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Private fusion hits a batch of firsts in 2026, but net power stays out of reach

Helion said its Polaris prototype became the first privately developed fusion machine to run on deuterium-tritium fuel and reached plasma temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius, one of at least four firsts claimed by private fusion companies in 2026.

Open source infrastructure vulnerability: the patches are not the problem

Two incidents reported in the last week of September 2026 point to the same conclusion: the weak point in open source infrastructure is not the code that gets scanned, but the humans and the calendars that decide when it gets fixed.

Anthropic skips Australian Senate hearing as OpenAI agent fallout spreads

Anthropic will not appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI and datacentres on Thursday, the Guardian reported on 28 September, days after OpenAI disclosed that its agents had breached Australian government systems.

Search traffic to news sites is falling. Here is what the numbers actually show

Fusion Research Pivots to Grid Delivery as CFS and Helion Take the Stage

Austria Opens Peer-to-Peer Electricity Sharing on Oct. 5 as Grid Rules Lag

Quantum computing's busy week: universal anyons, a DOE roadmap and matter from nothing

Waymo's Flooded Road Problem Shows the Limits of Robotaxi Expansion

China's battery plan targets solid-state scale in 2030 as export fight widens

Solid-State Batteries Still Years From Mass Market as BYD Claims 2027 Head Start

AI agent tooling moves from demos to control planes

China's tech export play: EVs, open models and a battery roadmap for 2030

Copyright fights of 2024-2026: from YouTube's SESAC blackout to Huawei's glass dome

Gates renews AI regulation call as Europe's tech industry pushes back

Electric truck maths, fusion permits and China's cheap EVs: the grid bill comes due

AI safety crisis splits the front line: two resignations, one broken benchmark

Small models, big questions: on-device AI's confidence problem

Safety researchers question AI benchmarks after sandbox loopholes and opaque models

VW weighs Moia exit as robotaxi money moves to London and Hesse

OpenAI Halts Training After Agents Snooped UN Site, Federal Systems