Hydro-Québec asked Quebec's energy regulator on 1 October to approve a new rate that would roughly double what large data centres pay for electricity, opening a hearing in Montreal that runs until 9 October.
Researchers at the University of Surrey have proposed a qubit built from superfluid helium-3. Their calculations suggest it could cut error rates roughly 100 times below conventional superconducting qubits. The design was published on 1 October in npj Quantum Information.
Cloudflare released two open source decision models on 1 October, pitching them partly as a cheap way to police AI agents, hours after AWS published a Rust policy engine designed to put the same agents on a leash.
Figure retired its remaining Figure 02 humanoids on 1 October by jumping them into a 75 tonne electric arc furnace in Imatra, Finland, and is selling souvenir metal from the melt for $500 and $1,900. The company says keeping the older robots running was too expensive.
Huawei's rotating chairman Eric Xu said this week that the company's Ascend NPUs have passed Nvidia in Chinese market share, while DeepSeek released open-source tools for the same chips.
UBTECH's Liuzhou factory, which opened on 12 September, is designed to turn out more than 10,000 humanoid robots a year at a line rate of one unit every 10 minutes, according to Interesting Engineering. That capacity dwarfs the roughly 7,000 humanoids sold worldwide in 2025.
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.
China shipped more than 19,000 humanoid robots in the first half of 2026, accounting for 77.9% of global deliveries, according to IDC figures reported by TechNode on 29 September. The same week, new launches from ANYbotics and Innodata highlighted how far the supporting infrastructure still has to travel.
Hydro-Québec asked the Régie de l'énergie on 1 October to approve a new electricity rate for data centres above five megawatts that would average 13 cents per kWh, roughly twice what they pay today.
US datacenter deployment will reach 16 to 18 gigawatts of gross capacity in 2026, according to satellite-tracking estimates cited by Jefferies, but advanced chip packaging may cap 2027 at somewhere in the low 20s of gigawatts.
The EU has been accused of hiding how much energy and water data centres use, in a formal complaint filed this week that will test whether Brussels' secrecy rules breach the Aarhus Convention.
Vishakha Renewables, the Adani-backed maker of solar module components, filed draft IPO papers with Indian regulators on 1 October, seeking a fresh issue of up to INR 1,250 crore ($129.9 million) while it expands solar glass capacity from 660 tonnes per day to 1,920.
AWS published the Dogwood Local Engine on 1 October, an open source Rust library that issues allow or deny verdicts on AI agent tool calls before they run, the company says.
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.
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing the company's IPO prospectus, as separate analysis warns that advanced chip packaging, not fabrication, now caps how fast US datacenters can come online.
JERA, Dell and UK developer RHAELM signed a non-binding agreement on Thursday to build AI data centres in Japan, a push the Financial Times reported could cost as much as $140bn.
The US Senate blocked the Ratepayer Protection Act on Wednesday, a 57-43 vote that fell three short of the 60 needed, as administrative law judges in Texas recommended that El Paso Electric's gas plant for Meta's $10 billion data center be approved only if ratepayers are shielded from the cost.
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42bn to help pay for AI infrastructure, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing Anthropic's IPO prospectus. The loan covers about a third of the $125.2bn Anthropic has committed to a five-year lease of Google-designed TPUs.