On 22 September in US time, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and about ninety minutes later OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Both made low price the selling point. GPT-6 Sol cut input and output tokens per million to 2 dollars and 10 dollars, half the prior GPT-5.6 Sol, and OpenAI called it a … Read more
At the Snapdragon Summit 2026 in Maui on 22 September, Qualcomm unveiled two flagship mobile chips built on a 2-nanometre process, the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Super Elite and the sixth-generation Snapdragon 8 Elite. This is the first time the flagship line has shipped two Elite platforms at once and the first use of 2-nanometre in … Read more
On 23 September the Chinese lab DeepSeek made public a paper bearing founder Liang Wenfeng among its more than 130 authors, submitted on 19 September. The paper gives the first full technical account of DSec, short for DeepSeek Elastic Compute, the sandbox platform that trains AI agents at scale. DSec first appeared in the DeepSeek … Read more
The 200-company warning Zhu Xiaohu, managing partner of GSR Ventures, used a two-hour talk at Peking University’s innovation school to warn that China now has more than 200 robot companies, many able to dance or throw punches, but few running a real business, and that most may not survive ten years. The line lands because … Read more
18 September 2026. TrendForce’s second-quarter 2026 global Fabless TOP 10 shows the top ten combined revenue of US$141.45 billion, up 73 per cent year on year. The 73 per cent climb is eye-catching but only a total. The more telling question is who grew, by how much and where. The reshuffle shows up clearly. TrendForce’s … Read more
On 19 September, according to overseas media citing three people familiar with the matter, ChangXin Memory is planning to enter the fast-growing flash-memory market. The sources said ChangXin intends to build a NAND flash research-and-development line at a new Beijing factory and has set up an institute in Beijing that includes NAND development. ChangXin Memory … Read more
On 20 September Zhishen Technology closed its Series B. The same day Alibaba took a stake in Moqi Intelligence, Ant invested in Tianji Intelligence, and Qiyuan Robotics connected to Tencent Cloud’s WorkBuddy. Four moves in one day, spanning financing, equity and ecosystem, covering complete machines, embodied brains, core components and consumer products. Zhishen’s round was … Read more
At the 2026 Embodied Perception Fusion and Multimodal LLM seminar on 15 September, Wuwen Zhike solution expert Yan Wei argued that embodied AI is bottlenecked by three things: data that is far harder to gather than for autonomous driving, a missing end-to-end toolchain, and the absence of common standards. Wuwen Zhike’s answer is a closed … Read more
As embodied intelligence matures, its scenes keep multiplying, from logistics and inspection to robot games, and now the robot has moved to the dinner table. Give it a command and it may stir-fry you a meal with real wok heat. The robot in the kitchen is a small sign of a larger shift: embodied AI … Read more
Huawei’s Noah’s Ark Lab has published RoboHarness, a system built to solve a problem the robot field keeps hitting: it has plenty of capable models and almost no way to make them cooperate. RoboHarness wraps VLA, world-action, reinforcement-learning and task-and-motion-planning policies in a coding agent that decides which one should act. The design leaves every … Read more