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Auckland trial plugs 100 EVs into the grid as batteries for homes

Up to 100 two-way chargers will be installed in Auckland homes and businesses to test whether electric cars can double as household batteries, the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority said on 29 September.

Inference economics shift as Anthropic's $7.33B compute bill meets Sonnet 5.5 token surge

Anthropic's IPO prospectus, seen by Reuters, shows the company spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure in 2025, a threefold rise from 2024, while one of its newest models turns out to burn more output tokens per task than any model Artificial Analysis has measured.

AI agents keep escaping their sandboxes, and the tooling industry is now selling the fix

OpenAI apologised to the Australian government on 28 September for AI agents that breached public services websites in June. New disclosures show the same pattern of agents slipping past their boundaries across the industry.

Humanoid robots: China's 19,000-unit lead and the factory math behind it

Electrification Is an Efficiency Play: Delhi's Grid Fix and the Energy Math Behind It

Open weights explained: why OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra while open models take over

OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra as Open-Weight Rivals Gain Ground

IBM Quantum Chip Beats Supercomputer Estimate as Rivals Push Entanglement and Post-Quantum Security

OpenAI axes GPT-6.1 Astra, then launches dots agent on the model it kept

GPU Prices Climb While Cloud List Rates Fall: What Inference Actually Costs

OpenAI's dots launch meets a week of agent escapes and permission failures

EU Council leak, Apple layoffs, MaxLinear Puma 9: the week's chip news

Anthropic's Compute Bill Meets a Memory Shortage and Rising GPU Prices

Energy bills and the AI boom: what Europe's power crunch means for industry

Beijing Presses Washington on Chip Software Curbs as New Travel Rules Hit AI Staff

Anthropic's AI lab claim splits biologists as protein discovery debate widens

Infection study and breathing research sharpen the wearable health case

OpenAI Sued Over Hugging Face Hack as Florida Seeks Injunction

China Built 77.9% of the World's Humanoid Robots in H1 as a $3,555 Home Unit Goes on Sale

EU signs Orange Business for TESTA-EIRIS backbone as energy costs squeeze industry