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Elon Musk praised China’s manufacturing prowess, calling Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory a “gem” during a CCTV Finance interview. He highlighted the plant’s excellent quality and efficiency, attributing its success to the talent and dedication of Chinese workers. The Shanghai facility, operational since 2019, has produced over 4.5 million vehicles, contributing more than 45 % of Tesla’s global output. In 2025, the plant sold roughly 852,000 vehicles wholesale and 626,000 retail, generating $20.96 billion in revenue—virtually unchanged from the prior year. Musk [...]

Nureva and AudioCodes announced a jointly certified Microsoft Teams Rooms solution powered by the Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP). The package pairs Nureva’s HDL310 audio system with AudioCodes’ RXVCam70 PTZ camera, RXV200‑ES Android AV hub, and RX‑PAD‑ES meeting room controller. It delivers full‑room microphone pickup via Nureva’s Microphone Mist, intelligent camera tracking, and intuitive device control without complex DSPs or ceiling mics. The solution is plug‑and‑play, requires minimal cabling, and is managed through familiar Microsoft tools, meeting [...]

Microsoft announced a new investment framework for the Middle East, targeting Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates through 2030. The plan commits more than $10 billion in capital and operating expenses to expand cloud and artificial‑intelligence infrastructure, launch new capabilities and deepen partnerships with national AI champion organisations. Microsoft will also allocate over $400 million to boost subsea and terrestrial connectivity, enhancing redundancy and data‑flow resilience across the region’s network. The initiative includes responsible‑growth measures such [...]

Sean Endicott, a veteran News Writer at Windows Central, continues to shape the outlet’s coverage of Microsoft’s ecosystem, focusing on Windows 11, Surface devices, Microsoft 365, AI, and related apps. Since joining the site in 2017, he has authored more than a thousand articles, ranging from breaking news and analysis to feature pieces and opinion columns. Endicott’s responsibilities include daily reporting on software updates, hardware launches, and the company’s expanding AI and services strategy, as well as producing the [...]

Apple released watchOS 27.0.1 on Wednesday, just over a week after the rollout of watchOS 27.0, to address a spontaneous reboot bug affecting the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Apple Watch Series 12. Users reported unexpected restarts while editing watch faces, making calls, using Siri, navigating Maps or the App Store, recording workouts, and even when the device was idle. An Apple forum post traced the issue to a Neural Engine timeout: a command lingered for 2,020 ms, exceeding the 2,000 ms limit [...]

Anthropic confirmed that its Bay Area wet lab, launched this spring, has used its Claude AI model to identify a previously unknown enzyme system in bacteriophage DNA that exhibits functions similar to CRISPR, such as cutting, copying and pasting DNA. The discovery emerged after Claude processed 210 million tokens across 950 agents in 21 hours of focused search. While Anthropic credits the AI for the bulk of the work, human scientists performed all physical experiments under BSL‑1 and BSL‑2 [...]

Tesla’s third‑generation Optimus humanoid robot was revealed when design files were discovered inside an Android version of the company’s smartphone app. Community member @wholemars extracted the assets and posted renders of the new Gen 3 model next to the older Gen 2.5 prototype before deleting the post. The official “gen3” files show a redesign: matte black leg fairings replace exposed linkages, gold‑toned body panels are more contoured, and sealed joints protect bearings from debris. Hands retain 22 degrees of [...]

Google Home users report that Nest Doorbell notifications trigger Gemini’s voice in an American accent, regardless of the user’s language settings. The glitch, first noted by a French resident, also affects Dutch and UK users, with appliances like Bosch washing machines defaulting to US English. Gemini otherwise speaks in the chosen language, but the Nest Doorbell and similar devices consistently use an American accent. Google acknowledges the problem and is working on a fix, with no release [...]