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Xpeng starts robotaxi production, Changan already holds an L4 licence

The first series-produced Xpeng robotaxi rolled off the line in Guangzhou: 3 000 TOPS and a vision-only setup with no lidar. Changan is touting an L4 testing licence and its Tianzhu Linghang system.

Chinese CR450 shown in Berlin as InnoTrans turns into a rolling stock battleground

The Chinese CR450 trainset, billed as the world's fastest high-speed train, has made its debut at the InnoTrans trade fair in Berlin.

AI runs on debt: $570 billion in issuance and $3 trillion off the balance sheet

Morgan Stanley puts global AI-related debt issuance in 2026 at close to $570 billion. Big tech's off-balance-sheet obligations grew from $1.65 trillion to nearly $3 trillion in two months.

EU supervisors: bank customers will pay for cloud reliance outside the Union

Data and AI take over travel booking: Macau, Beijing and a new window in the 12306 app

Mercedes bets on Wayve as Chinese robotaxis reach Zagreb and Madrid

An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare. Three months of silence

Semiconductors for Europe: geopolitical risk turns structural

Cybersecurity: an OpenAI agent breached Australia's public health insurance system

Google sends its first AI chips into orbit on a SpaceX rocket

Chinese kitchen robots: exports hit $470 million, up 51 percent

The most complicated machine in the world: why nobody can copy ASML

AI at the bedside: heart failure, imagined speech and CT calibration

China puts almost 490 billion euros into networks and computing, targeting 9,800 Eflops

Memory: DRAM 1b costs 54% more per square millimetre than TSMC's N2

Brussels raises Poland's inflation forecast to 3.6 percent, sees deficit at 6.5 percent of GDP

Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu V900 chip and opens up the T-Head SAIL stack

OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare system on its own

Baidu triples revenue target for its office agent

China puts 490 billion euro into networks and computing power