for free on the Ubisoft Store until September 28, while Steam and the Epic Games Store list the Standard edition at roughly 90% off. Linux and SteamOS players remain blocked from online play by the kernel-level anti-cheat.
CATL has repurchased US$164 million worth of its own shares and plans to cancel them. The company had earlier won approval for an A-share buyback program worth 20 billion yuan (US$2.99 billion) to 40 billion yuan (US$5.97 billion).
Acer CEO Jason Chen told DigiTimes that PC price hikes tied to the RAM shortage could start reversing by late 2027. He accused rivals of overshooting shortage forecasts to protect fat margins, claiming supply of most RAM and SSD types has caught up with demand and only high-end DDR5 and CPUs remain tight.
At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Huawei argued that AI cluster performance depends on memory, interconnects, storage, software and power, not just NPU counts and FLOPS. In traditional 100,000-NPU clusters, intra-cluster communications account for more than 40% of total training time.
Armenia is on track to become one of the world's top hubs for American AI infrastructure, driven by Nvidia chips and support from the Trump administration. During the Cold War, the republic was an electronics center for the Soviet Union.
Journalist Jason Schreier says more layoffs are coming at Blizzard as part of the "Xbox Reset," which will cut up to 3,200 jobs at Xbox by the end of the fiscal year. He argues the BlizzCon announcements won't shield in-progress projects from the cuts.
Construction has begun on what is billed as Taiwan's first advanced packaging supply chain at Baipu Industrial Park in Kaohsiung. Rising AI and HPC packaging demand, along with ASE's expansion, is driving the park's second phase, with TSMC as a key anchor.
Honor confirmed the Magic 9 series will be the first to support CIPA 8.0 image stabilization, matching professional full-frame mirrorless cameras. Sales of the flagship lineup start September 28.
OnePlus has revealed design details for the OnePlus 16 ahead of its expected October launch in China: 1.15mm bezels on all four sides, a metal frame and camera deco, and a dedicated shortcut key with up to nine customizable functions. The flagship will debut with ColorOS 17 and a 165Hz refresh rate.
A PET imaging study by CAMH found reduced markers of dopamine-releasing neurons in the striatum of people with long COVID. Marker loss in different regions correlated with loss of motivation, slower movement and memory problems. A clinical trial targeting dopamine function is planned within months.
The Philippines' CICC has ordered Discord and Reddit to establish a presence in the country within 24 hours after a third school shooting in a few months. The platforms must also submit written explanations and plans covering safety standards, rapid response and age verification.
Inception Labs says its diffusion model Mercury 2.5 hits 1,107 tokens per second on Nvidia GPUs at $0.20/$0.75 per million tokens. OpenRouter measures 440 tok/s at P50 — still faster than Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, GPT-5.6 Luna and Claude Haiku 4.5. The 80% launch discount ended on September 8, 2026.
A DEV Community comparison of open-source coding models finds GLM-5.3-Flash from Z.ai best for agentic coding (Terminal-Bench 2.1 of 84.3), DeepSeek V4 Flash cheapest per token, and MiniCPM5-2B best on-device at 2.52B parameters.
OpenBMB released VoxCPM2, an open-source text-to-speech model with 2 billion parameters under Apache-2.0. It clones voices from a few seconds of audio, invents new voices from text descriptions and outputs 48 kHz speech in 30 languages, running locally on a GPU.
BDx has broken ground on a 640MW AI data center in Indonesia. The first of six buildings will deliver 120MW in phases starting in early 2027.
Code strings in Google app v17.60.13.sa.arm64 reveal Gemini is preparing to export chat content into a new Google Site, with in-chat progress and completion messages. The broader export capability to Docs, Sheets and PDFs is already public, but no rollout timing was disclosed.
Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said the company plans to train a new AI model with 5 trillion to 10 trillion parameters. It is part of a sweeping push across AI models, chips, and data centers.
Chinese AMOLED material suppliers are gaining market share as new 8G OLED fabs expand panel capacity in China, driving localization of supply chains.
