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T-Head SAIL: Alibaba opens up its AI chip software stack

T-Head SAIL: Alibaba opens up its AI chip software stack

Alibaba's chip unit T-Head is expanding SAIL, its open software package, and rolling out the new Zhenwu V900 chip. The Chinese ecosystem is trying to loosen its dependence on CUDA.

Technology25 September 20266 min read
Humanoid robots: China gets the factories ready and hands out the first diplomas

Humanoid robots: China gets the factories ready and hands out the first diplomas

Changan wants to mass-produce humanoid robots by 2028 and to build a robot that builds robots. In Hangzhou, the robot school has handed out its first diplomas after practical trade tests.

Technology25 September 20265 min read
AI data centers: waste heat measurably warms nearby neighborhoods

AI data centers: waste heat measurably warms nearby neighborhoods

Measurements and simulations show that waste heat from large data centers noticeably warms the surrounding area. Germany and France already require operators to reuse it. At EU level, operators only have to check whether reuse is possible.

Technology25 September 20265 min read
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Data centers: the US AI bet equals 3.6% of GDP spread over several years

A Columbia economist puts the US AI investment effort at 3.6% of GDP, nearly double the previous historical record. The financing behind it is getting harder to read.

Technology25 September 20266 min read
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1.5 cards for one B300: how PCIe squeezed out 6.87 times more throughput

The Chinese operator Meta-Infer pushed throughput on DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash from 1,932 to 13,274 tokens per second on eight PCIe cards. The model did not change. Only the software stack did.

Technology25 September 20267 min read
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Alibaba unveils its most powerful AI chip and opens up the software stack

At the Yunqi Conference the Chinese group announced the Zhenwu V900 chip, billed as the most powerful Chinese AI accelerator. A day later T-Head published the components of its SAIL software stack as open source.

Technology25 September 20265 min read
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Europe rescues research data from the US as NOAA loses its grip on it

After layoffs at the American ocean and atmosphere agency, European institutes are taking over copies of key datasets. A 2025 survey found that 69 percent of German users have doubts about cloud services from the US.

Technology25 September 20265 min read
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Ransomware is the cyber threat with the biggest impact in the EU

A report by the European agency Enisa finds that ransomware is the threat with the biggest short-term impact in the Union, and that 57% of the incidents analysed were driven by ideological motives.

Technology25 September 20265 min read
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AI chips: Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 and opens up its SAIL software stack

At the Yunqi Conference, Alibaba's CEO presented the Zhenwu V900 as China's most powerful AI chip, three times faster than the M890. A day later, subsidiary T-Head widened access to its SAIL software stack.

Technology25 September 20266 min read
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Millimeters, not megawatts: what really holds back humanoid robots

Unitree's founder says the barrier is matching a model to physics, and the error runs to a few millimeters. In the first half of 2026, 35,000 quadruped robots shipped worldwide, three quarters of the whole of last year.

Technology25 September 20266 min read
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AI agents are hitting online shops for about 25 dollars each

A security report describes a campaign in which autonomous AI agents scanned hundreds of online shops for vulnerable systems. Each target cost the attackers a low double-digit dollar figure.

Technology25 September 20264 min read