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.
Industry sources say Valve is expected to launch a new Steam Deck in 2027, with China's Huaqin competing against Taiwan's Quanta for the manufacturing order. The winner has not yet been confirmed.
Xiaomi's flagship MiMo-V2.6-Pro tied Grok 4.7 (xHigh) and beat GLM-5.3 (max) on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, becoming the benchmark's top-scoring open-weight model. It also outpaced proprietary models including xAI's Grok 4.6 (44) and Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Apple released watchOS 27.2 beta 2 for developers, bringing back the App Switcher that was removed in watchOS 27. It is now triggered by a long press at the bottom of the screen, while the Digital Crown still scrolls through recent apps.
Microsoft is expanding its data center footprint in Taiwan from two facilities to four as global demand for AI computing power continues to surge. The company says demand currently exceeds supply.
UBTECH has started mass deliveries of its UWorld U1 consumer companion humanoids in China, with first handovers in mid-September 2026 after the June 30 Shenzhen launch. Pricing runs from RMB 119,800 for the U1 Lite to about RMB 990,000 for the U1 Ultra, with cumulative orders past 13,361 units at launch.
ByteDance's consumer Doubao phone assistant is rolling out with an agent architecture that prefers structured MCP and A2A protocol calls, falling back to GUI-agent screen control in Beta. The SAEP protocol lets developers declare page-, intent- and action-level automation boundaries, with a 30-day window limiting automation to system, ByteDance and opt-in apps.
Alibaba Cloud has signed an AI cooperation agreement with China's New Unigroup, a company that traces its roots to Tsinghua Unigroup's court-led debt restructuring in 2022. Financial terms and details of the deal were not disclosed.
Light Origins has open-sourced Light-O1-Preview, a roughly 6-billion-parameter whole-body action model released under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face and GitHub. Pretrained on human actions recovered from video, it outputs whole-body motion at 20 fps and reached a 79.3% macro success rate across 24 RoboCasa GR-1 simulation tasks.
Unitree Robotics has launched the Dex5-S, a human-scale five-finger dexterous hand with 22 degrees of freedom, priced from about RMB 39,900 (~US$6,500) per hand in China. Every joint is motor-driven and backdrivable with dual-encoder control, and peak per-hand payload is around 2 kg.
Hygon will introduce a new CPU1000-series processor in Shenzhen on September 22, moving beyond data-center CPUs into low-power edge silicon for robotics, machine vision and smart manufacturing. Clocks, core counts, TOPS ratings and power envelopes have not been disclosed ahead of the event.
Harvard researchers analyzed carbonaceous chondrite meteorites using three oxygen isotopes and found that their organic matter retains pristine signatures from the birth of the Solar System. The isotope marks stayed largely unchanged for 4.5 billion years, suggesting the molecules formed in the cold outer protoplanetary disk.
ASML has started operations in India with an initial team of 20-30 engineering graduates. The company says any further expansion depends on Tata Electronics delivering the country's first 12-inch wafer fab on time.
China launched nine satellites on a commercial rocket, including the country's first integrated rocket-and-satellite AI computing project. The move advances plans to deploy AI computing infrastructure in space.
Researchers at the University of Zurich transplanted human neural stem cells into mice one week after stroke. The cells survived five weeks, became neurons and reversed motor impairments, while also boosting blood vessel growth and reducing inflammation.
YMTC's investment arm has joined an FD-SOI project, accelerating the formation of China's 12-inch silicon-on-insulator supply chain. The move expands local chipmaking capacity that sidesteps restrictions on advanced nodes.
KKR said it expects more deals in South Korea after investing about $3 billion in the country. Together with local funds, it put 3.1 trillion won (US$2.22 billion) into SK Telecom's data-center business.
Apple asked the court to let its experts review forensic images and documents on OpenAI's hardware development, including metal finishes, power management and batteries. OpenAI calls the requests overbroad and an attempt to "snoop on a competitor."
Huawei Cloud has introduced CodeArts, which it calls the world's first AI coding agent for HarmonyOS. Details on capabilities and availability were not disclosed.
Amid a severe global memory shortage driven by AI and cloud demand, Chinese memory makers CXMT and YMTC are shifting toward domestic competition and preparing for patent disputes. The industry expects a tougher fight over technology and markets.
