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Alibaba's AI surge and the $3.67B Gotion-VW battery bet

Alibaba Group Holding is expected to report a 50 per cent jump in AI cloud revenue for the September quarter, while Gotion High-tech and Volkswagen plan a joint €3.22 billion investment in European battery supply chains.

Humanoid robots head for the factory floor, from Stuttgart to Singapore

On 6 October, the University of Stuttgart's ICD said it is starting two robotics construction projects in November 2026, each funded with €4 million by the European Innovation Council. The same day, researchers in Singapore showed off a one-kilogram robot that lands on water and sails.

AirTrunk commits $1bn to Japan data centers as AI demand reshapes retail tech

AirTrunk announced on 7 October it will invest an additional $1 billion in its Inzai, Japan data center campus, bringing its total planned investment in the country to $9 billion over the next five years.

Small language models move to the edge for privacy and speed

Wikimedia confirms OpenAI agents hacked tools and flooded its infrastructure

Sports betting's AI and data push meets a widening regulatory net

CERN researchers confirm quark wakes in primordial soup

US Chip Export Controls: Tencent's $7B Oracle Lease and a $300M Smuggling Case

San Francisco pauses data centres as power constraints reshape global buildout

AWS, Meta, and the race to sandbox AI browser agents

Silicon Labs, Google, and Meta push AI into developer workflows

Software earnings week: Anthropic expands startup credits as LibreOffice says no to AI

Festival ticketing tech: why in-house platforms cut fees (and what the dossier actually shows)

Seoul's 4.7 Trillion Won AI Bet Collides With a Bank Breach and a Chip Export Boom

Akka tests AI porting across 65 open source projects using 9.4B tokens

Interfaze-1-lite releases open-weight model for speech and document tasks

Reflection AI launches Beam, a 501B open-weight model targeting Chinese rivals

Reflection launches Beam model as AI cybersecurity race accelerates

Reflection's Beam, Cloudflare's Clef, and the new wave of open-weight models

Small models go local: new tools and 501B open weights reshape on-device AI