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US battery storage hits new quarterly record, driven by utility-scale projects

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.

technologyreview.com · 2026-09-09

Thesys releases OUI-1, a DiffusionGemma finetune for on-device UI generation

Thesys Engineering has released OUI-1, an open-weight model fine-tuned from Google's DiffusionGemma that generates user interfaces in a format called openui-lang. The 26B-parameter model scores 71.7% on the Generative UI Benchmark, a 5.5x jump over its base model, and can run locally on a consumer RTX 5090 GPU at FP8 precision, with weights published on Hugging Face under Gemma's terms of use.

openui.com · 2026-09-08