Tesla upgrades China Model 3 with 16-inch screen and V2L, US left out
Tesla upgrades China Model 3 with 16-inch screen and V2L, US left out

Tesla China is upgrading every Model 3 it sells with a larger 16-inch touchscreen and a new light gray interior option, and it’s turning on up to 2.2 kW of AC power export across its entire Model 3 and Model Y lineup in the country.

The US Model 3 g…

NIO (NIO) Q3 deliveries rise 25%, but September growth slows to 7.7%
NIO (NIO) Q3 deliveries rise 25%, but September growth slows to 7.7%

NIO delivered 109,178 electric vehicles in the third quarter of 2026, a 25.4% increase over last year and right inside the 108,000 to 111,000 range it guided for in September.

But the quarter ended on a weak note. September deliveries grew just 7.7%…

Tesla’s solar factory dragged into patent war between Chinese suppliers
Tesla’s solar factory dragged into patent war between Chinese suppliers

Tesla’s planned solar factory in Texas has landed in the middle of a US patent lawsuit between two Chinese solar equipment makers, both chasing the ingot-growing furnaces Tesla needs to hit its 100 GW goal.

Linton Crystal Technologies, a Rochester, …

Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals
Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals

AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems. Reuters has identified a…

Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch
Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch

US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help Beijing catch up with American companies. He spoke on Tuesday in Washington shortly before hosting AI executives for lunch at the W…

Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet
Manus 2.0 and Cue give AI agents their own email, phone and wallet

Manus, the AI agent startup founded in China and now based in Singapore, launched Manus 2.0 on Monday. It also released Cue, a standalone app for personal AI agents. In Cue, each agent gets its own email address, phone number, wallet and computer, the …

Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports
Ro Khanna plans a bill to ban self-improving AI, CNBC reports

Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce a bill that would ban AI models that improve themselves until federal safeguards exist, Garrett Downs reported for CNBC on Monday. Khanna, a Democrat from California, shared a summary of the Human Control Over AI Act w…

ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says
ByteDance rents a fifth of China’s data centre capacity, SemiAnalysis says

ByteDance occupies roughly a fifth of China’s delivered data centre capacity, and it rents nearly all of it, according to research firm SemiAnalysis. That makes the TikTok owner the key customer for every wholesale data centre operator in China, the fi…

Nio sells a 30% stake in its battery swapping arm to Geely
Nio sells a 30% stake in its battery swapping arm to Geely

Nio has agreed to sell a 30% stake in its battery swapping business, Nio Power, to Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, the company said on Monday. The two Chinese carmakers will also share technology and standards and build a joint service network. Geely Hol…

China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports
China extends AI travel curbs to executives’ families, Bloomberg reports

China now requires the families of some top AI and chip executives to get Beijing’s approval before travelling abroad, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The rule covers spouses and children, even for short trips. Governme…