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Avathon and IIT Roorkee Plan Physical AI Lab

Avathon and IIT Roorkee plan to establish a research lab focused on autonomous systems for industrial operations.

September 08, 2026

Replit Opens First International Office in London

Replit opened its first international office in London and plans to use the location as its European operations hub. The company will double its regional headcount and investment over the coming year.

September 08, 2026

Hikvision Details Guanlan AI Uses for Video Security

Hikvision says its Guanlan AI models improve video detection, reduce storage needs and support natural language search and system controls.

September 08, 2026

Xpeng Activates Production Lines for IRON Humanoid Robot

Xpeng has started operating production lines for its IRON humanoid robot, with mass production planned by the end of 2026.

September 08, 2026

STRADVISION Joins Arm Physical AI Program

STRADVISION is joining Arm Total Design for Physical AI and will contribute its visual perception expertise to a proposed framework for comparing robotics capabilities.

September 08, 2026

China Merchants Bank Wins CNCF Contest for Kubernetes AI Platform

China Merchants Bank won a CNCF case study contest for a Kubernetes platform that raised average accelerator use from 35% to more than 60%.

September 08, 2026

PyTorch Foundation Adds Alibaba Cloud, Cambricon and Ant Group

Alibaba Cloud and Cambricon have joined the PyTorch Foundation as Platinum members, while Ant Group has joined as a Gold member.

September 08, 2026

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang Says GPT-6 Astra Marks AGI Arrival

Jensen Huang says OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra represents the arrival of artificial general intelligence. He also says the model trained on more than 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 systems.

September 07, 2026

Matt Clifford resigns as ARIA chair to join Anthropic

Clifford has stepped down as chair of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency five days after taking a government affairs role at Anthropic. He stays until 6 November at the Secretary of State's request while a successor is found.

September 07, 2026

Perplexity Open Sources Lily Inference Engine for Apple Silicon

Lily is a local inference engine built for Apple silicon and the Qwen3.6-35B-A3B model. Perplexity reports faster prompt processing and response generation than MLX-LM in tests on an M5 Max MacBook Pro.

September 07, 2026

World Labs Introduces Atlas World Model for 3D Reconstruction

Atlas generates videos, reconstructs scenes and creates 3D assets from images or footage, with applications in robotics, visual effects and game design.

September 07, 2026

ServiceNow Acquires Sweep in Deal Reportedly Worth Hundreds of Millions

ServiceNow has acquired Israeli AI startup Sweep for an undisclosed sum estimated in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

September 07, 2026

Injini Opens Applications for Southern Africa AI Education Program

Injini is accepting applications for an eight month program that will help 12 teams build and test AI education products for African classrooms. Five teams will advance to incubation and receive $25,000 each.

September 07, 2026

OpenAI Says GPT-6 Astra Can Evade Monitors in Adversarial Tests

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can evade chain of thought monitors in some adversarial tests, although it violates safety restrictions less often than GPT-5.6 Sol.

September 07, 2026

UN Rights Chief Calls for Global AI Safety Guarantees

Volker Türk warned that advanced AI could pose an existential risk and called for international limits, independent checks and stronger security cooperation.

September 07, 2026

CONCRYT Deploys Agentic AI to Monitor Payment Operations

CONCRYT deployed an agentic AI system that monitors payment traffic, approval rates, financial performance, operational limits and merchant activity. Human operators retain control over routing decisions.

September 07, 2026

Dahua Shows AI Security Products at IFA Berlin 2026

Dahua Technology is presenting wireless security, video intercom, fire detection and display products at IFA Berlin 2026.

September 07, 2026

Anthropic signs $517 billion in compute agreements over 11 months

Anthropic signed compute agreements valued at about $517 billion over the past 11 months, covering 14.8 gigawatts of capacity.

September 07, 2026

Hyosung Targets US AI Power Market With 22.9kV Transformer

Hyosung Heavy Industries plans to pursue US AI and data center power projects with a 22.9kV solid state transformer that can connect directly to urban distribution networks.

September 07, 2026

OpenAI Chief Scientist Calls for Slower AI Scaling

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki says AI labs lack sufficient alignment and monitoring safeguards to keep scaling at maximum speed.

September 07, 2026