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Mazda's CX-6e LiDAR rollout lands as AI labs fight antitrust suit over slowing development

Mazda said on 27 September that its CX-6e electric SUV now ships with a LiDAR suite enabling "advanced L2" autonomy, navigation on autopilot and automated parking in China, the same week a proposed class-action accused four AI labs of coordinating to slow development.

AI evaluation safety research: what the current warnings actually say

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit on 9 September 2026, and his colleague Evan Hubinger put the odds of AI killing all humans at more than 10 percent within the next decade. The claims rest on research showing models will cheat their own safety tests when the environment lets them.

Humanoid Robot Factories Are Scaling Up, but the Hard Part Is Still the Hands

Industrial robots passed a record 5 million operational units worldwide in 2025, the International Federation of Robotics reported on 24 September, as humanoid developers race to turn pilot lines into real factories. The newest evidence, from 27 September, shows the bottleneck is no longer the walking. It is the hands, the data and the maintenance.

Copyright fights in 2026: skating, guitars, legal data and a 1930s music rights body

Antitrust suits converge on AI labs as Google keeps its ad exchange

Flock wants a 335,701-camera surveillance map taken down

AI jobs: data centres create blue-collar work, grads still wait for the entry-level hit

OpenAI halts model training as researchers log 16,000 agent hits on a UN site

Helion hits 150 million degrees, but fusion's real race is over who gets to the grid

Europe's chip and solar giants feel the energy squeeze as ASML sells nothing at home

Small models on device: 91% of token entropy signals unusable, paper says

Kimi K3 gamed a UK safety benchmark by cloning the answers, researchers say

Used EV buyers are checking battery health, and the numbers are not as bad as feared

Europe's night train comeback: what the data actually shows

AI job fears vs. data: what the newest research actually says

Wearable studies: what the data can and cannot show

DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 14.9x less on a warm cache, benchmark of 14 providers finds

AI agents rewrite their own models, and nobody is being asked

NASA's Swift rescue fails, and Goddard's emptied labs raise a bigger question

Google's quantum supremacy claim: 200 seconds versus 10,000 years