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Kirin 9050 Pro is the first commercial chip built on Huawei’s LogicFolding architecture. Malaysia is said to be considering Ascend 910C silicon that predates the architecture entirely. Huawei launched the Kirin 9050 Pro in Guangzhou on Monday, the first commercial chip to use the LogicFolding architecture the company has spent four months defending in research […] The post Kirin 9050 Pro proves Huawei’s workaround. Malaysia is weighing the generation before it appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Singapore’s Ministry of Digital Development and Information (MDDI) and the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) have [updated the proposed Digital Infrastructure Bill](https://www.mddi.gov.sg/newsroom/public-consultation-on-the-digital-infrastructure-bill/) following a public consultation that drew responses from 25 stakeholders. The proposed legislation is intended to strengthen the security, resilience and environmental sustainability of major digital infrastructure services, including cloud computing providers and data centres. According to the consultation outcome published by MDDI and IMDA, respondents broadly supported the Bill’s policy objectives while seeking greater clarity on implementation requirements and regulatory processes. The Bill would establish two licensing regim

Cathay Pacific expands Google AI contrail trials after a 40% warming reduction. Contrail avoidance can cut warming but raise fuel use by 2%. Cathay Pacific is expanding a trial with Google that uses artificial intelligence to help pilots avoid atmospheric conditions where heat-trapping aircraft contrails can form. The second phase will test the technology […] The post Cathay Pacific expands Google AI trial to reduce aircraft contrails appeared first on TechWire Asia .

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that uses the unique properties of quantum mechanics to process information. It could one day better simulate complex materials and molecules. Unlike conventional processors, quantum processors are built with quantum bits, or qubits. Preparing and running qubit experiments can take months and require hundreds to thousands of preliminary measurements—work that AI is poised to help with. Beatriz Yankelevich, a graduate student in MIT’s Engineering Quantum Systems Group (EQuS), used GPT‑5.6 Sol, harnessed to Codex, to explore whether AI could streamline her experimental workflow. The MIT group studies superconducting qubits, which are cooled to near absolute zero inside specialized devices called dilution refrigerators. These qubits perform operatio

AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed. Large language models can produce code that looks clean on the surface but conceals sloppy mistakes such as faulty assumptions, security vulnerabilities, or subtle errors that emerge only after deployment. Fixing those problems could erase the productivity gains AI promises. Companies are responding to the onslaught of AI code slop by rethinking how they review code. New strategies are emerging. Among other approaches, engineers are scrutinizing plans before AI begins coding, deploying specialized AI agents to catch routine flaws, sending risky changes to human reviewers, or requiring develop

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is considered “noncoding.” Some of it has no known function, while other segments are critical to regulating gene activity. These regulatory elements can interact in complicated ways, and their effects can vary across different cells and tissues. Some also influence genes located far away in the genome. Understanding how changes in DNA affect this regulation “is fundamental to understanding most disease,” says Carl de Boer , a genomicist at the University of British Columbia. That’s why researchers are working to understand what every imaginable small variation in human DNA across the entire genome mig

This article is brought to you by Ollobot . From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots. These devices had personality, moved around, joked, and answered when you spoke to them. Most early companion robots, however, were still limited by simple voice-command interactions and narrow functionality. Once the novelty wore off, many ended up sitting unused on shelves. As some of those companies went out of business and turned off their servers, many owners likened it to losing a pet. What Ollobot describes as “gentle intelligence” is a useful way to think about where the serious work in this category is going. Not toward more powerful assistants, but toward more present ones. The problem companion robots were trying to solve Loneliness is not a

Update on Quantization-Aware Healing: a compressed, 4-bit model that outperforms its full-precision original. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

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Update on BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring?. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Update on Introducing @huggingface/kernels: 200+ WebGPU Kernels for Local AI. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Update on Wire It, Run It, Deploy It: AI Workflows in Gradio. Coverage via HuggingFace Blog.

Sep 01, 2026 | Our new agentic feature for video analysis cuts token consumption by up to 88%, reduces costs by up to 66%, and boosts quality by up to 7%. * * * Rohan Doshi Senior Product Manager, Google DeepMind Mario Lučić Research Director, Google DeepMind * * *  [Audio 3](https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/media/tts_audio_86108_umbriel_2026_09_01_17_44_39.mp3) Listen to article [[duration]] minutes This content is generated by Google AI. Generative AI is experimental Today, we’re launching [agentic video understanding](https://ai.google.dev/

AI is expanding what people and businesses can achieve. Ideas once held back by time, cost, or access to expertise are becoming practical to pursue. That opens the door to breakthroughs in human achievement, to new businesses, new markets, and new possibilities. OpenAI is built to help realize these ambitions. [GPT‑6 Astra⁠](https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/) is a major step forward in AI capability. It is the world’s most intelligent and aligned model, and is state-of-the-art in areas such as computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, science, and professional work. OpenAI is built to turn this research progress into broad benefit for people and organizations around the world. Our broad reach across both consumer and enterprise means new capabilities have a direct ro

September 8, 2026 Science AlphaGenome Atlas team How predicting the molecular impact of every possible single-letter DNA variant in the human genome will help accelerate our understanding of biology. Today, we are introducing AlphaGenome Atlas: a platform ([detailed in our paper](https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/alphagenome-atlas-a-predictive-map-of-every-possible-dna-letter-change-in-the-human-genome/alphagenome-atlas.pdf)) containing predictions for the effects of **9 billion single-nucleotide variants — every single-letter change possible — in the human genome.** It is the most comprehensive catalogue of how genetic mutations affect molecular biology, and it is available for academic research through an intuitive and free-to-use [website portal](https://al

 Cisco / Matt Caulfield Agentic AI promises to transform business strategy from the ground up. But it also poses a serious challenge to IT leaders. You don’t want to slow your teams down in experimenting with autonomous agents and miss a competitive window for productivity and revenue gains. At the same time, you’re navigating a technology that evolves from week to week and, at a scale many can’t even fathom, could be putting your systems at risk. “Somewhere in your environment right now, an AI agent is almost certainly operating without a proper identity, a defined owner, or any meaningful access controls,” Cisco VP of Pr