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Tesla has begun volume production of its Semi electric truck at a new factory next to Gigafactory Nevada, with first units already delivered to customers. The Sparks, Nevada plant can eventually build 50,000 trucks a year, and Tesla named PepsiCo, US Foods, DHL and other companies among buyers. The Semi comes in Standard Range (325 miles) and Long Range (500 miles) versions, using 4680 battery cells and an 822 kWh pack.
An opinion piece contends that three years of AI adoption in newsrooms has focused mainly on efficiency—speeding up story ideas, research, production, headlines and social copy. It argues this framing treats AI as a tool for doing the same journalistic work faster rather than differently.
Christian Kästner, who teaches Machine Learning in Production at Carnegie Mellon, says he has overhauled most assessments in his course because AI agents can now complete take-home assignments convincingly. Instead of grading homework, he now focuses evaluation on TA interactions, exams, and video demonstrations, while keeping the course's core learning goals on engineering tradeoffs and teamwork largely unchanged. Students are permitted to use AI tools freely except during written and oral exams.
XPENG announced on September 7 that its Iron humanoid robot autonomously walked off its newly operational assembly line right after being built, with CEO He Xiaopeng marking the moment by giving it a staff badge. The company says more than 80 percent of the line's core processes are automated, using quality-control methods borrowed from its car manufacturing operations, as it targets mass production of Iron by year's end.
Marvel has decided to conclude 'Daredevil: Born Again' following its upcoming third season, according to a new report. The report also indicates that showrunner Dario Scardapane has departed the project during post-production work on that final season.
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that companies often rush to deploy new AI models the moment they show marginal accuracy gains, without weighing the real costs of testing, deployment, monitoring and engineering labor. The piece uses an example of a model that improves just 0.2% to show how such upgrades can cost far more than they're worth while customers notice no difference. The core argument: technical accuracy gains and genuine business value are not the same thing, and conflating them leads to wasteful decisions.
Solar panel prices have plunged from roughly $5-6 per watt 26 years ago to about 12 cents per watt today, according to Ember co-founder Dave Jones cited in a Financial Times report. The report attributes this steep decline almost entirely to a massive expansion in Chinese solar manufacturing, which has made panels affordable for both wealthy and developing nations.
DJI has introduced SDR Transmission II, a wireless video system for professional productions that transmits 4K 60 fps HDR footage at 50Mbps over distances up to 2.5 miles, doubling the bitrate and extending range compared to its predecessor. The system allows one transmitter to link with up to eight receivers, and larger setups can scale to five transmitters and 40 receivers for complex multi-camera shoots.
Chinese filmmakers are increasingly turning to AI tools like ChatGPT, Kimi and DeepSeek to draft screenplays and generate footage, with one studio producing a 90-minute AI-assisted film for roughly $500,000 versus the millions typical productions cost. Director Lu Beike, known for the series 'Three-Body,' says AI-generated scenes still fall short of live performances, sometimes forcing crews to make real actors look less realistic so they blend with AI-generated environments.
TrendForce reports Apple's smartphone production rose 14% year-over-year to about 52 million units in Q2 2026, giving it a 19% global share behind only Samsung's 62 million units. The overall global smartphone market fell 8% to 275 million units, a smaller drop than analysts had expected, prompting TrendForce to raise its full-year 2026 forecast to 1.07 billion units.
A Hacker News 'Ask HN' post questions whether Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, despite early hype, is actually being deployed in production systems. The poster asks respondents to share specific use cases and explain what benefits MCP offers over traditional APIs, direct tool integrations, or CLI-based workflows.
Researchers combined 2019 reconstructed marine fisheries landings from Sea Around Us with FAO inland fisheries and aquaculture data to measure how much invertebrates such as mollusks, crustaceans, sea cucumbers and jellyfish contribute to global seafood production. They standardized species names using the ASFIS taxonomic system and checked their findings across multiple years from 2014 to 2019 to confirm consistency. The analysis treated marine and inland fisheries separately due to gaps in reconstruction data for freshwater systems.