CATL Signs 3GWh Sodium-Ion Storage Deal With INTILION for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

October 29, 2026 – CATL is pushing sodium-ion storage deeper into Europe. The company has signed a memorandum of understanding with German integrator INTILION to deploy up to 3GWh of its TENER sodium-ion energy-storage systems across Germany, Switzerland and Austria over the next five years. The deal covers grid-scale peak shaving, frequency regulation and commercial-and-industrial…

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Huawei’s Kirin Chips Return to Public Billboards With Mate 90’s Flagship τ Family

October 28, 2026 – Huawei’s “τ chip” is stepping out of the shadows. Outdoor billboards across multiple Chinese cities recently began promoting the Mate 90 series with the line “entire lineup equipped with flagship τ chips,” marking the first time in six years that Huawei’s Kirin-brand silicon has appeared prominently on public advertising screens. The…

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Xiaomi Unveils 21-DOF Bionic Hand Built From Real Factory Workflows

October 28, 2026 – Xiaomi has outlined a new 21-degree-of-freedom bionic hand designed specifically for flexible manufacturing, arguing that factory performance matters more than simply stacking joints. The latest design comes from Xiaomi’s automotive smart manufacturing pilot center. Engineers collected multi-angle video and motion-capture data from 1,827 standard operating procedures across 16 typical production stages,…

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Ant Group’s Lingguang 2.0 Becomes an AI Assistant That Manages Personal Tasks Over Time

October 27, 2026 – Ant Group has released Lingguang 2.0, upgrading its consumer AI assistant from a tool that answers questions and generates content into one that can actively monitor and manage personal tasks. After receiving user authorization, Lingguang can connect to existing information sources and services, identify potential needs, and continue tracking them across conversations….

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JD Logistics Deploys Agibot G2 Max in Zhi Lang Warehouse to Handle Pallet Breaking and Stacking

October 27, 2026 – Agibot’s heavy-duty humanoid robot, Elf G2 Max, has entered JD Logistics’ Zhi Lang warehouse to handle inbound tasks such as pallet breaking, stacking, box moving and standard container handling. The deployment marks one of the first applications of a humanoid robot in a real warehouse production environment. On the hardware side, G2…

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Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3.1 Pro, a 3-Trillion-Parameter Model Chasing Top Closed-Source Rivals

October 23, 2026 – Moonshot AI (Kimi) officially released its Kimi K3.1 Pro model, which the company describes as its most capable 3-trillion-parameter model to date, supporting a 1-million-Token context window. As a post-training variant of K3, K3.1 Pro benefits from substantially increased post-training compute and large-scale reinforcement learning across hundreds of downstream domains, delivering…

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BYD Unveils Second-Gen Seal 07 Interior as Size, Tech and Comfort Get a Major Upgrade

October 23, 2026 – BYD has released the first official interior images of the second-generation Seal 07, a mid-size sedan that has already been listed in China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology catalog and will be offered in both plug-in hybrid and battery-electric versions. The cabin adopts a wraparound layout with a three-spoke multifunction…

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