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EU Battery and Truck Rulings Collide With an Energy Bill 100 Billion Euros Higher

On 1 October, fleet operators including IKEA, EDF, Geopost and DFDS wrote to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen urging her not to weaken heavy truck CO2 standards. That same day, fresh analysis argued Europe will have enough Made-in-EU battery cells by 2030 to meet demand.

Robot safety rules can't catch a lie: VicOne shows why AI evaluation needs adversarial testing

A robot can obey every safety rule and still hurt someone if the data it acts on has been manipulated, VicOne LAB R7 warned on 1 October, the same week governments and AI vendors fought over who gets to evaluate the systems in the first place.

Boston Dynamics' new Atlas hand drops the pinky as humanoid production ramps up

Boston Dynamics unveiled a new four-fingered hand for its Atlas humanoid on 1 October, with 13 degrees of freedom and a design built for tool use rather than human mimicry.

Humanoid Robots Move From Demos to Factory Floors as Supply Chain and Data Gaps Bite

Hydro-Québec Hearing Puts a Price on Data Centre Power as Cooling Goes 800 VDC

China's New Battery Plan Backs Sodium-Ion as Export Controls Reshape Tech Policy

Tencent Leases 100,000 AI Chips From Oracle as US Export Controls Shift Global Supply

Europe's Battery Supply Meets Demand, But Midstream Is Still the Weak Link

Google's AI answer payouts are tiny, and the lawsuits just got thrown out

AI datacenter buildout outruns chip packaging and power supplies

Healthcare AI Is Moving Into Billing and Body Scans, and the Costs Are Getting Harder to Trace

Data centre power and cooling: Brussels faces Aarhus complaint as Senate bill stalls

Vishakha Renewables IPO Filing Puts India's Solar Component Capacity in the Spotlight

Google's AI publisher payments: 100 sites, some under $1,000

Trump's AI accord and Europe's AI Act: two rulebooks, one industry

Google AI chips head to orbit on SpaceX rocket as Satlyt raises $8M for satellite software

Senate Health Committees Face Turnover as Midterms Reshape Digital Health Policy

AWS ships Dogwood Local Engine to block AI agent tool calls in real time

Genius Sports bets on streaming data as sports rights values stall

Amazon Ships Strands Decider 2B as Decision Models Crowd the Benchmark Field