2026-08-20

Tesla’s Robotaxi gets caught crashing through bollards, just as it readies the purpose-built Cybercab for public roads

Tesla Robotaxi gets confused by bollards — just as the Cybercab gets ready for the road [...]

2026-08-20

SANY Ships First Autonomous Electric Mining Trucks to South America

SANY Group shipped its first batch of SKT110Ei pure-electric autonomous mining trucks to South America on August 12, 2026, the company's first autonomous mining truck project in Latin America. The deployment packages the trucks with an intelligent dispatching system and lifecycle operations and maintenance services. It is SANY's first deployment of its autonomous mining solution in Latin [...]

2026-08-20

NATO wants thousands of AI drones guarding its borders — but there’s one thing they won’t be allowed to do

NATO plans to bolster its eastern defenses with AI assisted drones, but won’t give the autonomous technology the power to engage targets without human oversight [...]

2026-08-20

Ditching my plastic air fryer for the non-toxic Ninja Crispi Pro was the best kitchen upgrade I made this year

Thanks to two borosilicate cooking containers and still being a compact size for easy storage, the Ninja Crispi Pro also makes cooking and cleaning easy at a very good price. [...]

2026-08-20

AI vendor dependency is becoming a resilience risk

The future of successful enterprise AI use will be determined by organizations baking governance and resilience strategies into business plans. [...]

2026-08-20

Velatir raises €5m to sell European companies control over their own AI

Velatir, an Odense startup that sells companies a way to see and control the AI their employees are already using, has raised €5m in seed funding six months after closing its pre-seed. Spintop Ventures, a Nordic early-stage firm investing in the company for the first time, co-led the round with Ugly Duckling Ventures, the Danish […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]

2026-08-20

Skanska Signs $1.2B Contract to Build Four Data Centers in the Southeast USA

Skanska has signed a contract with an existing client to build four new data centers in the southeast region of the USA, a deal worth USD 1.2 billion (about SEK 11.2 billion), the Swedish construction group announced on August 20, 2026, in a company release. The full value will be booked into Skanska's US order bookings for the third quarter of 2026. The project covers four buildings totaling [...]

2026-08-20

Unitree’s founder says robots are nearing a ‘ChatGPT moment’

Wang Xingxing spent Thursday morning at the World Robot Conference in Beijing telling the room that humanoid robots are approaching their “ChatGPT moment”. He spent another part of the same appearance explaining why that moment might still be a decade away. The Unitree founder and chief executive was speaking the day after his company’s Shanghai listing, […]<br /> This story continu [...]

2026-08-20

I review coffee machines for a living and my hands-down favourite model is 49% off — and I can't recommend it highly enough

Coffee machines come in all shapes and sizes, from a variety of brands. This Philips coffee maker is one of my favourites, and it's now down to an incredibly low price. [...]