Construction Carnaval: electric equipment comes to Brazil with SDLG
Construction Carnaval: electric equipment comes to Brazil with SDLG

SDLG Brasil has completed its first sale in the South American country, delivering an order of six heavy-duty electric wheel loaders to Brazilian mining, construction, and infrastructure company Grupo Base.

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OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports
OpenAI pulls back from China chip controls, Politico reports

OpenAI has stopped pushing for strict US limits on selling advanced chips to China, according to Politico. For much of last year the company openly called for such limits. Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists with direct knowledge of its position now say i…

DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models
DeepSeek open-sources DeepInfer, the engine that runs its AI models

DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the software it uses to run its AI models in production. The Chinese AI lab announced the release on X on Tuesday and published the code on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence. For now, it supports only DeepSeek-V4….

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent order $35bn of Nvidia chips, Reuters reports

ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent have ordered more than 3 million of Nvidia’s RTX PRO 5500 graphics cards. Their combined sticker price is over $35bn. Reuters reported the orders on Tuesday, citing two people familiar with the matter. TNW has not indepen…

BYD’s Denza B8 appears to have found a rather unusual parking hack

A BYD FCB Bao 8 has appeared in an unusual sighting, seemingly moving on three wheels with a wheel clamp attached. The circumstances remain unclear.

Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network
Huawei’s car unit joins CATL’s 2,520-station battery swap network

Huawei’s smart car business is signing on to CATL’s battery swap network, giving the world’s largest battery maker another heavyweight partner for a technology most of the industry wrote off a decade ago.

Yinwang, the Huawei-controlled automotive un…

US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems
US orders civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systems

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered US civilian federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them, under a 2018 supply chain security law. The order covers third-party tools built on DeepSeek’s models, …

Boot this: BYD Denza B8 driver gets booted, doesn’t care [video]
Boot this: BYD Denza B8 driver gets booted, doesn’t care [video]

The plug-in hybrid BYD Denza B8 didn’t set the sales charts on fire, but its high-tech suspension promised a smooth ride across just about any terrain, adjusting damping and ride height while independently controlling hydraulic pressure at each wheel. …

Accenture reportedly looks to sell its China business for up to $1.5B
Accenture reportedly looks to sell its China business for up to $1.5B

Accenture is exploring a sale of its Greater China business, in a deal that could value the unit at up to $1.5bn, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The consulting firm has hired JPMorgan to run a strategic review of the unit, according to the Fin…

Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports
Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports

Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO on 1 September. He is on the cover of TIME’s 2026 Best Inventions issue,…