Xiaomi Vision GT will arrive in Gran Turismo 7 in October, becoming the first VGT car from a Chinese brand in the series. Xiaomi is also the 36th brand invited to join the VGT project. The two sides announced the first electric-car driving tutorial in Gran Turismo's 30-year history; players can complete a dedicated training mission using the Xiaomi SU7 Ultra and Xiaomi Vision GT.
Former Cambricon executive Liang Jun has lost six consecutive lawsuits in an equity-incentive dispute with the company and recently raised his labor-dispute claim from RMB 4.287 billion to RMB 27.832 billion. The shares involved are now subject to judicial enforcement following the losses. Cambricon says the case has no effect on its day-to-day R&D or operations. Revenue in the first half of 2026 was RMB 5.996 billion, up 108.13% year over year.
NVIDIA opened applications worldwide for its 26th Graduate Fellowship Program, covering AI, machine learning, autonomous vehicles, computer graphics, robotics, healthcare, high-performance computing, and more. Each student can receive up to $60,000.
Yuansheng Intelligence founder Yang Sicheng says that when models are not capable enough, hardware must be highly capable. Dexterous hands need to score above 80 on reliability, dexterity, payload, dynamic response, touch, and precision. Its in-house Apex Hand uses a hybrid in-palm tendon drive with 21 degrees of freedom, a maximum active payload of 30 kilograms per hand, and a 0.2-second open-close time. Teams using it won the gold, silver, and bronze heavyweight medals in weightlifting and tug-of-war at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games in August.
Haier Air Conditioning worked with science creator Wu Qiongliang to visit the longevity village of Bama in Guangxi and inspect the sources of its clean air, high negative-ion levels, and comfortable temperature and humidity. Modeled on Bama's air, Haier's air-washing air conditioner uses a claimed world's-first waterfall water-washing technology. Air passes through 36 layers of moving water curtains that capture PM2.5, pollen, and dust and release negative ions. An electrostatic-dust module and AI sensing system monitor PM2.5, TVOC, temperature, and humidity in real time and adjust automatically.
Amazon Web Services published a solution for automating the Amazon Textract adapter lifecycle across accounts using AWS CloudFormation and Terraform templates to promote and deploy adapters across multiple accounts.
The second-generation family flagship Yijing X9, built with deep integration of Dongfeng and Huawei Qiankun technologies, launched in Guangzhou on September 24 in four variants, with limited-time benefits starting at RMB 279,800 and total benefits worth up to RMB 100,000. Every version includes Huawei Qiankun ADS 5 driver assistance, HarmonyOS cockpit, and four other smart-vehicle solutions. It debuts HarmonySpace 6 and the HAMOMO companion robot, is described as the only six-seat, four-lidar vehicle under RMB 300,000, and has a CLTC all-electric range of 465 km across the lineup.
Unitary Quantum has debuted UnitarySpark, a heterogeneous-computing hardware platform, and opened the beta of UnitaryLab 2.5, a natural-language-driven quantum science platform. Inference, algorithm execution, and data storage all run on the local workstation, so experiment parameters do not need to be sent to the cloud.
Jeff Dean: "Proud to have collaborated with many others on quite a few of these things!" Quoted post by @deedydas: "claude just generated this 2 minute video about the history of Google and it goes so goddamn hard"
In its budget request, the U.S. Defense Department proposed spending $30.3 million over five years on a lie-detection project called Polygraph+ (also known as Polygraph Next), focused on AI- and machine-learning-based scoring algorithms and “standoff sensing” technology that does not require contact with the subject.
This was recorded a few months ago when I was still at Google and it was a really fun conversation! Quoted post by @WR4NYGov (context, not the main author's work): How does this only have 21,000 views in 8 days? Chat with @JeffDean (then Google) and Bill Jia about large scale AI models. https://youtu.be/BVQSWeK2Nrw?si=MvMXdAEqjQE4HBOb
Over a 15-month investigation with The Times of San Diego, MIT Technology Review created the first comprehensive map and analysis of deaths near surveillance towers along the U.S.–Mexico border.
Founder Mode activated from my new office ♾
This is my third Google I/O in a row. Some things have changed, some (like the amazing colleagues that were there since day 0) haven't. @JeffDean @borgeaud_s
