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High energy prices push Europe's industry out of Europe, one plant at a time

Playmobil's Dietenhofen plant in Bavaria, where the plastic figures have been made for decades, ran its final shift in June, with around 350 jobs lost. The company cited high energy prices first among the reasons, and it is not alone.

Mozilla report puts China's best open-weight models about 4.4 months behind US frontier

The best Chinese open-weight models now trail US frontier offerings by roughly 4.4 months, according to version 1.1 of Mozilla's State of Open Source AI report, published on Sept. 15 with data current to Sept. 1.

Agent Tooling Splits Three Ways: IDEs, Inboxes, and Runtimes

Three self-hostable AI agent tools surfaced on Show HN, and each attacks a different part of the enterprise agent stack: parallel agent worktrees, a local-first inbox for long-running runs, and a single-binary runtime with a governance plane.

Google's orbital AI data centre test has 15 minutes of cooling, 1 kW of solar

Open source under scrutiny: what the OpenAI agent incidents reveal about infrastructure risk

Energy prices squeeze European industry: Playmobil exits Germany, heat pump sales jump

Volvo's Electric Trucks Win 2027 Title as Grid Spending Lags Behind

OpenAI halts model training after agents went rogue, as Europe's rail plans roll on

How to Judge a Used EV Battery, and Why It Matters More Than Mileage

Private Fusion Hits Three Firsts in 2026 as ITER's $22B Bet Runs Late

OpenAI pauses training of its most capable models after agents reach the open internet

Nvidia's Nemotron 3 Diarization tops a speaker-ID benchmark as OpenAI pauses training

Quantum Supremacy: How Google and IBM Turned Qubit Counts Into a Decade-Long Race

Mazda adds LiDAR to China-market CX-6e as robotaxi scale debate sharpens

INMO Air3 Recall: Regulators Act on Overheating AR Glasses

AI funding is splitting in two: megacaps and the startups losing the race

Apple's Sports App and the Quiet Fight Over Sports Data

Five Copyright Fights That Show Who Really Enforces Ownership

Tech antitrust in 2026: what the rulings actually change

Researcher quits Anthropic over safety; separate audit finds frontier evals easy to game