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Global home cleaning robot shipments hit 11.2 million in Q2 2026, up 21.5%

IDC reports global home cleaning robot shipments of 11.2 million units in Q2 2026, up 21.5% year-on-year, with robot vacuums leading and European mark...

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US AI CEOs Urge Slower Development, Global AI Stocks Tumble

Top US AI executives, including Anthropic's Dario Amodei, called for a slowdown in AI development, triggering a global sell-off in AI and chip stocks....

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Boston Dynamics IPO delayed as Atlas humanoid robot not yet widely deployed

Hyundai Motor Group says Boston Dynamics is unlikely to go public by 2027, as its Atlas humanoid robot has not reached large-scale deployment and the...

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Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Qualcomm develop 2.1D advanced packaging with organic bridges

Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Qualcomm have been co-developing 2.1D advanced packaging for AI chips, using organic bridge dies to cut costs and avoid...

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Dreame reportedly cuts around 10,000 jobs from June to August, auto and phone teams nearly gone

Chinese smart-home appliance maker Dreame has reportedly laid off or seen the departure of around 10,000 employees between June and late August, with...

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Chinese tech firms send engineers to Apple HQ to adapt apps for iPhone Duo foldable

Multiple major Chinese tech companies have dispatched developers to Apple's headquarters ahead of the iPhone Duo foldable launch, racing to adapt thei...

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China Mobile launches AI trusted computing platform with encrypted tokens

China Mobile unveiled AI Trusted Computing (AITC) at the 2026 China Computing Power Conference, offering confidential computing and encrypted tokens f...

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Anthropic CEO calls for slower AI development, pledges employee-level access for third-party auditors

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urges the AI industry to slow down, citing risks of AI systems building more powerful AI, and announces that the company wi...

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Google completes acqui-hire of AI coding startup Mechanize to bolster Gemini

Google has absorbed the team of San Francisco-based AI coding startup Mechanize, with co-founder Tamay Besiroglu joining DeepMind in August along with...

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms no IPO this year, hints at industry-wide AI safety pact

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune that the company will not go public this year, citing AI safety concerns and a preference to wait until the busines...

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Meta AI Privacy Flaw Exposed Family Data, Now Fixed

Meta has fixed a flaw in Meta AI that could compile personal information about users' families, including children, from public posts, sparking privac...

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Anthropic CEO Calls for Slower AI Development, Gains Support from Musk and Altman

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urges the AI industry to slow down, proposing independent monitoring and third-party access, with backing from Elon Musk an...