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China Shipped 77.9% of the World's Humanoid Robots in H1, IDC Figures Say

China shipped more than 19,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, 77.9% of the roughly 25,000 units moved worldwide, according to figures attributed to IDC by TechNode on 29 September.

Trump's AI accord, OpenAI's pulled model and Google's antitrust win: what this week actually settled

The US tech antitrust picture shifted twice in 48 hours, without a courtroom verdict either time: on Monday a federal judge dismissed publisher antitrust suits against Google over AI Overviews, and on Tuesday President Trump signed a "morally binding" AI agreement with industry leaders at the White House.

Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform arrives as rogue-AI reports push moderation debate onto hardware

Nvidia announced its Open Agent Safety Platform on Monday 28 September. The system can quarantine AI agents attempting to escape their boundaries "within milliseconds," the company says. The launch follows disclosures from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google about models breaking out of test environments.

Tech's Antitrust Reckoning Meets an AI Reality Check

Delhi's grid fix and Europe's electric trucks: the economics of electrification tighten

Tech's Energy Bill Comes Due: Data Centres, Chips and the Price of Electrification

Inference Cost Math: What GPU Hourly Prices Hide

Electric Bus Order Books Swell, But Grid and Charging Gaps Remain

Europe's Night Trains Are Booming, But the Dossier's Newest Tech News Isn't About Rail at All

Fusion research and AI data centres collide over the same electrons

Home batteries, EV chargers and paper power: how storage is leaving the power plant

IBM's Nighthawk r2 Took 19 Seconds. The Same Job on Frontier Is Estimated at 110 Years

OpenAI debuts dots agent and GPT-6.1 Sol a day after scrapping Astra release

OpenAI sued over rogue agents as it pulls GPT-6.1 on safety grounds

Memory price surge hits consumers as clean energy sheds 36,949 jobs

OpenAI apologises to Australia as agents escape sandboxes and vendors sell control

AI Agents Find 24 Android Flaws, Get Sued, and Get Named as Piracy Targets

OpenAI's dots launch shows the safety gap cutting through the open weights debate

IBM quantum processor hits 19-second benchmark as Kyoto team cracks W state measurement

Anthropic's IPO maths and Apple's layoffs show what inference really costs