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AI & Machine Learning

1. Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets

Pony.ai has unveiled an autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains. Unveiled at IAA Transportation 2026, this Level 4 (L4) heavy rig marks the fourth-generation (Gen-4) iteration of Pony.ai’s Robotruck platform. It builds on GAC Commercial Vehicle’s T9 battery-electric truck architecture, with mass production set to start [
] The post Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets appeared first on AI News.

2. The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future

A proposed overhaul of UK settlement rules would double the wait for permanent residence, and it reaches back to sponsored engineers already here. For AI employers, it is quietly becoming a retention problem. By Sunny Sandhu, Senior Immigration Associate, AY&J Solicitors For years, the offer that brought skilled engineers to Britain was straightforward: work here [
] The post The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future appeared first on AI News.

3. Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct

Microsoft AI has published a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct, opening a six-week public consultation on operational constraints for model training and deployment. The draft serves as a technical manual defining system behaviour, operational boundaries, and oversight protocols across MAI frontier models. It builds on the division’s humanist superintelligence framework announced last November, establishing [
] The post Microsoft AI opens review on Humanist AI Code of Conduct appeared first on AI...

4. Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment

Deloitte’s 2026 technology trends research puts the pilot-to-production failure rate for AI agents at 89%. A Teradata survey adds the shape of that gap: 78% of enterprises have at least one agent pilot running, but only 14% have scaled one to organisation-wide use. Adoption is nearly universal; deployment is rare. The difference is not model [
] The post Why Most Enterprise Agent Pilots Never Reach Deployment appeared first on AI News.

5. From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing

A video looks simple when you press play. There is a picture, some dialogue, perhaps music in the background, and a few minutes later it is over. However, with the right use of AI, things can become a lot more interesting. To an artificial intelligence system, that same video can become speech to transcribe, faces [
] The post From Video to Data: How AI Is Transforming Multimedia Content Processing appeared first on AI News.

6. How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel

Live translation has long been one of travel’s hardest unsolved problems: a single guide speaking to a mixed-language group, with no way to be understood by everyone at once. Vox Group, a 25-year-old guiding technology company operating in over 150 countries, has spent the past year rebuilding its AI-powered technology, Aura, to close that gap, [
] The post How Vox Group’s AI-Powered Technology Is Solving Real-Time Translation for Group Travel appeared first on AI News.

7. Treating Prompt Templates as Hyperparameters in Scikit-LLM GridSearchCV

In this article, you will learn how to treat prompt templates as tunable hyperparameters for a language model, using scikit-learn's grid search to find the...

8. A Gentle Introduction to Model Distillation

In this article, you will learn what model distillation is, how it has evolved for large language models, and why it has become one of...

9. How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust

Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.

10. Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems

Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier models.

Software Development

1. How to attach an owner to every cloud resource you find

The engineer who knew why that cloud instance existed has left the company. The instance is still running, the bill The post How to attach an owner to every cloud resource you find appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Kubernetes 1.36 restores a lost guarantee for database backups

It’s 2 a.m., and you’re restoring a PostgreSQL cluster from last night’s backup. Its data directory lives on one PersistentVolumeClaim The post Kubernetes 1.36 restores a lost guarantee for database backups appeared first on The New Stack.

3. AI’s best coding agent fails 60% of the time — and the data backs it up

Claude Fable 5.1 just won a new coding benchmark despite failing more than six out of 10 times. Its 38.8% The post AI’s best coding agent fails 60% of the time — and the data backs it up appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch

Running an LLM on your PC is easy enough, but putting an agent to work there is a different story. The post Perplexity’s new agent runs entirely on your GPU — with one expensive catch appeared first on The New Stack.

5. AI keeps finding security flaws — here’s what to fix first

A security researcher testing a 300-person B2B company with a global footprint discovered an internet-exposed database with weak authentication during The post AI keeps finding security flaws — here’s what to fix first appeared first on The New Stack.

6. Your AI coding spend bought 25% more output. Duplication rose 81%.

Since they arrived on the scene, a great swathe of the software industry has pinned its hopes on AI tools, The post Your AI coding spend bought 25% more output. Duplication rose 81%. appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter’s US token consumption. It can now guarantee that traffic stays entirely in the US.

Everyone knows the open-weight model pitch by now: companies can download the weights, customize them, run them on infrastructure of The post Chinese AI models dominate OpenRouter’s US token consumption. It can now guarantee that traffic stays entirely in the US. appeared first on The New Stack.

8. Why an old caching trick is your secret to lower LLM costs

An LLM can answer the same question a thousand times and charge you each time. Before paying for another answer, The post Why an old caching trick is your secret to lower LLM costs appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Chip Huyen explains how to cut inference costs without new hardware

Last October, the P99 conference — the online gathering for developers focused on high-performance, low-latency applications — featured a cracking The post Chip Huyen explains how to cut inference costs without new hardware appeared first on The New Stack.

10. “Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason

Enterprise AI company Cohere announced North Small Translate last week, a mixture-of-experts (MOE) open-weight machine translation model that works across The post “Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason appeared first on The New Stack.

11. AI, JD, and other letters of the law

Ryan chats with Kevin Frazier, director of the AI Innovation and Law program at the University of Texas School of Law, about the legal and social impacts of data centers, the realities of workforce disruption, and regulating AI for child safety using existing consumer protection laws.

12. Meine KI-SEO-Analyse: Warum mehr Daten nicht automatisch helfen

30.378 Impressionen, 26 Klicks und eine deutlich bessere Durchschnittsposition. Klingt nach Erfolg, oder? War es nicht. Weniger Menschen klickten auf meine Ergebnisse, obwohl Google meine Seiten hĂ€ufiger und weiter oben anzeigte. Mehr Daten hĂ€tten mir in diesem Moment nicht geholfen. Ich hatte schon genug davon. Das eigentliche Problem ist nicht Datenmangel Search Console, PageSpeed, Analytics, technischer Crawl: Jede Quelle fĂŒr sich ist wertvoll. Zusammen werden sie schnell unĂŒbersichtlich. Ein...

13. Promises and Fetch

Esta semana aprendí sobre promesas y fetch en JavaScript. Aprendí asincronía, callbacks, ambiente de ejecución y repasé setTimeout y setInterval. Lo que mås me costó fue visualizar cómo trabajaba todo junto al callstack, event loop, macrotask y microtask. Sin embargo al final se logró, realice un pequeño proyecto para ponerlo en pråctica: https://paubee-ctrl.github.io/Buscador-de-Usuarios/

14. I sell x402 conformance checks. A stranger's board started checking me back.

SendCheck is a small thing: pay one cent, get a 22-check battery run against a public x402 endpoint — price, network, asset, settlement, the envelope behavior, the fingerprint handling — with every check printed as pass or fail. We've been checking other people's doors since August. On the morning of 09-14, a stranger's board was checking mine. 20/22 The board is at coppice-ai.com — a free, public, daily-run conformance board. Forty-three x402 endpoints on it, one row per endpoint, verdicts in p...

15. How I Added Razorpay Payments to My React Fitness Website

Building a fitness website is not only about workouts, animations, and a good-looking UI. If you want to turn a fitness platform into a real product, you also need a way for users to purchase memberships. While building my React-based fitness website, I decided to integrate Razorpay so users could join different membership plans directly from the website. In this article, I'll show how I implemented the payment flow, connected React with a Node.js backend, created Razorpay orders securely, and v...

Programming Languages

1. Performance Improvements in .NET 11

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2. Broken Windows, Abstractions and the Cost of Always Keeping Things Simple

The patterns already in a codebase have a huge influence on what gets added next, even when everyone can see those patterns are starting to break down. This article discusses this phenomenon through the lens of YAGNI and the Broken Window Theory. submitted by /u/paulg1989 [link] [comments]

3. A New Equal-Area Map for Interactive Computer Use (natively zooms to Mercator)

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4. Small Programming Tricks

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5. How GCC Eliminates Unnecessary Integer Division

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6. Annoyances when dealing with unsigned long int vs unsigned long long int when targeting Linux vs my own 32bit OS

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7. Understanding OpenGL

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8. Homebrew: 7.0.0 - faster installations and upgrades, stronger sandboxing, a native macOS app, built-in vulnerability checks and an advisory database, the end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs moving to Tier 3.

Users must upgrade to macOS 11 or later, as this is now the minimum supported version. macOS Sonoma 14: This version is now considered Tier 3, and users are encouraged to upgrade to Sequoia 15+ for full support. Apple Silicon (macOS Golden Gate 27): Fully supported (Tier 1) with prebuilt bottles available. Linux/Ubuntu: The ghcr.io/homebrew/ubuntu22.04 image has been removed, and users should migrate to ghcr.io/homebrew/brew. CI Actions: The master branch has been removed for Homebrew actions; u...

9. I couldn't understand Dancing Links (DLX) as a finished algorithm, so I broke it down into an 8-step study sequence in Python

I came across Knuth's Dancing Links after naively thinking I could just code up a Sudoku Solver 😅and initially I made the mistake of trying to understand the finished implementation examples I found on the internet and from AI. I couldn't, so I raised an Issue in my-pythonic-zoo hoping a developer somewhere would see it and brighten my day. Then I couldn't resist the urge to try it myself and discovered just how little I know and how bad my Python non-skills are. There were too many ideas arrivi...

Game Development

1. Why does this prominent Washington state politician think video games can be 'soft power?'

Washington secretary of state Steve Hobbs pitched developers on the notion of video games as 'soft power' during SLICE and PAX West 2026.

2. Bohemia Interactive acquires minority stake in Everwind developer Enjoy Studio

'We want to make the best games we can together.'

3. Valve's Steam Frame pricing starts at $1,059

Valve is also rolling out a developer kit for VR developers targeting its new headset.

4. Moss developer Polyarc has shut down

The Seattle-based VR specialist has closed its doors after over a decade.

5. Worker-run studio KO_OP confirms layoffs

The Goodbye Volcano High and Young Suns developer has eliminated 13 roles.

Gaming News

1. Brutally Hard And Tense FPS Escape From Tarkov Is Cheaper Than Ever Right Now

There’s never been a better time to be a fan of extraction shooters, with the subgenre of the best FPS games wrapping even the most experienced players in tense, challenging situations. Even with Marathon and Hunt: Showdown giving FPS players a tough time, Escape From Tarkov makes them look almost childishly easy. This is one of the toughest games I’ve ever played, which is why, at its lowest price, it’s the perfect time to give it a try. While Marathon remains a personal favorite of mine, Escap...

2. GTA 6’s Stephen Root Is The Franchise’s Second-Ever Emmy Winning Actor

Actor Stephen Root recently confirmed that he will appear in GTA 6, after people correctly identified him as the voice of the drug-runner Brian Heder. He confirmed this on September 13, and on September 14, Root won his first-ever Emmy award for his incredible performance on the show Widow's Bay. In winning an Emmy, Root becomes just the second-ever Emmy-winning actor to appear in a GTA game. The first? That was James Woods, who voiced Mike Toreno in 2004's GTA: San Andreas. Stephen Root in Wido...

3. Kingdom Hearts’ Kairi Has Suffered Enough, Will Now Headshot You In Fortnite

For the longest time in the Kingdom Hearts series, Kairi has gotten the short end of the stick, but the franchise's upcoming crossover with Fortnite will finally let Kairi fans choose violence. A new trailer for Fortnite's ongoing Chapter 7 Season 4 shows the trio of Sora, Riku, and Kairi in action. The three sport their Kingdom Hearts 2 appearances, and each wields their own Keyblade. They're seen fighting Heartless (or Heartless-like?) enemies in an area resembling their home world of Destiny ...

4. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation’s Director Kept Coming Back To The Witcher 3 For Inspiration

Between the release of Final Fantasy 7 in 1997 and the first chapter in the Remake trilogy in 2020, quite a few games have been released and have gone on to inspire developers. Final Fantasy 7 Revelation game director Naoki Hamaguchi is one such developer, as he explained that games like The Witcher 3 and Horizon helped inspire him and his team to deliver cinematic storytelling native to interactive media, as well as player agency through customizability and scalable world exploration. "Final Fa...

5. Silent Hill Townfall – Everything To Know

The next installment of Silent Hill is almost here. Here's everything to know about Silent Hill: Townfall.

6. Fortnite – “Kingdom Hearts Arrives” Gameplay Trailer

It’s been a long time coming. KINGDOM HEARTS arrives in Fortnite later this week!

7. You Could Get The Blood Of Dawnwalker For Less Than The Price Of A Coffee With This Mystery Crate

I love The Blood of Dawnwalker. As someone who usually finds themselves sticking to the storyline and just driving through the main plot, I’ve found myself losing track of time (ironically) in the blood-drinking shoes of Coen. Vampires are awesome, and The Blood of Dawnwalker delivers these creatures of the night in a tantalizing RPG that, if anything, has changed my perspective on the genre. So, when an opportunity to get it for less than a cup of coffee comes along, you can bet your staking bu...

8. 007 First Light’s Switch 2 Edition Delayed Yet Again, Here’s How Long You Have To Wait

Developer IO has confirmed that 007 First Light's Switch 2 edition has been delayed for a second time. It's now scheduled for March 2027. The studio said in a notice that First Light's Switch 2 version was delayed "to ensure we deliver the quality of experience players expect." "This additional time will go toward polishing the Nintendo Switch 2 performance of the game," IO said. First Light's Switch 2 version was playable at Gamescom recently, and IO said it was "thrilled by the positive feedba...

9. The Witcher 3's story director says an ideal quest is 'constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking'

"Then [the player] goes back, and then the player picks one of the choices."

10. Serial numbers on RTX Founders Edition graphics cards, including PC Gamer's very own, are fading and apparently it's causing a problem with RMA requests

If true, that could make for some expensive paperweights.

11. The best Total War game is getting a remaster with 50 newly playable factions, modern visuals, and a full Japanese voiceover

Even better: Shogun 2 Complete Edition arrives on October 13.

12. Toss a project at your printer: vibe coded tool allows developer to throw stuff at his 3D printer in VR to begin printing

Flick of the wrist.

13. CDPR wants to make The Witcher 3 Remastered feel like any other game released today: 'It's so easy to get used to these new improvements that it's hard to go back'

Geralt's glow up.

14. Blizzard finally told players where the big sword in WoW went after 8 years, and I'm just bummed out a reveal this cool was in an interview somewhere

Showing your hand.

15. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump he agrees the AI doomsayers are perpetrating a hoax: 'you saw through all of that'

On slowing down AI, the CEO says Nvidia is "not going to let that happen."

Robotics

1. InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps ISO 21423 reference implementation

OpenRobOps gives robotics developers a foundation to deliver a fleet manager with support for the upcoming interoperability standard. The post InOrbit.AI releases OpenRobOps ISO 21423 reference implementation appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries and safety upgrades

The latest version of Digit includes new knees, upgraded batteries, and more comprehensive safety architecture. The post Agility’s Digit 5 humanoid has new legs, batteries and safety upgrades appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Why RaaS needs more than a subscription model

At RoboBusiness 2026, a panel of robotics business leaders will examine the practical playbook behind Robots-as-a-Service or RaaS offerings. The post Why RaaS needs more than a subscription model appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. Report covers advances in surgical robots, deploying warehouse automation in the real world

Learn from a surgical robotics case study and a discussion of how to best deploy mobile robots in the warehouse in this issue. The post Report covers advances in surgical robots, deploying warehouse automation in the real world appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. Arm to discuss scaling physical AI at RoboBusiness

Dermot O'Driscoll, the VP of go-to-market for physical AI at Arm, will examine key compute principles behind trusted physical AI. The post Arm to discuss scaling physical AI at RoboBusiness appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Universal Robots launches its seventh generation robot platform at IMTS

Universal Robots has released three new robot arms, a rebuilt core controller, a new AI-ready tool flange, and more. The post Universal Robots launches its seventh generation robot platform at IMTS appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. How autonomous fleets are changing what’s possible in American agriculture

Autonomous tractors can help American agriculture, as exemplified in ASI's collaboration with U.S. Sugar and Everglades Equipment. The post How autonomous fleets are changing what’s possible in American agriculture appeared first on The Robot Report.

8. Digit 5 May Be the First Humanoid Robot Worker That’s Truly Safe

Despite the recent deluge of videos of humanoid robots doing backflips and kung-fu, the actual pace of progress towards humanoids that can do economically viable jobs at scale has at times seemed a bit plodding. There are some good reasons for this: a humanoid robot needs to be powerful enough to do useful work, safe enough for humans to walk past, and have enough battery life to limit how much of the day it’s hooked to a charger. But all three of those necessary features actively work against e...

Tech General

1. AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round

Profound has raised a $180 million Series D at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after it raised a $96 million Series C.

2. Wonder scores a $425 million partnership with DoorDash as it builds its food empire

Founded by veteran e-commerce entrepreneur Marc Lore, Wonder is slowly building a massive portfolio of restaurants and delivery companies.

3. Former TikTok execs built an app that uses AI to teach you how to pose for a photo

Essentially a camera app, Superpose analyzes selfies or photos and generates four potential poses using AI.

4. Discover how to take your startup from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Learn how to scale your startup breakthrough from prototype to production at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 with scaling leaders, Adrian Macneil (Foxglove), John Mackey (MBRYONICS), and Boris Sofman (Bedrock Robotics. Register before September 25 to save up to $200 on your pass.

5. India ends free ride for larger transactions on its ubiquitous digital payments network

India will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments made through UPI starting October 15.

6. Evvy raises $40M as it seeks to further women’s health research with vaginal microbiome data

Women’s health company Evvy announced Tuesday a $40 million Series B led by Catalio Capital Management.

7. 4 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Last day to exhibit at Disrupt is Sept 18. 4 days left. Get your startup in front of 10,000+ founders, investors, operators and tech leaders October 13–15.

8. Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.

9. Spotify finally lets parents exclude kids’ music from Wrapped and recommendations

Parents can finally get the kids' music out of Spotify Wrapped and other personalized playlists.

10. New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave

Italian startup Exein has raised a $270 million round of funding led by Headline at a $1.7 billion valuation.

11. Now Light’s minimalist phone can easily call an Uber

More than a decade after its Kickstarter proposed a "cell phone designed to be used as little as possible," Light is adding a direct connection to Uber and Lyft with a new Rideshare tool. For owners of either the Light Phone III or the upcoming Light Flip, they can use it to find pick up [
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12. Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI

Shortly after launching its new do-everything AI assistant Muse, Meta's launching subscription bundles that pair its standalone app subscriptions with extra AI usage. Some of the new Meta One bundles were in testing earlier this year, but are now available globally starting today, with several tiers for individual users, creators, and businesses. Meta says the [
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13. Fujifilm’s Instax Pal 2 is a tiny digital camera that may not disappoint

Fujifilm announced a follow-up to its tiny and quirky Instax Pal camera that debuted three years ago bundled with an instant printer. While the original Pal was a palm-sized camera with a round design that lacked a screen or viewfinder, the new Instax Pal 2 includes both in a design that looks like a miniaturized [
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14. This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door

DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to the front door. The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 launches today for $199.99 and works with the company's Active Guard Outdoor Protection (starting at $49.99 a month). This combines AI analysis with live agents to detect potential threats and respond proactively. [
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15. Voicemod’s new pocket-friendly device brings real-time voice changing to your phone

Voicemod announced a new mobile device that expands the capabilities of the Voicemod Key dongle it launched in late 2024 as a way to bring the company's real-time voice changing tech to consoles. While the older Voicemod Key only used a smartphone as an interface between the company's mobile app and the Xbox, PlayStation, and [
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