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Chinese EV maker XPeng wants to shed the cheap, mass-market image that “Made in China” has often carried 10 years after three co-founders registered a small EV startup in Guangzhou—one so cash-strapped it couldn’t even afford a proper brand name, and ended up borrowing chairman He Xiaopeng’s own surname instead—XPeng is trying to pull off something much harder than building a car people want to buy in China.  It’s trying to convince the rest of the world to want one too, in a market where “Made in China” hasn’t always meant premium.  Singapore is one of the newest stops on…

Technology spent the week pushing past familiar boundaries: AI agents moved deeper into research, productivity, and cyberattacks; Apple finally put a hinge in the iPhone; and semiconductor alliances shifted the balance of the AI market. The same expansion brought an equally persistent question — whether safeguards, privacy rules, and regulators can keep up. Top news AI agents expand their reach — and their risks Frontier AI development faced renewed scrutiny after former OpenAI and Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon left Anthropic, warning that leading laboratories are moving toward self-improving superintelligence before reliable controls are available. The Anthropic researcher’s departure and AI…

At Apple’s recent hardware event, the software powering its foldable iPhone Duo stood out, with translucent Liquid Glass effects and vertically stacked icons. But you don’t need to snatch a folding smartphone to reap the benefits of Apple’s iOS 27 updates.When iOS 27 leaves beta on Monday, Siri AI’s standalone app and smartphone search integration will likely be the most immediately obvious change for many iPhone users. But it’s worth digging even deeper to uncover helpful additions to key apps, like Apple’s Safari browser, as well as revamps to underutilized apps, like Shortcuts.The version of Safari available in iOS 27…

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 6, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire Pallet shuts down after nine years of taking on homelessness with its durable micro-shelters Nine years after setting out to tackle unsheltered homelessness with rapidly deployable, hard-panel micro-shelters, Everett, Wash.-based social purpose corporation Pallet is closing its business. Read More … Read More Seattle VR studio Polyarc,…

The next phase of artificial intelligence in legal technology will not be defined by a better chatbot or a faster document-summarization tool. It will be defined by whether AI systems can take responsibility for real work that unfolds over days or weeks, spans multiple systems and communication channels, and returns control to an attorney at the moments when human judgment matters most. Supio is building toward this next operating model using long-horizon agents. The vision is much larger than automating individual steps in a personal-injury case; it aims to create an intelligent operating layer for the firm. This system understands…

Your ABM programs fail due to contact-first thinking. But your contact list isn’t your ABM database. Here’s database-building 101 for ABM precision. ABM programs fail before a single campaign goes live. And that’s because the database underneath the program was built for a different job. An existing contact list, filtered by company size and industry, loaded into a platform is not an ABM database- but that’s what most organizations rely on. Then they wonder why engagement was thin, and pipeline isn’t moving. A contact list and an ABM database are not the same thing. One organizes people. The other organizes…

The PSX was one of Sony’s flops that tried to do too much. Junko Kimura/Getty Images When looking back at the history of video games, the odd console curio is always fun to examine. Long before the Meta Quest cracked the VR market, Nintendo dipped its toes into virtual reality waters with the Virtual Boy. Then there was Sega, who tried to cash in on the success of the Genesis with its bizarre 32X add-on. And who could forget the Nintendo 64DD? Oh, that’s right: everyone. Speaking of weird machines that were never released outside of…

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as chief executive officers (CEOs) of various target companies, aiming to persuade accounts payable departments at those firms to initiate Automated Clearing House (ACH) transfers for a supposed ServiceNow annual subscription. Evidence indicates that the operators behind the campaign have leveraged generative artificial intelligence (AI) to…

This feeder also comes with extra plastic flowers and a little brush for scrubbing them, and the app sends reminders when it’s time to clean. You’ll find fun, seasonal touches in the app, like the ability to send digital bird holiday cards with the photos your feeder captures, and a tool that superimposes hats, clothes, and various accessories on the birds, which is actually funnier than it sounds. However, as with the Birdbuddy Pro seed feeder, below, the big downside is that the feeder’s sensor doesn’t always pick up every bird that visits, which can definitely be a bummer when…

Looking for the most recent NYT Strands puzzle answers? CNET publishes daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Strands is like a word find game, but without the list of words to find. Sometimes I see the theme and begin recognizing the answers right away. But for those times when I can’t seem to manage this, there’s a loophole: Strands lets you make as many words of four or more letters as you want. For every three of those words you find, the puzzle will highlight one of the…