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Helical Fusion to Start Power-On Tests at Helix HARUKA in 2027

Japanese startup Helical Fusion expects to begin preliminary power-on tests at its Helix HARUKA demonstration reactor in 2027, the company said on Tuesday, with construction of the first spiral coil at the National Institute for Fusion Science in Toki now largely complete.

Open weights dominate the decision-model race as Amazon and Cloudflare ship new models

Amazon Web Services released Strands Decider 2B, an open-source decision model built on the Qwen3.5-2B "torso", on 1 October, hours after Cloudflare open-sourced its own Clef family under Apache 2.0. Both are small, cheap and designed to replace frontier LLMs in narrow automation steps.

Boston Dynamics' new Atlas hand has four fingers and 13 degrees of freedom

Boston Dynamics unveiled a new hand for its Atlas humanoid on 1 October. The company dropped the pinky finger to cut cost and complexity as it prepares to deploy the robot inside Hyundai's car plants.

EU pushes global AI safety rules as countries told to build their own evaluators

Broadcom to lend Anthropic up to $42bn for TPUs as US datacenter buildout hits packaging ceiling

Wearable AI and Digital Health Funding Surge as Depression Study and Claims Fight Collide

Huawei claims Ascend outsells Nvidia in China as export controls reshape the market

AI agent tooling grows up: guardrails, gateways and the liability gap

Night trains return to the north

Japan weighs $140bn AI data centre build as power and cooling move on site

Fusion's Reality Check: Helical's 2027 Test, Grid Rules and a Talent Flip

US Senate blocks datacenter energy bill as Texas judges fault Meta gas plant

KIDZ AI's 500-Robotaxi Inquiry Shows Robotaxi Hype Is the New Crypto Treasury

China's New Exit Rules Put Engineers, Founders and Their Capital Under Scrutiny

Battery news round-up: iron-lead flow cells pass 10,000 cycles as GM and Geely chase cheaper packs

Europe’s battery supply chain becomes the test case for its industrial policy

Europe's Energy Bill Is Reshaping Its Industrial Policy

Broadcom loan to Anthropic capped at $42bn as US datacenter plans outrun chip supply

Sports Data Analytics Jobs Keep Piling Up as the Wider Data Centre Fight Escalates

Humanoid Robot Factory: Five Million Industrial Robots, Only Thousands Are Humanoids