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.
Alibaba's T-Head division unveiled the Zhenwu V900 AI accelerator, which it says triples its predecessor's performance and can scale to clusters of up to 500,000 units. Alibaba calls it China's most powerful AI chip and positions it as a competitor to Nvidia.
Chinese startup Z.ai (Zhipu) disabled some features of its ZCode AI coding assistant after users reported it uploaded entire local code repositories to overseas cloud servers without consent. The company said the Codebase Indexing vulnerability was patched, data was deleted, and the GLM-5.3-powered assistant is now open-sourced with zero-data retention.
On March 24, 2026, two backdoored LiteLLM versions, 1.82.7 and 1.82.8, sat on PyPI for roughly three hours. Attackers calling themselves TeamPCP stole PyPI publishing credentials via a compromised Trivy GitHub Action in LiteLLM's CI, and a litellm_init.pth file executed on every Python interpreter startup, harvesting SSH keys, cloud tokens, Kubernetes secrets and LLM API keys.
South Korea's government confirmed a gas combined-cycle power plant in Encinal, Texas, as the first project under its $200 billion strategic investment program in the U.S. The plant will have about 6.3 GW of capacity at an estimated cost of $22.3 billion, while nuclear and Alaska LNG projects remain under negotiation.
Using data from the ODIN survey with the Dark Energy Camera, astronomers identified COSMOS-z3.1-A, the most distant known galaxy proto-supercluster, seen as it was about 12 billion years ago. It contains 10 dense galaxy groups and is roughly 5,000 times more massive than the Milky Way.
China's Moonshot AI has made its Kimi K3 model available on Amazon Bedrock. The license requires services earning over $20 million annually to pay for usage.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually inaugurated commercial production at Suchi Semicon's OSAT plant in Palsana, Surat, on September 17, alongside CDIL Semiconductor's assembly and testing facility. It marks India's fifth chip assembly and test plant.
Demand for silicon carbide (SiC) in China is expanding rapidly, driven by high-voltage charging infrastructure and AI servers, outpacing local capacity. Excess orders are spilling over to Taiwanese foundries.
Tencent Holdings launched its latest and best image-generation model on the same day rival Alibaba kicked off its AI conference. The move signals Tencent's intent to catch up to industry leaders like ByteDance.
A new gentoo penguin species, Pygoscelis kerguelensis, was identified on the remote Kerguelen Islands — the first new penguin species named in more than 100 years. Whole-genome analysis of 64 penguins from 10 colonies showed gentoos comprise four distinct species that diverged 300,000–500,000 years ago.
Apple updated its support documentation: Apple Intelligence takes up to 14GB of on-device storage on the iPhone 18 Pro, 18 Pro Max, Duo, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max and iPhone Air. Other compatible iPhones need up to 8GB. The gap comes from new Siri AI features in iOS 27: expressive voices and improved dictation.
Google confirmed it will report suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) linked to India directly to Indian law enforcement, removing the previous step through US-based nonprofit NCMEC. Meta had already agreed to a direct reporting process, following pressure from Indian officials to speed up action in cases involving children.
Taiwan is moving ahead with plans to expand Longtan Science Park by 104 hectares as high-tech companies keep demanding new research and manufacturing sites. The government aims to support continued growth in AI and semiconductors.
The Gates Foundation announced a coalition of 60 organizations, including Anthropic, Google and the OpenAI Foundation, to expand language diversity in AI tools. The effort aims to reach over 3 billion people in five years; the foundation previously committed $1 billion to AI health and education projects.
Huawei Mate 90 blind pre-orders have revealed color and storage variants, per DigitalChatStation. The base model offers 12GB RAM with 256GB, 512GB or 1TB, while the Mate 90 Pro Max is limited to 16GB + 512GB or 1TB and may add a photography kit with teleconverters.
South Korea's Hana Bank has issued a $100 million digital bond settled through Euroclear. Standard Chartered acted as the sole lead manager for the issuance.
Korea Eximbank has extended about 250 billion won in financing to LG Chem for the country's first dedicated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant. The Daesan facility will produce 340,000 tonnes of HVO a year from used cooking oil and palm oil byproducts, cutting emissions by 60–80%.
Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI inference server powered by its in-house M8 Ultra chips. The move could mark its return to the enterprise server market after more than a decade.
The Bastø Electric ferry has operated the Moss–Horten route in Norway since March 2021. The 139.2-meter vessel with a 4.3-MWh battery carries 600 passengers and 200 cars and draws up to 9 MW from shore charging. Electrifying three ferries saves about 6 million liters of diesel a year.
Stanford researchers studying mouse embryos found that the forebrain/midbrain and hindbrain develop from two separate populations of neural ectoderm cells, Sox2+Otx2+ and Sox2+Gbx2+. The finding explains past failures to grow hindbrain neurons from stem cells and opens the way to lab models of motor neuron diseases such as ALS. The study was published in Nature Neuroscience.
A ZoomEye scan collected on 22 September 2026 found 45,150 internet-reachable ClickHouse servers on port 8123, 2,503 InfluxDB instances on 8086 and 1,659 MQTT brokers on 1883. It also returned 15,906 Cassandra and 1,550 Elasticsearch nodes. Data pipeline services often sit outside security asset inventories.
Gartner predicts that by 2029, 55% of enterprises will run proofs of concept for alternative distributed hybrid infrastructure to replace VMware deployments, up from 25% in 2026. VMware still ranks as a leader in the DHI Magic Quadrant alongside AWS, Nutanix, Microsoft and Oracle.
Tesla registered Tesla Motors Vietnam this month, laying groundwork to enter a market where VinFast holds 92% of EV sales. Vietnam became Southeast Asia's largest EV market in 2025 as sales doubled and EVs reached almost 40% of new car sales. No timeline for market entry has been announced.
Alibaba Group has unveiled what it calls China's most powerful AI chip, an accelerator aimed at competing with Nvidia. The chip will underpin the company's data center expansion to 20GW of capacity by 2032.