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Roughly 30 humanoid robots marched and held signs outside Poland's Digital Affairs Ministry in a demonstration organized by the group Democratism. Organizers said the display was meant to illustrate how far robotics and AI have already progressed and to push for faster regulation addressing job losses in cognitive work.
CNET tested 19 large and extra-large portable power stations by connecting each to a standard refrigerator to see how long they could sustain it during an outage. The Fossibot 3600 Pro led the pack at 44.65 hours, followed by the Oupes Mega 5 at 43.72 hours, while the Oscal Power Max 2400 lasted just 12.58 hours despite similar categorization.
Apple's standard iPhone 17 starts at $799, while the Google Pixel 11 and Samsung Galaxy S26 both launch at $899, a $100 gap that has flipped the usual value equation in the flagship smartphone market. Rising RAM and storage costs, plus heavier investment in on-device AI, are cited as reasons behind the higher pricing from Google and Samsung, and rumors suggest Apple may delay the iPhone 18 launch, potentially extending this pricing advantage.
Amazon Prime Video has rolled out an AI-driven visual effects feature that adjusts actors' lip movements to match dubbed audio tracks, starting with the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall's first two seasons. The company says the tool blends AI and VFX to sync mouth movements with human-translated dialogue, and plans to bring it to season 3 in December and more titles later.
Prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket are becoming central to how political campaigns and media frame the midterm elections, with real-money bets on outcomes shaping coverage and strategy. Alongside their growing influence, lobbying spending tied to these platforms has surged, and questions about insider trading on political events are intensifying.
US energy storage set another quarterly record, powered largely by seven new gigascale battery installations exceeding one gigawatt-hour each, according to a report from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence and the Solar Energy Industries Association. Behind-the-meter batteries also grew, with data centers accounting for roughly three-quarters of new commercial installations, even as residential battery installations are projected to fall 16% in 2026 after a supporting tax credit expired in 2025.
Suno released its v6 family of AI music generators—v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini—marking its first collaboration with major record labels during model training. The flagship v6 focuses on polished, consistent output, while v6-wild targets experimental, brainstorming-style generation, and v6-mini is offered free to non-paying users. New features include natural-language editing of song sections, multi-source mashups, precise sampling, and generation from images, video, or described emotions.
Audio-Technica has released the ATH-AL5NC, a $279 wireless open-back headphone that pairs 53mm drivers with LDAC hi-res audio support and multipoint Bluetooth. The company says the headphones deliver up to 75 hours of battery life, with 15 minutes of charging yielding roughly eight hours of playback, and offer app-based control over EQ, presets and listening modes.
Lenovo demonstrated Project AeroBlade, a ThinkBook-based concept laptop that replaces traditional cooling fans with four solid-state AirJet modules from Frore Systems. The result is a 14-inch laptop just 11mm thick and weighing 1.8 pounds, cooled through ultrasonic vibrations that pull in cool air and expel heat without any moving fan parts.
A Show HN project introduces a web tool that applies a coefficient preprocessing technique to evaluate polynomials using roughly half the multiplications required by the standard Horner's method. Users can enter a polynomial, choose a mathematical field, and the tool computes an optimized evaluation scheme, needing about floor(n/2)+1 multiplications for monic polynomials.
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's upcoming foldable iPhone may be named the iPhone Duo rather than 'Fold' or 'Ultra,' pricing it from $2,000 for 256GB up to nearly $3,000 for 2TB. The device is expected to feature an A20 Pro chip, C2 modem, dual 48MP rear cameras, a 12MP front camera, Apple Pencil support, and a landscape-folding design, launching in October in dark blue and white.
OpenAI announced that a swarm of roughly 10,000 coordinated AI agents, built on one of its internal models, produced a proposed resolution to the Navier–Stokes equations problem in about 88 hours. The agents worked in communicating subgroups with access to cached internet data and code execution tools, reaching their result on September 5. The Clay Mathematics Institute, which oversees the Millennium Prize Problems, has not yet verified or commented on the claim.